IBM and The Weather Company want to use big data, the cloud, and the Internet of Things to improve weather forecasting for businesses.
As part of a new deal between the companies, The Weather Company will shift its massive weather data services platform to the IBM Cloud and integrate its data with IBM analytics and cloud services.
The deal reflects how competition in the cloud market is heating up too: The Weather Company is a close partner with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Bryson Koehler, the CIO/CTO for The Weather Company, told ZDNet: “I believe in the multi-cloud story and believe that any serious cloud-based business or application needs to be built in a cloud-agnostic way.”
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