IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation that manufactures and markets computer hardware, middleware, and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. IBM is intent on leading the development of a global data field.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is a global leader in IT services, digital and business solutions that partners with its clients to simplify, strengthen and transform their businesses. TCS ensures the highest levels of certainty and satisfaction through a deep-set commitment to their clients, comprehensive industry expertise and a global network of innovation and delivery centers. Year founded: 1968

CenturyLink is the second largest U.S. communications provider to global enterprise customers. With customers in more than 60 countries and an intense focus on the customer experience, CenturyLink strives to be the world's best networking company by solving customers'​ increased demand for reliable and secure connections. The company also serves as its customers'​ trusted partner, helping them manage increased network and IT complexity and providing managed network and cyber security solutions that help protect their business.

Nine billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices today, and the number is growing. Organizations must consider how to manage the complexities of connecting to a seemingly unlimited number of devices and how to effectively integrate IoT data with data from other sources, such as internal data stores. Business value comes to those who improve their data capabilities—integration, automation, and analysis—not to those who simply connect the most devices to the network. Watson IoT is a set of capabilities that learn from, and infuse intelligence into, the physical world. Firms can securely connect, collect and process IoT data quickly and easily with the Watson IoT Platform.

The IoT generated data, and it is extremely varied, noisy, time-sensitive, and often confidential. Complexity grows as billions of devices interact in a moving world. This presents a growing challenge that will test the limits of programmable computing. Cognitive IoT is our opportunity to fully exploit this resource. Cognitive IoT is not explicitly programmed. It learns from experiences with the environment and interactions with people. It brings true Machine Learning to systems and processes so they can understand your goals, then integrate and analyze the relevant data to help you achieve them.

Internet of Things (IoT), offers unique opportunities for enterprises to hyper-connect people, processes and systems. However, the IoT ecosystem is quite fragmented and requires customers to deal with multiple vendors. Addressing this challenge, TCS has developed a comprehensive set of service offerings and assets, to help customers unlock business value. TCS offer services concerning IoT in three ways. IoT Consulting: TCS has a comprehensive IoT framework that covers areas from understanding business needs to the IoT development and execution strategy with a clearly defined roadmap. IoT Implementation: The offerings include Sensor Data Analytics, Mobile apps for Sensor data, Machine Learning & AI and Sensor Applications Cloud deployment. Our services include integration and implementation of partner products, and system integration. IoT Management: Services include, device management, end-to-end security, Big data services, Cloud enablement and APIfication of sensor data.

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Cloud connectivity

Securely link your data center and cloud environments in real time to meet today’s hybrid cloud demands.

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