IBM launches new Infra Innovation Centre in India to scale enterprise AI deployment

Technology major IBM on Thursday announced the launch of its first Infrastructure Innovation Centre in India, the Sangam Infrastructure Innovation Centre, housed within the company’s new India Systems Development Lab (ISDL) campus in Bengaluru, reinforcing its strategy to position the country as a key hub for advanced infrastructure engineering and AI innovation.

The centre is designed as a collaborative engineering hub where IBM’s systems architects and infrastructure specialists will work with clients, independent software vendors (ISVs), global system integrators (GSIs), global capability centres (GCCs) and ecosystem partners to co-create next-generation AI solutions.

By bringing together infrastructure technologies, hybrid cloud capabilities and AI platforms under one roof, the facility aims to accelerate the development and deployment of secure, scalable and responsible enterprise AI systems for both Indian and global markets.
“India is at a pivotal moment in its AI journey, and infrastructure will define the pace and scale at which organisations can innovate,” said Sandip Patel, managing director, IBM India & South Asia.

“Enterprises are modernising mission-critical systems to become AI-ready. This Centre strengthens our ability to design, build and scale infrastructure solutions locally—tailored to India’s unique market needs while contributing to global innovation,” Patel said, adding that resilient, secure and high-performance infrastructure will be key to India’s ambition of becoming a global AI leader.

Subhathra Srinivasaraghavan, vice president at IBM India Systems Development Lab, said the initiative aims to help enterprises operationalise AI while maintaining performance, governance and reliability across critical environments.

“AI is only as powerful as the infrastructure that supports it. From hybrid cloud platforms to data architectures and automation, robust infrastructure forms the backbone of enterprise AI,” she said.

The launch comes amid rising enterprise spending on AI infrastructure. According to research by the IBM Institute for Business Value, 58% of Indian organisations have increased infrastructure investments due to growing AI demand, while infrastructure budgets are expected to grow 19% in 2025. The study also found that 43% of enterprises are establishing or planning AI Centres of Excellence as organisations move from experimentation to scaled deployment.

The new facility also reinforces India’s role in IBM’s global infrastructure engineering and AI development roadmap.

The announcement follows a broader expansion of IBM’s India strategy. Last month, the company strengthened public sector AI collaborations with new initiatives in Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh. The IT giant inaugurated an AI GovTech Innovation Centre in Lucknow with the Government of Uttar Pradesh to co-develop AI solutions aimed at improving citizen services, regulatory processes and departmental efficiency.

In Andhra Pradesh, IBM partnered with BharatGen and NxtGen to build a “Swadeshi AI stack”—a sovereign AI framework designed to power citizen-centric services in Telugu and other regional languages.

Read more: IBM expands India play with UP AI centre, Andhra’s AI stack