SOA filling the Gaps

The topic of the post Vendors Survival: Will IBM Survive until 2030? is no longer a question to be asked , is  IBM's plans to split into two companies.   The new IBM will focus on Hybrid Clouds and one of its goals is rapid growth. The smaller "new Co" will address Infrastructure and IT Services issues. Its goal will be efficiency. It will include other products and Business Lines. Some of the low margin products and Platforms will gradually disappear or will be sold to other companies. These products and platforms may be part of "New Co" at 2022. I promised to de dicate a post to the IBM Mainframe. This post is the promised post.  The Mainframe's Positioning It is likely that it will be part of the "New Co".  The term "Modernization" appears in s ome non-official descriptions describing " New Co".  Modernization refers frequently to  Silo   Legacy Mainframe systems. The idea is to build componentized integrated systems which a...

IBM's headquarter in Armonk, New York Source: Wikipedia I wrote   the first post on IBM's Survival on 2017. Issues appearing in the post were not resolved yet by IBM.  To quote my post " The problem is that IBM does not lead any significant new technologies market ." The market that IBM should be one of the Leaders is the Public Cloud market. Unfortunately for IBM, it failed to lead this market. On 2018 I wrote another post:  First Take: IBM's Red Hat Acquisition: Is it too late?   IBM's position was even worse than in 2017.  "Is it too late?" refers to the Cloud market. Like HP, few years ago , IBM plans to split its business into two companies at the end of 2021.  IBM (currently 59 billion revenues until June 30 2020) will focus on Hybrid Clouds.  "New CO" (currently 19 billion revenues) will focus on infrastructure services.  the new IBM The new IBM will focus on Public Hybrid Clouds. Mainly integrating clouds of Amazon's AWS and ...

     I was a Junior IBM Mainframe COBOL Programmer in the beginning of the 1970's.  IBM 360 computers was the leading platform with SVS Operating System and afterward MVS Operating System. IBM Mainframe platform was a leading platform in the decade before I started my computers career. My roles were changed to a System Programmer, a Manager, a Consultant etc.  I worked on many other platforms and on multiple platforms environments. The IT industry was also changed and the IBM Mainframe was no longer the leading platform. However, unlike other proprietary platforms it survived.  Nine years ago I wrote a post about a new Mainframe released. The post was titled:  IBM z-Enterprise First Take: Data Center in a Box or Cloud Computing . IBM Mainframe was still a viable platform for large Enterprises. It should be noted that Public Cloud implementation replacing Core Mainframe systems by Linux and/or Windows based systems is not yet a vi...

Red Hat logo. Source: Wikipedia IBM is acquiring Software Company Red Hat for 34 billion USDs . It is IBM's largest acquisition ever. According to Business Insider some of the key points are: 1. Red Hat will join IBM's Hybrid Cloud Team as a distinct unit preserving the Independence and neutrality of Red Hat's Open Source development heritage and commitment, current products portfolio and go to ,market strategy and unique development culture.  My Take: RED Hat will continue selling its Linux Operating System and services to IBM's Cloud competitors such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google. 2. IBM will remain committed  to Red Hat's Open Governance, Open Source contributions, participation in the Open Source Community and development model. My Take: IBM is also committed to Open Source and its Cloud is based on Open Stack. with IBM's long tradition of Open Source usage and contributions it is easy for IBM to preserve Red Hat's Open Source ...

The Public Cloud is a promise. A promise for a new model without an Information Technology department.  Unlike the Public Cloud, the Private Cloud is nothing to write home about. Utility Computing disguised in modern and attractive name.  Reality is not as simple as described in the paragraphs above.  If you read the article Tectonic shift as Public Cloud giants acknowledge the private deployment options , you will discover that even Amazon and Google admit that Public Cloud is not a magical solution for all problems. There is a necessity for Private Clouds. There are systems for which Public Cloud is not adequate.  Private Cloud It is relatively easy to define Public Cloud. There are various different definitions of Private Cloud.  The main definitions could be categorized as follows: 1. Cloud which is located within the Enterprise boundaries.  Utility Computing may fit to this definition. If the organization provides Information Technol...