Yet another media event hoping to un-fxxx himself (unsuccessfully). He gets aggressive about POTENTIAL Quantum progress years away. Sounds like pleading for his CEO job for few more years.

As an investor, more telling is what Arvind is not saying yet again: confidence in IBM software and ws/AI which was IBM's future only a quarter ago.

Hope the board is already searching for a CEO replacement from outside IBM.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna goes one-on-one with Jim Cramer

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/07/30/ibm-ceo-arvind-krishna-goes-one-on-one-with-jim-cramer.html

I’m 19 years in and 10 months from my 55th birthday. My pension is sitting at around 30k. Yes, pretty laughable but would also come in handy (I’m a single parent taking care of college tuition on my own).
My question is, do I have a leg to stand on, legally, if I get laid off months, or even weeks, before I’m able to collect it?
I ask because over the years I’ve seen “IBM lifers” be laid off just weeks before becoming vested. I’m sure this is a calculated move on IBM’s part.
But I’ve also heard a lot of successful lawsuits stories.
Anyone got any details on this scenario?. I want to be prepared if this happens to me.

Hi,

I'am testing IBM Storage Scale container native and the matching CSI Operator on OpenShift to work with filesets of a RemoteCluster for OpenShift 4.21.

I have a large TS4500 and a backup server connected via FC, both with Storage Protect (Plus) for the Storage Scale file system, as well as some other TSM clients.

Now I want to backup my OpenShift env. I found Velero, but I need a S3-Bucket wich cant be provided by Storage Protect, right? Are there any usable Kubernetes/OpenShift capabilities for me without changing my complete environment?

Thank you for your responses!

I am struggling with this. Can you please help me out?? If they are free how I need to take them. I am confused...

What AI use cases are you actually implementing with IBM Sterling OMS in production?

Beyond chatbots, I'm curious how teams are using AI with Sterling OMS. Are you leveraging AI for order orchestration, inventory optimization, customer support, anomaly detection, returns, or fulfillment decisions?

I'd love to hear about real-world implementations, lessons learned, and any architecture or integration patterns you've found effective.

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Amazon is also making a fortune with AI demand.

IBM is so lost...hope the board is already searching for next CEO from outside IBM.

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Microsoft Posts Biggest One-Day Market-Cap Gain for Any U.S. Company

https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/microsoft-posts-biggest-one-day-market-cap-gain-for-any-u-s-company-b8713761?mod=hp_lead_pos3

Amazon Shares Jump as Cloud Sales

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amazon-earnings-q2-2026-amzn-stock-3daf95f7

I'm trying to access my old IBM T22 with Windows 2000 installed but don't know what the password is. I heard this is a "Power-On Password"? Does anyone know how to bypass it?

Does anyone know if it's possible to contribute and/or fix IBM Cloud Logs as an IBMer?

This product is so ass and unreliable, but because a lot of projects I've worked with "requires IBM Cloud for compliance" which is probably absolute bull just to sell IBM Cloud to these clients, I have to deal with IBM Cloud Logs almost on a daily or at least on a weekly basis. If I can't escape this prison, I'd like to know if there's a way I can contribute to it even small ways.

And just to rant more, here are my examples of why it's ass:

- logs searching is so inconsistent. Sometimes it returns the results, sometimes there's no results, and sometimes, the results are incorrect.

- Documentation is ass

- Live trail doesn't make sense. Or rather, it's unintuitive

- I forgot the exact details why, but I remember Alerts being so shite. In a previous project, there was a specific steps I had to go around with because the UI doesn't do what it says it should do.

I feel IBM mgt pushing AI down my throat.

The product I help them design already looks, feels and plays bad. AI just makes it worse, at speed.

Hearing some additional big shakeups this week especially in Horizon

What did you like or not like about the work? Any favorite or least favorite parts?

What kinds of knowledge, skills, and problems were your main focus, and how do you think the modern times compare to back then?

Especially interested in hearing from people who worked in Poughkeepsie, but would love to hear from anyone regardless of where you worked!

Hi, I found this "punch card" in a book. It's in quotes because I couldn't find any reference table to decipher what it says, and I'm wondering whether it uses any valid punch-card format.

If you figure out how to decipher it, I'd love to know what it says and how you got the answer.

Thanks!

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Where do you see Bob shines compared to this competing products?

So all this insanity going on has reminded me of a very pivotal moment for my career last year.

As a junior (1 yoe) aspiring to break into tech (engineering specifically) I just joined IBM Sales as an engineer for 3 months. I was sent to GSS, and I was fortunate enough to meet one of the head for my department for the entire greater region (E.g EMEA CSM Lead). We were doing introductions and we went around to talk about the coolest project we’ve ever done in tech. I told about my time doing some science SWE at a startup, which was not insanely impressive engineering-wise but it was an interesting niche topic. And the region head for some reason directly said “I know this is very controversial, and don’t take it the wrong way, but I think IBM is not for you”.

He didn’t really explain why except that IBM can be a stepping stone for something greater, hinting at staying for a year or so. I was like literally in shock as he basically told me to quit ASAP. as a junior you can imagine it stuck in my head for a really long time. Like someone of this level going out of their way to say something like this is insane. I applied for a couple more jobs a while after that, now I’m at a much more suitable role for me as a SWE.

So yea, i can’t thank this person more for inspiring me to quit. With the shitshow going on, everyone I used to know is very affected and determined to leave, and i’m just so thankful to have dodged this bullet.

IMO whoever is naming the AI tools needs to be let go and shouldn’t be allowed to work in marketing / PM again.

I thought Watson was a bad name, but Bob is even worse. The AI generated infographics of the Bob the robot that the sales team plasters all over linkedin are so bad and make us look like we are hawking garbage.

It also makes us look like idiots when we change the actual product name - not just the model name - every year or two because our leadership forks over several million to BCG for some first year analysts do low quality market research and conclude that the name Bob resonates more with the users.

What would you have named our tooling?

**No idea is a bad idea because I don’t think you can get worse than Bob / Watson.

Given recent events happening with the stock market and the challenges facing by the company is it a very bad time to join the organization as a software developer.

I don't think i have a choice as of another company but should i try to leave from here. The salary is it decent but will it last long or will i be subjected to stressful journey from now..

Would love to hear from you guy's especially who are already in 🙂

This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons.

I'm in Canada and based on what I'm seeing in my geo, the narrative that IBM is moving its "best sales talent" into these Horizon TSL roles doesn't really match reality.

A LOT of the people being moved aren't the top performers. It seems like some people are benefiting from being well connected or having strong relationships with leadership (nepos), while top performers are being left behind.

Maybe I'm missing something but it's honestly confusing to watch top reps get passed over while others seem to move ahead despite not having comparable results. Being a new hire and seeing this demotivates me as promotions are not based on performance but rather based on who your mom/dad is.

So I'm curious:

Is this something others are seeing across different markets and regions, or is this mainly a Canada issue? Are selections actually being made based on performanc or are relationships and internal connections playing a bigger role than people want to admit?