IBM Says Watson AI Services Will Now Work on Any Cloud (reuters.com) 16
IBM announced on Tuesday that some of its Watson AI services will now work on rival cloud computing providers as it seeks to win over customers that want greater flexibility in how they store and analyze data. From a report: The announcement builds on IBM's moves to position its services as compatible with nearly any form of computer infrastructure a customer wants to operate. Other efforts include a pending acquisition of open-source software company Red Hat for $34 billion. With the change, companies will be able to use Watson AI tools such as Watson Assistant, which can help them develop conversational services such as a virtual customer service agent, in mobile apps hosted on Amazon and Microsoft as well as IBM servers.
True but useless statement (Score:2)
It's technically possible to hook anything to anything in "the cloud". But the devil's in the details of coordinating communication conventions and data sharing (including non-sharing per security risk).
It's like saying, "At work I can punch anybody in the face I want". That is technically true.
Time to make new cloud. (Score:2)
This one will be incompatible with Watson. Not that I have a beef with IBM per say. But just because they say it will work on any cloud, just pings my marketing BS meter. Because it rely meant to say it will now work the the Major Cloud services. Not any one that can come up.
Re: (Score:2)
I'm going to make a cloud service that will provide nothing other than CP/M instances to the users.
Just shipping data (Score:2)
Sounds like they are just making APIs available offsite, so that you can ship requests/responses from your apps hosted at another cloud provider to/from Watson services.
I use IBM Cloud for some backend services for mobile apps, but we don't currently have any need for Watson. Surprised, though, this wasn't already possible, as it is for most other IBM Cloud services. (e.g. various database servers, COS (=S3), etc.
FWIW, super happy with IBM's latest iteration of PostgreSql as a service - Databases for Postgr
How much cloud, how many G's (3,4,5,6)? (Score:2)
From the Onion, the headline on this made me laugh out loud.
How much capacity will HP's cloud users have access to?
1,000.
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