Ginni Rometty might not be a household name in the same way as Tim Cook has become. She is the Chairman and CEO of IBM and, because of yesterday’s huge joint Apple/IBM announcement, is about to become a player in the Appleverse, at least where enterprise is concerned.

From the linked article:

Google, Samsung and team Android may have to form the equivalent of the enterprise Justice League to counter the Apple-IBM alliance as well as Microsoft’s foothold in corporations.

The biggest challenge for team Android is that Google and Samsung, two partners with enterprise ambitions, will have to herd cats to reach corporations. Android will need channel, integration and services support and there are few players that can match IBM’s reach.

The herding cats metaphor is apropos. There just isn’t another company with IBM’s enterprise pedigree. The next tier down is fragmented. There’s no easy solution for Team Android as far as enterprise partnerships go. The Apple IBM alliance is a strategic stroke of genius.

Read the article for more details on the players involved. Enterprise just got very interesting.