Tag: IBM

  • McDonald’s Geofence, Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose, and Big Things Are Trusted Less – Related to your interests, Wednesday

    McDonald’s Geofence, Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose, and Big Things Are Trusted Less – Related to your interests, Wednesday

    Also: AI makes marketing opaque, execs value humans less, and clown world logic. You’re either left holding the bag, or pro-activity delivering “value creation” The answer is pretty clear: TryTanzu.ai. Related to your interests What’s New in Tanzu Platform 10.4: Powering Agentic Apps at Scale – Nick and Keith walk through it. Quit VMware and…

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  • A project is what IBM delivered at e&. Custom integration, IBM Consulting on-site, bespoke architecture tailored to one customer’s requirements. It works, but it doesn’t scale. Every enterprise becomes its own implementation, with its own timeline, its own integration challenges, its own dependency on consulting availability. “A platform is repeatable. Channel partners can sell it.…

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  • Relevant to your interests, Saturday

    Relevant to your interests, Saturday

    The rise of ‘micro’ apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them – Another go at LowCode: “It is a new era of app creation that is sometimes called micro apps, personal apps, or fleeting apps because they are intended to be used only by the creator (or the creator plus a select few…

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  • Getting a slice of the Kubernete$ management pie

    Getting a slice of the Kubernete$ management pie

    How big the Kubernetes market? TAM-time for managing Kubernetes: The container management market has grown more than 20% over the past year, with a market value of over $2.5 billion in 2024. The market is forecast to exceed $4.5 billion in constant currency by 2028, with a 17.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). Gartner, August,…

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  • Docling: An open-source tool kit for advanced document processing – Looks useful for getting precious text out of the PDF silo, from IBM.

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  • IBM co-location program described as worker attrition plan – From the RTO-as-not-so-stealthy-layoff files.

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  • Cloud market share shows vendors eyeing a $1T opportunity – “the revenue shares for our eight cloud companies in the combined IaaS/PaaS cloud market at nearly $300 billion projected for 2024. AWS has 36% of this combined market, Microsoft 23% and Google 7%. Alibaba, Oracle Tencent Huawei and IBM combine for around 14% of the…

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  • IBM buys Kubernetes cost control startup Kubecost to expand its FinOps suite – They’ve bought a lot in this category – solution suite’ing. ”IBM said Kubecost’s capabilities will be integrated into an expanding FinOps Suite, enhancing the combined capabilities of Apptio, Cloudability, Instana and Turbonomic to provide what will perhaps be the most comprehensive cost…

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  • Business leaders are losing faith in IT, according to this IBM study. Here’s why – “Fewer than half (47%) of business leaders surveyed think their IT organization is “effective in basic services,” down from 69% surveyed in 2013, the survey shows. Only 36% of CEOs in the survey see IT as effective, down from 64%…

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  • AI may be distracting organizations from other IT priorities – Well, things are getting better, but enterprise AI is a distraction from keeping the lights on. // “IBM reports that fewer than half of the respondents believe their IT organization is effective in delivering basic services, compared to 69 percent from a survey in 2013.…

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  • Survey reveals generative AI employee fear – Lots of hopes and dream, not enough projects and experiments: “IBM’s research found that less than half of organisations are focused on GenAI pilots – and another 24% are doing nothing at all. But almost half (49%) of the CEOs polled expect to use GenAI to drive growth…

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  • IBM Is Buying HashiCorp. What Comes Next? – Good analysis of the possible business strategy, the synergies to activate. // “Customers in specific industries, often highly regulated and conservative in outlook, have often chosen IBM and continue to do so. For them, the value of cloud is complementary at the margins, not a wholesale change…

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  • IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, seeks software boost – Enterprise AI businesses case are difficult: “But he also said buyers’ initial enthusiasm for generative AI has eased as they ponder whether it can generate return on investment. Users are finding that applying generative AI to a single business process could cost as much…

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  • Money spent on containerized workloads is growing fast, but overall spend is still small compared to traditional infrastructure

    Money spent on containerized workloads is growing fast, but overall spend is still small compared to traditional infrastructure

    PSA: I recommend that you use your personal email address to subscribe to this newsletter. We’re approaching and in layoff and job change season. Starting now to the end of the CY/FY, bonuses are paid out, promotions have been denied or gained, etc. If you’re subscribed with your work email, consider switching to a personal…

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  • IBM takes on AWS, Google, and Microsoft with Watsonx – If it works, it lets enterprises build up huge, custom trained models, and it has enough governance controls, it’d be a big deal for IBM. They key things learned from ChatGPT is that it has to be super easy, frictionless to get started with. That’s…

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  • Can Watsonx Rebuild IBM’s AI Relevance? – Analysis of IBM’s AI stuff. Also, a good side point: no one really knows anymore what IBM does.

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  • IBM looks to turn nearly 8,000 jobs over to artificial intelligence, CEO says – ’“I could easily see 30% of that getting replaced by AI and automation over a five-year period,” Krishna told Bloomberg News, referring to “back-office” positions such as in human resources.’”

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  • Be less reliable – Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #49

    Be less reliable – Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #49

    How I find time to make thumbnails for my enterprise videos. Sorry, I flaked The most operational self-help tactic I’ve learned in years is: get comfortably flaking out on things. Missing meetings, being late delivering things, being unreliable, skipping studying Dutch today (and tomorrow)…just failing at living up to your full potential.  This thinking works…

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  • 🗂 Link: IBM i Clouds Proliferating At Rapid Clip – IT Jungle

    “We partnered with Google because Google wanted to partner with us and Amazon didn’t want to partner with us,” IBM i Chief Architect Steve Will said during a panel discussion at the inaugural POWERUp conference in San Antonio, Texas, in June 2018. “So hey Google is going to succeed with Power. Now I have Amazon…

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  • 🗂 Link: VMware CEO: IBM Paid Too Much for Red Hat

    “We’re going to own the Kubernetes stack,” Gelsinger said at the Deutsche Bank Conference. “We’re not going to be relying on third-party code. It’s all going to be an integrated solution stack to execute on that Kubernetes.” … “Do we assess the competitive environment? Well, of course, we do,” Gelsinger said. “So, IBM spent $34…

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