December 2, 2013
A few weeks ago, at AWS re:Invent 2013, The Weather Company announced their new IT platform, which focuses on next generation forecasting using big data. To build this platform, they required an architecture that was both flexible and reliable, and selected Riak to achieve that. Riak underpins the new IT platform and is used to store a variety of data from satellites, radars, forecast models, users, and weather stations worldwide.
At re:Invent, the Vice President of Enterprise Data at the Weather Company, Sathish Gaddipati, spoke about The Weather Company’s overall IT transformation in a talk titled, “How the Weather Company Monetizes Weather, the Original Big Data Problem.”
This talk provides more details on The Weather Company’s architecture, technology choices, performance results, and business benefits realized from this IT transformation. It also discusses how the application of these technologies can help keep people safe and help businesses plan and become more profitable, thanks to the latest intersection of consumer behavior and weather forecasting and reporting.
For additional details on why The Weather Company selected Riak over Cassandra, MongoDB, and Hadoop, check out Doug Henschen’s InformationWeek article “Big Data Reshapes Weather Channel Predictions.”
