AI & DATA ANALYTICS
Cameron Clayton , General Manager , IBM Cloud Ecosystem and Weather , tells us about his work at the company from cloud paks to predicting rain clouds
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Cloud transformation and weather forecasting may at first seem linked purely by vocabulary . IBM ’ s Cameron Clayton , however , demonstrates they may be closer than they first appear . “ I ’ m the general manager of IBM ’ s cloud ecosystem , so I support our global partners , helping them access the best IBM public cloud and Red Hat OpenShift capabilities ,” says Clayton . He joined IBM through the acquisition of The Weather Company , of which he was CEO . “ I ’ m also responsible for The Weather Company as part of IBM , which is our global business to help people and businesses make better decisions through weather data and AI insights . We serve a few hundred million people every week around the world through The Weather Channel , Weather . com and our Weather Underground properties .”
Clayton sees open technologies such as Linux containerisation and Kubernetes as guiding the evolution of cloud . “ IBM ’ s acquisition of Red Hat last year completely transformed our software portfolio to be cloud-native and optimised to run on Red Hat
AUGUST 2020