InfoSphere Streams (STREAMS) provides an advanced analytics platform that allows user-developed applications to quickly digest, analyze and correlate informational data as it arrives from thousands of real time sources.STREAMS can process high speed data throughput rates, up to millions of events/messages per second. This solution is designed to give your team the most flexibility for managing data collection applications and services, while letting CloudOne manage the servers for threats or mistakes.

The Weather Company, an IBM Business, offers the most accurate forecasts globally – more than 25 billion per day – with personalized and actionable weather data and insights. The Weather Company is challenged to accelerate the computations in weather models in order to provide more precise and accurate forecasts.Weather forecasting in the United States and other developed nations is more accurate than in other more remote parts of the world.  The Weather Company  saw an opportunity to advance accurate weather predictions globally by leveraging the IBM GRAF.

Desert Research Institute (DRI) is the environmental research arm of the Nevada System of Higher Education. With more than 550 scientists, engineers and technicians, and campuses in Reno and Las Vegas, DRI staff work to solve some of the world’s biggest environmental issues. One of the challenges that scientists have faced in recent years is analyzing an increasing volume, velocity and variety of data from field observations, lab systems, remote sensor networks and mathematical models. The amount of data collected is extraordinary. In fact, atmospheric scientists at DRI are working with NASA on planning for missions that will produce up to 24 terabytes of data per day. DRI faculty members have traditionally been responsible for acquiring the computing and storage technology they needed to support their research projects. Often, data collected from remote locations around the world is stored in flat files and managed by individual research teams. This decentralized approach increased IT costs and limited how the organization’s research data could be used.

IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation that manufactures and markets computer hardware, middleware, and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. IBM is intent on leading the development of a global data field.

Watson is a question answering computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language, developed in IBM's DeepQA project by a research team led by principal investigator David Ferrucci. Watson was named after IBM's first CEO and industrialist Thomas J. Watson. The computer system was specifically developed to answer questions on the quiz show Jeopardy!. In 2011, Watson competed on Jeopardy! against former winners Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. Watson received the first place prize of $1 million. Watson had access to 200 million pages of structured and unstructured content consuming four terabytes of disk storage including the full text of Wikipedia, but was not connected to the Internet during the game. For each clue, Watson's three most probable responses were displayed on the television screen. Watson consistently outperformed its human opponents on the game's signaling device, but had trouble in a few categories, notably those having short clues containing only a few words. In February 2013, IBM announced that Watson software system's first commercial application would be for utilization management decisions in lung cancer treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in conjunction with health insurance company WellPoint. IBM Watson's former business chief Manoj Saxena says that 90% of nurses in the field who use Watson now follow its guidance.