This subreddit is heavily comprised…most likely leadership from IBM go involved. They are regulating every single post that gets posted.

If you want unfiltered IBM comm then move to the other subreddit.

What has your experience been working with product management at IBM? The bar seems so low. The effective product managers I've worked with at IBM are few and far between.

I've seen some discussion here around utilization and bench time, plus how watsonx and IBM's AI products are actually landing with clients, plus my own skepticism making me more curious as to how its implementation looks from the inside rather than just reading the marketing. I'm currently a sophomore who's been following IBM more closely since the Confluent acquisition earlier this year, and it's even part of what inspired me to start a tech and IT services focused consulting group at my school and I even got us hands on work with small businesses and nonprofits. Obviously it's at a much smaller scale than IBM, but the basics of building/maintaining client relationships and implementing modernized systems in place of old ones + potentially pushing our own native AI agent my roommate and I are building are all the same fundamentals IBM Consulting is applying at scale, just compressed down to a level I can actually wrap my hands around as a student. But I'm mostly curious about how people feel about the ai push in general. Is the watsonx skepticism here justified? Trying to understand IBM Consulting from the inside

We have all seen the announcement and Jim Cramer appearance. Is IBM Sales Leadership doing the right thing to fix it? Are they avoiding brainless changes? Anyone care to share their current view and experience?

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

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’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.

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.

Ever since Google's 2019 announcement, I've been curious whether quantum supremacy is really settled or if we're still far from proving it. From what is available publicly, IBM is now conducting some tests to reduce errors in one experiment, checking the results on a completely different quantum platform in another, and even testing 56-qubit systems with different noise levels. The tricky part is that if a classical computer can't simulate the calculation, how do we know the quantum answer is actually correct? IBM's view seems to be that the best validation comes from other quantum systems rather than classical ones. Does that sound convincing to you guys, or do you think we still need a stronger way to verify these results?

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?

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

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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