SUSE, the leading sovereign open infrastructure company, has introduced new capabilities enabling enterprises to adopt Private Enterprise AI while maintaining complete operational control, security, and governance over their systems. Available with SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA, the release introduces zero-trust agent security via the NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture alongside SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for NVIDIA.
SUSE has introduced new capabilities with SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA, including zero-trust agent security via the NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture.
SLES for NVIDIA gives immediate access to NVIDIA's latest hardware innovations, including the NVIDIA Vera Rubin infrastructure.
The OpenShell Reference Architecture combines NVIDIA Vera Rubin for model inference, Vera CPUs running OpenShell for agent execution, and BlueField-4 DPUs running DOCA-powered Sentry.
SUSE is a launch partner for the OpenShell Reference Architecture.
Capabilities include active zero-trust governance, data sovereignty and compliance, and a predictable cost model with private model serving via NVIDIA NIM microservices.
General availability for SLES for NVIDIA is scheduled for November 2026.
"As autonomous AI agents and next-generation silicon advancements reshape enterprise operations, AI sovereignty becomes non-negotiable," said Dr. Thomas Di Giacomo, Chief Technology and Product Officer at SUSE. "By combining enterprise Linux engineered for bleeding-edge hardware with active agent security, SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA OpenShell equips IT teams to scale AI rapidly while keeping proprietary data, system availability, and budgets strictly under their control."
"Using SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA in our environment gives us a clear path toward becoming a truly cognitive government," said José Luis Huerta Santos, Planning and IT Architecture, Secretariat of Finance of Guanajuato. "Having a sovereign, open source foundation allows us to rapidly evaluate AI workloads while ensuring our citizens' data, infrastructure availability, and operational costs remain strictly under our control."
SLES for NVIDIA empowers enterprises to accelerate AI workloads with immediate access to NVIDIA's latest hardware innovations. As a proven, trusted, enterprise-grade Linux foundation, SLES for NVIDIA is designed to scale seamlessly to rack-scale architectures, bridging rapid silicon innovation with strict operational stability and security.
Key benefits include:
Accelerates Day-Zero Hardware Adoption: Runs AI workloads on cutting-edge NVIDIA silicon immediately while leveraging a trusted enterprise SLES 16 base.
Eliminates Production Deployment Friction: Bridges development and production into a unified enterprise footprint, ensuring complete compatibility without requiring replatforming or rewriting code.
Consolidates Enterprise Support: Delivers single-source technical support backed by continuous automated validation across the operating system, Linux kernel, GPU driver stack, and Kubernetes runtime.
As businesses increasingly deploy autonomous AI agents to execute complex workflows, they need security policies that control access, protect credentials, and restrict untrusted network activity. By leveraging Kubernetes sandboxing and API gateways alongside OpenShell, SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA provides a governed environment that controls agent execution while maintaining peak performance, including:
Active Zero-Trust Governance: Supervisor proxies continually inspect agent traffic, authorize access according to defined policies, and block unauthorized network requests to help prevent code or data exfiltration.
Data Sovereignty and Compliance: Supports agent code execution within the corporate perimeter, with access policies that restrict transfers of enterprise IP and proprietary datasets outside private infrastructure.
Predictable Cost Model: Private model serving, leveraging NVIDIA NIM microservices, eliminates third-party per-token public API fees with predictable capacity-based infrastructure investments.
According to Gartner, "by 2027, 35% of countries will be locked into region-specific AI platforms using proprietary contextual data." Building on its existing relationship with SUSE, Mexico's Guanajuato Secretariat of Finance is leveraging SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA to validate sovereign AI capabilities to build a cognitive government for its citizens. By integrating SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA into its broader SLES and SUSE Multi-Linux Manager strategy, Guanajuato maintains full data sovereignty, centralized management, and compliance across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.
About SUSE
SUSE is the leading sovereign open infrastructure company where hybrid AI runs. Backed by 30 years of community collaboration, we transform open source innovation into secure, enterprise-grade solutions for mission-critical environments. Built on choice and neutrality, SUSE is the only platform that manages any Linux and Kubernetes distribution. Through our open infrastructure platform and partner ecosystem, IT leaders gain control over their data, budgets, and sovereign AI strategies. With SUSE, choice happens.
