SUSE, Infosys team up to securely scale enterprise AI adoption

Open source provider SUSE has announced a collaboration with Infosys, India's second-largest IT services firm, to create a new solution aimed at facilitating the adoption of AI for businesses of all sizes. This announcement was made during the SUSECON 2025 event held in Orlando, Florida this week.

This initiative builds on SUSE's long-standing partnership with Infosys, which help their customers in various domains including accelerating private cloud adoption, multi-Linux management, container as a service, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications.

The new solution will integrate SUSE AI, a secure open infrastructure platform designed for AI workloads, with Infosys's systems integration solutions based on its Topaz AI offerings. Infosys Topaz is an AI-first set of services, solutions, and platforms using generative AI technologies.

In a conversation with TechCircle, Abhinav Puri, General Manager of Portfolio Solutions & Services at SUSE, remarked that businesses face significant challenges when transitioning from AI experimentation to practical implementation and deployment. These include escalating costs, growing security and data privacy concerns related to AI, and rapid technological advancements often result in security being overlooked.

"Since no single technology provider can address all these issues, it is essential to leverage the strength of the global partner ecosystem to assist customers in overcoming these urgent challenges," Puri said on the partnership highlighting that "the integration of SUSE AI and Infosys Topaz AI offerings will equip customers with all the necessary tools to build, deploy, and scale AI applications tailored to their specific business requirements, while ensuring security and operational efficiency through GenAI technologies.

The collaboration between SUSE and Infosys also employs the AI Guardrails ethical and regulatory framework, combining the Infosys Responsible AI Toolkit with the SUSE AI platform.

Sanjeet Singh, who heads product management at SUSE explained that the AI Guardrails initiative integrates advanced ethical AI practices with the security and observability features of the SUSE platform, ensuring data privacy, regulatory compliance, and visibility into AI workloads.

That said, by making the Responsible AI toolkit open source, the companies can foster a collaborative ecosystem to tackle the complex issues of AI bias, transparency, and security, he added.

In November 2024, SUSE, like many others, introduced its AI solution: SUSE AI along with a significant rebranding effort. Unlike Red Hat's Lightspeed AI tool, which functions as an AI chatbot, SUSE AI serves as a secure platform designed for the deployment and operation of generative AI applications. On Thursday, SUSE introduced an upgraded SUSE AI platform that includes new observability tools, improved security, and support for agentic AI workflows. These enhancements aim to assist businesses in managing AI workloads, safeguarding data privacy, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Puri added that the company is also expanding SUSE AI Library for enterprises to make greater choice in real-time decision making with AI - specific to their business needs. 

Earlier in the day, Thomas Di Giacomo, Chief Technology and Product Officer at SUSE, emphasised in his keynote the risks associated with using AI concerning company data and the need for a security framework that encompasses various interconnected data layers, particularly with the increasing prevalence of AI services. He further added, "Our products and solutions are designed to be both integrated and modular, allowing organisations to build composable computing stacks for various environments."

The company also used SUSECON as a platform to unveil a new integration between SUSE Security and Microsoft Sentinel, a cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) solution. This integration, enhanced by Microsoft Security Copilot's Gen AI capabilities, offers shared customers a unified security strategy across hybrid IT environments.

(The author was in Orlando, FL for SUSECON 2025 on SUSE's invitation)