IBM Sovereign Core

Run AI across hybrid environments with sovereignty you can demonstrate

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Overview

Independence without compromise

IBM Sovereign Core enables enterprises, governments and service providers to deploy and operate AI-ready sovereign environments with full customer control over data, operations and governance.

Built on an open source foundation, IBM’s Statement of Direction1 for Sovereign Core outlines a commitment to open source for core components of the software foundation, reinforcing IBM’s commitment to openness, transparency and client choice.

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Operationalizing sovereignty
How AI sovereignty solves businesses’ need for control across models, data and infrastructures.
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Upcoming webinar: Sovereignty for IT
How IBM Sovereign Core empowers Managed and IT Service teams to deliver provable sovereignty.
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Redefining Sovereign AI
How to build and govern AI that respects control and openness—without sacrificing scale. Read the report.

Features

Sovereignty fully enabled

Map over 160 global compliance frameworks to your controls, view verifiable evidence, identify vulnerabilities, enable remediation workflows, and support policy enforcement. Continuously track compliance with a unified view of potential risks.

See the difference

Deploy ready-to-run sovereign software in days to establish a sovereign boundary on your preferred infrastructure of choice, on-prem or in the cloud with out-of-the-box observability, identity and access management, logging, and traceability through a customer-operated unified control plane keeps data, workloads, and operations in-boundary.

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Access a catalog of pre-built AI agents or add your own. Maintain operational control over AI inferencing and workflows. Actions taken are logged with jurisdictional controls. Governance is applied as AI models are used and inference occurs.

Use cases

Trusted deployment at scale

IBM Sovereign Core is ideal for organizations that need to implement sovereign platforms across environments, while maintaining critical regulatory compliance, AI governance, and operational control.
Managed service providers

MSPs need to deliver sovereign cloud services that can be tailored to specific clients. Allows MSPs to customize without re-platforming via a catalog of differentiated services, applications and AI capabilities based on their needs.
Regulated banking operations

Financial institutions must be able to utilize sensitive data for AI while staying compliant. Enables them to use their AI systems within a contained environment where data, models and operations are subject to regulatory boundaries.
Public sector governance

Governments and public agencies wanting to modernize their digital services are facing strict sovereignty requirements that limit how data can be used for AI. Executes these updates within a controlled, sovereign environment.

Resources

Go beyond a core understanding

Still have questions? Find the answers in this curated set of verified resources that include catalogs, demos, briefs and more.
Compliance frameworks

Discover more than 160 compliance frameworks that enable you to map compliance requirements against a broad set of global legal, regulatory and industry standards.

Ecosystem catalog

Peruse a selection of certified IBM and partner products and services that are ready for sovereign environments.
Pre-built AI agents

Explore AI agent offerings available on demand in the IBM Sovereign Core catalog, designed for sovereign enterprise workflows with policy-aware controls that balance cost, speed and accuracy.
Next gen digital sovereignty

Why digital sovereignty is becoming a growth engine for MSPs and how to bank on this opportunity.
IBM Sovereign Core

Find out how IBM Sovereign Core delivers independence with verifiable control across data, operations, and technology so organizations can scale AI across hybrid cloud environments.
Next steps

Learn how you can maintain control, prove compliance and govern AI within your sovereign environment.

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Footnotes

See IBM’s full Statement of Direction for Sovereign Core for details on scope, principles, and commitments.