On-prem IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic, stock sheds more than a quarter of its value CEO Krishna: Customers blew their Z budgets on servers and storage before prices spike, Q2 financials 'disappointing'
systems Big Blue thinks small, again, with POWER tower The last proprietary minicomputer, now in ‘deskside’ form if you fancy that
OS PLATFORMS Red Hat offers RHEL support ‘forever’ for those who need to lock in to legacy tech Beware the golden screwdriver
systems IBM teases new rackable mainframes that ‘complete’ the z17 family UPDATED: Big Blue happy for users to BYO rack and slot Z machines alongside other tech
OS PLatforms Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again SCO's legal successor Xinuos asks legal brains to let it bite IBM over ancient license and copyright claims
SYSTEMS IBM stacks up a sub-nanometer chip future Big Blue shows off process node it claims can scale down to 1 Angstrom
AI + ML A modest proposal: Reformat everything to make documents more palatable to AI What's up, DocLang?
ON-PREM Kyndryl showers execs with shares while staff ponder redundancy packages IBM spin-off's top brass bag six-figure stock awards
On-Prem Kyndryl takes employees' pulse while cutting off circulation for some Redundancy notices and sentiment survey land in inboxes on same day in what tech services biz calls 'commitment to listen'
On-prem 'Workforce rebalancing' comes for Kyndryl, and delivery teams are in the firing line Big Blue spinout eyes up to $500M in savings and agentic AI while insiders grumble it's still 'IBM without the hardware'
On-Prem Rust stalks IBM mainframes, but only in nightly form Patch series would bring memory-safe code to Linux's s390 port, with compiler caveats attached
off-prem IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power Customers say services were down for at least 4 hours, while status page showed no issues
Offbeat IBM tried to kill Tab navigation. Microsoft told it Bill Gates' mother wasn't interested Big Blue escalated the OS/2 keyboard squabble through seven layers of management. Redmond's answer? Nope
AI + ML IBM asks DBAs to trust AI to act on their behalf With help from Google and Intel, Big Blue brings new automation to Db2
Security Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year
AI + ML IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability 80,000 internal guinea pigs, Bobcoins, mainframe dreams and a name that really should have raised more flags
Systems AI-powered mainframe exits are a bubble set to pop Analysts reckon 70 percent of projects will fail, and 75 percent of vendors in the field will go away
Legal IBM becomes first company to pay up under Trump administration's diversity blitz Didn't admit liability, will cough $17M, still fighting age discrimination cases
AI + ML AI will make anyone a 10x programmer, but with 10x the cleanup Agents to check the work of the agents
Storage Storage vendors orbit the Nvidia sun at GTC Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix, and Seagate all had something to say
Software IBM CEO pay pack jumps 51% for 2025 in target smash and grab Median employee increase? 2.1%. And shareholders urged to vote against a request for AI bias reporting
AI + ML IBM stock dives after Anthropic points out AI can rewrite COBOL fast Big Blue has been saying this itself since 2023
Databases Quebec vehicles agency spent C$245M over budget on SAP ERP it wasn't sure it needed Probe says SAAQ misled government and botched rollout caused province-wide disruption
AI + ML IBM says AI is insane in the mainframe as z17 sales surge Big Blue leaning on software smarts to modernize COBOL estates and cut costs
OSes How CP/M-86's delay handed Microsoft the keys to the kingdom A late operating system, a stopgap deal, and the accident that made DOS dominant
Security IBM's AI agent Bob easily duped to run malware, researchers show Prompt injection lets risky commands slip past guardrails
On-Prem Former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner passes, aged 83 Oversaw a significant resurgence in Big Blue’s fortunes during the dotcom era
AI + ML IBM unleashes CUGA, an open-source AI agent that actually completes more than half its tasks Framework looks great for scenarios where a 62 percent completion rate is acceptable
AI + ML IBM touts progress on tech stack for AI-enabled airline with no passengers or alcohol Digital native? Cloud native? No, we need to be AI native, says Riyadh Air
OSes Classic MacOS for non-Apple PowerPC kit rediscovered Unreleased variants that Jobs killed off found – 7.6 on a G4, anyone?
