IBM Cloud's MultiZone Region (MZR) in Brazil supports regulated sectors with cloud solutions that prioritize data sovereignty, combined with resilience, performance, security, and compliance.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announces the availability of its complete enterprise AI platform, watsonx, in the IBM Cloud Multi-Zone Region in Brazil. Launched in the country in 2021, the first IBM Cloud MZR in Latin America is designed to strengthen local infrastructure with greater security and resilience, as well as help local clients meet their data sovereignty requirements. With this, IBM aims to help clients meet increasing regulatory demands and leverage technologies such as generative AI on their enterprise cloud platform.
IBM Cloud offers flexible, high-performance infrastructure optimized for AI. The availability of watsonx on IBM Cloud addresses the growing demand for technology that can enable scalable, secure, and responsible AI deployments. This can allow local organizations to achieve high levels of reliability, scalability, and security, while supporting them with the tools needed to meet Brazil's stringent data privacy and residency requirements.
According to Fabrício Lira, Director of Artificial Intelligence and Data at IBM Brazil, "this action reinforces IBM's commitment to the country, in addition to highlighting the company's vision regarding its responsible AI offering.".
“"The most regulated industries in Brazil, such as financial services, the public sector, and healthcare, will be the biggest beneficiaries of this announcement," says Thiago Viola, Director of Artificial Intelligence at IBM Latin America.
The main benefits of having the watsonx portfolio available on IBM Cloud MZR in Brazil are:
- Data sovereigntyCompanies in regulated sectors, such as financial services and government agencies, may manage and store data locally to comply with applicable regulations.
- Low latency connectivityIBM Cloud's high-performance network connectivity is designed to significantly reduce latency for users across the country, which is essential for real-time data processing.
- Scalable AIThe modular design allows companies to scale operations in an integrated way, provisioning resources quickly based on demand.
- Access to advanced generative AI modelsCustomers can take advantage of a variety of generative AI models, including Llama-3-2-11b-vision-instruct and Granite-34b-code-instruct.
- Open hybrid cloud strategyMZRs offer the ability to integrate the best features and functions of any traditional cloud or IT environment and leverage the unparalleled pace and quality of open-source community innovations.
These IBM Cloud MZR servers installed in the country were designed to enable Brazilian customers to deploy AI and mission-critical workloads with high levels of security, as well as help them meet data sovereignty and regulatory compliance requirements.
Other advantages that reinforce this Multi-Zone Region announcement are recent developments related to IBM's AI portfolio, including: the availability of a new generation of open large language models (LLMs) from IBM Granite on watsonx.ai; the integration of Anthropic's Claude into selected IBM software products – including its new AI-focused integrated development environment (IDE) for enterprise developers, called IBM Bob; and access to Groq's inference technology, GroqCloud, in watsonx Orchestrate, to provide customers with high-speed AI inference capabilities at lower costs.
Furthermore, the acquisition of DataStax and Langflow by IBM offers clients a robust infrastructure for unstructured and vector data, low-code visual tools for AI, full integration with watsonx, and meets scalability, security, and compliance requirements.
As Brazilian companies seek to expand AI while ensuring trust and compliance, IBM Cloud and watsonx are poised to provide the tools and platforms needed to maximize return on investment in AI initiatives. These new capabilities represent IBM's latest investments in Latin America to support clients on their modernization journeys.
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