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2015 IBM Annual Report 7
than 120 services, IBM Bluemix is the largest
deployment of Cloud Foundry, an open source
cloud application development platform.
• IBM SoftLayer is the core of our infrastructure-
as-a-service platform, which now consists
of 46 cloud data centers in every major market
in the world. This business grew by double
digits in 2015.
• The Weather Company is not just a source
of enormously valuable weather data. It is
a platform, and it forms the heart of our new
IBM Watson Internet of Things solutions unit.
Today the platform can analyze data from
3billion weather forecast reference points,
including satellites, weather stations, air-
planes, consumer apps and more. It handles
26billion inquiries to its cloud-based
services each day in the United States alone,
making it the country’s fourth most popular
app. Going forward, we will apply this
powerful platform to collect, integrate and
analyze data from multiple sources, such as
telematics in cars, sensors in buildings,
readings from wearable devices and data
from smartphones, social media, supply
chains and the environment.
• For our industry-leading IBM Security
business, the IBM QRadar Security
Intelligence Platform offers collaboration,
an app exchange and pertinent APIs. Our
Security business also launched IBM X-Force
Exchange, a cloud platform for more than
2,000 mem bers across 16 industries to share
threat data, with one of the world’s fullest
catalogs of threat information, from more than
20billion security events monitored daily.
• In January 2016 we announced IBM Cloud
Video Services, enhancing our substantial
organic video capabilities with the acquisi-
tions of Aspera, Cleversafe, Clearleap
and, most recently, streaming video service
Ustream. Like weather, video is one of the
richest and fastest-growing data sources—
expected to comprise 80percent of Internet
traffi c by 2019. The market for cloud-based
video services, analytics and software
is estimated to be more than $100billion by
2019, and we are now positioned for strong
growth there.
• Finally, Watson itself is a cloud platform,
supporting a growing ecosystem. More
than 80,000 developers are using Watson
APIs, and more than 500 start-ups and
businesses in the Watson ecosystem
are building applications and solutions
powered by Watson.