https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/08/ibm_arvind_email/
Krishna, we're told, spent several minutes on the subject, claiming that IBM sent 4.2 billion emails a week and that IBM employees have been experiencing only about 30 minutes per day of downtime. Our source told us that's "just not true."
IBM needs to patent the outage pattern so they can demand license fees from any other organization suffering one. They have the legal department to back it up.
Maybe everyone should put into their checkpoint:
"I read 2400 emails every workday and therefore have no time to get anything else done."
HE HAPPY about the loss of email. It is clear that the vast majority of those once-per-minute-even-while-you-sleep emails being sent are not being received. Once they get the system fixed and you do receive all of them .. look out!
They're gonna need a bigger cloud.
4,200,000,000/350,000 = 12,000 e-mails per week per employee
24 hours x 60minutes x 7 days = 10,080 minutes in a week (NOTE no days off)
Thus every employee at IBM is sending an e-mail faster than 1 per minute 24 x 7
Now that’s productivity!!!
The audacity of this guy is unreal. Either he is willingly lying about the situation, or is being hidden from the reality of it by those trying to protect themselves.
I wish we could just depose him and the CFO who is in reality the head that really needs to fall here given all the lack of planning, funding, resourcing etc was his ultimate decision.
Very sad to see a great company being ripped off by a clueless, lying exec team.
How long until the NYT picks this story up and it becomes a full blown PR nightmare lol
AK is just making up the 10K number... look at it this way, if they really knew how many e-mails are generated daily/weekly/monthly you would have thought they had scaled the system properly when they moved everything on the IBM Cloud servers... or is it just that the IBM Cloud is total S H I T ?
Who the h e l l sends 10k emails a week?! (Aside from corporate comms)
Or is he fudging THOSE numbers as well?
Just another incompetent executive LIAR!!! Don’t put up with their SH-T!!!
Lack of competent executives. I worked on a BIG migration and myself and admin support team kept finding poor assumptions by the team lead. The team lead would put me on mute at the direction of management. They just wanted to complete the migration by a certain date and didn’t care if it was done right.
When I don't an e-mail that means there is no or less work for me to do... works for me!
How about getting rid of e-mails all together?
So arrogant His body language tells it all
Lmfao, I’m at week 3 without having access to email or my calendar.
AK is just another arrogant IBM executive who has no clue. So sad to see our company run into the ground by a POS.
How can you tell AK is lying? His lips are moving! Just like every other IBM Manager ....
Reap what is sowed from cutting resources.
IBM looks like a bad joke.
More excuses = less credibility.
What happened to IBM’s world class planning and execution to solve business problems?
Today it can’t even execute its own plan with all of IBM’s resources at its disposal.
Tell that to the next company IBM pitches to for services.
IBM can’t even eat its own dog food.
Either..
While #1 may be true, I'm actually going with #3. He learned well from Ginni.
IBM could cease to exist and the impact would be minimal.
This company doesn't deserve to smell my hybrid f-a-r-t.
AK is so clearly in over his head, he will continue to make one bad decision after another and blame it on employees, bad leadership at its core. IBM is run by bean counters make no mistake about it, they will continue to cut resources all to appease Wall Street and deliver on the dividend. The days of a customer first strategy backed by a world class sales force and deep research pockets are history
That CEO office hours was a ####show. The fact that he almost turned the blame on us that we send too many emails (which only a non-sales person would say this and half the emails that we get are internal spam) to that he refused to write an 8 digit check to Microsoft or Google for better email (saying that most of our clients don’t use Gmail; yeah, well they don’t use on prem Domino servers either) to comparing trying to keep Jim Whitehurst to indentured servitude; to walking back supporting a hybrid return to office model and now only supports less than 20% of the organization being remote (because unless you’re a back office employee, then you can’t do your job remote, **** the fact that we just did it for the last 15 months)
Wonderful...
This individual said Krishna in his video blamed the outage on a lack of resources, specifically people and money allocated to the email migration from HCL to IBM servers. The message was that more capacity, testing, and planning were needed.
This critical situation, he said, didn't come from a single mistake – which would have been fixable right away – but from multiple cumulative decisions made over time due to a lack of resources.