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I wonder what is percentage? Is it still a mainframe shop? Last time I heard abd it failed is to become a consultancy firm with Pwc. What is ibm now?
by ngcc_hk 5y ago
I wonder what is percentage? Is it still a mainframe shop? Last time I heard abd it failed is to become a consultancy firm with Pwc. What is ibm now?
- jccooper 5y agoI don't know the numbers, but I do know they still do significant work in mainframes. They're even still designing their own Power processors for them.
- agseward 5y agoJust a point of clarification, POWER and z (mainframe) are different architectures, both of which IBM still develops. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_ISA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_ISA [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/Architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/Architecture
- agseward 5y agoIBM just spun out a $19B annual revenue managed infrastructure business, Kyndryl. [1] Doing some back of the napkin math on the remaining business, by revenue it is roughly 45% consulting, 40% software, and 15% hardware. IP revenue represents 1% ($626M) of its revenue. [2] What does it actually do? At a high level, help companies deal with the complexities created in a world of heterogeneous infrastructure (data and AI across environments, common management/security, automation, etc.). [1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/04/kyndryl-officially-launches-as-ibm-spins-out-infrastructure-services-biz-as-separate-company/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/04/kyndryl-officially-launche... [2] https://www.ibm.com/investor/att/pdf/IBM_Annual_Report_2020.pdf https://www.ibm.com/investor/att/pdf/IBM_Annual_Report_2020.... Disclaimer: I'm an IBM employee, but my opinions are my own and I'm just using public data.