IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced two new managed services on its cloud platform: Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service on IBM Cloud. The company made the announcement from Armonk, New York.

Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud provides a managed service for enterprises to integrate AI inferencing into production workflows across hybrid cloud environments. The service includes built-in governance controls and uses Red Hat AI's inference engine with IBM Cloud infrastructure. The model catalog includes Granite 4.0 H Small, Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, GPT-OSS-120B, and Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-FP8.

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service on IBM Cloud offers a managed virtualization platform for enterprises to migrate and run virtual machines on Kubernetes-based infrastructure. The service runs on IBM Cloud VPC Bare Metal and includes automated lifecycle management and migration tooling.

"Enterprises are eager to operationalize AI, but the gap between pilot and production may hold them back," said Jason McGee, CTO of IBM Cloud. "With Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud, we're giving clients a managed platform that is built for real workloads, not just experiments."

Ashesh Badani, senior vice president and chief product officer at Red Hat, said the services represent "the next step in our work with IBM to help enterprises drive innovation in the era of AI with an open, consistent hybrid cloud platform."

Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud will be generally available on May 22, 2026. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service on IBM Cloud is in limited availability and is expected to be generally available in June 2026.

The services expand IBM's existing managed offerings across Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat AI.