Red Hat & NVIDIA unveil hybrid cloud solution for AI agents

Red Hat has announced integration with the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design, aiming to facilitate the deployment of agentic AI systems across hybrid cloud environments.

The collaboration utilises NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers and NVIDIA Blackwell B200 systems, running on the Red Hat AI portfolio including Red Hat OpenShift AI, to support advanced generative and agentic AI workloads. Red Hat states that this move will provide enterprises with a flexible software foundation to deploy, operate and scale AI agents reliably.

Chris Wright, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Global Engineering at Red Hat emphasised the significance of this integration, saying: "AI agents represent the near-term future of enterprise AI, where fast-moving, independent models can speed through any number of tasks to free organizations for higher level innovation. Red Hat OpenShift AI is an ideal platform to run these workloads delivered by NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated designs, offering the scale, flexibility and power necessary to deliver product-ready generative AI across the hybrid cloud."

Red Hat's integration will enable NVIDIA Blackwell architecture support across Red Hat AI platforms, with a reference architecture for the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory developed on Red Hat OpenShift AI. This architecture has undergone full verification and performance-testing to address the growing demand for scaling AI agents. The company highlights OpenShift AI's capabilities for consistent deployment and management of AI agents, leveraging vLLM-based inference, as well as enhanced observability and monitoring features.

The reference architecture makes use of NVIDIA NIM microservices accessible through the application catalogue, permitting organisations to assemble a fully validated AI software stack. This design allows operation of on-premises AI factories equipped with NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers and NVIDIA Blackwell B200 systems.

Justin Boitano, Vice President, Enterprise AI at NVIDIA said: "NVIDIA and Red Hat are pioneering the future of enterprise AI by integrating Red Hat OpenShift AI with the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design. Together, we're creating a more seamless, full-stack platform that IT can use as the foundation for transforming business data into actionable agentic AI intelligence."

Red Hat stresses that its enterprise AI approach combines open source technologies, the adaptability of a hybrid cloud model, and partnership with multiple stakeholders across the AI development ecosystem. The company collaborates with hardware providers and system integrators, aiming to support customers with comprehensive AI solutions that match specific business requirements.

This broader ecosystem-centric position, Red Hat notes, enables wider adoption of tools like the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design, and is intended to meet customers' needs at various stages of the AI development lifecycle, both in the cloud and on-premises infrastructures.