Managed OpenShift Boosts Weather Forecast Efficiency
Key Points
- IBM Cloud customers need the ability to run workloads in specific geographic regions that matter to their business.
- The Weather Company processes massive volumes (250 billion forecasts, 13 billion API calls, 100 million page views daily), creating significant infrastructure overhead.
- Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud provides a fully managed, native OpenShift environment with highly available masters, multizone clusters, and integrated platform services such as IAM, monitoring, logging, and Key Protect.
- By using this managed Kubernetes service, the team only has to manage worker nodes, leading to an 80 % boost in efficiency and allowing them to focus on core business innovation.
- The partnership between Red Hat and IBM is dedicated to continuously improving the DevOps experience for Kubernetes users.
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# Managed OpenShift Boosts Weather Forecast Efficiency **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0hNDkAA1sM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0hNDkAA1sM) **Duration:** 00:01:39 ## Summary - IBM Cloud customers need the ability to run workloads in specific geographic regions that matter to their business. - The Weather Company processes massive volumes (250 billion forecasts, 13 billion API calls, 100 million page views daily), creating significant infrastructure overhead. - Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud provides a fully managed, native OpenShift environment with highly available masters, multizone clusters, and integrated platform services such as IAM, monitoring, logging, and Key Protect. - By using this managed Kubernetes service, the team only has to manage worker nodes, leading to an 80 % boost in efficiency and allowing them to focus on core business innovation. - The partnership between Red Hat and IBM is dedicated to continuously improving the DevOps experience for Kubernetes users. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0hNDkAA1sM&t=0s) **Managed OpenShift Enhances DevOps Efficiency** - The Weather Company leverages Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud—a fully managed, multi‑zone, integrated Kubernetes service—to offload infrastructure overhead, achieve 80% workload efficiency gains, and focus on delivering core weather‑forecast innovations. ## Full Transcript
For an IBM Cloud customer it's imperative to be able to run those workloads in the geographies
that are important to them.
The Weather Company does 250 Billion forecasts daily.
We complete 13 Billion API calls.
We do 100 Million page views daily.
There is a lot of overhead and upkeep.
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is fully managed native OpenShift environment where we are
providing highly available masters, multizone clusters, integrating with platform services
such as identity and access management, monitoring and logging, and key protect.
It is the same OpenShift that I'm familiar with and love so much, but the moment we moved
into the IBM Cloud all I had to worry about was my worker nodes.
That was nice.
In terms of DevOps, the key benefit of using a managed Kubernetes Service is that it allows
our customers to focus on innovation and delivering software faster for their customers.
Using a managed Kubernetes service has resulted in a 80% improvement in efficiency in my workloads
and my team's workloads because now we are focused on what The Weather Company needs
us to focus on instead of all this infrastructure that provided no direct benefit.
Together Red Hat and IBM are dedicated to improving the DevOps experience of using Kubernetes.