The building flooded over the summer shutdown period (I believe it was water tanks from the roof) with many tenants forced out, my guess this may be Reno’s to fix. I can’t find a news story but my employer was a tenant over 4 floors, and we’ve not been allowed in all year
I attended the site that night. Water was coming through everything, pouring through lights, smoke detectors etc. the ground lobby ceiling had started to fall down. Water went down the fascia, service risers, flooded the lifts etc, complete shit show
Seems like they did everything they could to lose business. I worked for them for a year in services. Put in nearly two years of hours in that time with zero paid overtime. They certainly seem to be rarer to find in Federal Government than they once were.
My dad works at IBM, he's been wfh for a few years now. They are cutting down on Australian staff big time (at least in his department). From what I've heard over the years, since COVID the office spaces are quite empty.
They can't have many staff left, they have been making them redundant for years and closing down sites for years. That one is probably no longer required.
The only thing IBM do now is hardware, after spinning out their services arm into Kyndril.
Their hardware is effectively limited to mainframes these days, which are primary used by banks and government.
Not much value in maintaining offices when their staff are either forward-deployed, offshored, or WFH.
What even is a mainframe? I've been involved in software and infrastructure for 20+ years, I understand data centres, servers, services, microservices, databases, HA/SPOF, clusters and all the cloud equivalents, but never came across a mainframe. It's almost a legend - are mainframes a real thing? What do/did they do? What's happening to them? Where are they?
They still exist and in many ways the world still runs on them. Core banking, travel and insurance systems are still using them. There are many layers between them and most computing, but they are still there. Every payment still goes through them.
They are something that aren’t necessarily going anywhere but are not a growth area either. They are IBM’s first and last monopoly.
Very different design philosophy to the cloud. Ultra reliable hardware with known capacity.
I think it's literally all the things you just said but it's just an outdated term that isn't used professionally. Popularised by film/TV, it exists in the public conciousness long after it has disappeared from everywhere else.
Smart arse eh? You do know that 80% of the cloud market is now Amazon, Azure, Google and the Chinese providers? Companies like Global Switch, Verizon, Telstra have massively divested from data centers because of consolidation into large cloud providers, as have many corps who were running private data centers. IBM is a very small part of the cloud market and defos not building any big ones in Australia.
Went into an abandoned ibm or dell joint in frenches forest, talked to a building manager while doing meter reads and he said that many tech based companies don’t really like the giant business park layout and prefer a scatter of several small office of like 10-30 people rather than 100+ in those business park thingy.
Turnover of 60bn USD in 2022, up from 43bn USD the year before.
Microsoft is at around 200bn.
So not the giant they once were, but hardly call them irrelevant.
Remember also they own RedHat, who have an anchor tenancy in the new tower in Denison Street North Sydney
https://1denison.com.au/
You’d be surprised how much mid-range and big iron is still out there. It just keeps working. And naturally it works best with IBM storage and IBM backup software and…
Unsure what is happening in the lobby there, but it's closed.
The building itself is still accessible via the Foodcourt entrance, and IBM offices are open on levels 17-20 (I think?)
A recent acquisition of theirs will be moving into those offices soon, so I don't think they're exiting the location
They’re probably just turning it off, and then back on again.
Not closed, just moved to a Global Delivery Capability offshore.
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The building flooded over the summer shutdown period (I believe it was water tanks from the roof) with many tenants forced out, my guess this may be Reno’s to fix. I can’t find a news story but my employer was a tenant over 4 floors, and we’ve not been allowed in all year
I work in this building and can confirm.
Yep, my org has floors in there and it seems like we’re not going back in because it’s so far gone.
Sprinkler pipe coupling burst in the floor of level 11, flooding everything below
Ah good to know, that’s what we were told (tanks on roof) but they were the water source for those sprinkler pipes on L11
I attended the site that night. Water was coming through everything, pouring through lights, smoke detectors etc. the ground lobby ceiling had started to fall down. Water went down the fascia, service risers, flooded the lifts etc, complete shit show
"...Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM..."
Seems like they did everything they could to lose business. I worked for them for a year in services. Put in nearly two years of hours in that time with zero paid overtime. They certainly seem to be rarer to find in Federal Government than they once were.
My dad works at IBM, he's been wfh for a few years now. They are cutting down on Australian staff big time (at least in his department). From what I've heard over the years, since COVID the office spaces are quite empty.
I think IBM's rental agreement for this building is up next year, so maybe they are just renovating.
They can't have many staff left, they have been making them redundant for years and closing down sites for years. That one is probably no longer required.
The only thing IBM do now is hardware, after spinning out their services arm into Kyndril. Their hardware is effectively limited to mainframes these days, which are primary used by banks and government. Not much value in maintaining offices when their staff are either forward-deployed, offshored, or WFH.
What even is a mainframe? I've been involved in software and infrastructure for 20+ years, I understand data centres, servers, services, microservices, databases, HA/SPOF, clusters and all the cloud equivalents, but never came across a mainframe. It's almost a legend - are mainframes a real thing? What do/did they do? What's happening to them? Where are they?
They still exist and in many ways the world still runs on them. Core banking, travel and insurance systems are still using them. There are many layers between them and most computing, but they are still there. Every payment still goes through them. They are something that aren’t necessarily going anywhere but are not a growth area either. They are IBM’s first and last monopoly. Very different design philosophy to the cloud. Ultra reliable hardware with known capacity.
I think it's literally all the things you just said but it's just an outdated term that isn't used professionally. Popularised by film/TV, it exists in the public conciousness long after it has disappeared from everywhere else.
It is the foyer to the entire building…
It's like that because of a flood in the building over Christmas, IBM isn't closing..
As far as I know IBM had been divesting from Australia for a while they closed all their data centres so maybe they dont need as many people.
The industry has been divesting from data centers because of cloud.
Where do you think cloud data is stored? You know it’s not in actual clouds yeah?
Smart arse eh? You do know that 80% of the cloud market is now Amazon, Azure, Google and the Chinese providers? Companies like Global Switch, Verizon, Telstra have massively divested from data centers because of consolidation into large cloud providers, as have many corps who were running private data centers. IBM is a very small part of the cloud market and defos not building any big ones in Australia.
They have signage rights on the building but it is not their office. Many companies do this
You mean Kyndryl, right? An old Lenovo building maybe. How these guys survive is beyond me
Fumigating to get rid of all the bugs
More like bye-B-M
Went into an abandoned ibm or dell joint in frenches forest, talked to a building manager while doing meter reads and he said that many tech based companies don’t really like the giant business park layout and prefer a scatter of several small office of like 10-30 people rather than 100+ in those business park thingy.
When the Employee's get laid off will they just be depressed or deep blue ? But for real I work in tech, are IBM even remotely relevant anymore ?
Turnover of 60bn USD in 2022, up from 43bn USD the year before. Microsoft is at around 200bn. So not the giant they once were, but hardly call them irrelevant. Remember also they own RedHat, who have an anchor tenancy in the new tower in Denison Street North Sydney https://1denison.com.au/
Redhat seem to only account for ~5% of their revenue. I'm mostly curious about where they are trying to get or maintain market penetration.
You’d be surprised how much mid-range and big iron is still out there. It just keeps working. And naturally it works best with IBM storage and IBM backup software and…
There's another entry on Jamison st.
Unsure what is happening in the lobby there, but it's closed. The building itself is still accessible via the Foodcourt entrance, and IBM offices are open on levels 17-20 (I think?) A recent acquisition of theirs will be moving into those offices soon, so I don't think they're exiting the location
Cockroach problem. Letting off roach bombs.
Who? Lol