These comments make me sad as i work there, at ibm and in the cloud business. But i have to agree with you. It's looking pretty bad from the inside. higher management seems incompetent in making the pieces (like redhat, softlayer, the paas) into an efficient, large machine. But that doesn't make our work less interesting in our smaller teams.
Trust me, I know. I don't dunk on IBM Cloud gratuitously; I was an employee at IBM Cloud (not in IBM Cloud, one of the product offerings) for five months last year. It took the entirety of that five months to get a VMware cluster up and running and the very generous help of a customer-facing consulting team that took pity on us to make it actually work. There are the pieces to make a completely adequate experience--by which I mean "drives me less crazy than Azure"--but I don't see any path forward towards achieving it under the current management.
