On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 10:44:09 -0500, Dave Jousma <david.jou...@53.com> wrote:
>Anyone know any more about this? > >https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ibm-divestiture/ibm-to-break-up-109-year-old-company-to-focus-on-cloud-growth-idUSKBN26T1TZ > >https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ibm-to-accelerate-hybrid-cloud-growth-strategy-and-execute-spin-off-of-market-leading-managed-infrastructure-services-unit-301148458.html IBM's announcements says that IBM will "separate its Managed Infrastructure Services unit of its Global Technology Services division into a new public company." It might help to understand that the IBM Systems and IBM Global Technology Services (GTS) divisions are in very different businesses. IBM Systems produces hardware, operating systems, and related software products for sale. In support of that it also has its own "Lab Services" group that is focused on helping clients embrace the new, as well as understand the old. We have some amount of overlap with GTS, but we're on a much smaller scale with more advanced and more tightly focused services. GTS is focused on contracted services that include system operations, data center management and operation, application development (formerly of IBM Global Business Services), long-term staff augmentation, project management, general IT consulting, and Other Duties As Assigned. One suspects that a considerable amount of effort has been spent drawing a line between "Managed Infrastructure Services" and "Other". At some point IBM will publish more details, I'm sure. Alan Altmark IBM Systems Lab Services Senior Managing z/VM Consultant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
