Armonk, N.Y. – IBM has announced that it has now completed the acquisition of HashiCorp, a provider of infrastructure automation and security solutions for hybrid cloud applications and generative AI. This acquisition, which was worth $6.4 billion, will help accelerate innovation, improve security, and provide further value to customers via cloud technologies.
HashiCorp’s capabilities will create substantial synergies within IBM’s strategic growth initiatives such as Red Hat, watsonx, data security, IT automation, and consulting services. For example, combining HashiCorp Terraform and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform offers strong capability to automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployment across multiple clouds.
“Organizations globally are looking to deploy modern, hybrid cloud-ready apps, which require automated cloud infrastructure at significant scale,” said Rob Thomas, Senior Vice President, IBM Software and Chief Commercial Officer. “With this acquisition, IBM is committed to continuing to invest in and grow the HashiCorp capabilities, and together, with HashiCorp’s leading technology and extensive developer community, IBM’s global reach and R&D resources, our aim is to infuse HashiCorp technology in every data center.”
“HashiCorp has been helping the world’s largest enterprises succeed in hybrid and multi-cloud environments for over a decade. We’ve seen the cloud grow from its origins, and have participated first-hand in the change it has brought to the industry,” said Dave McJannet, CEO, HashiCorp.“With IBM’s history, global scale, and customer relationships, HashiCorp can now expand our reach to help our community of customers, practitioners, and partners automate, secure, and optimize their cloud infrastructure, providing an end-to-end platform for hybrid environments.”
With this acquisition, IBM’s dedication to the complete hybrid cloud platform is reinforced so that enterprises can manage and modernize their cloud infrastructure efficiently. Adding HashiCorp’s automation aims to prepare IBM to boost what is set to become a huge growth market in cloud-native applications, especially generative AI-based technologies.
“HashiCorp has been a pioneer in cloud infrastructure since the earliest days of public cloud. We’ve built a portfolio of products to help customers embrace a cloud native approach to Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management that has been embraced by hundreds of thousands of organizations around the world,” said Armon Dadgar, CTO and Co-founder of HashiCorp. “I’m excited for HashiCorp to join the IBM family, where there is clear alignment on the vision of enabling hybrid infrastructure for the world’s biggest enterprises. Together, we can continue to invest deeply in R&D innovation and enable the next generation of applications to be built and scaled.”
Source: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-02-27-ibm-completes-acquisition-of-hashicorp,-creates-comprehensive,-end-to-end-hybrid-cloud-platform
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