Role of Systems in CognitiveInfrastructureTrends and Directions of CognitiveInfrastructure Solutions

Sergio SaadVP, WW Storage Infrastructure Solutions

Watson Kiev Summit 2017

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estimated worldwide startups each day

274,000We’re all vulnerable to seismic shifts

EXTERNAL THREATS

Born-on-digital companies that steal market share or rewrite customer expectations New business models that reinvent our industry and change the game altogether

INTERNAL THREATS

Siloed data and systems Gaps in expertise and skillsInability to react quickly

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To win, you must:

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Turn increasing volumes of structured and unstructured data into new, easily accessible insights.

Continually improve and personalize customer experiences and applications by infusing AI.

Speed operationsby putting the right workloads on the right cloud.

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We believe AI exponentially advances the power of humans and systems.• Curated data• Broad analytics• Cognitive micro-services

IBM brings together more data and cognitive capabilities with an open cloud platform and unmatched industry expertise

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Built for the cognitive era

Open andin control

Industry expertise

and delivery

We believe technology must remove boundaries and unleash opportunity.• Open technologies• Hybrid integration• Choice with consistency

We believe in making our collective experience as accessible as your own. • Business model expertise• Unique methodologies• Cognitive industry solutions

CREATECreate new customer value through innovation in applications, services, and processes

CONNECTConnect people, applications, data, things and services in new ways to enable innovation

OPTIMIZEOptimize any application, data or service for cloud agility and economics

MANAGEManage secure and govern your processes and services wherever they run

Develop cloud native applications

Leverage cloudDev Test

Get the most from Open Source

Create cognitive applications

Create and extend cloud native and legacy applications and data

Use and integrate SaaS applications

Make data simple with self-service analytics and machine learning

Deliver multi-cloud solutions

Transform business processes with actionable insights and intelligence

Run existing solutions on private cloud

Run existing solutions on public cloud

Deliver unified governance, management, monitoring and security

Transform products and services with intelligent connected devices

Leverage cloud for high availability and disaster recovery

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Here’s how you’ll do it

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How to move forward?

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New generation application workloadsTraditional application workloads

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IBM Spectrum Storage: Consumed as you like it

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InfrastructureSoftware /

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