IBM boosts cloud computing push with $11 billion Confluent deal

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Updated Mon, December 8, 2025 astatine 7:19 AM CST 1 min read

Dec 8 (Reuters) - IBM (IBM) said connected Monday it volition bargain information infrastructure institution Confluent (CFLT) successful a woody valued astatine $11 billion, ‌ramping up its cloud-computing offerings to capitalize connected an ‌AI-driven request boom.

Big Blue's shares fell successful premarket trading.

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The connection terms of $31 per stock represents an astir 50% premium ⁠to Confluent's closing ‌price of $20.73 connected October 7 - the past trading league earlier Reuters archetypal ‍reported its exploration of a merchantability aft attracting acquisition interest.

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IBM has doubled down connected M&As to beef up its unreality and bundle products - ‌a high-growth, high-margin country - arsenic customers put successful upgrading integer infrastructure to location analyzable artificial quality applications.

In April past year, IBM bought unreality steadfast HashiCorp successful a woody valued astatine $6.4 ⁠billion, arsenic the institution emphasizes inorganic maturation nether CEO Arvind Krishna.

Mountain View, California-based Confluent provides exertion needed to negociate massive, real-time ‍data streams ⁠for artificial quality models.

IBM volition money the woody with currency connected manus and the ⁠transaction is expected to adjacent by the mediate of ‌2026.

(Reporting by Arsheeya Bajwa successful Bengaluru; ‌Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)