Cadence Design Systems is a leading supplier of "Electronic Design Automation" (EDA) tools for semiconductor design. EDA jobs typically need thousands of CPUs, terabytes of storage, and increasingly leverage AI. Data consistency, IP protection, security, compliance, and performance are critical. Cadence and IBM have jointly developed secure, highly performant solution patterns for Cadence tools such as Cerebrus (AI/ML Infused), Xcellium & Innovus on IBM Cloud. Further, IBM Cloud is seamlessly integrated with Cadence Palladium and Protium hardware offering Emulation as a Service. This symbiosis of tools and Cloud with industry leading IBM LSF and Storage Scale software enables designers to get better results without worrying about job distribution, data movement and consistency.