Thread regarding IBM layoffs

Maybe when Arvind says “we’re ALL IN” he means we’re going to be taking it all in the bu-----e.

Here's the partnership between Astadia and aws.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/migrating-a-mainframe-to-aws-in-5-steps/

This is similar emulators on Azure cloud.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/infrastructure/mainframe-migration/application-strategies

There are other companies such as Wipro, Infosys provide similar services.

Basically, idea is to retire services that are no longer needed and move other stuff on these clouds using mainframe emulators. Each cloud has their own emulators.

There is still lot of work going on but in the next 4-5 years, I believe there will be less and less customer base. And major companies are going in the correct direction. (Not correct for IBM).

IBM has to upgrade their services pretty fast. Anyways, no new banks, start ups are using mainframes anymore. Just older projects which runs on them since many years are still there. But everyone is trying to come off of z.

It's really hard to get any data science insights, interacting distributed databases with z os.

Borg was created by Google and morphed into Kubernetes which was joined by Red Hat. K8s is what it is today because of more than just Google.

* There are services available to move from mainframes to AWS. *

Anyone have any info on this, or can point me in the right direction?

Are such services and projects actually successful?

Curious how zSeries applications are actually migrated successfully to non-z platforms.

IBM is great at playing ALL IN. They ALL IN with Watson for 5-6 years, they ALL IN with cloud paks, now ALL IN OpenShift c-m hybrid cloud. One day they would ALL IN with mainframes hybrid z.

But yet they are very incompetent at making hybrid z cr-p. In fact, their z and mainframes are declining since last decade. People are moving to clouds. There are services available to move from mainframes to AWS. Slowly, IBM would be ALL IN dead.

Can confirm.

ok, Amazon is now in the hybrid cloud business. But unless they are ALL IN on hybrid cloud, IBM has nothing to worry about. Nothing at all.

"Not Kubernetes", LOL. That's because Amazon has something else (EKS Anywhere) for that. Not everything needs to run under K8s. These people are so clueless, if you asked them "who invented Kubernetes" most would answer Red Hat (it was Google).

IBM has good ideas. The leaders just can never execute on anything.

Has jimmy ever posted in that channel?

Someone posted about this in ama-jim and the bluebirds are dismissing ECS because “it’s not Kubernetes.” LMAO. They’re so clueless.

Oh, man. I didn't know about them. I thought IBM is the only leader in hybrid cloud which they try to say in every meeting. "We are the only one".

Then, it's really terrible for IBM, being the first one, they are still lacking at many things.

Azure will soon jump in with their strategy

Already did. Azure Arc. Amazon was the last holdout (Google has Anthos).