Many here have been waiting anxiously for some divestiture news from IBM. IBM has finally obliged. No... it is not GBS or GTS or Hardware but still... — read more 

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2019-04-04-Centerbridge-Partners-to-Acquire-IBMs-Marketing-Platform-and-Commerce-Software-Offerings-to-Form-Standalone-Marketing-and-Advertising-Technology-Company

It's like it just vanished in a puff of smoke.

It’s not workforce reduction, it’s cost reduction. IBM is focused on costs and has forgotten about innovation and relationships. If you don’t have something innovative to sell, you need to focus on relationships to tide you over the innovative... — read more 

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/03/ibm_source_lawsuit/

IBM AI Can Predict with 95% Accuracy Which Employees will Quit https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/03/ibm-ai-can-predict-with-95-percent-accuracy-which-employees-will-quit.html Maybe they should do a tool for the employees so they can predict whether they... — read more 

Like it or not, if you are old within IBM you are viewed as non-essential. HW is being abandoned at an expedited pace. Expect Storage to be gone by June. Scale out power soon there after. Outsourcing will follow, with TSS associated HW also going... — read more 

So do IBM's storage announcements give us a glimmer of hope to take business away from the competition, or is this just lipstick on a pig? Lower pricing, but is margin improving, and what about legacy storage?

I see this issue raised over and over again as if nobody knows it's happening. It is. Everybody knows it's happening. But don't expect anything to change because everybody knows about this. Remember that article a while ago that put together actual... — read more 

IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched ‘Millennial Corps’: lawsuit Tech titan says courts have rejected theories underlying suit Source:... — read more 

Former Colorado IBM employees sue tech giant for violating federal age-discrimination laws https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2019/03/27/former-colorado-ibm-employees-sue-tech-giant-for.html

I heard people talking today about layoffs coming at the end of this week. I tried hearing more but could not pick it out. I'm in bld 062 marketing but was in bld 002 at the time. Has anyone heard any details?

So we urge the technology industry to formally rename the key executive officers appropriately: Tim Apple, Larry Oracle, Satya Microsoft and Ginni Layoffs?

We all know age is a liability at IBM - there was a whole article on that a while ago - but is there a place where it's not? Where somebody in their late forties and up can find a good job that pays well? Because I've been looking, and I haven't been... — read more 

IBM lays out their business model going forward (page 23 and 24 of the report see below) NOTE the “enterprise” emphasis. I interpret this to mean “scale out and low margin businesses are to be de-emphasized”. A couple of interesting reading points... — read more 

Gotta get the sweatshop workers at least mildly prep.'d before transferring the work. Expect to see a big RA in ~3yrs. https://www.businesstoday.in/current/corporate/ibm-to-train-over-1-million-female-students-in-india-in-3-years/story/326787.html

An IBM spokesperson said the client considering the customer contact center no longer needed it. “Despite that development, IBM has continued driving significant growth in our local operations and we are actively working to bring even more... — read more 

Nothing's done until it's done. https://www.wraltechwire.com/2019/03/12/signs-emerge-ibm-red-hat-merger-may-face-delay-ibm-says-its-still-on/

Be careful where you store your photos. Earlier this year IBM released a dataset of 1 million photos of people's faces designed to reduce bias in facial recognition software. I was surprised that the pictures were taken from Flickr & so investigated... — read more 

Lack of vision, lack of industry understanding, lack of performance. Three strikes. Time's up. When is she going to do the honorable deed and step down?

There are no safe jobs when revenue is flat, profit is down, and red hat has to be paid for. But let's also get real, even if you stay you're facing declining benefits, and nothing resembling a raise, let alone a COLA. At best you'll tread water, at... — read more 

Just received this email -- Ready to Ask Ginni Anything? Get your questions ready for Ginni’s next Ask Me Anything session. Submit questions on your mind about IBM, and Ginni will answer the most often-asked themes. You have until Tuesday, March 12... — read more 

March 29 2017 and March 29 2018, end of the quarter - we had large RAs on both dates. Let's see what this year brings.

It's bloody over there, massive layoffs on the services side. You can bet there will be huge hits in GBS soon, the two are correlated and our GBS SAP practice will have massive hits IMHO.

Hi. I've got friends, with open positions, in those organizations. Does anyone know the future of these orgs, in general, but specifically regarding layoffs? I'm not happy where I am, but feel somewhat safe, and thankful to be employed. Thanks.

This should help IBM become a dominant cloud player. . . https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/supermicro-hardware-weaknesses-let-researchers-backdoor-an-ibm-cloud-server/

Buffett used lessons learned from IBM when thinking about Oracle, he said Monday. “Larry Ellison’s done a fantastic job with Oracle,” Buffett said. “Oracle is a great business, but I don’t think, particularly after my experience with IBM, I don’t... — read more 

Though not specifically mentioning IBM, this article (link below) is a clear explanation of what is happening (like in many other companies) to IBM today. Very interesting... — read more 

Seems the corporate PR machine really has successfully sabotaged IBM's section on Glassdoor. https://finance.yahoo.com/video/why-ibm-dream-employer-gen-185722778.html

Source below, this has been put together by Mark Renkert and Scott Decker... We have a Case Study Research have, access, and be able to name and call your previous (the employer you were laid off from, “Big-Blue” in this case) employer’s direct... — read more 

This board has been really quiet.... Any signs of layoffs now than Think is over?

https://streamable.com/93ovh Ginni: "That's a trillion dollar market, and we'll be number 1 in it" (speaking about the Hybrid Cloud play)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siliconangle/2019/02/14/analysis-ibm-ceo-declares-chapter-2-of-cloud-and-ai-at-ibm-think-2019/ Stop messing around with easy introductory chapters, let's go straight to Chapter 9 and Chapter 11, where we can talk real... — read more 

Ginni , then why are customers cancelling contracts and seeking new contractors? https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2017/02/md-anderson-cancer-centers-ibm-watson-project-fails-journalism-related/

An amusing article. . . http://fortune.com/2019/02/14/ibm-ceo-rometty-ai-watson/

IBM is using Kubernetes to enable Watson AI to run on public clouds AWS, Google, and Microsoft .

IBM needs cash to pay off the red hat purchase...who’s next to spin off and generate some cash? Rumour is next up is the multi tennant stuff.

IGF customers were informed in Feb that “some” current financial contracts will not be extended Channel floor financing looks to have been sent to Lenovo financing OEM financing looks to be discontinued after 6/30/2019 All current contracts will be... — read more 

(Reuters) - The chief executives of Apple Inc, Walmart Inc, IBM Corp and other major companies are joining a Trump administration advisory board that hopes to prepare U.S. workers to deal with job training issues and the workforce shift brought by... — read more 

So wait: somehow due to whatever accounting wizardry IBM was using previously to calculate their numbers, with the new corporate tax law, they are saying they took a $1.9B hit to profits? I'm not a tax accountant nor a tax attorney, but seems to me... — read more