Rob Enderle

I’m at Qualcomm’s annual analyst event in California this week, and they have been talking about their solution for artificial intelligence (AI) at the edge. But edge AI has one huge problem we are currently ignoring and that is that it potentially will result in a far higher likelihood of bias. IBM Research appears to […]

Neuromorphic computing, a concept that attempts to duplicate the human brain in an artificial intelligence (AI) construct, has proven to be an elusive concept to execute. A neuromorphic computer joins sub-components comprised of many simple processors with memory structures computing simple messages. It mimics the performance of neurons and synapses. Like the brain, this results […]

Typically, we focus more on acquisitions than we do spin-offs, but I’ve found that spin-offs are often far more successful than acquisitions if they are done right. Acquisitions typically put together two companies with very different cultures, policies, and strategies. The process tends to focus on the benefits, not the problems, and they rarely meet […]

Microsoft recently held its annual Ignite conference, demonstrating why Microsoft is now the most valuable company globally.  From the production quality of the event to how it showcased some impressive work on diversity and inclusion (D&I), this was one of the most powerful events so far this year. But the part I want to focus […]

Intel recently held its Innovation conference (IntelON). This conference effectively reboots its old Intel Developer Conference (IDF). Intel faced three serious issues in bringing this conference back. First, when the company gave IDF up, other conferences moved into that time slot. This year, Intel’s conference competed with Qualcomm and Cisco events that were being held […]

Before the pandemic, hybrid cloud was the new high-profile, industry-wide effort, along with digital transformation — but coming after the big data and analytics waves. Hybrid’s On-premises Tie While digital transformation appeared to accelerate during the pandemic at breakneck speed, hybrid cloud efforts appear to have stalled. That, I think, is because of the on-premises […]

Dell held its Tech Summit recently and again highlighted its APEX Cloud Services. This initiative revisits an incredibly successful model at beginning of the IT market that died out due to a move that traded strategic imperatives for tactical benefits. The old services model At the beginning of the computer revolution, IBM rose to dominance with […]

Miles Tayler, senior fellow at the R Street Institute, recently moderated a fascinating panel on quantum computing.  Several others were with him on the panel: Chris Fall, Ph.D., senior adviser, president’s office, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Scott Friedman, senior policy adviser, House Homeland Security Committee; Allison Schwartz, global government relations and public affairs […]

I recently shared a mashup of the hierarchy of autonomous cars and how it might be applied to autonomous IT. Dell held a panel this week hosted by the actor who played Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill, on this same subject.  John Roese, Dell’s CTO, walked us through a similar taxonomy before the panel discussion kicked off.   […]

We are moving aggressively into a period of automation across IT services. Yet, the industry has to adopt anything like the automotive industry to talk comparatively about what will eventually be an IT artificial intelligence (AI) hierarchy.   Given that this process has advanced significantly with autonomous driving, why not use that framework to create a […]