Segmental revenues pertaining to Cloud increased 8%. Cloud as-a-service revenue annual run rate was $2.1 billion. Revenues from cloud and data platforms increased 7% year over year. IBM's attempt to bolster hybrid cloud business with Red Hat Acquisition is likely to pave the way for the company's growth prospects. Notably, IBM witnessed growth in industry verticals like health, key areas of analytics and security in the reported quarter. Watson Health witnessed broad-based growth in Payer, Provider, Imaging and Life Sciences domains. Revenues from Cognitive Applications were up 5% year over year, driven by security, health, supply chain and weather. Security growth was backed by offerings in orchestration, data security and endpoint management. Further, robust sales of Resilient and QRadar, which address areas like endpoint protection, incident response and security intelligence, were other positives.