Welcome to the Cloud Wars Minute — your daily news and commentary show, hosted by Cloud Wars Founder Bob Evans. Each episode provides insights and perspectives around the “reimagination machine” that is the Cloud.
Highlights
00:10 — Aaron Back guest hosts to report news from Cloud Wars Top 10 company, IBM. As companies are heavily investing in industry cloud solutions, IBM is looking to disrupt the financial services industry with its real-time AI solution.
00:32 — The solution uses an integrated chip AI accelerator built into IBM’s modern mainframe. It’s central to its hybrid cloud environments. The goal is to scale IBM’s deep learning models for the prevention and detection of fraud during transactions.
00:52 — IBM faces the challenge of doing this on a massive scale, encountering 300 billion requestions per day with one millisecond of latency.
01:06 — As IBM is pushing to keep up with other key cloud providers, the company is putting a focus on the big enterprise need for hybrid clouds. It has spent the last three years making significant investments to embrace open source technologies.
01:31 — As part of the real-time AI announcement, IBM shared that it is also focused on cybersecurity to secure the data. It refers to this as the industry’s first quantum-safe system, using quantum-safe cryptography. This is to help customers fight cyber threats.
02:04 — While targeting industry-specific needs, IBM is deeply invested in the cloud future, enough to revamp its infrastructure.
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