IBM Opens Up Series of Security, AI and Cloud Initiatives

In a bid to encourage more open platforms, IBM announced its new Security Connect, MultiCloud Manager and AI OpenScale platforms. IBM is looking to further position itself as an open vendor with a series of announcements on Oct. 15 across security, cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) services. IBM AI OpenScale is a new platform that enables organizations to use multiple AI frameworks including TensorFlow, AWS SageMaker, AzureML and others on the IBM cloud. In addition, AI OpenScale has a new system that will use AI to build new AI models. The new IBM MultiCloud Manager is a service designed to help organizations automate and manage workloads across different cloud providers. Finally, the IBM Security Connect offering provides an open cloud-based platform for integration of multiple security tools.