IBM also recently stormed a deal to acquire open-source software company Red Hat for $34 billion, and Rometty announced the company would open its Watson concocted intelligence service to all cloud platforms, including rival platforms. That will give users the ability to conduct data under clouds run by Amazon and Microsoft, among others.
“Watson can run on your premise … it can run on any cloud and it can connect between them,” she voiced. “This is a big piece — not just of Watson — a big piece of hybrid cloud. We think that’s a trillion dollar market and we’ll be No. 1 in it.”
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Here’s a snapshot of how the markets look now.
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