At IBM Think, Watson Expands "Anywhere"

At IBM Think in February, IBM made several announcements around the expansion of Watson's availability and capabilities, framing these announcements as the launch of "Watson Anywhere." This piece is intended to provide guidance to data analysts, data scientists, and analytic professionals seeking to implement machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities and evaluating the capabilities of IBM Watson's AI and machine learning services for their data. IBM declared that Watson is now available "anywhere" – both on-prem and in any cloud configuration, whether private, public, singular, multi-cloud, or a hybrid cloud environment. Data that needs to remain in place for privacy and security reasons can now have Watson microservices act on it where it resides. The obstacle of cloud vendor lock-in can be avoided by simply bringing the code to the data instead of vice versa.