# IBM

> IBM (International Business Machines) is a 114-year-old American technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, that helps large enterprises and governments run and modernize their most demanding operations. Today its business centers on three pillars - hybrid cloud through Red Hat, enterprise AI through the watsonx platform and open Granite models, and consulting - while it continues to build the underlying hardware, from z-series mainframes to research-grade quantum computers. IBM reported $67.5 billion in 2025 revenue and remains one of the largest patent holders and research organizations in the world.

- **Founded:** 1911
- **Headquarters:** Armonk, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Charles Ranlett Flint (Founder (organized the 1911 CTR merger)), Thomas J. Watson Sr. (President / longtime leader who built and renamed IBM)
- **Team size:** Approximately 270,000-290,000 employees worldwide
- **Products:** watsonx, Granite models, Red Hat OpenShift & RHEL, IBM Z mainframes, IBM Consulting
- **Notable:** One of the world's largest annual patent producers for decades, Six Nobel Prizes associated with IBM researchers, plus multiple Turing Awards, Built the guidance and tracking systems used in NASA's Apollo Moon missions

## Products & services

- **watsonx** — Enterprise AI and data platform for building, training, tuning, and governing AI models and assistants.
- **Granite models** — IBM's family of open-source, enterprise-grade foundation models for language, code, and business tasks.
- **Red Hat OpenShift & RHEL** — Open-source hybrid cloud platform and enterprise Linux, the backbone of IBM's hybrid cloud strategy.
- **IBM Z mainframes** — High-reliability transaction systems that run core operations for banks, airlines, and governments.
- **IBM Consulting** — Global professional services arm for business transformation, AI adoption, and systems integration.
- **IBM Quantum** — Cloud-accessible quantum computers and the Qiskit software stack, with a public roadmap toward fault-tolerant systems.
- **HashiCorp (Terraform & Vault)** — Infrastructure automation and secrets management, added via IBM's $6.4B acquisition.
- **IBM Cloud** — Enterprise public and hybrid cloud with a focus on regulated industries and confidential computing.

## Achievements

- One of the world's largest annual patent producers for decades
- Six Nobel Prizes associated with IBM researchers, plus multiple Turing Awards
- Built the guidance and tracking systems used in NASA's Apollo Moon missions
- Watson defeated human champions on Jeopardy in 2011
- Pioneered the relational database, the hard disk drive, DRAM, and the UPC barcode
- Completed the $6.4B acquisition of HashiCorp in February 2025
- Published a public roadmap to a large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — IBM reported Q2 2026 revenue of about $17.2 billion, up roughly 1 percent year over year, with software leading and infrastructure declining.
- **2026-01** — IBM reported full-year 2025 revenue of $67.5 billion and $13.2 billion in cash from operations.
- **2025-06** — IBM reaffirmed plans to invest more than $10 billion in quantum computing over five years, targeting a fault-tolerant system by 2029.
- **2025-02** — IBM completed its $6.4 billion acquisition of HashiCorp, adding Terraform and Vault to its automation portfolio.
- **2024-05** — IBM unveiled the next chapter of watsonx, open-sourcing its Granite models and expanding its AI ecosystem.

## Links

- Website: https://www.ibm.com/us-en
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ibm
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/IBM
- GitHub: https://github.com/IBM
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ibm
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ibm/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IBM

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Last updated: 2026-07-15