Nobody has (still) ever been fired for hiring IBM.
They have a very strong brand in traditional corporate industries, which have an endless demand for IBM services.
They have a very strong brand in traditional corporate industries, which have an endless demand for IBM services.
That said, I’m confident that they know better.
I'm pretty sure I came pretty damn close the one and only time I opted for IBM Cloud (which was called "Bluemix" back then). In fairness, running a PostgreSQL DB in a container wasn't the brightest idea on my part, and it was also my fault for not having backups in place, but when Bluemix ate our entire prod DB, and the multiple-weeks-long back-and-forth with IBM's support only yielded something along the lines of "whoops, that sucks, good luck building a new DB instance from scratch", we rather quickly jumped ship to AWS and never looked back.
I'm sure IBM Cloud is better these days, though it was a bit telling that during my brief time working for IBM my primary job was to build customers' stuff on AWS instead of IBM Cloud. Go figure.