Watson Studio Desktop ((new)) -

Uploading 500GB of log files to a cloud object store takes hours and costs bandwidth fees. With the Desktop version, you keep the data where it lives—on your local drive, network attached storage (NAS), or HDFS cluster. Watson Studio Desktop runs the compute to the data, rather than forcing the data to travel to the compute. Highly regulated industries (Banking, Healthcare, Defense) often prohibit cloud storage of raw PII or PHI.

Beyond the Browser: Why IBM Watson Studio Desktop is a Game-Changer for Local Data Science watson studio desktop

The future of data science is not strictly cloud or strictly local. It is hybrid. And Watson Studio Desktop is currently the most polished bridge between your laptop and the enterprise data center. Uploading 500GB of log files to a cloud