Mumbai, Aug 07: SUSE, a global leader in enterprise open source software, today kicked off its flagship SUSE Summit Mumbai 2026 under the theme Shape Your Resilient Future. At the event, SUSE unveiled its strategic roadmap to help Indian enterprises navigate rapid digital transformation, comply with evolving national data policies, and scale AI workloads with complete architectural freedom.
Supporting India’s Digital Resilience and CXO Priorities
Findings from SUSE’s Navigating Digital Resilience 2026 report reveal that 62% of respondents in India identify digital sovereignty as a strategic priority in which they are actively investing, well above the global average of 52%. Furthermore, while 90% of Indian IT leaders report being prepared to increase AI budgets, organizations are simultaneously navigating the “execution gap” between this ambition and the deployment of the secure, sovereign technology foundations required to support it.
India’s digital landscape is also accelerating rapidly. SUSE is actively supporting this growth, for example by providing the open infrastructure necessary for the IndiaAI Mission’s compute capabilities and the Digital Public Infrastructure of the India Stack. Through built-in zero-trust security and verifiable SBOMs, SUSE ensures enterprises remain compliant with the DPDP Act and CERT-In mandates while empowering India’s massive developer community to turn upstream innovation into production-ready applications.
To further help organizations bridge the gap between AI experimentation and production scale, SUSE highlighted its comprehensive open source portfolio. Firstly, via SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA: which features NVIDIA AI Enterprise inside SUSE’s secure governance layer, drastically reducing deployment timelines from months to days. This provides a practical foundation for Private Enterprise AI, helping with total data governance and strict adherence to digital sovereignty requirements. By keeping intelligence firmly within customer-controlled boundaries, it delivers a fast-track to value while establishing predictable, long-term cost control and ultimate deployment flexibility.
Secondly, SUSE highlighted how its integrated, sovereign open infrastructure portfolio is engineered for complete multi-cloud preparedness and architectural control. By unifying its Linux, Cloud-Native, Edge, AI, Telco, and SAP offerings, SUSE provides an interlocking platform that secures data and workloads across diverse environments. This approach—powered by the mission-critical stability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), unified multi-cloud orchestration via SUSE Rancher Prime, and air-gapped protection through SUSE Edge—empowers organizations to maintain absolute jurisdictional control and operational resilience, regardless of where their data resides.
Executive Quotes
“Moving AI from pilot to production scale isn’t about becoming dependent on third-party APIs. Organizations fundamentally need to own their intelligence. True operational resilience relies on real architectural choice: where your models run, who inspects the code, and who controls the data, backed by predictable cost control and freedom from external access limits. It’s about making AI safe and secure, for the future demands industry-wide collaboration. That’s why we’re working alongside peers in the Open Secure AI Alliance, bringing the true spirit of open source community to enterprise AI security and safety. Combined with our SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA offering, we are giving enterprises a fast, secure path from experimentation to production—without forcing a trade-off between innovation speed and sovereignty,” said Rhys Oxenham, VP and General Manager of AI, SUSE.“India is at the epicenter of global technological transformation, fueled by a dynamic developer community and visionary digital mandates. However, moving from AI pilot to production requires true architectural sovereignty. Whether it is a BFSI institution navigating strict DPDP compliance mandates, a public sector entity scaling sovereign compute for the IndiaAI Mission, or a manufacturer driving resilient 24/7 operations: they all require the freedom to innovate without dependency. At SUSE, we empower these organizations to build resilient, sovereign strategies through open infrastructure. Ensuring that as organizations scale, they retain absolute control of their IT destiny,” said Marshal Correia, Country Manager for India & SAARC, SUSE.