IBM Cloud Newsroom: Your Think tank

Tech Crunch covers announcements at Think that not only involve freeing Watson-branded AI services, but also how IBM will offer businesses a full spectrum of tools for developing and running AI models using structured and unstructured data — as well as a full monitoring and lifecycle suite.

How is IBM meeting client demand for less expensive partition queries while also improving the scalability and performance of Cloudant? Introducing a new query style that offers a more scalable, faster and cheaper way to query a Cloudant database.

As technology has cycled repeatedly over the last 20 years, the open source community has played a crucial development role, and that has never been more apparent than today, as companies work to shift their business applications to the cloud. Throughout the last two decades, IBM and Red Hat have maintained a commitment to the open source community and have helped drive business innovation. 

VMware and IBM Cloud have several mutual enterprise clients across multiple session stages at Think this week. Attendees will hear about experiences migrating and modernizing their VMware workloads. Westpac, the oldest and second-largest bank in Australia, shares the incredible story of their digital transformation to shaping seamless, high-quality digital experiences.

“Which do I use — Cloud Foundary or Kubernetes?” IBM has a vision for the marriage of containers, apps, and functions into a single combined and unified container application platform. Coupled with powerful database technologies, it’s time to break down the silos and see how these projects’ paths are converging to solve real microservices dilemmas: security, scale and operations.

Cloud adoption isn’t a “one-cloud-fits-all” strategy. It’s a new and modern journey to cloud with a hybrid approach, where enterprises blend the value of their original investments and on-premises environments with new public and virtual-private cloud estates. The IBM Cloud and IBM Power Systems teams are bringing the IBM POWER9 platform to the cloud with the new IBM Power Systems Virtual Server on IBM Cloud — available in select IBM Cloud data centers spring 2019.

Crédit Mutuel, one of France’s leading banks, turned to IBM Watson® to speed up everyday processes and allow client advisors time to address more complicated and nuanced problems.

How could J.B. Hunt ensure that it was managing content in an efficient, compliant way? With new data retention and management processes built on IBM information lifecycle governance solutions, the company is able to help drive better decisions about managing, retaining and disposing of data.

With pressure to provide real-time analysis of huge quantities of operational data, how could Nedbank Group expand its data warehouse while maintaining agility and keeping costs in check? See how the bank augmented its analytics landscape with a software-defined data warehouse solution from IBM.

Wanting to improve operations, foster greater innovation and go to market quicker with new features and products, UBank explored a platform as a service (PaaS) cloud development model. The bank launched new initiatives in an IBM Cloud Platform environment, including a virtual assistant that incorporates IBM Watson technology to support its online home loan application.

Medtronic is harnessing IBM Streams and Watson Platform for Health™ to help improve the lives of people with diabetes, building a mobile personal assistant app for diabetes management that will provide actionable glucose insight and predictions.

Who wants to carry more than one phone when dealing with your personal and business communications? Movius is a cloud-based mobile communication services company that provides multiple lines on one mobile device — delivered via VMware on the IBM Cloud bare metal server infrastructure.