IBM, announced two new managed services – Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service on IBM Cloud – to help enterprises accelerate AI adoption and run security-forward, scalable and predictable virtualization 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 Virtualization 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 organizations to standardize 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, organizations are managing the need to migrate to purpose-built virtualization environments that are optimized for operational stability, security, compliance and predictable costs. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service on IBM Cloud is a managed virtualization 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 modernization. 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.
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“Enterprises are eager to operationalize 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 virtualization offering on IBM Cloud is enabling enterprises to migrate to a resilient and security-focused virtualization 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 Virtualization Service to IBM Cloud, we are empowering clients to modernize at their own pace while preparing for an AI-driven future,” said Ashesh Badani, senior vice president and chief product officer, Red Hat.
Helping Enterprises Scale Real-Time Inference Workloads Built for Consistent Performance and Predictable Cost
Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud is an enterprise-ready, fully managed inference service designed to empower clients to run production-grade AI models without the complexity of managing GPUs, infrastructure or AI platforms. It brings together Red Hat AI’s high-performance inference engine with IBM Cloud’s enterprise-grade capabilities to help enterprises deploy AI models built for consistent performance and predictable cost. This approach helps organizations move from pilot deployments to steady-state production usage across a wide range of models and hardware without the cost volatility that real-world scaling requirements can bring. Operated and maintained by IBM Cloud, the service demonstrates how Red Hat AI can operate at enterprise scale with the security capabilities, reliability, and performance required for production workloads. IBM Cloud is the only cloud that provides a fully managed Red Hat AI add-on providing access to the full capabilities of Red Hat AI.
SOURCE: IBM