the United States<\/span>and handles up to 26 billion inquiries to its cloud-based services each day, will run across IBM Cloud data centers globally and serve as the technology backbone of IBM’s data services and Watson IoT businesses.<\/p>\nLeveraging one of the world’s most scalable, high performance and flexible data platforms, IBM can now collect an even larger variety and higher velocity of data sets from billions of IoT sensors around the world while also serving out real-time information and insights to tens of millions of users worldwide. The new platform offers developers greater flexibility to access, store and analyze IoT sensor data and to create new apps with richer and deeper insights powered by IBM Watson.<\/p>\n
IBM is dedicating more than 2500 developers worldwide to help its clients and partners collect, analyze and act upon entirely new forms of IoT data resulting from the proliferation of automobile and airplane telematics, building and environmental sensors, wearable devices, medical implants, weather stations, smartphones, social media, manufacturing lines and supply chains, among others.<\/p>\n
weather.com to Expand Globally<\/b><\/p>\n
IBM announced plans to expand weather.com into five new major markets, including China<\/span>, India<\/span>, Brazil<\/span>, Mexico<\/span> and Japan<\/span>, with the goal of increasing its global user base by hundreds of millions over the next three years. The company plans to leverage local media partnerships and the IBM Cloud network of over 45 data centers to drive much more local and personalized content to each region.<\/p>\nCEO David Kenny<\/span> to Lead IBM Watson Unit<\/b><\/p>\nDavid Kenny<\/span>, who was chairman and CEO of The Weather Company, and previously president of Akamai Technologies, assumes leadership of the IBM Watson platform business. He brings deep expertise in building platforms used by tens of millions of people daily as IBM continues to scale the Watson technology platform. He will oversee the build out of the Watson partner and developer ecosystem, key APIs and emerging solutions powered by Watson. He joins Harriet Green<\/span>, formerly CEO of Thomas Cook<\/span>, who leads Watson IoT, Education and Commerce, and Deborah DiSanzo<\/span>, formerly CEO of Philips Healthcare, who leads Watson Health.<\/p>\nMichael Rhodin<\/span>, who launched the Watson business and drove the formation of Watson Health and Watson IoT, will now lead Watson Business Development. He will identify and incubate the next major industries and domains for Watson and will oversee related acquisition strategy.<\/p>\nThe Weather Company will be led by Cameron Clayton<\/span>, who was most recently its president, product and technology, and becomes part of IBM’s Data and Analytics Platform business unit.<\/p>\nFinancial terms of the deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n
WSI, The Weather Company’s business-to-business brand, will now be known as The Weather Company, an IBM Business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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