The bet-the-company story for IBM: Cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Blockchain. “The IBM Cloud is the platform for the next era of business,” Rometty said, expressing the central theme of the keynote. The IBM Cloud combines the Cloud Foundry-based BlueMix Platform-as-a-Service environment with SoftLayer, IBM’s public Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud. Not only does the IBM Cloud provide APIs to many Watson-based services, but the Cloud’s security infrastructure depends upon Watson as well. David Kenny, Senior Vice President of IBM Watson and Cloud Platform, laid out IBM’s strategic ONE Architecture consisting of four layers: Cloud, Data AI, and Applications, as the image below shows.

Source: Forbes March 22, 2017 20:53 UTC