![]() ![]() The other day Ford Motor bonds were downgraded from BBB to BB, meaning Ford bonds are now junk bonds. They are all in a bind to some extent with IBM especially so, because of events taking place in the bond market. We’re still talking about IBM, but this could apply in varying degrees to any IBM competitors. Clever, if sad, and ultimately bad for the economy.īut wait, isn’t the point of the bail-out to keep these very people on-salary so they can come back to work? To keep the economy revved-up and ready for when that happens? This isn’t severance pay, right? Note that this is effectively a way to get around a number of job protection laws for U.S. What process work still needs to be done will come from India, where costs are dramatically lower. Most of those workers are never coming back. IBM will shortly layoff or furlough thousands of American workers, relying on the government financial support passed the other day. ![]() Here’s the big lesson: with SD-WAN and SASE the process no longer matters, so knowing the process (beyond a few silverbacks kept on just in case the world really does end) isn’t good for business.Īll of those process people are presently barricaded at home, of course. It’s slowly dawning on IBM that they have to get rid of all those process experts and replace them with a few subject matter experts. This is good for the customer and bad for IBM or any IBM competitor you care to name. In the world of IBM process experts, doing the same thing seems to require three people in the USA and 30 more in India along with three months of trying and testing, now replaced by a single database entry and pushing the enter key. Write a script to that effect into the SD-WAN database, deploy it globally with a keyclick and you are done. You can say that Office 365 is a critical metric as just one example. With SD-WAN, for example, there are over 3,000 available Quality of Service metrics. ![]() The objective, in case anyone forgets (as IT, itself, often does) is the improvement of the end-user experience, in this case through an automated process. In a software-defined network, whether that’s SD-WAN or SASE, so much of what used to be getting discreet boxes to talk with one another over the network becomes a simple database adjustment. My IT labor death scenario now extends to process experts (generally consultants) being replaced with automation. Yes, I’ll be using IBM as an example, not because Big Blue is anything like a bellwether anymore, but because I just know it so well. While my previous column was generally about turning lower-level IT nerds into Uber drivers, this one goes a little further up the food chain to include IT contractors and consultants. What matters right now is how we respond to it. Please understand that some version of this bloodbath was going to happen anyway. The short version is to expect an even bigger bloodbath as IT employees at all levels are let go forever. Now that Congress has passed a $2.2 trillion COVID-19 bail-out, let’s throw-in the implications of that legislation to see what effect it is all likely to have on what used to be IT. ![]() Earlier this week I predicted the demise of conventional IT caused by the wide adoption of SD-WAN and SASE, accelerated by the emergency demands of everyone working from home. ![]()
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