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Re:The Rise and Fall of the 'IBM Way' by eropple on Friday December 15, 2023 @04:48PM (#38659232)
I was at IBM for about five months, a few years ago.

It took from ~2 weeks after my start date until ~1 week before my last day to get a vSphere cluster provisioned for my development work.

PKI? Sounds hard, by comparison.

Re:The Rise and Fall of the 'IBM Way' by twisteriffic on Saturday December 16, 2023 @02:08PM (#38666850)
Probably outsourced internal dev environments to Kyndryl too?
Re:The Rise and Fall of the 'IBM Way' by eropple on Sunday December 17, 2023 @09:37AM (#38673130)
Surprisingly no, not for this project. It was an acquisition, and the developers had come with - so had their data center. I was hired to try to help move it out of their on-prem location. They'd hired me specifically saying it was going to AWS; then they went "whoops! all IBM Cloud" a couple weeks in, and they never actually got me a fully working environment to build against in the few months I was there. (The one nice thing I'd say is that teams from all over IBM were incredibly helpful; some externally-facing consultants actually volunteered a couple hours to try to help undo whatever Softlayer had open-palm slammed onto my virtual machines. They too were confused.)