Cloud - Something the mainframe has been doing for decades. We called it outsourcing. GM ran their entire organization out of mainframes in Charlotte, Dallas, & perhaps another in the 80’s. The internet just made it easier, and less secure & reliable. Brought outsourcing to a wider audience.
Mainframe modernization. An oxymoron. Like saying today’s cars are like cars from 50 years ago. The mainframe is more advanced than any other platforms. Billions of dollars of investment and patented technologies have guaranteed its place for decades to come. Sure, AWS, Azure, Oracle cloud & numerous others are creating cheap, unsecured, unreliable, platforms for small businesses, picture storage, emails, instant messaging, and many other tasks that aren’t show stoppers if they’re hacked or down for one of many reasons. As Capital One found out and lost almost 200 million for the pleasure. I enjoy the glee that many of you exude when IBM has what might be perceived as negative news. I saw the same glee when in the 90’s some idiot said the mainframe would be history circa 2000. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, June 17, 2022, 9:06 AM, zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 5:50 AM David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe it's the case that customers don't want to use IBMs cloud. Where I > live in Australia the big four banks are moving significant chunks of > their infrastructure to public cloud and have government legislation to > do so. NAB in particular have been quite aggressive, although like most > sensible enterprises they have gone down the multi-cloud route with > Microsoft Azure so they don't have all their eggs in one basket. > > It will be interesting to see if IBM can close the cloud gap. Playing > catch-up is difficult when competing with behemoths with a decade+ head > start. > Indeed. Word from insiders is that since IBM "management" have decided cloud is The Answer, folks have started playing games, like attributing all CICS-related revenue as "cloud". Q4 2020, IBM claimed $6.2B in cloud revenue on total revenue of $16B. Given that nobody EVER says"cloud" and "IBM" in the same sentence in the real world, those numbers are quite difficult to believe without this kind of gameplaying. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
