Rob Enderle

I was on a call with IBM research this week talking about how IBM is deploying artificial intelligence (AI). The company remains one of the most knowledgeable vendors in their class.  Earlier this week, I was advising several governments at a conference that you should start with a vendor with substantial experience when looking at […]

When NVIDIA started to move aggressively toward autonomous cars, they also built a foundation for autonomous robots of every kind.  At Dell Technologies World a few years back, they had a session on the future, and robotics was expected to be one of a few very disruptive changes the market was expected to go through […]

I was on a joint educational call for the World Talent Economic Economic forum on mobile computing this week. We drifted to topics that included technological advancement and privacy.  While I was doing the show, an article by Ashlee Vance on an exciting project from a company called Kernel that was AI-based hit my feed. […]

I would have argued two years ago that Cisco’s Webex was behind its competitors. Today, however, the pandemic has made this product strategic again, and Cisco is massively investing in it. With many innovative changes since the pandemic and a security focus, it is not only relevant again to Cisco, it has become relevant again […]

NVIDIA recently held a Q&A with its visionary CEO Jensen Huang.   While the Q&A this week focused on NVIDIA’s announcements at Computex, his opening and closing comments caught my attention. The building that Jensen was broadcasting from named Voyager (Star Trek?) was designed using a supercomputer. He pointed to NVIDIA Omniverse, much like Bill Gates […]

At Microsoft Build 2021, I was struck by how different the company was from when I first started covering it in 1994 during the ramp up to Windows 95.  Back then, Microsoft, just like Apple and IBM, was particularly proprietary and fiercely competitive.   But in the early 2000s, Microsoft started to change its external behavior. […]

I talked to HP’s head of diversity this week, Lesley Slaton Brown, about their intern program during the pandemic. It occurred to me that what IBM has been talking about concerning a Watson Assistant could be an ideal solution for companies attempting to build and scale out an intern effort like HP’s.   I spent a […]

Think is IBM’s big annual conference, and again this year, it was digital. I’m noticing a sharp quality difference in shows like this where firms have a studio vs. those that don’t. Both IBM and Microsoft have TV studios, and their event quality appears significantly better than most that don’t. But the other thing that […]

One of the missteps IBM made last century was collapsing their sales model, which was services based, to generate a short-term revenue spike. Up until IBM collapsed their service model into a sales model, the company weathered world and U.S. economic problems better than most, had an incredibly loyal customer and employee base and was […]

IBM has positioned its cloud offering against the unique security, compliance and confidentiality needs of specific vertical markets with a sharp focus on finance and banking. These same benefits could also appeal to health care, big pharma, government and military opportunities. The critical difference in their approach is that they trade off ease of use […]