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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 entrance to IBM's Headquarter in Armonk Source: Hebrew Wikipedia IBM's earnings declined every quarter in the last 20 quarters. This trend is surely a warning sign which raise the question: Will IBM survive until 2027? Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway was one of IBM's larger shareholders. Buffet sold the shares after losing in his IBM investment. He said he hopes that he will not lose in his Apple 's shares investment.   The early days According to Wikipedia, "The company was originated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company and was renamed "International Business machine" in 1924".  The first Mainframes On April 7, 1964 IBM announced its first computer system family: the IBM System/360.  IBM System/360 was t he first IBM Mainframe. Thomas Watson Jr.  was the company's president.  He was warned that he will not be able to compete with the market leader NCR. Few years latter IBM replaced NCR as the market...

Picture Source: Wikipedia In previous posts I classified Customers, e.g.  Customers Typology: The Social .   In other posts I classified Consultants  e.g. Consultants Typology: The Consultant who Knows Everything . In this post series I will try to classify Managers. Why should I post about Captive Manager if I already wrote about   The Captive Customer  and about  The Captive Customer who Knows Everything ? There are similarities between a Captive Customer and a Captive Manager, but they are not identical.  The following real Case Study would clarify the differences.   Tale of two Managers Two Senior IT Managers were working for a large customer of mine. The first Manager was a Microsoft 's Captive Customer. Whenever he had to chose a Microsoft's  product vs. another vendor's product he automatically selected Microsoft's product.  If you read my post  The Captive Customer , you understand why this selection met...

Many large banks are IBM Mainframes users. They use mainframes for decades. They use other platforms as well, but their Core Banking systems are deployed on Mainframes. Recently leading Cloud Computing vendors such as Amazon , Microsoft and Google approached large banks in order to start migration of systems to their Public Clouds.  I looked for evidence supporting the notion that Banks are transforming from Mainframes to Public Clouds. I found no evidence. I am not the one to be blamed for not finding any significant evidence, because there is no evidence supporting the notion cited above.  Banks are using Public Clouds but... Like many other organizations, banks are using Public Clouds applications. However, they do not use it for Core Banking systems deployment. They use Public Clouds for applications which are less integrated with the Core Banking systems. If they will not use Public Clouds for Core Systems, IBM Mainframes will be used for many years. Public...