Rob Enderle

This week Amazon had a relatively massive unplanned outage in their EC2 service. The result was a cascade of failing services by companies using this service, ranging from technology publications to enterprise service providers. This serves as a reminder that cloud services, while often thought of as a utility, actually aren’t. And that the necessary […]

Larry Page took over Google this week and the rumors are hot and heavy with regard to what he’ll do.Two of them stand out: 1) he’ll return Google to its start-up roots and 2) he’ll eliminate middle management and put engineers in control of the company. While Google could use some change, these possibilities would […]

People have been led to believe that Android is a packaged OS, but it isn’t, it’s really a set of Google services designed to help OEMs build an OS quickly. This came to mind while having a twitter discussion with a FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) research specialist out of Europe, Carlo Daffara, on […]

Most of the tablets we talk about coming to market, from the recently announced HP TouchPad to the Motorola Xoom, appear to be different variations of the iPad theme. And, because Apple sets that bar, they generally fall short. At this point I really don’t think anyone can build a better iPad. But someone could […]

We are just getting numbers in suggesting that last year’s hope for an iPad killer, er, competitor, er alternative, the Samsung Galaxy Tablet, sold around 250,000 units. The number isn’t great: only about one of 8 tablets sold last year was the Samsung. The next tablet up, the Motorola Xoom, appears to have been torpedoed […]

This last week I was at Intel’s sales conference with Frank Gillett of Forrester and Bob O’Donnell from IDC. The topic was the enterprise client in 2015. While we didn’t agree on everything, we did agree on a few things in terms of trends. One big one is that Google’s Chrome OS is premature and […]

Dirk Meyer, the former CEO of AMD, was let go by AMD because he didn’t have the vision AMD’s board wanted in a world where the PC market is owned by AMD competitor Intel and PC’s are being rapidly being overwhelmed by tablets and smartphones. But this brings to mind another company, HP, which replaced […]

Looking ahead as 2011 begins, there are some huge gambles that major tech companies are hoping will pay off.Without a lot of preamble, let’s look at a few of them. AMD: Fusion Endgame 2011 is when AMD’s grand strategy to step out from under Intel’s cloud comes to fruition. This has been a long time […]

This time of year is a very difficult because if a company is having problems its executive management is financially motivated to do layoffs.This is because they can take the related costs against revenues in the current year and create a better financial foundation for the following quarter. However, the employees are put under massive […]

As the end of the year nears its time to look back at the firms that set positive examples of how to do things right in the technology market.Each of these companies stood out for excellence either in marketing, products, or services. These aren’t in any particular order. Apple Apple in 2010 and for much […]