IBM Cloud login breaks for second time this week and Big Blue isn't saying why IBM isn’t having its best week after the company experienced another cloudy outage and a critical-rated vulnerability. The outage repeated the Tuesday incident that saw users unable to access the console through which they manage their cloudy resources, or to open and view support cases. Big Blue’s cloud displayed similar …
That fluffy, comfortable promise of making everything easy for nothing that is turning out to be the worst and most expensive nightmare possible.
You have a problem ? Contact Cloud Support TM.
Except that you have to be logged in to do that, and that's your problem . . .
As usual, the wheel will turn and companies will once again realize the value of being in control of their data on their own hardware.
It'll just take the time Marketing needs to re-adapt the message, and the time for all of those incompetent MBAs who have never produced anything of value in their lives except Powerpoint presentations to die out and leave the space to the experts and engineers who know not only what they're doing, but why and what the constraints are.
So, just a few more decades, I guess ?
As long as bean counters and MBAs are involved in IT we will have to deal with bullshit like "the cloud" or AI.
However, there is a glimmer of hope, we've just started testing desktop Linux at a not at all small multinational because web Office365 doesn't need windows (which means we do still have to deal with the cloud but we can do it from a Linux desktop and get MS Windows gone)
One small step, next up will be persuading the people who sign off stuff that we don't need MS Office
"...next up will be persuading the people who sign off stuff that we don't need MS Office"
Is that an all or nothing thing or are you segmenting users by need to access (e.g.) MS Excel? Not trolling, just interested.
Anacdata, sample of one: I used 365 Office/Sharepoint/Teams/Outlook via Chromium for a couple of years remote working on Linux. Noone noticed I wasn't using Windows *except* for those mock backgrounds in Teams (which recently started working).
Uhm…
You mean, so long as we have to deal with the people running the businesses we’ll have to do the business stuff?
I agree wholeheartedly. IT would be so much better if we did t have to facilitate stupid things like running companies. We should find a way to get rid of the operations aspects of business. We did that in the dot-com boom and it was really fun!
PCs are basically dumb terminals in 2025. Linux is perfectly suitable for the desktop. People generally won’t complain. The core issue is mostly that the majority of Linux friendly laptops look like shit. And pen support on Linux is horrible. And my god, Linux seems like it will never get any decent graphics tools.
"the experts and engineers who know not only what they're doing"
That will make marginal improvements in tech while sinking the business. Technical experts have a habit of being more obsessive and convinced they are right than the MBAs. What is needed is a completely different governance model with people with low hubris, critical thinking capability and able to work with reality instead of what they want the world to be like.
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