Rob Enderle

I’m at Microsoft Ignite this week and one of the more interesting announcements at the show was ODI or the Open Data Initiative which is a joint project between Adobe, Microsoft, and SAP.  What makes this initiative interesting is that it doesn’t appear to be the more typical announcement of an alliance or partnership that […]

I’m at IMTS (International Manufacturer’s Technology Show) this week, which is the premier show in additive manufacturing. HP is up on stage talking about their 3D printing progress.  Manufacturing is a $12B industry and 3D printing, which is growing at 25%, is just a small segment of this today.  But advancements are coming fast and […]

One of the huge changes in data centers is how these massive computing resources are being used. The need to both create and interpret images has increased substantially. Today, people working with images often need to work remotely. But creating and interpreting images is very compute-intensive, and it’s something most mobile devices just can’t do. […]

Some events I will always remember because they were both significant and industry changing: the Windows 95 launch, the initial iPod launch event, my first use of Microsoft HoloLens, the launch of AMD’s Threadripper (I just love that name) and this week the launch of the NVIDIA RTX platform. In some ways this RTX workstation […]

HP’s acquisition of Apogee highlights a common mistake made by technology vendors. No, I’m not saying that HP made a mistake — just the opposite, in fact. Instead, it avoided a common pitfall: agreeing with the market that a key technology is obsolete when it really isn’t. Like the IBM mainframe, which IBM almost killed […]

Beating on both top and bottom line numbers — $700M over estimates for revenue and $.04 on earnings per share — IBM’s latest financial results demonstrate that the firm is clearly out of the woods now and focused on the future. Interestingly, mainframe revenue drove IBM’s security offerings up an almost unbelievable 81 percent for […]

Around the beginning of June, I got a sad note that David Roman would be retiring from Lenovo. He had one of the deepest pedigrees of any chief marketing officer (CMO) I’ve ever worked with (and a lot of success at Lenovo). He was one of the early Apple marketing execs and then moved to […]

I was in New York this week to check out the Clipper Race for Your Life event. This race is amazing in that it costs the crew around $70K to work the ships. Taking part means 12-hour days, 7-day weeks, no heat, no air conditioning, bunks that must be reset when the boat tacks from […]

With the promise of a 10x performance jump over earlier systems, the IBM Summit — built around Power9, NVIDIA, and Mellanox technology — is the U.S.’s near-term greatest hope to take back the supercomputer lead. China has boasted the world’s fastest computer for some time. Summit was expected to nearly double the performance of the […]

For decades we’ve had Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics but really haven’t needed them. These laws anticipated the birth of artificial intelligence and many of the concerns that people like Bill Gates and Elon Musk have recently raised about intelligent machines becoming an existential threat to the human race. Last week IBM CEO Ginni […]