Thoughts on IBM's push towards QRadar SaaS? Are they letting on-prem rot?

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Topic starter 26/09/2026 1:40 am [#28752]

Seeing the account team's new "strategic direction" slides. All the investment is flowing to QRadar SaaS. Roadmap calls it the future, on-prem is "legacy." Support renewals are up 20% while critical on-prem patches are delayed for months.

We're locked into a three-year ELA. My question is simple: is this a deliberate starvation tactic to force a costly migration? Anyone else getting pressured while their on-prem deployment's feature gap widens? The TCO math for SaaS over 5 years looks brutal once you factor in data ingestion and retention.

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