US Open tech, behind the scenes

Summary: I got a tour of IBM's Operations Center at the US Open this week, and I took a few pictures. Check out the infrastructure underlying delivery of all scores, stats and analytics at America's Grand Slam tennis event.

By Andrew Brust for Big on Data | September 8, 2012 -- 14:00 GMT (07:00 PDT)

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Last week I reported on IBM's analytics technology in place at the US Open tennis tournament in Flushing Meadows, in the New York City borough of Queens. This week I got an in-person tour of the technology infrastructure in use and a better understanding of how all the scores, stats (like those form this screen in the US Open iPad app) and analytics are solicited, collected, stored and distributed.

Check out all the images in this gallery to see what I saw and learned.

Topics: Big Data, IBM

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