HCLTech, Red Hat team up to build enterprise AI infrastructure

Indian IT firm HCLTech on Thursday partnered with Red Hat to deliver enterprise-grade AI infrastructure solutions designed to help organisations operationalise AI workloads across business environments.

The partnership will expand HCLTech’s AI Factory ecosystem, a platform that brings together technology partners to deliver integrated AI infrastructure for enterprise customers. The move comes as companies globally accelerate investments in artificial intelligence but grapple with challenges around scaling deployments, managing costs and governing increasingly complex AI environments.

Industry observers say the enterprise AI conversation is rapidly shifting from proof-of-concept deployments and generative AI experimentation toward integrating AI into business-critical operations. Enterprises are now looking for infrastructure that can support AI applications consistently across on-premise systems, cloud environments and edge computing networks.

Under the partnership, HCLTech AI Factory with Red Hat will be built on Red Hat AI Enterprise and offer a common platform for deploying and managing AI workloads across hybrid environments. The solution is expected to help customers improve infrastructure efficiency, optimise model performance and reduce AI inference costs through capabilities such as model optimisation, distributed serving and unified operations management.

The companies also said the platform would provide a governed data foundation with lineage and operational oversight capabilities to support AI deployments at enterprise scale — an area becoming increasingly important as organisations seek stronger controls around AI reliability and compliance.

The tie-up reflects a broader trend emerging across the technology ecosystem, where cloud providers, infrastructure firms and software vendors are increasingly building end-to-end AI stacks rather than offering standalone tools. As enterprises expand AI use cases across customer operations, software engineering and business processes, demand is rising for integrated infrastructure capable of supporting production-scale AI systems.

“Enterprises are moving beyond experimentation to operationalising AI across their core businesses,” said Rampal Singh. “The HCLTech AI Factory with Red Hat is designed to help organisations industrialise AI, bringing together the right foundational building blocks to translate AI investments into measurable business outcomes.”

Ryan King said the launch would help organisations deploy and manage AI workloads consistently across environments ranging from core data centres to the edge, enabling enterprises to derive greater business value from AI investments.

The collaboration also adds to HCLTech’s broader AI strategy. The company has been expanding partnerships and platform-led offerings across AI and cloud ecosystems as enterprises increasingly seek turnkey deployment models. HCLTech, which employs over 227,000 people globally and reported revenue of $14.7 billion in the 12 months ended March 2026, has positioned AI and hybrid cloud among its key strategic growth pillars.

As competition intensifies for the next wave of enterprise AI spending, industry experts expect partnerships between infrastructure, cloud and software players to become increasingly central to shaping scalable AI deployment architectures.

HCLTech has been steadily expanding its AI and ecosystem partnerships as it sharpens focus on platform-led and enterprise AI opportunities. In March, the company widened its collaboration with Google Cloud to accelerate enterprise adoption of Agentic AI, including development of AI agents built on Gemini models and a structured programme to scale AI deployments across industries.

The company also expanded its strategic partnership with CrowdStrike to launch AI-powered Continuous Threat Exposure Management services aimed at strengthening enterprise cybersecurity and risk visibility.

Beyond AI infrastructure, HCLTech has broadened collaborations across industry verticals. It recently partnered with DP World Tour to drive digital fan experiences and expanded its engagement with MetLife Stadium, becoming an Official AI Partner for the venue and associated sports franchises.

This latest Red Hat partnership adds to HCLTech’s growing strategy of building integrated AI ecosystems as enterprises seek turnkey models to move AI from experimentation to production-scale deployment.