IBM Introduces New Software to Address Growing Digital Sovereignty Imperative
IBM has announced IBM Sovereign Core, an AI-ready, sovereign-enabled software platform designed to help enterprises, governments, and service providers build and manage sovereign environments. As regulatory requirements tighten and AI workloads increase sovereignty concerns, organizations are under growing pressure to maintain full operational control and auditable governance over their infrastructure.
Digital sovereignty extends beyond data residency to include control over operations, data access, workload execution, and the jurisdiction in which AI models run. However, many organizations lack a practical way to modernize or re-host applications under sovereign control with continuous compliance reporting. Reflecting this shift, Gartner predicts that more than 75% of enterprises will have a digital sovereignty strategy by 2030.
“Businesses are facing growing pressure to innovate while meeting tightening regulatory requirements and recognizing the importance of controlling how sensitive data and AI workloads are accessed and operated,” said Priya Srinivasan, General Manager, IBM Software Products. “With IBM Sovereign Core, we are helping clients move faster and with confidence.”
Sovereignty as a Software Foundation
IBM Sovereign Core is designed to deliver verifiable sovereignty and full operational control, enabling organizations to build, deploy, and manage cloud-native and AI workloads under their own authority and within chosen jurisdictions. Built on Red Hat’s open source foundation, the software embeds sovereignty directly into the platform rather than adding it as a layered control on existing architectures.
Organizations can gain:
- Customer-operated control plane: organizations maintain direct operational authority over software operations, deployment decisions, and system configurations without intermediation from a vendor not in region.
- In-boundary identity and keys: all authentication, authorization, encryption keys, and access management remain within jurisdiction boundaries under customer control.
- Ongoing compliance enablement and generated evidence of continuous compliance: comprehensive operational data, system telemetry, and audit trails are generated, stored, and managed within the sovereign boundary, including automated identity.
- Governed AI inference: AI model deployment and hosting, local GPU clusters, local inference execution and agent operations occur under local governance with traceability and oversight, without exporting data to external providers.
- Ease of deployment: delivering sovereignty at scale with consistency and flexibility allowing organizations to stand up isolated environments with built-in multitenancy capabilities within a matter of days of deployment; choice of hardware and infrastructure.
Operational Independence Through Environment Choice
Customers can deploy IBM Sovereign Core in the environment of their choice – whether in on-premises data centers, supported in-region cloud infrastructure or through IT Service Providers. IBM is collaborating with IT Service Providers globally, starting with an initial rollout in Europe with Cegeka in Belgium and the Netherlands and Computacenter in Germany. These partnerships allow local operational independence and compliance management, while enabling IT Service Providers to offer differentiated sovereign services to enterprises preparing for and running AI-scale workloads.
Starting in February, IBM Sovereign Core will be available in tech preview, with full general availability planned for mid-year 2026. At GA, additional capabilities will be introduced.
Source: IBM
Rocket Software and K2view Partner to Accelerate Mainframe Modernization with Governed, AI-Ready Test Data for Testing, Analytics, and AI
Rocket Software has announced a strategic partnership with K2view, provider of the AI-ready Data Product Platform, to jointly deliver Enterprise Test Data Management (TDM) solutions for mainframe and other connected systems, accelerating modernization while adhering to data privacy regulations.
The collaboration brings together Rocket Software’s DataEdge virtualization technology for secure, real-time access to mainframe data with K2view’s advanced data product platform, providing test data management, masking, and synthetic data generation capabilities. Together, the offerings enable organizations to blend and govern data across mainframe and distributed systems, enabling development, testing, analytics, and AI teams to provision production-like, compliant test datasets on demand, without relying on brittle ETL pipelines or increasing unnecessary load on core systems.
Addressing critical modernization and AI challenges
Enterprises in highly regulated sectors, including banking, insurance, and financial services, face growing pressure to modernize applications, automate testing, and deliver AI-ready data, especially as 71% expect to undertake digital transformation initiatives over the next three years that will require compliance support, according to PwC’s 2025 Global Compliance Survey.
Rocket Software and K2view’s combined capabilities directly address these needs through:
- Accelerated delivery: Automated, on-demand test data provisioning to support CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows.
- Strengthened compliance: Consistent masking, synthetic data generation, and governance across all environments.
- Reduced risk and cost: Minimized mainframe workloads, fewer data copies, and lower operational exposure.
- AI-ready data: Trusted, governed datasets that accelerate analytics, machine learning model development, and AI-driven automation.
“All organizations are under pressure to protect sensitive data within their modernization and AI initiatives,” said Michael Curry, President of Data Modernization at Rocket Software. “This partnership provides our customers a safe, automated way to generate the test data they need, reducing strain on core systems and unlocking more value from core systems without introducing risk.”
Ronen Schwartz, CEO at K2view, said: “Enterprises need fast, compliant access to the data that runs their business—not only from mainframes but across every connected system. Together with Rocket Software, we’re giving organizations a unified way to use that cross-system data confidently for testing, analytics, and AI. This partnership reduces MIPS costs, strengthens governance, and improves software quality across the entire SDLC.”
Source: Rocket Software
BMC is recognized as a 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms
BMC has announced that it was named a Customers’ Choice in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms [1] report. Gartner defines Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms as encompassing solutions that empower organizations to manage and automate their entire technology stack, including workloads, workflows, resource provisioning, and data pipelines.
The Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice distinction is based on feedback and ratings from end-user professionals who have experience with the product or service. Companies who receive the “Customers’ Choice” designation have scores that meet or exceed the market average for both User Interest and Adoption, and Overall Experience.
According to the report, in addition to the Customers’ Choice distinction, BMC received:
- A 4.5 out of 5 Overall Rating, based on 49 peer reviews received in the 18 months prior to October 31, 2025.
- A 94% score, representing reviewers who were willing to recommend BMC.
“This recognition means so much to us, because it comes directly from our customers. Their voice guides every innovation we make, and we believe that this recognition reflects the partnership, trust, and collaboration we strive to build with them every day,” said Sofia Barbosa, chief customer officer, BMC. “We are grateful for their trust and deeply committed to continuing to earn it through innovation, reliability, and a relentless focus on their success.”
Source: BMC
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