The SUSE company has announced the launch of SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA. Built on SUSE AI and NVIDIA AI Enterprise, this unified software stack for enterprise AI is designed to seamlessly bridge the gap between local development and scalable enterprise production. Serving as a turnkey digital factory producing enterprise-grade AI capabilities, this solution empowers businesses by providing the tools necessary to assemble, deploy, manage and govern AI applications consistently and at scale in any environment, from the tactical edge to the central data center and public cloud.
Faster AI deployment
According to an IDC FutureScape report, “by 2028, 60% of Global 2000 companies will have AI factories as core AI infrastructure, and forward-thinking governments will follow suit, enabling AI deployment five times faster than without.” 1
Specifically designed to meet strict global digital sovereignty regulations, SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA gives organizations the ability to use NVIDIA’s most advanced AI technology, while keeping logic confidential and private data protected within their private infrastructure.
These technologies include NVIDIA NIM microservices, Nemotron open models, NVIDIA NeMo for agent creation and management, NVIDIA Run:ai for GPU orchestration, NVIDIA Kubernetes Operators, the NVIDIA OpenShell secure execution environment for agents, and NVIDIA NemoClaw, which leverages SUSE K3s technology, providing a reference stack for deploying more secure autonomous AI agents.
“AI developers, users, and operations teams are at a crossroads with AI: they want to innovate quickly, but they must secure these types of workloads, agents, and processes to ensure full auditability before fully deploying them into production,” said Thomas Di Giacomo, chief technology and product officer at SUSE. “SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA offers them a comprehensive solution that ensures end-to-end stability, security and sovereignty, while allowing them to benefit from current and future innovation in AI.”
“Enterprise adoption of AI is accelerating, driving demand for infrastructure that ensures data control and governance for regulated workloads,” said John Fanelli, vice president of Enterprise Software at NVIDIA. “Our collaboration with SUSE addresses this need by offering an open, full-stack AI Factory, built on the pillars of security and sovereignty.”
AI ready for production, without added complexity
SUSE AI Factory is a comprehensive, automated software stack that standardizes how AI applications are deployed and run. Users can build and test applications in a sandbox environment, while platform teams manage deployment through a unified Rancher-based interface or automated GitOps workflows for large-scale management. This approach reduces setup time and allows teams to move from concept to production more quickly, reducing operational expenses and eliminating the need to manage disparate tools.
SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA is designed to meet the fundamental requirements of enterprise AI by:
- Pre-configured and ready-to-use (turnkey) architectures: The platform simplifies end-to-end stack complexity by providing tightly integrated, pre-validated architectural templates for common use cases and workloads. Enterprises can build on these templates, combining NVIDIA and SUSE components into custom workloads, accelerating time to value.
- Zero-Trust Security and Observability: SUSE extends the inherent value of SUSE AI and its underlying execution environments, SUSE Rancher Prime and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, directly to AI workloads based on NVIDIA technology. By wrapping NVIDIA deployments in zero-trust security guardrails and governance frameworks, the platform ensures that the underlying AI infrastructure remains stable, highly predictable, and protected from emerging risks.
- Simplicity of implementation and life cycle: A unified user experience simplifies the deployment and management of AI workloads, regardless of where they are deployed and at what scale, from local developer workstations to isolated edge clusters.
- Sovereignty and unified support: Organizations maintain full control over their physical infrastructure, data and models to comply with rigorous regulatory mandates, such as the EU AI Law. To ensure a frictionless business experience, SUSE provides a single point of accountability across the entire infrastructure, including NVIDIA AI Enterprise components.
SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA offers a comprehensive solution that ensures end-to-end stability, security and sovereignty
“Organizations are ready to use AI, but they need to be confident that their data remains under their control,” said Udo Würtz, technical director at Fsas Technologies Europe, a Fujitsu company. “As a launch partner, SUSE AI Factory provides a stable and prescriptive foundation to combine NVIDIA’s unrivaled computing power and AI platform with SUSE’s secure, open source infrastructure. By facilitating integration, the unified solution allows us to focus on applying Fujitsu’s industry-leading expertise to deliver a comprehensive, sovereign solution that meets the highest data governance standards.”
