One of the things I’ve learned in my five years at IBM is that the enterprise nature of the company means that our IBM-branded events are incredibly important to our ecosystem, and people are really excited to attend them, me included. Brand events are something I’ve definitely seen in my two decades in the tech […]
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Open Mainframe Project at IBM TechXchange 2024
November 19th, 2024 by pleia2
A few weeks ago I had the privilege of traveling to Las Vegas to participate in the IBM TechXchange 2024 conference. My big project there was as one of the leaders of the Open Mainframe Project event, which we’d been working on for months and took a bunch of my time (and stress!) during that […]
IBM Telum II at Hot Chips
September 12th, 2024 by pleia2
Back in 2021 the IBM Telum processor, the heart of the IBM z16 mainframe, was unveiled at Hot Chips (video here). I watched the recording when it came out, absolutely glued to each little detail that was presented, even the ones I didn’t fully understand (after all, I’m not that much of a processor expert). […]
Open Source Summit 2024
May 1st, 2024 by pleia2
My journey to the Open Source Summit North America came on the tail of the Texas Linux Fest, so I flew to Seattle from Austin on Sunday afternoon. A quick ride on light rail put me in downtown Seattle where a short walk got me settled in to my hotel that I’d call home base […]
5 years at IBM
April 30th, 2024 by pleia2
On April 30th 2019 I had my first day at IBM. Five years ago! I began my job on the road, as would characterize much of 2019, where I met my new boss at IBM TechU, which I wrote about here: IBM TechU 2019 in Atlanta. It’s with IBM that I found a new way […]
Celebrating 60 years of mainframe in Poughkeepsie
April 12th, 2024 by pleia2
On April 7, 1964 the IBM System 360 was launched, with much fanfare from (and risk to) IBM. I’ve recently been reading the biography on Tom Watson Jr. (The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived) and it was fascinating to read about what led up to this launch, specifically that even 10 years prior to it, […]
Food, friends, and offices in Raleigh
November 13th, 2023 by pleia2
Last month I flew out to Raleigh for All Things Open and CLS 2023. It turned out to be a trip packed with not just the conference, but two separate unrelated work opportunities. Still, I made sure to take advantage of being in a place with good food and friends I hadn’t seen in person […]
IBM TechXchange 2023 in Las Vegas
October 9th, 2023 by pleia2
A few days ago I wrote about the Open Mainframe Summit 2023, which took place on community day of the IBM TechXchange conference, but I also had the rest of that conference to enjoy! The first week I was with IBM I went to IBM TechU. Given the technical nature, the new IBM TechXchange conference […]
Open Mainframe Summit 2023
October 4th, 2023 by pleia2
Back in September of 2022 the first major in-person Open Mainframe Summit was held, I wrote about it here: Open Mainframe Summit 2022. After a year, it was a delight to get back together this year for an Open Mainframe Summit in Las Vegas with project participants and see how much progress had been made […]
I 3D-printed an IBM LinuxONE!
September 21st, 2021 by pleia2
Several months ago I 3D printed an IBM z15 pencil holder. I used a design that had been floating around, so it wasn’t perfect, but it was a nice little model. I ended up following up with a design team inside of IBM and got a more perfect version that they were OK with me […]