Building a Sovereign, Intelligent Data Foundation with EDB Postgres® AI on IBM LinuxONE 5
This blog is co-authored by Simon Lightstone and Maeve Sullivan.
In the agentic era, the ultimate competitive advantage isn’t the model—it’s the data. Who owns it, how it is governed, and how reliably it powers real-time decisions will separate the leaders from the rest. For enterprises in secure, regulated industries, the demands are even higher: They need AI that is fast, compliant, and fully under their control.
EnterpriseDB (EDB) and IBM have partnered to bring EDB Postgres AI (EDB PG AI) to IBM LinuxONE 5, delivering an intelligent, resilient foundation designed to meet these demands and align to sovereign strategies.
Where open innovation meets enterprise trust
EDB and IBM share a common belief: The future of AI depends on transparency and autonomy, and enterprises should never have to choose between innovation and control. Organizations today cannot afford to send sensitive data outside of their environment or rely on infrastructure they don’t fully govern.
EDB PG AI delivers an enterprise-grade, sovereign data and AI platform that unifies transactional, analytical, and agentic workloads on a single Postgres foundation, while IBM LinuxONE 5 provides the highly efficient, scalable infrastructure those workloads demand. Together, they make it possible to run mission-critical AI directly on your data, in your own environment, without compromise. This is the convergence of open innovation and enterprise trust that accelerates sovereign AI and developer momentum.
Bringing AI to live, operational data
EDB PG AI keeps your data where it is, bringing production-grade AI capabilities to it—not the other way around. The platform extends your existing Postgres foundation into secure, trustworthy AI, on your own terms and with operational simplicity. When deployed on IBM LinuxONE 5, this approach is further enhanced by high-performance infrastructure designed for real-time, high-volume workloads, including vector workloads powered by pgvector. By eliminating data movement and executing AI alongside operational data, organizations can:
- Reduce latency and accelerate decision-making
- Maximize the speed, accuracy, and trustworthiness of AI outcomes
- Support mission-critical workloads at scale
Built for data sovereignty, security, and resilience
EDB PG AI enforces governance at the data layer—the one place every action must pass through—ensuring that organizations can manage and control data access, usage, and compliance requirements. This is strengthened by IBM LinuxONE 5, which delivers built-in security, resilience, and compliance at the infrastructure level. With capabilities such as confidential computing, LinuxONE 5 protects data in use, including AI models and training data, while maintaining high availability and operational continuity.
Together, they enable organizations to:
- Maintain full ownership and control of data and AI workloads
- Enforce regulatory compliance and data residency requirements
- Operate with continuous availability and resilience
- Achieve true data sovereignty across the full stack
Securing the agentic era
With EDB PG AI at the data and AI layer and IBM LinuxONE 5 at the infrastructure layer, organizations gain a fully integrated platform that delivers:
- A unified data and AI foundation that reduces complexity and improves efficiency
- A highly scalable environment that creates data gravity for sovereign AI
- Built-in security, resilience, and compliance for full control and trust
- Enhanced AI outcomes powered by live enterprise data
EDB PG AI provides the simplified, operational foundation for improved vector performance and reliable AI at scale. IBM LinuxONE 5 makes these capabilities even more accessible, bringing enterprise-grade performance, security, and efficiency to a broader set of workloads and environments.
This is how enterprises can harness AI without compromise, accelerating innovation while maintaining sovereignty.
“Now more than ever, enterprises want workload consolidation to run their operations more efficiently. By combining EDB PG AI with IBM LinuxONE, customers get a secure, flexible foundation to build and scale mission-critical workloads with seamless, end-to-end support for the entire technology stack.
“EDB PG AI gives customers the freedom to run transactional, analytical, and AI workloads on their hardware of their choice, whether on cloud or on-premises. Customers tell us they value the reduced energy consumption and data center footprint that IBM’s LinuxONE architecture delivers, and we are proud to support it.”
—Simon Lightstone, Senior Product Manager, EDB
Together, EDB and IBM are ensuring that sovereign AI is not just a strategy for the largest global enterprises but a practical, scalable reality for any organization. The next chapter of enterprise AI will be built on platforms that combine data, control, and intelligence by design. With EDB and IBM, that foundation is already here.
To learn more about LinuxONE Single frame and hear from a senior EDB leader about how EDB PG AI delivers trustworthy AI at scale, watch “Navigating Compute Constraints in the AI Era with IBM LinuxONE.”