At SUSECON in Prague on 21 April, SUSE announced SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA, a unified software stack that bundles SUSE AI and NVIDIA AI Enterprise into a single, prescriptive platform for building and running production AI workloads, with an emphasis on keeping sensitive data and model logic inside private infrastructure.
The announcement sits against an IDC FutureScape projection that by 2028, 60% of Global 2000 enterprises will operate AI factories as core infrastructure, meaning standardised, repeatable AI production environments rather than bespoke pilot setups. SUSE is positioning to be the sovereignty-focused default for enterprises that cannot or will not push regulated workloads into the hyperscalers.
The stack combines NVIDIA NIM microservices, open Nemotron models, NVIDIA NeMo for building and managing agents, NVIDIA Run:ai for GPU orchestration, NVIDIA Kubernetes Operators and NVIDIA NemoClaw for agent guardrails, with SUSE's K3s underpinning the reference stack for deploying autonomous AI agents. The management layer is either Rancher Prime or automated GitOps workflows, with pre-validated blueprints for common workloads intended to cut deployment time.
AI developers, users and operations teams are in a catch-22 with AI, they want to innovate quickly, but must secure these types of workloads, agents and processes, to ensure full auditability before fully running them in production. SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA gives them a one-stop solution for end-to-end stability, security and sovereignty, while benefitting from today's and future AI innovation.
From NVIDIA, the framing is regulatory.
Enterprise adoption of AI is accelerating, creating demand for infrastructure that ensures data control and governance for regulated workloads. Our collaboration with SUSE addresses this requirement by delivering an open, full-stack AI Factory built on a foundation of security and sovereignty.
A launch partner perspective came from Fsas Technologies Europe, a Fujitsu company.
Businesses are ready to use AI, but they need confidence that their data remains under control. As a launch partner, SUSE AI Factory provides a stable, prescriptive foundation to combine NVIDIA's unmatched computing power and AI platform with SUSE's secure, open source infrastructure. By easing the integration, the unified solution allows us to focus on applying Fujitsu's industry-leading expertise in delivering a sovereign, end-to-end solution that meets the strictest data governance standards.
The core features SUSE lists are turnkey blueprints; zero-trust security and observability built on SUSE Rancher Prime and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server; simplified deployment across edge, datacentre and cloud; and regulatory-grade sovereignty with a single support line across the full stack, including NVIDIA AI Enterprise components. That single-support point matters for enterprises that normally have to navigate multiple vendor relationships when incidents happen.
A preview of SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA is being demonstrated at SUSECON. General availability is expected later this year.
