New Delhi, March 5: IBM, the leading IT giant, announced the launch of its first Infrastructure Innovation Center in India on Thursday. This center is located within the company’s new India Systems Development Lab (ISDL) campus.
Named the ‘Sangam Infrastructure Innovation Center’, this facility represents a significant investment by IBM to strengthen India’s position as a hub for advanced infrastructure engineering and artificial intelligence (AI) innovation. It aims to develop technological solutions for both domestic and global markets.
The company stated that this center is designed as a collaborative engineering hub. Here, IBM’s system architects and infrastructure experts will work alongside clients, independent software vendors, global system integrators, global capability centers, and other ecosystem partners to create AI solutions.
By integrating hybrid cloud capabilities, advanced infrastructure technologies, and AI solutions in one location, the center aims to promote the development of secure and scalable enterprise AI systems and accelerate their adoption.
Sandeep Patel, Managing Director of IBM India and South Asia, noted that India is at a pivotal moment in its AI journey. He emphasized that the infrastructure will determine how quickly and extensively organizations can innovate. Companies across various sectors in India are modernizing their critical systems to make them AI-ready.
Patel further mentioned that this new center reflects IBM’s long-term commitment to India. It will enhance the company’s ability to design, develop, and implement infrastructure solutions locally while also contributing to global innovation.
Subathra Srinivasanaraghavan, Vice President of IBM India Systems Development Lab, stated that AI is only as effective as the robust infrastructure that supports it. She explained that this center will help clients implement AI on a large scale by combining deep systems engineering expertise with ecosystem collaboration, ensuring performance, security, governance, and reliability.
A study conducted last year by the IBM Institute for Business Value revealed that 58% of Indian companies have increased their infrastructure investments in response to rising AI demand. The study predicts a nearly 19% increase in infrastructure budgets by 2025, with about 43% of companies having established or planning to set up AI Centers of Excellence.
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