SUSE has announced a series of AI and infrastructure partnerships at SUSECON 2026 in Prague, including a joint AI platform with NVIDIA, an expanded agentic AI partner ecosystem, and new research showing a significant gap between enterprise intent and execution on digital sovereignty.

SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA

The centrepiece announcement is SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA, a unified software stack designed to let enterprises assemble, deploy, and govern AI applications across data centres and edge environments. The platform is built around digital sovereignty and zero-trust security principles, allowing organisations to run NVIDIA’s AI technology while keeping sensitive logic and proprietary data within their own infrastructure.

In a separate partnership, Switch and SUSE are combining SUSE AI with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries to power digital twin systems and AI factories on a shared open-source platform, enabling complex AI models and high-fidelity simulations to run on the same shared infrastructure.

Agentic AI and the MCP ecosystem

SUSE has also established an agentic AI partner ecosystem through integrations with Amazon Quick, Fsas Technologies, n8n, Revenium, and Stacklok. The integrations embed MCP-driven automation directly into Linux and Kubernetes infrastructure, enabling what SUSE describes as self-optimising IT systems that balance rapid deployment with enterprise-grade governance.

Additional announcements include a partnership with Cloudbase Solutions to automate zero-downtime migration of VMware and public cloud workloads — including SAP environments — to SUSE Virtualization, and the addition of the SUSE portfolio to the Oracle Marketplace.

The sovereignty gap in Asia Pacific

SUSE’s 2026 research found that 98% of enterprises consider digital sovereignty a strategic priority, yet only 52% have moved from planning to active execution. The findings are particularly relevant for Asia Pacific, where data residency regulations are tightening alongside accelerating AI adoption.

“Regulatory requirements around data residency are tightening, AI adoption is accelerating, and boards are asking harder questions about who ultimately controls their infrastructure. The announcements we’ve made at SUSECON give organisations in this region a concrete path to address all three without having to compromise on any of them.” — Josep Garcia, General Manager Asia Pacific, SUSE