Databases IBM straps AI to Db2 console in bid to modernize the old warhorse Intelligence Center features aim to unify management across on-prem, cloud, and containerized estates
AI + ML IBM drops $11B on Confluent to feed next-gen AI ambitions Big Blue’s latest mega-buy hands it a real-time data-streaming powerhouse built on Kafka
Systems Eleven years after Lenovo acquired IBM’s x86 server biz, profits are still elusive PC sales are pushing upwards nicely, but AI PCs only account for a third of the new fleet
On-Prem IBM cutting several thousand jobs in latest layoffs Resource Actions expected to hit half of US Infrastructure group
Off-Prem DNS downing clouds is boring: IBM Cloud is experiencing a quantum computer outage We’re guessing that turning it off and on again won’t help given qubits can be on and off at the same time
Off-Prem IBM Cloud stops signing and seeking new customers for its VMware service Blames Broadcom’s licensing changes that haven’t caused other hyperscalers to pull the pin
Off-Prem IBM is just not into the 'spend megabucks on cloudy GPUs' thing, rents them instead Infra revenue soars and AI helps everything … except the share price
AI + ML IBM's big iron to get Spyre AI accelerator upgrade this month Giving the mainframe customers what they want
Off-Prem IBM invites CockroachDB to infest its mainframes with PostgreSQL Vendors promote bridge to modern architecture for legacy systems, but Db2 not going anywhere just yet
AI + ML Irony alert: UK.gov Work dept hires IBM to aid AI projects Some Big Blue sky thinking needed for tech that promises employment extinction for humanity
Devops IBM killing mainframe coding kit for PCs this year Linux-based System z emulator will go away on Dec. 31, replaced by cloud-based solution from ISVs
Applications HCL stretches support window for Domino v9/v10 despite repeated end-of-life deadlines The corpse of Lotus Notes keeps twitching
Software Red Hat back-office team to be Big and Blue whether they like it or not Legal, HR, Finance and Accounting moving to IBM from 2026. Engineering and others staying put... for now
PaaS + IaaS IBM Cloud to end free human support, suggests customers use enhanced AI instead Shift to self-service will apparently improve support, presumably Big Blue's bottom line too
AI + ML IBM, NASA cook up AI model to predict solar tantrums Open source Surya system promises early alerts for space weather that can fry satellites and grids
Off-Prem IBM Cloud hit by Severity One incident with the same symptoms as other recent SNAFUs Outages, degraded service, and login troubles hit 10 regions and 27 services
Personal Tech Long live the nub: ThinkPad designer David Hill spills secrets, designs that never made it We almost got more butterfly keyboards and foldable workstations
AI + ML Enterprises neglect AI security – and attackers have noticed IBM report shows a rush to embrace technology without safeguarding it, and as for governance...
Storage And now for our annual ‘Tape is still not dead’ update 176.5 Exabytes of the stuff shipped in 2024, another double-digit jump
On-Prem IBM moves scientists out of Almaden Research Center Company mum on whether the site will be shuttered
Systems IBM boasts new Power11 chips are stingy on power usage More efficient cores plus an optional energy saver mode in Big Blue's latest CPUs
AI + ML AI scores a huge own goal if you play up and play the game A virtual environment makes a great de-hype advisor
Devops HashiCorp speaks up about adjusting to life under IBM Freshly acquired cloud darling talks mainframes, Ansible, and influencing Big Blue at HashiDays event
Off-Prem IBM Cloud login breaks for second time this week and Big Blue isn't saying why To make matters worse, IBM's security software has a critical vuln caused by an exposed password
Off-Prem IBM Cloud login breaks for second time in a fortnight Sev-1 incident downs support portals and means application data paths ‘may be affected’
AI + ML IBM Watson zombie brand shuffles forward with new AI lab in NYC Unsurprisingly, it's all about agents, the buzzword du jour
AI + ML FYI: Most AI spending driven by FOMO, not ROI, CEOs tell IBM, LOL Just 1 in 4 bets paying off so far
AI Infrastructure Month Cerebras CEO actually finds common ground with Nvidia as startup notches IBM win Feldman calls US's AI Diffusion rules ‘bad policy’
On-Prem Artist formerly known as Indian Business Machines pledges $150B for US ops, R&D Did we says offshore? We meant, er, hardcore. Amirite, DOGE bros?
