Thread regarding IBM layoffs

I worked on IBM Cloud and it was quite sh-t. SoftLayer wasn't too bad initially, but the beancounters stripped the whole thing down and the PaaS only get as good as the IaaS. It was so bad, that some internal teams moved to AWS/Azure from IBM "Cloud". My PTSD is triggered when I hear IBM and Cloud in connotation

@7fms+1dSz3hYW - snake-oil marketing... 😂

Hybrid was/is a 'sit on the fence' approach to:

a. see where the market is going (ie: follow)
b. milk every dime from legacy while dangling a cloud carrot to 'stay relevant'
c. spend gazillions in snake-oil marketing
d. rinse/repeat the above while we hire some 'cloud guys' to show us the way
e. give up

IBM no longer compete in Cloud... why do you think it is slowly but sure removing the word Cloud from everywhere... Just wait until the CLOUDPaks are renamed... it is coming.

🤣 IBM reports anything they sell as cloud. The real number is less than a billion 😂

Again with the misinformation on this site... Hilarious how sore people get on here when it's not completely relentlessly negative like normal. IBM takes in 26B a year in cloud. Say whatever but that's a large number. The idea that they're dead is ridiculous. Oh no, here come the downvotes! Booooo..

wait ..... i thought this was one of their "strategic imperatives" ?

What a complete shambles.

I am sure Arvind will fix that misunderstanding…

So the Pentagon is going multi-cloud...? But not inviting IBM/Red Hat? This just keeps getting worse.

It looks like anyone but IBM can bid on pentagon cloud

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/19/pentagon-asks-amazon-google-microsoft-oracle-for-cloud-bids.html

You can invest tens of billions of dollars into building cloud data centers, fiber connections between them, and new software that runs on them or you can spend it on dividends and stock buybacks. Amazon, MS, and Google chose the former while IBM chose the latter. And here we are.

First place? Last place? We showed up very late to the biggest race in a decade, with no good excuse, and in a sport where we used to make all the rules. Pathetic management complacency, and the rest of the sport is now not even offering us any registration forms for future races.

"So if you're not first place you should just quit? I love the message folks on the forum send to our children. Hey, if you aren't in the lead, just give up. "If you ain't first you're last!"

If you are debating the "IBM Cloud" is somehow in last place, you are missing the point. It isn't in any place. IBM doesn't have to quit. It plain lost and is dead. It is why they are trying to play the Hybrid Game now.

So if you're not first place you should just quit? I love the message folks on the forum send to our children. Hey, if you aren't in the lead, just give up. "If you ain't first you're last!"

INCIDENT - SEVERITY 1 - EVERY IBM CLOUD EMAIL
SEVERITY: SEVERITY 1
REGIONS: EVERY SINGLE ONE, EVERY TIME
DESCRIPTION...

The same issues that sunk IBM's cloud will be the same issues that sink Red Hat. Namely poor leadership and inability to remove that leadership for extended periods of time, short term financial optimization (burning the furniture), fantasy marketing rather than investing in reality, internally focused/poor customer service, creating an army of enemy former employees/customers rather than an extended alumni sales branch.

Sears use to be one of IBM’s largest customers. Both made the same mistakes! Now they are both no longer relevant. So fu----g sad 😢.

The end for IBM as a great company… it will have now to fight hard to avoid total obsolescence.

They're "all in on RH w/hybrid cloud" remember.
Too bad customers don't feel the same way.
What's the next big hype they will jump on the bandwagon?

Good article; good summation.

I especially like the very last line: ".... its inability to capitalize on that historic shift was a huge strategic oversight — and one that has left its status as an American technology icon hanging in the balance."

Hey, does anyone remember Sears, Roebuck and Co.? Anyone? Anyone?