Rob Enderle

I’m at Dell EMC World this week, and one of the most interesting demonstrations on stage involved a personal computer. The former argument that PCs are dying and that tablets, specifically iPads, were going to take over the world turned out to be fake news. Every one of the top PC vendors is now showing […]

Data modeling and simulation create the foundation for tactics and strategies tied to difficult problems ranging from military action to health care. Stone Ridge recently announced the first billion-cell engineering data simulation completed entirely on GPUs. While this breakthrough focused on the petrochemical market and oil fields, the potential it represents for virtually every major […]

Most of the big successful technology firms have departments they don’t talk about much but that are critical to the firm’s future. These departments are the ones that look for acquisitions and investments that address their companies’ tactical and strategic needs by driving programs that either fill anticipated technology or service gaps, or help develop […]

I’ve been looking at Cisco’s public customer stories surrounding their hyperconverged platform wins, and they seem to point to an area where this platform uniquely shines. The list of vendors that offer hyperconverged solutions is actually pretty short and includes Lenovo, Dell Technologies and HPE, but no longer IBM because IBM spun out networking to […]

A lot of us have been looking at the recent WikiLeaks drop of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) files related to hacking Internet of Things (IoT) and personal technology devices. It includes a lot of data, so it is easy to get lost in the woods with regard to what these tools do. But apparently they […]

Threatcasting, a practice championed by ex-Intel fellow and futurist Brian David Johnson for the U.S. military, is a Delphi method derivative with roots in science fiction prototyping. Recently, a broad selection of defense departments, multi-national corporations and one science fiction author issued a threatcasting report related to an anticipated attack on Manhattan using a blend […]

One of the often forgotten duties of a CEO is to assure the strength of the corporate brand and improve the optics surrounding the company to maximize shareholder value. Many, if not most, pass this duty off to the CMO, who then uses marketing to perform this duty. However, the CEO is generally thought to […]

It is getting so that when someone introduces a new cybersecurity report to me these days I end up wanting to dig a hole in a remote location and pull it in after me. The newest Cisco report is especially scary. It effectively says that threats are accelerating at an increasing rate and that firms […]

Turnarounds have been a fascination of mine for a number of years. It amazes me how many of those who attempt a corporate turnaround often act as if they’d either never been done before or never been successful. Both Apple and IBM stand as examples that demonstrate not only that turnarounds are possible but that […]

If there was one overreaching theme at CES, it is that the world around us is on the cusp of changing dramatically. These changes will radically alter how we interface with customers and employees, how we get to work, where work is done, and the breadth and intelligence of the tools we use at home […]

Every year at this time, I recall the most annoying and upsetting email I ever received from a CEO over the holidays. Apparently alarmed at falling revenues, which he caused by mucking with the sales compensation program (which I personally pointed out to him was a less-than-wise move), our illustrious CEO noticed that a lot […]

I go to a lot of industry analyst events, and one company stands out as doing an analyst-focused event right: Lenovo. It makes full use of the analysts while most events just become a storm of slides and presentations. Lenovo’s event, which is actually called an industry analyst council, is also the oldest in the […]