IBM, in partnership with Red Hat, is offering two new managed services, Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service on IBM Cloud—to help enterprises accelerate AI adoption and run security-forward, scalable and predictable virtualization environments.
Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud, with built-in governance controls, is designed to help clients reliably integrate real-time AI inferencing directly into their production workflows across hybrid cloud environments, according to the companies.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service on IBM Cloud provides a managed path to help clients migrate and run virtual machines (VMs) securely and at scale.
With these new offerings, IBM continues to provide clients with the full spectrum of Red Hat managed platform offerings to help accelerate hybrid cloud adoption, according to IBM.
Powered by Red Hat AI and delivered on IBM Cloud’s enterprise grade infrastructure, Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud is delivered as a managed service designed to span developer teams and agents. It is built to enable organizations to standardize the orchestration, performance and governance of AI models across the enterprise while freeing developers and platform teams to focus on delivering the value-added applications and services their clients need.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service on IBM Cloud is a managed virtualization service that can help enterprises migrate and operate VM-based workloads on Red Hat OpenShift with Kubernetes-based infrastructure, automated lifecycle management and a consistent foundation toward containerization and application modernization.
These new services build on IBM’s existing managed offerings across Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat AI.?
“These new managed services are the next step in our work with IBM to help enterprises drive innovation in the era of AI with an open, consistent hybrid cloud platform. By bringing Red Hat AI Inference and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service to IBM Cloud, we are empowering clients to modernize at their own pace while preparing for an AI-driven future,” said Ashesh Badani, senior vice president and chief product officer, Red Hat.
Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud is an enterprise-ready, fully managed inference service designed to empower clients to run production-grade AI models without the complexity of managing GPUs, infrastructure or AI platforms. It brings together Red Hat AI’s high-performance inference engine with IBM Cloud’s enterprise-grade capabilities to help enterprises deploy AI models built for consistent performance and predictable cost.
With many enterprises reassessing their virtualization strategies and seeking more predictable economics and a clearer path to upgrading VMs, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service on IBM Cloud delivers a managed, enterprise-ready virtualization platform purpose-built for hybrid cloud environments.
Backed by IBM Technology Expert Labs, IBM Consulting, Red Hat Services, and global system integrator partners, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service on IBM Cloud helps enterprises migrate at scale and mitigate risk to accelerate time to value.
IBM manages the platform lifecycle so organizations can offload the operational burden of running their own virtualization infrastructure and free IT teams to focus on the virtual machines, applications, and workloads themselves rather than the platform underneath them.
Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud will be generally available on May 22, 2026. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service on IBM Cloud is in limited availability and is expected to be generally available in June 2026.
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