WhatsApp, the famous text messaging network with the largest number of users on the planet, is going to part ways with those from IBM to pass the infrastructure Facebook. WhatsApp currently works on IBM's cloud infrastructure, but until the end of the year it will work entirely only on Facebook's infrastructure.
By giving up IBM for Facebook, the WhatsApp platform will be fully accessible to the company that owns it, and that's what everyone fears. Having WhatsApp on their own servers, those at Facebook will have unhindered access to data from the network, without any person or institution knowing that they are being accessed and used in their own advertising network.
WhatsApp splits with IBM for Facebook
Accessing this WhatsApp data while it was still in the IBM infrastructure leaves logs that could be verified on demand, but the transition to the Facebook infrastructure will eliminate this problem. Basically, it's as if WhatsApp will "live" in Facebook's "house" starting this year, and Facebook will see everything WhatsApp does, without other people in nearby "houses" knowing what's going on.
WhatsApp used to spend about 2 million dollars a month to operate from IBM's infrastructure, but these costs will not be as high in Facebook's infrastructure. Those from IBM did not brag about the fact that they have WhatsApp as a client, but competing companies knew where the platform works, and Facebook wants to change that.
"WhatsApp has been a great client of IBM Cloud as they used our global footprint and capabilities to scale their business. We are proud of the role of IBM Cloud in their success. It is completely natural for Facebook to seek synergies across their business."
Facebook has an infrastructure, theoretically, better developed and faster than that of IBM, and WhatsApp should work at least as well. In the short term WhatsApp users will not suffer from this change, but in the long term everyone will suffer after Facebook has access to that data.
