Posts by SB37

IBM to spin out Managed Infrastructure Services biz – yes, the one that was subject to all those redundancies

This would explain why IBM just laid off several very experienced mainframe techies from their profitable UK zCloud team.

It makes NewCo look cheaper to potential buyers. But those skills are gone.

And as for them backfilling those roles from Indian and Hungary as was mooted, good luck.

Cringely was right all along:

https://www.cringely.com/2020/01/31/predictions-for-2020-ibm-and-trump/

'Major incident' at Capita data centre: Multiple services still knackered

Re: It's not hard, but...

It costs more than double the money. If you want true mirroring for disk storage you'll need four copies of the data - 1 at your source and 3 at your remote datacentre.