Rob Enderle

Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s new CEO, had his coming out party this week with his first major presentation as the CEO of Microsoft. Contrasting him with Steve Ballmer showcases what we were missing by not having a subject matter expert running the company. It is also interesting that, in passing the presentation to each of his […]

I was at the first VCE analyst event last week and the most fascinating session was a panel of customers who took us through the benefits they got by converting to VCE Vblocks. One of the most interesting comments they made was that other IT vendors sell them “stuff” and then they buy VCE’s solutions. […]

What I find particularly fascinating this year is that Apple appears be ignoring critical parts of Steve Jobs’ playbook, while Lenovo is avidly trying to recreate what is likely the most critical part—the magic of Steve Jobs himself. This came to mind last week at South by Southwest where Ashton Kutcher was personally handing out […]

This week I learned that Deborah Conrad, Intel’s CMO, is stepping down. I doubt most understand the heroic job Deborah has done at Intel and how she performed excellently while overcoming personal challenges that would likely leave most of us unable to function. I don’t want her to leave unnoticed or unappreciated so, if you’ll […]

This week BMC launched an initiative called New IT, which takes a set of integrated layered services and positions them as a way to recreate IT support using social and game tools. This isn’t the kind of offering from a company that does mainframe related software and, in fact, that’s an ever smaller part of […]

Now that Satya Nadella has been announced as Steve Ballmer’s replacement, many of us are focused on both retrospectives and outlooks based on Ballmer’s reign and Satya’s skillset.  But focus appears to be more on the events – not on the foundations for them, so the lessons tend to be lost in the rhetoric of […]

Watson plus IBM Cloud Services equals Siri or Cortana on steroids That doesn’t exactly create a very attractive mental image but over the last couple weeks IBM has announced they will be doubling their SoftLayer based capacity and increasing the investment in Watson massively. While the two events currently aren’t connected it isn’t hard to […]

[Editors note: Read about how Intel is renaming its McAfee security brand, in response to founder John McAfee’s antics.] What amazes me in the technology industry is that companies tend to use the Lemming strategy when it comes to strategies and policies rather than follow best practices. This makes the latest Intel move with McAfee […]

Does BYOD keep IT admins awake at night? That will be the core topic of a set of questions I’ll answering on Twitter live Tuesday December 10th. In preparation for this I figured I’d share some of my thoughts in a post this week while getting my appetite ready for the Thanksgiving Holiday here in […]

 When I first moved into technology, my passion was people and my goal was to eventually run the ROLM corporation’s unique Great Place to Work department. Shortly I joined the company that group was disbanded and my career goals and outcome had to change. But I’ve always had a passion for making companies a better […]