IBM Serves Up the U.S. Open via the Cloud

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Mike Vizard.

The U.S. Open is one of the premier global sporting events and generates a lot of revenue for everyone involved. But even in the U.S. Tennis Association (USTA) has to deal with budget limitations. To help overcome those limitations, the USTA has enlisted IBM (IBM) not only to provide cloud computing services but also to design and build the analytics applications available on the Web and via mobile computing devices.

John Kent, IBM Worldwide Sponsorship Marketing executive, said IBM is powering those applications via three data centers integrated using IBM Cloud Orchestrator software and IBM software-defined storage technologies to maximize performance and guarantee availability. In addition, IBM is employing IBM Watson Foundations technologies to forecast Internet traffic as part of an effort to dynamically allocate additional capacity and bandwidth as required…

The application portfolio being made available to the USTA now includes an enhanced version of IBM SlamTracker analytics to provide real-time analysis of player and ball movement data. It also includes a revamped set of data visualization tools that makes use of IBM SPSS predictive analytics software to identify keys to matches, based on 41 million data points from eight years of Grand Slam tennis match data…

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