Rob Enderle

IBM recently held two briefings on their Power10 processor and Power E-1080 server and their Partner Ecosystem, which is one of the richest in the market.  For Power10, they had Pfizer talk about how Power has been critical to their operations and success. In addition, in their Partner event, IBM spoke about an effort with […]

I was doing a program with the World Talent Economic Forum (WTEF) on conversational artificial intelligence (AI) and how it is focused on telesales as an interactive voice response (IVR) replacement.  I argued that I thought this sales focus was problematic for a developing economy, the WTEF focuses on developing countries, because call centers are […]

I watched the movie “The Accountant” recently, and it brought back memories of running a special tiger team internal audit effort at a tech enterprise. The concept our then CFO had in creating the team was that rather than just doing compliance, we were missioned to look at business operations broadly, recommend staffing changes, and […]

Large-scale events like CES aren’t working virtually right now.  The reason is that video conferencing tools, and especially those designed to scale to significant events, don’t address the reason most go to these events: to meet new people and discover new things. Vendors go to these events to get business, but the tools, designed to […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is either our best path to a better tomorrow or the harbinger of an apocalypse, depending on who is talking about it.   Both paths are viable, and I’m increasingly becoming worried that we aren’t focusing enough on creating the former and will, as a result, get the latter. Initially, AI efforts were […]

At SIGGRAPH this week, we’ll finally get to see the massive amount of work being done to create the Multiverse: tens of thousands of developers, thousands of companies, a deep dive into tools like the HTML-like universal scene descriptions, and a genuine sense that we don’t have enough resources yet.  To make the Multiverse real […]

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger spoke about several exciting initiatives this week that should return Intel to its once almost untouchable position at the top of the microprocessor food chain. However, they and everyone in their orbit face some very disruptive trends that will also need to be addressed.  Let’s talk about Pat’s strategic moves and […]

Qualcomm provided an overview last week of what they’re anticipating as we roll out products that use Qualcomm’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology, coupled with the rollout of 5G.   While you might think that 5G would drive centralized AI and computing capabilities, and you’d be partially correct, the fundamental advances will come when we couple 5G […]

Microsoft Inspire is Microsoft’s big partner conference, and I’m beginning to wonder if these things make sense anymore. The reason is that with the advancements like Microsoft Teams, it is becoming far easier to integrate partners into day-to-day operations more deeply. And I expect at some future point, events like Inspire will become redundant, because […]

I used to do consulting with government accounts, and one of their recurring problems was they would hire some recent college grads and start trying to do trendy things without thinking them through.  The canceled Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) bid strikes me as one of those problems, because it was a $10 billion cloud […]