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IBM reported strong Q1 2025 results with revenue of $14.5 billion, up 1% (2% at constant currency). Software revenue grew 7%, while Consulting declined 2% and Infrastructure fell 6%. The company's generative AI book of business reached $6 billion, increasing by $1 billion in the quarter.
Key financial metrics include:
- Gross Profit Margin: 55.2% (GAAP), up 170 basis points
- Operating cash flow: $4.4 billion
- Free cash flow: $2.0 billion
- Diluted EPS: $1.12
IBM invested $7.1 billion in acquisitions, including HashiCorp, and returned $1.5 billion to shareholders in dividends. The company maintains its full-year guidance of at least 5% constant currency revenue growth and expects approximately $13.5 billion in free cash flow.
IBM has released its 2025 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, revealing significant shifts in cybercrime tactics. The report highlights an 84% increase in infostealer-delivering emails in 2024, while ransomware attacks declined. Critical infrastructure organizations faced 70% of all attacks, with vulnerability exploitation causing over a quarter of these incidents.
Key findings show cybercriminals preferring data theft (18%) over encryption (11%), with nearly one-third of incidents resulting in credential theft. The report indicates a 180% increase in phishing emails delivering infostealers in early 2025 compared to 2023, potentially driven by AI-powered phishing campaigns.
Geographically, Asia (34%) and North America (24%) were the most targeted regions. Manufacturing remained the most attacked industry for the fourth consecutive year, particularly vulnerable to ransomware attacks due to low downtime tolerance.
IBM has scheduled its quarterly conference call to discuss first-quarter 2025 financial results on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. ET. The company will provide access to a live webcast of the earnings call through their investor website at www.ibm.com/investor, where the earnings press release will also be available before the webcast. Following the event, IBM will make available a replay of the call, along with associated charts and prepared remarks.
IBM has unveiled the IBM z17, its next-generation mainframe system specifically engineered for AI capabilities. The system, powered by the new Telum® II processor, can process 50% more AI inference operations per day compared to z16 and handle 100% of transactions in real-time.
Key features include:
- Over 250 AI use cases across industries
- Capability to perform 450 billion inferencing operations daily
- New IBM Spyre™ Accelerator (available Q4 2025) for enhanced AI compute
- Integration of watsonx Assistant for Z with Z Operations Unite
- Enhanced security features including IBM Vault for secrets management
The z17, launching June 18, 2025, represents five years of development with over 300 patent applications and input from 100+ clients. The system will be complemented by z/OS 3.2 (planned for Q3 2025), supporting hardware-accelerated AI capabilities and modern data access methods.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has acquired Hakkoda Inc., a global data and AI consultancy, to strengthen its data transformation services portfolio. The acquisition, completed on April 2, 2025, enhances IBM's capabilities in data platform expertise and AI-powered business operations.
Hakkoda, an Elite Snowflake partner with hundreds of SnowPro certifications, brings expertise in migrating, modernizing, and monetizing data estates. The company was named the 2024 Snowflake Healthcare & Life Sciences Services Partner of the Year and 2023 Snowflake Americas System Integrator Innovation Partner.
The global enterprise intelligence services market is projected to grow from $169 billion to $243 billion by 2028, with a 13% CAGR. Hakkoda's integration adds hundreds of experts across the US, Latin America, India, Europe, and the UK to IBM Consulting. Financial terms were not disclosed.
IBM and the Masters Tournament have announced enhanced digital fan features for the 2025 Masters Tournament, powered by watsonx AI. The key updates include Hole Insights 2.0, which provides detailed analysis of every shot on every hole at Augusta National, leveraging nine years of Tournament data covering over 180,000 shots.
The system utilizes IBM's Granite LLM technology to deliver data-driven recaps, projections, and historical insights about hole performance. The enhanced solution was fine-tuned using insights from golf experts, including past Masters Tournament caddies.
Additionally, IBM has revamped the Masters app for Apple Vision Pro, offering improved 3D visuals of Augusta National, Video on Demand, and the ability to watch multiple Tournament live streams simultaneously. The 89th Masters Tournament will be held from April 10-13 at Augusta National Golf Club.
IBM and Tokyo Electron (TEL) have announced a new 5-year collaboration agreement focused on advancing semiconductor and chiplet technology for generative AI applications. This renewal extends their two-decade partnership in semiconductor research and development.
The collaboration will leverage IBM's semiconductor process integration expertise and TEL's leading-edge equipment to explore smaller nodes and chiplet architectures, aiming to meet future AI performance and energy efficiency requirements. The partnership has previously achieved significant breakthroughs, including developing a laser debonding process for 300 mm silicon chip wafers in 3D chip stacking technology.
The research will continue at the Albany NanoTech Complex, recently selected as America's first National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC EUV Accelerator), where both companies are active members of the semiconductor research ecosystem.
IBM has expanded its as-a-service portfolio with the introduction of IBM Storage Ceph as a Service, a fully managed software-defined storage solution for on-premises infrastructure. This new offering unifies block, file, and object data management while reducing operational complexity for IT teams.
The launch aligns with IDC's projection that by 2028, 80% of IT buyers will prioritize as-a-service consumption for key workloads. The portfolio includes IBM Power Virtual Server, which supports enterprise workloads like SAP, IBM i, Oracle, and AI.
A notable implementation case is National Van Lines, which adopted IBM Power Virtual Server to improve disaster recovery times from days to hours. The service allows enterprises to pay only for used computing resources, including memory, storage, and CPU, while IBM manages the infrastructure in their data centers.
Finastra and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have announced their collaboration on an enhanced cloud-based lending managed services offering. The Lending Cloud Service (LCS) will provide comprehensive services for Finastra's Corporate Lending solutions, supported by IBM for clients in North America and Europe.
The service leverages IBM's generative AI platform watsonx and is delivered on Microsoft Azure. Key features include quick deployment, standardized processes via service automation, enhanced value through cloud economics, and ongoing compliance with market protocols. The cornerstone of LCS is Service Value Management (SVM), focusing on customer-first, continuous improvement approach to managing cloud transformation.
IBM Consulting will provide design, implementation, and ongoing services, aiming to help Finastra expand its business in these regions.
IBM has announced new collaborations with NVIDIA to enhance enterprise AI capabilities, including planned integrations based on the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design. The partnership focuses on helping enterprises scale and manage generative AI workloads and agentic AI applications more effectively.
Key announcements include:
- A new content-aware storage (CAS) capability for IBM Fusion, planned for Q2 2025
- Expanded watsonx integrations with NVIDIA NIM
- Introduction of NVIDIA H200 instances on IBM Cloud
- New IBM Consulting capabilities for agentic reasoning
The collaboration aims to overcome AI's technical challenges through improved data management, performance, security, and governance. According to IBM's 2024 report, 77% of executives now consider generative AI market-ready, up from 36% in 2023.
