IBM’s acquisition engine is on full throttle as it unveils plans to buy its 11th company over the past 12 months – DevOps and Kubernetes startup BoxBoat. The news comes just weeks after IBM closed its purchase of application and network performance management star Turbonomic. IBM has already spent millions in 2021 acquiring Salesforce specialists 7Summits and Waeg; hybrid cloud consulting firm Taos; myInvenio for AI automation; and container and Kubernetes security specialist StackRox. Since July 2020, IBM has also purchased hybrid cloud consultant Nordcloud; WDG for AI automation; SAP specialist TruQua Enterprises; as well as AIOps standout Instana. In arguably the biggest IT acquisition of 2019, IBM acquired Red Hat for $34 billion.