The agency has been testing a novel cooling technology for its massive data centers, dunking servers in tanks of dielectric coolant fluid similar to mineral oil.
Apple's iCloud service incurred a very public breach, giving cloud in general a black eye. The breach is a reminder that end users often assume cloud services are secure by default.
Called Watson Discovery Advisor, the first Watson cloud service is for research teams needing to analyze large amounts of data to identify patterns and come up with research ideas.
Google makes a security audit and certification for its cloud publicly available for the first time. The giant is also testing a status page for its cloud.