IBM and Yotta Data Services have announced plans to collaborate on a new sovereign Agentic AI platform aimed at enterprises and government organizations in India. The platform is proposed to be developed using IBM watsonx Orchestrate and deployed on Yotta Shakti Cloud, enabling organisations to scale AI adoption while addressing evolving requirements related to data residency, security, and regulatory compliance.
As enterprises transition from AI experimentation to large-scale operational deployment, the demand is growing for platforms that can orchestrate AI-powered workflows across business functions while ensuring governance, and control. The proposed platform will allow organisations to deploy and manage AI agents across IT service management, HR, finance, procurement, and customer support.
As part of the collaboration, IBM and Yotta also plan to introduce IBM Sovereign Core on Yotta’s Shakti Cloud. Now generally available, IBM Sovereign Core is a software platform designed to help organisations build and operate AI-ready sovereign environments — delivering continuous compliance monitoring, verifiable control, and governed AI execution across data, operations, technology, and AI. Together, these offerings are intended to provide Indian organisations with a comprehensive foundation for deploying agentic AI at scale while maintaining compliance or control.
Yotta’s Shakti Cloud provides scalable GPU infrastructure and AI services designed for Indian enterprises. Combined with IBM watsonx Orchestrate — an enterprise agentic AI platform — the proposed solution is intended to help Indian organisations adopt AI with speed and security, enabling AI-driven orchestration that accelerates time-to-value and streamlines operations across functions.
IBM Sovereign Core delivers an integrated software platform combining control plane, identity, security, compliance, and AI execution functions within a single deployment model. Key capabilities include a customer-operated control plane, in-boundary identity and encryption, continuous compliance monitoring and evidence generation, preloaded regulatory frameworks, governed AI execution, and an open, modular architecture built on Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat AI.
By intending to host IBM Sovereign Core on Yotta’s Shakti Cloud — an India-based, MeitY-empanelled infrastructure — the partnership aims to deliver a sovereign environment purpose-built for India’s regulatory requirements, supporting enterprises and government organisations in meeting data residency mandates, maintaining audit-ready compliance evidence, and deploying AI workloads within defined sovereign boundaries.
IBM and Yotta intend to jointly pursue go-to-market initiatives including solution co-creation, proof of concepts, and technical enablement, targeting organisations across BFSI, public sector, manufacturing, and digital-native industries.
