Wealth of Riches: IBM Cloud CTO Hillery Hunter

The Big Themes:

• A wealth of riches that we are so privileged to have: They serve as a kind of innovation pipeline in addition to our R&D teams.
• The default data was your data: I think the concept of data protection, data privacy, and now terms that people are using around confidential computing are really where the heart of our differentiation lies.
• IBM has worked in these industries for decades: Because we have worked with financial services, telco, healthcare, etc., IBM has brought together the different pieces of their applications.
• Could a quantum computer ever crack what I’m doing: Our researchers have invented algorithms that are secure against future quantum computers.

The Big Quotes:

“When we talk about IBM Cloud Satellite, it is about a consistent distributed cloud.”

“So I got to come into our cloud business several years ago and I now serve as our chief technology officer. And I'm also an IBM Fellow.”

“And so we're very closely partnering with our research organization on the topics of future programming models and deploying those kinds of capabilities through code engine and other services in our cloud.”

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