India, Jan. 21 -- IBM has announced IBM Sovereign Core, positioning it as an AI-ready, sovereign-enabled software foundation designed for enterprises, governments, and service providers. The move comes as organisations worldwide face growing regulatory pressure to retain direct control over their technology environments, particularly as AI workloads become central to operations.

The company frames digital sovereignty as a broader challenge than data residency alone. Control over infrastructure, authority over operations, governance of data access, and jurisdiction over AI models are all becoming critical issues as artificial intelligence moves from experimentation into production systems.

Enterprises and public-sector organisations are ...