Written by Elpida Tzortzatos and Marcel Mitran
The Challenge: Agile, Scalable and Secure AI
As AI adoption continues to become an imperative for accelerating business growth, enterprises continue to face key headwinds deploying AI solutions. In particular, for sensitive and regulated workloads addressing privacy, compliance, and data sovereignty requirements often creates friction when integrating AI into business operations. Beyond this, scaling AI infused workloads in production can put significant strain on IT infrastructure and costs. The latter makes it hard to deliver AI-powered solutions with speed.
Enterprises need a solution that scales AI efficiently and with agility, reduces latency, and keeps critical data protected — without sacrificing performance or control.
The Foundation: IBM LinuxONE
At the center of this transformation is IBM LinuxONE, engineered to deliver unmatched scalability, security, and efficiency while enabling AI where your data resides. LinuxONE’s highly scalable design makes it ideal for large scale consolidating data and application serving workloads that are AI-infused while keeping IT costs, datacenter footprint and power in-check. In addition, LinuxONE’s enterprise-grade security features, including quantum-safe encryption, confidential computing, highly secure HSM and hardware-based isolation, ensure the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive data, making it the ideal platform for secure AI adoption particularly in the context of regulated and sovereign workloads.
The Spyre Advantage
With the addition of the groundbreaking purpose-built Spyre accelerator, IBM LinuxONE takes enterprise AI to an entirely new level. Built with 32 advanced accelerator cores, 25.6 billion transistors, and 14 miles of high-speed interconnects, Spyre delivers outstanding AI performance, enabling scalable, high-performance and generative AI for application and data serving workloads.
Spyre on LinuxONE empowers enterprises to:
● Achieve Faster Time-to-Value: Accelerate AI-based insights with cutting-edge performance designed for next-generation AI workloads.
● Scale AI on Demand: Cluster multiple Spyre cards to add hundreds of accelerator cores within a single LinuxONE frame, adapting effortlessly as AI needs evolve.
● Bring AI to Where Data Lives: Keeping sensitive data secure, compliant, and under your control, while minimizing data movement and reducing latency.
Together, Spyre and LinuxONE provide the secure, high-performance foundation enterprises need to confidently integrate AI into business operations — faster, safer, and at scale.
The Solution: Red Hat OpenShift AI on LinuxONE with Spyre
To maximize developer productivity and operational flexibility, Red Hat OpenShift AI on IBM LinuxONE, - currently in tech preview - integrates seamlessly with IBM LinuxONE and Spyre, forming a unified platform for AI development and deployment. This powerful combination enables organizations to:
1. Enhance Data Confidentiality: Protect sensitive data with LinuxONE’s industry-leading security, including quantum-safe encryption, confidential computing and hardware-based isolation.
2. Leverage Industry Standard Tools: Use Red Hat OpenShift AI to build, align, deploy and manage AI workloads with many of the open source tools and frameworks teams already know. By combining the flexibility of Kubernetes-native AI tooling with the resilience and security of LinuxONE, teams can iterate faster and deploy AI models with greater confidence.
3. Co-locate AI and Data: Run AI workloads where enterprise data resides, minimizing latency and avoiding costly, risky data movement.
4. Optimize Infrastructure: Take advantage of massive VM and container consolidation on LinuxONE to lower infrastructure costs, power consumption, and data center footprint
5. Seamless Integration with Enterprise Workloads: Red Hat OpenShift AI enables AI services to be embedded directly into existing applications running on LinuxONE, accelerating intelligent automation and decision-making across the business.
6. AI Governance and Trust: With built-in support for model tracking, lineage, and auditability, Red Hat OpenShift AI on LinuxONE helps enterprises meet AI governance requirements and build trust in AI outcomes.
Unlocking New Possibilities
The combination of Spyre, IBM LinuxONE, and Red Hat OpenShift AI opens new opportunities for enterprises to deploy AI faster, smarter, and more securely:
● Accelerated AI Innovation — Streamline development and deployment cycles, bringing AI-powered products and services to market faster.
● Enterprise-Grade Security and Compliance — Maintain full control over sensitive data, meet regulatory mandates, and reduce the risk of breaches or penalties.
● This integrated platform is ideal for industries with stringent compliance needs such as financial services, healthcare, and government where data residency, auditability, and security are non-negotiable.
The Bottom Line
The combination of IBM LinuxONE, Spyre accelerators, and Red Hat OpenShift AI represents a huge leap forward for enterprise AI. By addressing the biggest challenges — faster time-to-value, stronger security, and AI where data lives — this solution enables organizations to unlock the potential of generative AI, drive innovation, and accelerate business growth.
Learn more: ibm.com/linuxone-5