Rob Enderle

I was at the Qualcomm Technology Summit in Hawaii this week and the advances in performance, connectivity, security, and Extended Reality (XR) got me thinking that we are at an infliction point. We could merge and redesign both the PC and Smartphone into something new that is both more productive and safer.  This last came […]

This month I spent some time going over Lenovo’s rich product set and I was again reminded of the dramatic difference between how Lenovo, and most OEMs, differ in strategy from Apple.  Apple’s approach seems to be, based on valuation, far more lucrative but it does have some severe risks which are starting to emerge […]

The Dell Technology Summit was this week, and the most interesting product launched at the event was the new Dell PowerOne server. This offering reminded me of the successful EMC VCE hyper-converged offering of some years back. That model set records in terms of deployment speed, capability, and ease of management but targeted at more […]

This week it was announced that Xerox wants to buy HP and is putting together a package to make it happen. On paper this looks like a good idea.  Two iconic brands with similar cultures coming together in a market that has struggled to show growth, while Xerox is trading high and HP is trading […]

Facebook has a serious problem in that they were seen as being part of what may have been a successful attempt to change the outcome of the last election. The amount of false information being exchanged on this social media service is resulting in governments thinking about regulating or even breaking up the company. Facebook […]

There is a huge push right now to drive the concept of Edge Computing for IoT devices. The idea is that the more computing power you put in the edge device, the lower the amount of data that, in theory, will need to come from it.  Now this made a lot of sense before 5G, […]

With IBM leading in Deep Learning AI technology at scale – and one of the most visible in Quantum computing research – a lot of us were wondering when we’d see a presentation from the company combining the two technologies. Well, this week that wondering ended as IBM briefed us on what appeared to be […]

We’ve had a rather inconsistent view of exactly where computing power should be kept, and it just began another huge shift with the advent of 5G wireless technology. We started out with mainframes where the computing power was centralized, then we moved to PCs where it was highly decentralized. Then we moved to client/server computing […]

Litigation is expensive. Folks that don’t do much of it are often astounded about how quickly costs escalate and how much the process can cost. While the trial itself can cost upwards of $50K, just getting to trial with all the back and forth between the attorneys can cost several times that. A general rule […]

Last week was an interesting week for AMD. Intel, its chief rival, posted financial results that showcased several continuing problems in that company. Those problems likely caused Intel’s board to make their interim CFO/CEO the permanent CEO. AMD, in contrast, significantly strengthened its executive team with an addition from BlackBerry at the senior vice president […]

Much of what we currently get on long-form social media is abhorrent. (Twitter is short-form social media, and it has its own unique issues.) It is either questionable news, arguments started and maintained by trolls, or updates about subjects that most of us couldn’t care less about. I believe this is likely the real reason […]

I believe that one of the most disruptive rollouts this year will be the Windows Virtual Desktop, which promises to eventually provide what may be the Holy Grail of desktop experiences. Patching, updating and managing the platform largely resides in the service, and assuming latency is low enough, the user experience (given nearly unlimited cloud […]