IBM (International Business Machines Corporation)

Overview

American multinational technology corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York. One of the oldest and largest technology companies.

Key Facts

  • Founded: 1911-06-16

  • Headquarters: Armonk, New York, USA

  • Status: Public (NYSE: IBM)

  • CEO: Arvind Krishna

  • Founded as CTR (Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company), renamed IBM in 1924

  • Historically dominant in mainframe computers (z/OS)

  • Red Hat acquisition (2019, $34B) makes IBM a major open-source player

  • Created the COBOL programming language (1959)

  • IBM Watson is an AI platform for enterprise

  • IBM Quantum is a leader in quantum computing research

  • Red Hat owns Fedora, RHEL (via enterprise support), and Kubernetes (via Red Hat OpenShift)

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