Introducing IBM Sovereign Core

Purpose-built sovereign software for enterprises, governments and service providers to create, deploy and manage AI-ready environments.

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Built for sovereignty. Designed for innovation.
 

Pre-architected software delivering sovereignty you can prove - providing the autonomy and control to run sovereign workloads and AI quickly, with cloud-like agility, built-in compliance and streamlined, scalable deployment.

 
Deployed inside your sovereign environment (on-prem, service provider-operated or isolated/air-gapped)
Customer-operated control plane so organizations maintain direct operational authority
Built-in identity, keys, logging, compliance evidence
AI inference and agents run entirely inside the IBM Sovereign Core boundary
Capabilities

Sovereignty is enforced architecturally, not contractually. Control does not depend on a provider-managed control plane or policy overlays — it is embedded directly into the software.

Operationalizes sovereignty for the AI era by enforcing where inference happens, who controls models, and how decisions are logged and traced — inside the IBM Sovereign Core boundary. This is not just data residency for AI; it is runtime governance and accountability.

Enables fast, repeatable deployments through automation, allowing organizations to expand sovereign capabilities with multi-tenant capabilities and accelerate time-to-value within a matter of days of deployment.

Benefits

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Reduce technology dependencies

Maintain autonomy and control as regulations or providers change, enabled by an open-source foundation built on Red Hat OpenShift.
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Produce audit-ready evidence automatically

Built-in identity and security automation, with pre-built accelerators for applicable regional regulations to eliminate manual evidence collection.
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Run AI within your region

Deploy LLM inference and agents inside your sovereign boundary using a curated, self-provisioned toolset with ready-to-use agents and Project Bob (IBM's AI-powered development environment).
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Accelerate sovereign deployment

Rapidly install and configure a sovereign control plane with automated setup of embedded components for security, compliance, and resiliency.
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Deploy with hardware optionality

Bring your own hardware and deploy across your choice of environments from isolated to regulated settings requiring strict control and minimal external access.
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Extend existing investments

Leverage existing infrastructure, platforms and operational tooling across on-premises, in-region cloud, or partner-operated environments.

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