IBM Acquires Kubernetes Cost Optimization Startup Kubecost

IBM has acquired Kubecost, a FinOps startup that helps teams at companies like Allianz, Audi, Rakuten, and GitLab monitor and optimize their Kubernetes clusters with a focus on efficiency and, ultimately, cost. From a report: Tuesday's announcement follows IBM's $4.3 billion acquisition of Apptio in 2023, another company in the FinOps space. In previous years, we also saw IBM acquire companies like cloud app and network management firm Turbonomic and application performance management startup Instana. Now with the acquisition of KubeCost, IBM continues this effort to bolster its IT and FinOps capabilities as enterprises increasingly look to better manage their increasingly complex cloud and on-prem infrastructure.

And the cycle continues

[xack]

1.Enshittify your sevice
2.Some company makes a deshittyfier
3.Aquire company to close loopholes
4.Repeat as new hype cycles create new junk vc funding

Re:

[narcc]

A far more important goal is to enshittify your customers. Modern hardware is impressive. You're selling compute, so their software need to be shitty enough to compensate.

Get them to introduce tons of needless overhead and complexity by claiming it will make everything simpler. Then introduce tools to help deal with the overhead and complexity they didn't have before you, er, made everything simpler... Then... make a product to help manage the exploding costs of all the virtual infrastructure they need t

so what does IBM do now?

[Joe_Dragon]

just buy up IP and make it go to shit?
buy up IP and make big $$$ off consulting fees?

Re:

[NoWayNoShapeNoForm]

You forgot the licensing aspect of their business where they license patents from their rather deep trove of inventions.

If I were the IDF, they would get one more text:

[Chas]

https://youtu.be/yWpS4Sv7lWc [youtu.be]

Re:

[Chas]

SEE "Humor"
You have a bunch of people with pagers exploding in the crotch of evil people.

Hence the "Inglorious Basterds" reference.

This is what IBM sells

[ZipNada]

Increasingly focused on services instead of hardware so as to get that recurring revenue stream. The acquisitions fit with their business strategy.

"monitor and optimize their Kubernetes clusters"
"cloud app and network management firm Turbonomic and application performance management startup Instana"

Mass Layoff today, too

[Un-Thesis]

More importantly, IBM Cloud is having a mass layoff, the day after its stock hit an all-time-high.

It is very secretive. Many people are affected. Hundreds, if not thousands, but no news stories.