“As part of the agreement announced Tuesday, AT&T will use Red Hat’s open-source platform to manage workloads and applications and “better serve” enterprise customers.”
One debt-laden dinosaur that keeps throwing billions of dollars at the wall to see what sticks striking a deal with another dinosaur doing the same thing.
Wall street has little confidence in both companies' growth stories considering their P/Es
AT&T does not see it differently, the deal with IBM is a cover for outsourcing thousands of employees without drawing attention to it.
Internally ATT has been using RHEL as the default OS for almost every system build, but drifting towards Ubuntu, this may change back to RHEL.
They've built most of AIC on top of Mirantis, they enhanced helm with airship and open sourced it for k8s management so I don't see them jumping on Open Shift anytime soon either.
The deal with MS is where they be shifting most of their actual workloads to that go cloud, IBM will be running the stuff that's left behind in legacy AT&T data centers. IBM will not be touching any of the actual network/SDWAN stuff.
Well, the Microsoft deal includes M365, so that's Windows, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and such. There's probably Azure credits to move some employee-centered services into the cloud and more easily interface with AD/AAD.
On the IBM side, I can imagine they focused on pushing more of the back end systems into IBM's cloud. Possibly some of the monitoring and management systems for AT&T's hardware, and to make it easier to deploy systems for enterprise customers that don't require dedicated hardware.
Edit: this is obviously speculation. But based on the news articles I've read, that's what makes the most sense to me.
I'm saying the news articles are focusing on the wrong stuff compared to what we're actually doing internally. The news articles are PR pieces that don't outline the actual strategy in play.
M365 was already in place, that's not new at all every employee already had access to those capabilities.
IBM is basically taking over the internal cloud stuff that's not AIC - e.g. vmware and all of the employees that go with it and all the bare metal system support too.
Wall street has little confidence in both companies' growth stories considering their P/Es