IBM – 30 Amazing Stats and Facts

1. What does IBM do:
   • IBM is global technology company that provides IT services, infrastructure software and hardware to individual and business across the world. IBM is now emerging as a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company.

2. Launch year: June 16, 1911
3. Headquarters: Armonk, New York, U.S.
4. Founder(s): Charles Ranlett Flint & Thomas J. Watson
5. Total Number of IBM employees: 352,600 (as of 2019)
6. IBM operating: more than 175 countries
7. Total revenue: 75.5 billion USD (as on July 2020)
8. Cloud revenue: 24.4 billion USD
9. Funding raised by IBM: 2.5 Billion USD (as on July 2020)
10. Security events managed each day: 70 billion
11. Organizations in IBM Q Network: 100+
12. Executions on IBM’s quantum fleet: 160 billion
13. Percentage of IBM Telcos clients: 83%
14. Percentage of global credit card transactions processed on IBM mainframes: 90%
15. Developers participated in Call for Code program: 180,000
16. Number of US patents in 2019: 9,262
17. Research, Development & Engineering expense in 2019: 5,989 million USD
18. IBM Research: IBM has 19 world-class research facilities spread across 12 laboratories on six continents with more than 3,000 researchers
19. acquisitions: 183 organization are acquired by IBM and WDG Automation in the recently acquired on July, 2020.
20. Key subsidiary of IBM: Red Hat
21. Amount that IBM is reportedly buying Red Hat for: 33.4 billion USD
22. Clients using Red Hat and IBM’s hybrid cloud platform: more than 2000
23. Trademarks or registered trademarks of IBM or its wholly owned subsidiaries: Aix, Cognitive Enterprise, DB2, Global Business Services, Global Technology Services, IBM, IBM Cloud, IBM Garage, IBM Research, IBM Security, IBM Services, IBM Watson, IBM Z, Maximo, POWER, POWER9, Watson, WebSphere, z14, z15, z/OS and Z Systems
24. Competitors in IT Service: Accenture, Hewlett Packard and Wipro Technologies
25. Competitors in Infrastructure Software: Microsoft, Oracle and Amazon
26. IBM competitors in Hardware: Oracle, Dell and HP
27. Open P-TECH: It is a public education platform that train young people and educators in emerging technologies like cybersecurity, AI and more, all for free.
28. Brand: IBM was initially named as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and Watson never liked this clumsy hyphenated name, so he replaces the title “International Business Machines”. IBM is nicknamed as “Colossus of Armonk” and it also nicknamed as “Big Blue” due to its blue logo and colour scheme
29. IBM song: “Ever Onward’ is the most famous of the Song of IBM which was commissioned by Thomas Watson Sr. to be written to accompany the tune of Hammerstein and Romberg’s “Stouthearted Men”

+ One interesting news:

IBM focused on a hybrid cloud, and will spin off Managed Infrastructure Services unit as a new public company.