IBM open standards support
Cloud · 8 standards supported · 4 from adopter lists · read Nov 5, 2026
International Business Machines Corporation, doing business as IBM, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries.
AI agents1
Agent2Agent
IBM is an A2A protocol partner, per the A2A partners page.
Telemetry and lineage1
OpenTelemetry
IBM takes OpenTelemetry data natively over OTLP, per the OpenTelemetry vendors registry.
Table formats3
Apache Iceberg
IBM serves an Apache Iceberg REST catalog, per the Apache Iceberg vendors page and its own documentation.
Delta Lake
IBM works with Delta Lake tables, per its own documentation.
Apache Hudi
IBM reads and writes Apache Hudi tables, per its own documentation.
File and memory formats2
Apache Arrow
IBM serves Arrow Flight SQL, per its own documentation.
Apache Parquet
IBM reads and writes Parquet files, per its own documentation.
Identity and sign-in1
OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
IBM is OpenID Certified, per the OpenID Foundation certified implementations.
History
Apache Iceberg
IBM supports Apache Iceberg, per the Apache Iceberg vendors page.
About IBM
International Business Machines Corporation, doing business as IBM, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is a publicly traded company and one of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
- Status
- Public
- Headquarters
- Armonk, United States
- Founded
- 1911
- Website
- ibm.com
No public evidence found for
- AI agents
- MCP
- Model APIs and runtimes
- OpenAI API, ONNX
- Telemetry and lineage
- Lineage
- Query languages
- SQL:2023
- Identity and sign-in
- SPIFFE, FIDO2
- Provenance and supply chain
- C2PA, SPDX, CycloneDX
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