Rob Enderle

IBM was previously known for being a one-stop shop because of its extreme breadth of products and services. This extreme breadth turned out to have advantages and disadvantages over the years. Eventually, the disadvantages of IBM’s complexity coupled with some executive communication and command and control issues led to challenges for the company.  The IBM […]

Dell Technologies recently held an analyst update on how they are using their own IT service organization to improve their products and services over time, and it is worth sharing as a best practice.  There is an industry term called “eating your own dog food,” which means the company uses its own products. You’d think […]

IBM has two moonshot efforts that are potentially game changing for both the company and the industry: Watson and related artificial intelligence (AI) efforts; and the company’s quantum computing initiative.  They are both fascinating. It’s reported that Watson’s use as a conversational computer has been so successful in trial that the implementations are often asked […]

Microsoft hosted an event recently to highlight the future features of Windows 11.  Given we are increasingly at risk of cyber warfare, the most important upgrade to Windows 11 is its security focus tied to its hardware and the new, highly protected Secure Core PCs that are coming to market, using Microsoft’s Pluton Security Processor.  […]

We saw our first glimpse of what a true digital twin could be at NVIDIA’s GTC last month. For many of us, it cleared up a misconception we did not know we had and highlighted a new service, called NVIDIA OVX, which is also part of NVIDIA’s Omniverse cloud.  NVIDIA OVX is a new server […]

NVIDIA made a series of announcements and presentations this week at its latest GTC event (the keynote is worth watching). I had a chance to briefly chat with one of my favorite people, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, who clued me in on what could be an even stronger blended strategy.  The announcements and demonstrations had […]

I do a number of panels a month for the World Talent Economy Forum, in which we regularly argue about whether artificial intelligence (AI) is an appropriate name, real, and whether it will take jobs or provide them. The fact is that AI is not sharply defined. We call voice-to-text programs behind digital assistants AIs, […]

IBM is one of the last companies with a formal research unit and worldwide labs working on a variety of tasks. IBM recently gave a briefing on how to optimize endpoint computing while keeping captured data secure and optimizing the interchange between the endpoints and a multicloud back end. It isn’t produced yet, but it […]

artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in sales with the promise to significantly improve the effectiveness of automated sales tools.  I was in a Facebook discussion recently about just how bad the fundraising is for both of the major political parties. Neither party knows their donors, and they’re doing more damage to donation efforts than […]

One of the initial tasks artificial intelligence (AI) failed miserably at was facial recognition. It was so bad that it has created a significant grassroots effort to block all facial recognition, and IBM, which pioneered facial recognition, exited that part of the AI market.  At the core of the problem was biased data sets that […]