IBM sees cognitive computing as the new frontier of computing and is positioning its Watson architecture as the way forward in this new landscape, for both the company and its customers.

IBM is moving its Watson Cognitive Health services to a hybrid cloud model that it said will give customers greater access to a larger pool of payer and health record information for data analytics.

Once the efficiencies have been wrung out (IBM now has Watson running on 256 gigabytes of memory, down from 15 terabytes back in the Jeopardy days), tech firms can afford to sell it as a pay-per ...

Ultimately, Watson's broad range of data, analytics, and machine learning functionality can only be delivered on the IBM Cloud, a platform optimized for data and cognition, Rometty told partners.