IBM Acquires Gravitant to Boost Hybrid Cloud Capabilities

IBM Acquires Taos to Boost Hybrid Cloud Consulting Capability

January 14, 2021

IT Services

IBM agreed to acquire Taos, a multi-cloud consulting and managed services provider headquartered in San Jose, California, to strengthen IBM's hybrid cloud consulting, migration and managed services capabilities. Financial terms were not disclosed; the deal was announced in January 2021 (expected to close Q1 2021). Taos brings deep public-cloud partnerships (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) and experience across technology, financial services, healthcare, retail, transportation and education.

Gravity Acquires coUrbanize

September 2, 2025

Government & Public Sector

Gravity, a public-sector financial reporting platform, has acquired coUrbanize, a GovTech community engagement SaaS. The deal integrates coUrbanize’s multilingual, ADA-compliant engagement tools and AI-powered reporting into Gravity’s budgeting and compliance platform to help governments meet 2026 ADA mandates and improve citizen engagement.

IBM Acquires Manta Software Inc.

October 24, 2023

Data & Analytics

IBM has acquired Manta Software Inc., a Prague-based data lineage platform, to strengthen its data and AI governance capabilities across watsonx.ai, watsonx.data and watsonx.governance. Financial terms were not disclosed; Manta’s technology will provide deeper data lineage and provenance visibility to improve model explainability and regulatory compliance.

IBM Acquires Sentaca to Boost Hybrid Cloud and 5G Consulting

February 1, 2022

Telecommunications

IBM has acquired Sentaca, a Boston-based telecom-focused cloud consulting and professional services firm, to accelerate its hybrid cloud consulting capabilities and strengthen its telco/5G offerings. Sentaca will join IBM Consulting’s Hybrid Cloud Services to help communications service providers and media companies modernize on multiple cloud platforms and drive new revenue streams.

IBM to Acquire Turbonomic

April 29, 2021

Software

IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire Turbonomic, a Boston-based Application Resource Management (ARM) and Network Performance Management (NPM) software provider. The acquisition expands IBM’s hybrid cloud and AI capabilities by adding Turbonomic’s AIOps-driven optimization and observability technology to IBM’s Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps and Instana offerings.

Nimble Gravity Acquires Fog Solutions

August 11, 2025

Data & Analytics

Nimble Gravity, a Denver-based data and AI consultancy, has acquired Fog Solutions, a U.S.-based data and AI firm known for Microsoft Azure and Databricks expertise. The deal brings about 50 data and AI experts into Nimble Gravity’s team — expanding capabilities in cloud-native data platforms and AI delivery and increasing the combined headcount to roughly 250.