No shock here...
If you exit the hardware biz, no one will take you seriously on your other products.
They should never have sold the server biz to Lenovo. Linux boxes outsell Power
IBM has withdrawn its Spectrum Scale-based DeepFlash 150 product from sale. The product was launched in August 2016 and has Spectrum Scale running on all-flash array InfiniFlash hardware OEM'd from WDC-owned SanDisk. It was launched as a fast access parallel file system array. InfiniFlash is a flash equivalent of a JBOD, just …
Oh right, well at least that clears that one up.
Any idea of what particular 'HW running Linux' they were talking about?
I couldn't workout what they were trying to imply
LOL ;-)
Could well be, let's not forget that this was an OEM agreement, all IBM were doing was applying it's badge, incorporating software and taken responsibilty for support, but at the same time you'd probably have to accept that market demand could not have been high, especially in Europe, would be interesting to find out if it's the same case in NA and others who may have had similar OEM agreements.