Rob Enderle

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 […]

HR is a mess. With the advent of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) back in the 1970s, HR went from being employee advocate with a focus on assuring that employees were well trained and well treated (designed to be a less violent and more efficient alternative to unions, which had triggered events like the […]

Cisco is known for networking technology. It dominates this space; even its logo is a stylized bridge (the Golden Gate). But it does more than just networking — it also sells high-end servers. But getting consideration for those efforts has proven difficult because it has built such a solid networking reputation. To get people, and […]

This week IBM made a massive storage announcement covering a variety of impressive offerings. This announcement included huge upgrades to its flash solution (including a noteworthy entry-level offering), Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) updates, a very interesting storage gridlock tool, a bunch of tape updates and a series of new and updated SAP HANA […]

When I saw the IBM blog post titled, “JEDI: Why We’re Protesting,” I was thinking “Oh cool, light sabers!” But unfortunately, JEDI may have more to do with the dark side of procurement than the dark side of the Force. JEDI stands for “Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure,” and it is the federal government project that […]