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IBM launches Sovereign Core for AI-ready sovereign environments

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IBM introduced IBM Sovereign Core, software designed to let enterprises, governments and service providers build, deploy and manage AI-ready sovereign environments, citing a need for organizations to retain control over their technology infrastructure.

The company said organizations around the world are facing a growing imperative driven by evolving regulatory requirements and the need for auditable governance as Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads expand. Gartner predicted that more than 75% of all enterprises would have a digital sovereignty strategy by 2030, often involving sovereign cloud approaches.

The product description stated sovereignty would be an inherent property of the software and listed capabilities that keep operational authority within a customer's chosen boundary. Those capabilities included a customer-operated control plane; in-boundary identity and keys for authentication, authorization and encryption; ongoing compliance enablement with generated operational evidence and audit trails; governed local AI inference on Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) clusters; and mechanisms to deploy isolated, multitenant environments with hardware choice.

IBM said Sovereign Core was built on Red Hat's open source foundation and could be deployed in on-premises (on-prem) data centers, supported in-region cloud infrastructure or through IT Service Providers. The announcement named initial European partnerships with Cegeka in Belgium and the Netherlands and Computacenter in Germany to provide in-country operational independence and compliance management.

“With IBM Sovereign Core, we can focus on configuring the software to each client's specific use cases rather than spending months piecing together disparate components and validating sovereignty controls,” said Christian Schreiner, Unit Director Cloud, Computacenter. “It can significantly accelerate our time-to-value and let us help clients who previously couldn't consider AI solutions at all.” Starting in February, IBM Sovereign Core will be available in tech preview, with full General Availability (GA) planned for mid-year 2026, and additional capabilities will be introduced at GA.

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