With an AI push, IBM is looking at cognitive clouds

Early this month, IBM announced that it shall be rolling out an AIOps product at its Think Digital Conference. The product is expected to help CIOs plan better as IBM's flagship AI, Watson, caters to anomalies in the process and deals with outages. The company said that AIOps will be able to self-detect, diagnose and respond to IT anomalies in real-time. For instance, AI will be able to correct any anomalies in the operations. "Our work is centered around cognitive-AI driven enterprise planning," Gopal Pingali, global vice president of the Global Technology Services Labs, IBM, said.