Rob Enderle

The 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) featured a surprising number of announcements and briefings that had enterprise IT content. Perhaps the most interesting was Panasonic’s. The company stated it would be bucking the “consumer is everything” trend. They are already shifting their strategic efforts more to business, led by their ToughBook division and their new […]

I get to see a lot of CEOs do keynotes, and few do them well. Many think a keynote is their time to go through the firm’s financial performance. Others think of themselves as mega-sales reps and make the keynote a sales event. At events like this, those practices come off as lame. However, Michael […]

With the recent news surrounding Autonomy, it isn’t hard to see HP as some kind of train wreck. But much of HP’s ongoing business remains relatively strong and profitable. I believe the core of HP’s problem is instability at the top, but even this is more a symptom than a cause. In my opinion, the […]

I started following Microsoft in the 1970s largely because they recruited me back then and became the “road not traveled” in my career. I didn’t even go to an interview, as I had already accepted a job out of college. This was a decision I eventually regretted. Over the years, I’ve seen Microsoft change a […]

This week, AMD announced it had formed an alliance with ARM to create the next generation of cloud servers. This announcement has been expected since Rory Read became CEO of AMD, and it now becomes the showcase initiative for his strategic vision. His vision is to stop chasing Intel and to help drive a new […]

While a lot of folks are getting lost in the battle between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama in what appears to be a race to prove who is least qualified to run the US, the more interesting battle may be between Big Data Analytics and Social Media. This battle is basically is pitting the old […]

This week I’m attending HP’s Security Analyst meeting for a “show and tell” by Meg Whitman and her staff on the state of HP, the markets they live in, and their vision for the future. HP is in the early phases of a turn-around. This kind of effort, if successful, typically takes from five to […]

Over the years there have been obituaries for celebrities which have clearly been premature and really pissed off those celebrities (Bob Hope clearly was not amused). The same thing has happened in technology. The most obvious was the mainframe, which was pronounced dead in the 1980s and remains IBM’s most profitable platform today. We just […]

The OEMs have begun their roadshows for Windows 8, and while I can’t talk about specifics I can chat a bit about what you will see and what to look for. I’ve been using Windows 8 for some time now on a tablet and now have a sense for what works best. Most of the […]

Itanium was initially intended to be the next generation X86 platform, much like IBM intended Power to eventually replace X86 and Sun expected X86 to fail against SPARC. Of these platforms you could argue that Power had the most success since it existed on both Apple systems and still exists in some form on some […]