Rob Enderle

The recently announced partnership between EMC, Cisco, and SAP for big data real time analytics package HANA looks to be one of the most powerful big data analytics moves this year. Recently I sat down with executives from these three companies to talk about why they had formed an alliance and what it meant for […]

Lenovo is getting a lot of credit this week for bucking the trend to outsource manufacturing. This likely speaks more to the problem of confirmation bias with the folks that did outsource than it does to any other human factor, but outsourcing manufacturing for the PC industry appears to have been a bad idea. At […]

HP has the largest range of servers and server types of any vendor, or at least they will when HP’s Project Moonshot ships into the market. At that time their line will start with tiny ARM and Intel Atom-based technologies and scale up to Itanium-powered large-scale enterprise systems, which will also give them the biggest […]

Suddenly the clouds opened and angels sang….at least that was the sense I got at the TechEd Developer’s conference last week. You see, one of the huge problems IT has been having is users breaking out their credit card and using it to get hosted services from non-compliant vendors for critical line projects. The IT-approved […]

A few years back Intel started an amazing experiment.It was led by Dr. Genevieve Bell, who argued that products should be scientifically designed in advance of human social trends, so when people came around to a new idea the product would magically be there – and not be the typical 5 to 10 years out. […]

Earlier this week The New York Times reported on the troubling backstory of Google and a recent FCC settlement, which was tied to a charge of scanning consumer Wi-Fi networks to capture private information. It highlights a practice at Google in which engineers seem to be able to take large corporate risks with little oversight. […]

Sometimes a company does something really amazing. With VSPEX, EMC has built a unique offering that has been created with the channel as the focus. You see, what vendors typically do is build solutions they can execute and then give them to the channel to sell as well. The problem with this more typical approach […]

My thought process on this issue started from a tweet by Ed Bott suggesting that Larry Page had become the next Steve Ballmer. I first took the pro side of this argument, pointing to how Microsoft – headed by Steve Ballmer – is now growing at double digits, while the growth of Google – helmed […]

Intel and Apple are very different companies, yet both produced some recent news that suggests a possible comparison. Last week Intel had their industry analyst meeting, and this week Tim Cook announced what amounts to the second and third major change from Steve Jobs’ policy. Contrasting the two companies isn’t to showcase competitive strengths or […]

This week I did a site visit at Plantronics in Santa Cruz California and I was impressed with the effort that was made by their design and technology departments to create world-leading products. However, what really struck me – because it used to be my own life focus – was the fabulous work that Pat […]