The News: IBM and Wasabi Technologies are collaborating with the Boston Red Sox in a partnership that will bring together IBM Cloud Satellite and Wasabi hot cloud storage services to vastly improve the baseball club’s operations. The IBM Wasabi collaboration is designed to allow businesses like the Red Sox to run their applications anywhere, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge, while providing bolstered business data and real-time analytics. Read the full Press Release on the new collaboration on the IBM newsroom website.

IBM and Wasabi Collaborate with the Boston Red Sox Helping the Team Score the Benefits of Deep Data Insights

Analyst Take: The collaboration between IBM and Wasabi and the Boston Red Sox is a classic digital transformation move. The Red Sox are doing what we’re seeing many organizations do today: focusing on diving deeper into their vast stores of business data so they can garner more business insights out of the data they already possess. For the Red Sox, this includes further analysis of videos of its baseball players, player analytics, surveillance data, IoT device data, and more at its beloved Fenway Park stadium and the team is working with IBM and Wasabi to make it happen.

This collaboration brings together IBM Cloud Satellite, which is a secure, unifying cloud services layer that is available to all environments, with Wasabi hot cloud storage, giving the Red Sox broader insights across its diverse operations.

IBM Cloud Satellite gives enterprises more flexibility by allowing them to deploy cloud services securely in a multi-cloud environment for public and private cloud, on-premises, and at the edge. IBM Cloud Satellite has broad multi-cloud versatility by supporting distributed locations including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

For the Red Sox, the Wasabi hot cloud storage is being leveraged across its hybrid cloud infrastructure, while IBM Cloud Satellite is being used to house all this expanded data from the team and its Fenway Park home while delivering cloud flexibility, agility, and affordability in its secured on-premises data center.

IBM said the Red Sox is the first customer to use these new services from the collaboration with Wasabi.

Boston Red Sox: What the Team Gains in this Collaboration

For the Red Sox, this is a deal that will also deliver increased resiliency, performance, security, and compliance capabilities in real-time, bringing their data insights to a new level for the team and its personnel.

Collaborations and partnerships like this one between tech vendors are a great move for customers because it brings added value to enterprise users that need help with implementing unfamiliar and challenging technology services. Hybrid cloud is one of those areas where customers appreciate the hand to hold and the extra advice and guidance that they receive to make these transitions easier to navigate.

Wasabi’s hot cloud storage allows enterprises to store unlimited amounts of their data without dividing it into traditional tiers which separate hot data that is needed often from cold data that is accessed infrequently. Wasabi also does not charge customers extra to access their data or charge them API fees, which means predictable costs for data storage. With Wasabi hot storage, all customer data is treated equally and is available anytime with no additional fees or steps.

Boston Red Sox IBM Wasabi Overview

I’m a rabid baseball fan (go Phillies!) and this is a great product offering from IBM and Wasabi and one that I believe will ultimately benefit both players and fans as the team unlocks insights from real-time data and uses those insights in myriad ways.

This partnership between IBM, Wasabi and the Red Sox also sets the stage, showing the many possibilities for a wide range of small to large enterprises that are looking for help in taming and improving their large stores of valuable business data.

Gleaning fresh insights from new and long-held business data is a huge plus for every business and this service from IBM and Wasabi is sure to help more customers unlock these valuable resources that might have remained otherwise untapped.

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