Thread regarding IBM layoffs

IBM’s Rob Thomas details key AI trends in shift to hybrid cloud

VentureBeat: How do you size up the competitive landscape?

Thomas: Watson components can run anywhere. The real question is why is nobody else
enabling their AI to run anywhere? IBM is the only company doing that. My thesis is that most of
the other big AI players have a strategy tax. If your whole strategy is to bring everything to our
cloud, the last thing you want to do is enable your AI to run other places because then you’re
acknowledging that other places exist. That’s a strategy advantage for us. We’re the only ones
that can truly say you can bring the AI to where the data is. I think that’s going to give us a lot of
momentum. We don’t have to be the biggest compute provider, but we do have to make it
incredibly easy for companies to work across cloud environments. I think that’s a pretty good
bet.

It's this sort of blissful obliviousness that has ensured Big Bleu has been and will continue to be an also-ran in the rising technologies.

https://venturebeat.com/2021/03/19/ibms-rob-thomas-details-key-ai-trends-in-shift-to-hybrid-cloud/

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Comment! It's anonymous!

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The one chart that tells the entire cloud story:
https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/106853195-1615557151978-20210312_cloud_capex.png?v=1615557189&w=740&h=400

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Post ID: @4lxi+19Yi2OTb

Rob "Another broken promise" Thomas He is the absolute worst of them all

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Post ID: @2jni+19Yi2OTb

All in on Hybrid Cloud!!
Basically pushing all in holding a pair of 4's.
Good luck with that

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Post ID: @1goy+19Yi2OTb

Can't wait to see the results for 1Q 2021... I heard it is a total disaster!

If you own some IBM stock, make sure you sell before the earnings call.

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Post ID: @1aao+19Yi2OTb

Keep selling that ice to the Eskimos. Let me know how much you sell at the end of each quarter.

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Post ID: @1gqj+19Yi2OTb

So he's basically saying "Our cloud s—s, so in an effort to claw some money out of this cloud thing, we are shipping our AI to our competitors cloud. And by not reciprocating, our cloud competition is acknowledging that our cloud isn't worth the effort."

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This type of incoherent babbling is parroted by all IBM execs as well as corporate strategy. Try to challenge it and you’ll get even more nonsensical verbal diarrhea. It isn’t landing with clients and it isn’t even landing with employees anymore. When are they going to wake up???

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Post ID: @1qsb+19Yi2OTb

Seriously, who reads this stuff ? Pencil.. er Powerpoint pushers blowing farts out of their a-holes.
IBM is so behind the Googles and Microsofts, this guy really has to do several lines of coke before going live with this piece. I won't trouble you with itemizing the troublesome pieces.. there are so many! One pattern to discern the b—s— is to notice how many times "AI" is used in sentences.. you will know that hot air is laced with fecal matter.

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Post ID: @1hwc+19Yi2OTb

IBM cloud review
One word, No

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Post ID: @1osl+19Yi2OTb

It’s all a bit cloudy at the moment. Maybe the smoke will clear when he quits microdosing the vape.

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Post ID: @nuf+19Yi2OTb

Rob "Tabasco" Thomas.

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Post ID: @lmd+19Yi2OTb

LOL this guy either doesn't know what he

"If you can't provide compute" why would anyone use your AI even if it is the best when others give it for free on top of their cloud services

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Post ID: @bwj+19Yi2OTb

Such nonsensical mumbo jumbo from a SVP? The company is doomed.

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Post ID: @cqq+19Yi2OTb

IBM is the only company with an AI strategy that makes it OK to not buy IBM Cloud? So it's OK for IBM AI to throw IBM Cloud under the bus. And you wonder why IBM is dying. I think every company has a business strategy to not buy IBM Cloud.

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Post ID: @qdo+19Yi2OTb

LOL this guy either doesn't know what he's talking about or just saying something to keep his job.

"If you can't provide compute" why would anyone use your AI even if it is the best when others give it for free on top of their cloud platform.

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Post ID: @nmv+19Yi2OTb

So he's been blowing smoke for ages.

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Rob's (per LinkedIn) career history - instills such confidence in his AI marketplace comments

IBM
Total Duration 21 yrs 9 mos

Title Senior Vice President, Software, Cloud and Data Platform
Dates Employed Apr 2020 – Present
Employment Duration 1 yr
Location New York, New York, United States
Title General Manager, IBM Data and Watson AI
Dates Employed Nov 2016 – Apr 2020
Employment Duration 3 yrs 6 mos
Location Greater New York City Area

General Manager of IBM Data and AI, a multi-billion dollar software business, with over 7,000 employees globally. Responsible for P&L, operations, business strategy, products, support, marketing and sales. Software products include all data and AI software, with leading brands such as Watson, Db2, Cognos, SPSS, and InfoSphere.

Title Vice President, IBM Analytics
Dates Employed Jul 2007 – Oct 2016
Employment Duration 9 yrs 4 mos
Location Greater New York City Area

Product strategy and engineering for big data and analytics. Focused on digital offerings, SaaS, and cloud.

Responsible for global sales, strategy, and products for Big Data software segment, leading over 1000 employees globally. Scope evolved from channel development, to M&A and market development, to business and product development, to global sales. Led over $2 billion of acquisitions, and drove operational P&L improvements through acquisition integration and new product development. …

Title Director, IBM Global Engineering Solutions
Dates Employed Apr 2003 – Jun 2007
Employment Duration 4 yrs 3 mos
Location Tokyo, Japan

General management responsibility for a $1B+ services, software, semiconductor, manufacturing, and intellectual property business in Asia. Grew three development sites (China, India, and Japan, restructured manufacturing business to increase profitability, and developed new professional services business.

Started new engineering services business in December 2003, living in New York and traveling globally. Moved to Asia in 2005. …

Title Associate Partner, Global Business Services
Dates Employed Jul 1999 – Nov 2003
Employment Duration 4 yrs 5 mos
Location Greater Atlanta Area

Responsible for consulting sales and delivery in the electronics and financial services industries. Served a portfolio of ~10 global enterprise clients in engagements around products-to-services transformation, strategy & change, and operational turnarounds.

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Post ID: @hir+19Yi2OTb

This guy is a joker.
Did layoffs in disguise of back to office.
Made several leadership changes last few years to the point that now right hand does not know what left hand is doing.

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Kool-aid

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