IBM tackles cloud, AI sovereignty with new platform

Built on Red Hat’s open source foundation, Sovereign Core aims to inherently provide control over the environment.

Dive Brief: 

• IBM on Thursday launched Sovereign Core, a purpose-built software platform letting customers create, deploy and manage cloud and AI workloads under an organization’s own authority. 
• Instead of adding sovereignty controls to existing architectures, IBM Sovereign Core “makes sovereignty an inherent property of the software itself,” the company said. Regulatory risks are pushing CIOs to adjust their infrastructure and innovation strategies to consider local data or sovereignty requirements. 
• “It is addressing what we’ve seen for a lot of corporations, a lot of CIOs, is a major challenge,” Rick Villars, group VP of worldwide research at IDC, told CIO Dive. The platform will be available in tech preview starting in February, with full general availability planned for mid-year.