The IT Pro Podcast: Hail to the IBM
It’s been around for more than a century, but IBM probably does more than you think

Over the course of its 110-year history, IBM has been at the cutting edge of a number of advancements, including inventing mainframes, kick-starting the PC revolution and birthing the first AI to beat humans in chess. It’s a storied history, but what does the company do these days?
The answer, it turns out, is quite a lot. In this episode of the IT Pro Podcast, we look at how IBM’s various divisions work together, what its priorities are over the next few years, and why it should bring back its company songs.
Footnotes
- The IT Pro Podcast: Why cool kids code with COBOL
- The IT Pro Podcast: There’s no such thing as obsolete tech
- The IT Pro Podcast: Picking a programming language
- IBM brings its hybrid cloud to the edge
- Don't rely on data scientists to do AI heavy lifting, former IBM exec warns
- IBM embraces ‘pay as you go’ cloud pricing
- IBM dedicates supercomputing power to coronavirus research
- IBM unveils the world’s first quad-core AI accelerator chip
- IBM reportedly mulls sale of Watson Health business
- Why IBM is splitting its business in two
- IBM suffers its sharpest revenue decline for five years
- IBM’s music archive, including Hail to the IBM and Ever Onward
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