Your company is doomed to fail if 'the biggest jerk at the table' makes all the decisions in spite of comprehensive data analysis. EMC and its customers are taking analytics seriously, CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle says. You should, too. It's a lesson Mitt Romney learned the hard way.
IBM became 'Big Blue' because it leased hardware and provided free software, but its collapse divorced the two. The growth of the cloud has caused another marriage, one that brings together software and services. Vendors such as Amazon, Google and especially Microsoft understand this, CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle says, and they are bound to leave those trying to sell a 'cloud solution' in their dust.
This week BMC Software unveiled MyIT, which wraps a friendly user interface over internal IT systems. The release capitalizes on the reason why BYOD is big: Today's consumer applications are easier to use than corporate apps. Other vendors should take notice of BMC, if they want to stay in business, CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle writes.
Smartphone security, or the lack of it, is downright scary. At this week's McAfee Focus event, CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle discovered just how easy it is to hack into someone else's device. Even if you secure corporate phones, employees' personal phones pose a significant risk.
The Department of Defense wants access to private computer systems in the name of cybersecurity. In addition to being a privacy nightmare, CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle says a centralized information sharing system will actually make the United States more susceptible to cyber attacks and suggests an alternate approach to cybersecurity.
The latest Android vulnerability -- highlighted by U.S. Navy malware and, thankfully, not in the wild -- takes near-constant pictures to determine a phone's location. It's yes another strike against Android phones and is all the more reason to ban them in your BYOD policy, columnist Rob Enderle writes.
Hewlett-Packard is one year into a turnaround, led by CEO Meg Whitman, which could last for several more. This week she and other HP executives told financial analysts that the company knows what needs to be fixed and do, in fact, plan on fixing them. Such candid talk is refreshing these days, columnist Rob Enderle says.
At a recent Intel event held to showcase upcoming Windows 8 hardware, Lauren Berger, blogger and author of "All Work No Play," delivered the opening presentation. Berger's topic was the life of a millennial, a group she considers herself a part of. As I am from a different, older generation, I don't have the same insight into millennials that Berger has. She is far better explaining what this powerful group of buyers is looking for than I would be.
Windows 1.0 came out in 1985. Now, 17 years later, Windows 8.0 is set to be released. For the first time the operating system acts as a window, one that comes in many sizes and offers a view of Microsoft's back-end services. And, despite all the iPhone 5 talk, it pushes Microsoft ahead of Apple.
In the closing keynote at its Developer Forum, Intel CTO Justin Rattner wore headgear that moved artificial bunny ears according to his mood. Don't laugh -- wireless technology that can connect devices to monitors, charge batteries and authenticate users may, in fact, herald the era of the 'bunny ear PC.'
If Hewlett-Packard plays its cards right, it could turn Oracle's court-ordered support for HP servers running Itanium chips into a better platform for Oracle software than it was when HP and Oracle were bosom buddies.
As the Bring Your Own Device trend gains traction, Dell and EMC/Cisco are taking different approaches to desktop virtualisation. Generally, Dell aims for PC users in the midmarket, while the EMC/Cisco partnership may work better for enterprises that have to consider the iPad. Both tacks are worth a look, though.
Neither Dell nor Hewlett-Packard is in danger of going under, but both are losing enough PC business to Lenovo to drag the rest of the company down. The choices that CEOs Michael Dell and Meg Whitman make in their attempts to cure what ails Dell and HP will define their legacies, CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle writes.
Samsung is again rumoured to be interested in buying RIM. If it does, Columnist Rob Enderle says, it can choose two acquisition models -- a full-blown merger or one that preserves RIM. History says keeping RIM intact would be a better idea, but history also says it might not happen that way. That would be bad.
Rather than pay lip service to its partners, EMC actually works with them, in effect creating a virtual company of sorts. The company's most recent partnership, with Lenovo, points to a consortium that's just as powerful, but friendlier, than the IBM of yore, CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle says.