I'm so tired of endless waves of marketing bullshit with no substance. At least when most companies announce something it's a tangible product I can actually expect to use at a non ambiguous point in the future
I'm not sure how cool this is anymore however. Our company was evaluating their Bluemix [2] cloud all-the-things-as-a-service service which offers Watson. Despite their very aggressive marketing team insisting it would be able to solve a very wide range of "machine learning problems" (their words, not mine) it fell down quickly when encountering problems outside their example data-set. It was also impossible to get in touch with an engineer there, the only people you could speak to were sales and/or marketing which were useless. I get the feeling their desired clientele are technically illiterate upper-management who merely want the guarantee of a massive corporation's support and to hell with their technical capabilities.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(computer) [2] https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/
"In the coming days, weeks, and months, you'll start seeing 'Bluemix' more and more where you're used to seeing 'SoftLayer'. Because the legacy SoftLayer offerings and legacy Bluemix offerings will be available from a unified cloud platform, we're bringing them all under the Bluemix brand," SoftLayer's digital content director Kevin Hazard said.
"IBM isn't planning on changing the substance of SoftLayer's systems, products, services, and support, but it will phase the name out as it moves everything, including the SoftLayer blog over to Bluemix domains.
System i is cool, even if its a severely limited domain.
GPFS is really cool, even if it costs too much and isn't open source.
Cool is pretty easy to find at IBM. You just have to look where the executives aren't.
IBM is massive in IT consulting with basically half their revenue coming from the consulting side of their business, and the rest they're a service company in a lot of different IT verticals.
A somewhat informative quora link, because if you were too lazy to even google this you probably won't dig deeper than this: https://www.quora.com/What-does-IBM-do
I'm aware the IBM does consulting and that's possibly the most boring software realm there is.
BTW, I work in ML+Medicine and IBM has dont great work in the area, with some Production implementations at hospitals.
That's now "You won't know if anybody got fired for buying an IBM quantum computer until you look inside the box".