Rob Enderle

Apple can’t be trusted.  With the release of nude pictures of celebrities this is likely the same conclusion many of you are reaching today.  In the end this is probably where IBM can provide the greatest value in their new partnership with Apple  because IBM understands that, with an Enterprise, trust is likely the most […]

This week Microsoft announced that ex-CEO Steve Ballmer has left the company and I think it was time.  There is such a thing as too many chefs in a kitchen and too many CEOs, or ex-CEOs, on a board.  Even one ex-CEO of a company on a board can be problematic and Microsoft had two, […]

 Earlier this week the NFL announced they were moving to the Surface Pro 3 tablet for some of their most critical field activities related to managing plays and on-field activities. I’ve been chatting with a number of people about this and noticed at my last analyst meeting that, for once, there were more analysts using […]

As we look at complex enterprise deployments we tend to use a hub and spoke model.  The core application is at the center, like the database product, and the spokes are the CRM, SFA, Security, Performance and Availability tools and focused applications.  Often it isn’t really clear where we are going and we buy the […]

We are in the midst of massive change. We are using ever smaller devices to do increasingly more things, the applications are often running in some unknown location and hackers are finding ever more creative ways to get around our increasingly inadequate security. When this kind of thing happens the vendors that survive the needed […]

I can pretty much sum up the McAfee Labs Threats Report in these four words “we’re still in trouble.”  While we all hope things are getting better, according to this well researched report things aren’t only still getting worse they are getting worse at an increasing rate of speed.  We got a little bit of […]

Looking out across the vendors and watching buying behavior, there are at least six trends that could potentially massively disrupt how firms deploy and use computing technology.   Each is extremely disruptive and while many seem obvious to me, they may not seem that obvious to you unless you are in the middle of the change.   […]

There is an interesting backstory that is at the core of Dell’s Annual Analyst Conference (which is where I am writing this) this year. It has to do with whether Dell has discovered the equivalent of a Fountain for Youth for Corporations. You see, firms go through a life cycle and most don’t even make […]

This week I attended Dell’s Innovation Day, targeting the Healthcare Market, and it was a fascinating event. Innovation Day is funded by Dell and Intel, along with other partners, which brings in startups and has them compete in a Shark Tank kind of event.   This showcases their solutions to an audience of people that might […]

What I find interesting is the stories that aren’t widely known about top executives. Most aren’t that flattering and HP’s CEOs over the last decade didn’t exactly set the bar for behavior or tenure. But Meg Whitman is turning out to be an exception. Instead of a glowing public face with a cesspool of questionable […]