Not April Fools: More Price Increases For Power Systems Coming

March 10, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

IBM is at it again, raising prices for parts of the Power Systems stack and related hardware and software technologies often used with the platform.

In announcement letter AD25-0860, which came out on March 3, Big Blue raised prices on various Power Systems and storage products and across various geographic regions.

Another part of the price change was to rebalance against the U.S. dollar foreign exchange rate. IBM did a similar price harmonization across geographies in November 2011, and then did it again on September 3. In the latest announcement, eighteen different currencies in the Asia/Pacific and EMEA regions …