Material Changes at IBM and What’s Ahead, BMC Announcements, and Thoughts on IBM’s BoxBoat Acquisition
For this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast I am joined by my colleague, fellow analyst and our VP of business development, Steven Dickens, for a conversation about happenings this week in the tech world. In this episode, we covered: The leadership change at IBM this past week, with widely presumed heir apparent President Jim Whitehurst stepping down, clearly cementing IBM’s CEO and board chair Arvind Krishna’s position. The other material changes at IBM, with new leadership and direction in marketing, new leadership in IT, changes ahead with the Kyndryl spinoff and thoughts from Steven (a former IBMer) on what’s ahead. BMC Software announcements centered on new capabilities related to security, the Open Mainframe and the newly announced Workflow WiZard tool, and the importance of (and role that) mainframe transformation is to organizations’ success with digital transformation. IBM’s acquisition of BoxBoat and how that’s a clear indicator of the company’s focus on hybrid cloud services being key to its future success.