Technology Magazine August 2020 | Page 70

AI & DATA ANALYTICS
DID YOU KNOW ?
IBM Cloud delivers :
● 25 billion forecasts per day
● 550,000 API requests per second
70 becoming ecommerce food delivery stores overnight , for instance . It ’ s the same all the way up to Fortune 500 companies .”
That rapid pace of cloud transformation isn ’ t without its roadblocks preventing companies from making the leap . “ We ’ re seeing two challenges develop , one around security and then the other around regulated markets ,” says Clayton . “ Security is particularly important in regulated markets such as financial services , healthcare , insurance and telco . Last year , along with Bank of America , we announced our financial services ready public cloud , built around the key controls and compliance and security features that financial services organisations need .”
The other half of Clayton ’ s responsibilities involves clouds in a different sense . Having acquired The Weather Company , IBM has bolstered its
AUGUST 2020