Public Sector IBM dragged down by DOGE contract cancellation roulette Big Blue downplays impact of Elon-gated cost-cutting
On-Prem IBM orders US sales to locate near customers or offices 'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge
Software IBM shareholders asked to back greater lobbying transparency Activist investor finds payments groups lobbying against climate action
Personal Tech Appeals court revives lawsuit alleging IBM bilked pensioners Panel finds plaintiffs should get a chance to prove docs not submitted too late
On-Prem IBM US cuts may run deeper than feared ‒ and the jobs are heading to India Big Blue 'might as well move its headquarters' to Bengaluru since it 'no longer prioritizes' America
On-Prem It looks like IBM is cutting jobs again, with Classic Cloud hit hard We're told thousands may soon get a pink slip from Big Blue
Patches IBM scores perfect 10 ... vulnerability in mission-critical OS AIX Big Blue's workstation workhorse patches hole in network installation manager that could let the bad guys in
Software IBM boss Arvind Krishna pockets 23% pay rise to $25M What about the average Big Blue worker? $48,582 up from $43,069
On-Prem IBM dodges BMC's $1.6B bullet in US as London court slaps down LzLabs Big Blue's legal eagles soar on both sides of the pond
Devops IBM likes Hashicorp, finally puts a $6.4B ring on it Monopoly watchdogs forever hold their peace, unlike developers still unhappy about Terraform license switch
Databases IBM plans to buy open source Cassandra wrangler DataStax Big Blue eyes integration with its AI development studio
Software IBM Consulting workers told management wants to 'more closely align pay, performance' At least they're not having to 'justify' recent work or resign
On-Prem Insiders say IBM's broader return-to-office plan hits older, more expensive staff hard IT giant doing whatever it takes to reach $300 a share
On-Prem IBM return-to-office order hits finance, ops teams amid push to dump staff for AI Demand described as a 'soft layoff'
Science RIP Raymond Bird: Designer of UK's first mass-produced business computer dies aged 101 Engineer was behind the HEC series and more
Devops IBM banks on friendlier US regulatory climate for dealmaking Reckons completion of Hashicorp buy is around the corner, plans to use some of $7B free cash for more M&A
Software IBM seeks $3.5B in cost savings for 2025, discretionary spend to be clipped Workforce rebalancing? Yes, but on the plus side, the next 12 months are all about AI, AI, and more AI
Networks IBM swoops in to rescue UK Emergency Services Network after Motorola shown the door With a near half-billion-pound price hike bringing contract value to £1.4B
OSes How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern software Even Microsoft's lead architect misunderstood the failure
Systems IBM and GlobalFoundries settle multibillion-dollar trade secret and contract lawsuits Clears way for 'new opportunities' for collab, say pair
Legal UK watchdog launches inquiry into IBM's HashiCorp acquisition To the surprise of no one, a multi-billion dollar deal comes under CMA scrutiny
CxO Kyndryl's consulting business may be less than it seems Insiders say it's largely a matter of labeling
Storage Why GPU-powered AI needs fast storage Don’t let I/O bottlenecks impede training your AI models
Storage Availability, performance and capacity your applications and data will need Build an automated data workload super-highway with Flash Grid Architecture and Storage Partitions
On-Prem Kyndryl insiders say there's little new business IT giant aims to end revenue slide by March, former employees have doubts
Personal Tech IBM sued again in storm over Weather Channel data sharing Privacy lawsuit blows this way alleging disclosure of names, email addresses, geo info, video titles without permission
OSes AlmaLinux shows off its new Kitten Also there's a beta of 9.5 – which is more than there is of RHEL
Systems IBM's mainframe bubble bursts and growth stalls Red Hat still glowing, but Big Blue's been bruised by investors
Devops HashiCorp unveils 'Terraform 2.0' while tiptoeing around Big Blue elephant in the room HashiConf shindig oddly reluctant to mention impending IBM acquisition
AI + ML IBM: Insurance industry bosses keen on AI. Customers, not so much Fewer than 30% of clients happy dealing with a generative AI virtual agent
SaaS IBM acquires Indian SaaS startup Prescinto to shine a light on renewable energy assets Also: Crypto-hub Binance helps Delhi police shut down solar power scam
On-Prem Kyndryl follows in IBM's footsteps with rolling layoffs likely affecting thousands Underutilized staff get sent to the 'bench' – and seldom return
Spotlight on RSA AI red-teaming tools helped X-Force break into a major tech manufacturer 'in 8 hours'
AI + ML IBM says these back-office, network edge Power 10 servers would be sweet for – yes, you guessed it – AI
AI + ML Days after half a billion Asians went to the polls, Big Tech promises to counter 2024 election misinformation
