Matt Kolberg and Amy Mumby discuss the competitive cloud services landscape. WSI, the B2B branch of The Weather Company, collects information from more than 2 billion sensors and other data points worldwide to generate more than 26 billion forecasts a day. Feeding this information into analytics platforms, like Watson, to give customers tools to import weather data so they can plan for storms and other disasters.

For more information: “IBM Steals a High-Provile Customer from Amazon’s Cloud” and “The Weather Company isn’t totally ditching Amazon for IBM.“