Red Hat’s Unveils AI Factory with NVIDIA Software Platform

At a time when enterprises work to align innovation with their technology needs, businesses across South Africa face a sizable challenge: balancing modernization with rising technology costs and the need to build future-ready and compliant systems and applications.

“The goal for local enterprises is to not only do more with less but do it in such a way that it doesn’t compromise future growth,” says Dion Harvey, Regional General Manager at Red Hat Sub-Saharan Africa. “Modernisation is now not just about migrating legacy systems onto new platforms. It’s about creating environments where innovation can thrive, and developers have the means to explore new project opportunities, as well as easily scale and adapt as their organizations evolve.”

South Africa remains on a steady path of AI adoption as enterprises move their projects from experimentation to production. Central to that adoption are platforms that serve as a trusted foundation supporting any model or agent, running on any hardware accelerator across different cloud environments. With that foundation, local enterprises can develop, run, and move workloads as they see fit, while transforming traditional business functions and workflows with AI-enabled applications.

Supporting the enterprise adoption of AI and autonomous agents is Red Hat’s AI Factory with NVIDIA software platform, engineered in collaboration with the global chipmaker and hardware manufacturer.

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“Agentic AI is already being implemented in South Africa in key sectors such as financial services. The revolution is already taking place, and by refining platforms that democratize access to these systems and make them more adaptable to business needs, local enterprises can deploy agents of their own,” Harvey explains.