To continue to exist, has there been any announcement of reorgs with Systems group - Servers & Storage?
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I left IBM in 2012 after 13 years as a MF Engineer (100% travel) in the old name Systems and Technology Group Lab Services and in Software Group with Db2; taking a job in state government. IBM STG at that time was looking at automating many mainframe functions like SMP/E but this could have been my management's wishful thinking.
That being said, I think there is some truth in spinning off the mainframe HW and zOS business. One only needs to look at what happened with CA selling out to Broadcom. I did not see that coming. Many of my colleagues in SWG have been RAed.
On the other hand, IBM is not spending any more money on software releases but turning to a continuous delivery model.
As long as IBM continues to make money and reposition the system z in the AI/analytic world they will continue to support it.
More evidence: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/897a7c98-57af-4523-9cfa-07ebc3f996b4/entry/Some_Thoughts_on_IBM_Db2_AI_for_z_OS?lang=en
and Jeff Josten's prezo: https://www.dbisoftware.com/db2nightshow/20190426DB2NightZ96.pdf
GTS is hiring entry level technicians and interns. Go figure.
@12vDtI4q-2kpu "Get rid of it or invest in it vs what is going on now."
I think you could say this about every division in IBM. The financial engineering via acquisitions, share buybacks, timed layoffs, etc. can't go on much longer. Soon they need to decide what to sell vs what to keep and use proceeds from what is sold to invest in what they keep.
They need to address the long term plans for hw growth. Get rid of it or invest in it vs what is going on now. With all the uncertainty we are losing critical people. In Austin there has been a migration of executive and technical talent from ibm to amd. Amd is run by ex ibm chip leads.
Laid off from field systems mid 4q19.
There has been persistent rumors of addressing the redundancy in services especially now that Redhat is part of IBM. HW continues to vacillate between being a cost of doing business and selling the entire division, and becoming a cloud and services company I suspect if they sold HW it would only be the Power and Storage units. (cisco anyone?). Z is too unique