IBM Watson and Cloud Platform blog – Welcome to this week’s news, tutorials and more

Welcome to the IBM Watson and Cloud Consumption Team Blog. Our mission is to assist clients, large and small, in adopting the IBM Watson and Cloud Platform services.

This blog via the IBM developerWorks site, brings you links to interesting articles, tutorials and the latest news to keep you up-to-date on the IBM Watson and Cloud Platform. The advantage of this is that you will get a varied and global perspective each week. All you need to do is just click this link to subscribe.

External News items

• Forrester Names IBM a Leader in Conversational Computing Platforms Wave
• Data is the new cargo
• Driving faster, more accurate and more beneficial tax decisions
• Established retail banks are facing a major wave of intentional regulatory disruption in the form of PSD2 and Open Banking. This paper investigates the technical impact.
  
• Financial services in the age of hybrid cloud.

What’s New – Watson

What’s New – Cloud

Resource Groups and Access Management – recently you may have noticed resource groups in the IBM Cloud console. This blog post discusses some best practices for managing and using resource groups to help provide security.

Compute Infrastructure

• Complete run-time container security for production Kubernetes workloads
• IBM Cloud App ID Technical White Paper
• Scale security while innovating microservices fast
• Kubernetes at the Helm, containers in the engine room
• Use domain-driven design to architect your cloud apps
• New Relic Teams with IBM to Expand in Europe, Speed Cloud Adoption
• How IBM is Bolstering its Multi-Cloud Strategy.
• IBM and VMware partnership unlocks new value for enterprises.
• POWER9: A chip’s trip around the world.

Compute Services

• IBM Cloud Functions: we’re doubling the time limit on executing actions.
• Complete run-time container security for production Kubernetes workloads.
• Keeping the pace of innovation for mainframe.
• IBM unveils new cloud-ready mainframe based on single-frame design.
• Serverless Data Flow Sequencing with Watson Data API and IBM Cloud Functions.

Interesting Tutorials

• How to Create Multiple Organizations in your account and View their Usage in IBM Cloud.
• Deep Learning as a service now in IBM Watson Studio.
• Add Watson Assistant to Your WordPress Site.
• Introducing Fabric for Deep Learning (FfDL) .
• How to get started in blockchain with IBM’s Eileen Lowry.
• The IBM Cloud Lite account.