IBM announced two new managed services – Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation Service on IBM Cloud – to help enterprises accelerate AI adoption and run security-forward, scalable and predictable virtualisation environments. Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud, with built-in governance controls, is designed to help clients reliably integrate real-time AI inferencing directly into their production workflows across hybrid cloud environments. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation Service on IBM Cloud provides a managed path to help clients migrate and run virtual machines (VMs) securely and at scale. With these new offerings, IBM continues to provide clients with the full spectrum of Red Hat managed platform offerings to help accelerate hybrid cloud adoption.

As enterprises move beyond AI experimentation and into production, IBM is delivering a cloud foundation built on Red Hat technology to help clients innovate with speed and predictability to manage the compounding inference demand. Powered by Red Hat AI and delivered on IBM Cloud’s enterprise-grade infrastructure, Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud is delivered as a managed service designed to span developer teams and agents. It is built to enable organisations to standardise the orchestration, performance and governance of AI models across the enterprise while freeing developers and platform teams to focus on delivering the value-added applications and services their clients need. Additionally, organisations are managing the need to migrate to purpose-built virtualisation environments that are optimised for operational stability, security, compliance and predictable costs. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation Service on IBM Cloud is a managed virtualisation service that can help enterprises migrate and operate VM-based workloads on Red Hat OpenShift with Kubernetes-based infrastructure, automated lifecycle management and a consistent foundation toward containerization and application modernisation. These new services build on IBM’s existing managed offerings across Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat AI.  

“Enterprises are eager to operationalise AI, but the gap between pilot and production may hold them back. With Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud, we’re giving clients a managed platform that is built for real workloads, not just experiments. At the same time, our new virtualisation offering on IBM Cloud is enabling enterprises to migrate to a resilient and security-focused virtualisation environment while giving them the flexibility to adopt Red Hat OpenShift at their own pace for future AI workloads and containerization,” said Jason McGee, CTO, IBM Cloud.   

“These new managed services are the next step in our work with IBM to help enterprises drive innovation in the era of AI with an open, consistent hybrid cloud platform. By bringing Red Hat AI Inference and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation Service to IBM Cloud, we are empowering clients to modernise at their own pace while preparing for an AI-driven future,” said Ashesh Badani, senior vice president and chief product officer, Red Hat.