By: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Big Blue has reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2024, and the thing that stands out most is not the System z16 mainframes and Power10 midrange and big iron are getting a little long in the tooth ahead of new product cycles expected to start in 2025. Revenue slumps in these two core platforms from IBM are expected at this point in the cycle, and in fact, both are holding up better than past generations of systems did this late in the cycle.