SUSE accelerates sovereign enterprise AI ecosystem growth with ISV certifications
Pre-validated third-party software components accelerate the SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA ecosystem, bringing together robust infrastructure for AI and governed agentic AI.
Berlin, October 21, 2026 — SUSE®, the leading sovereign open infrastructure company, today introduced a new Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partner certification program. Designed to safely move workloads from developer workstations to production data centers, SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA provides a sovereign foundation for developing, deploying and managing AI workloads for enterprises. Growing the SUSE partner ecosystem with pre-tested software enables companies to run AI faster while securing data and simplifying IT management.
“To drive real AI transformation, enterprises need more than baseline infrastructure, they need an expansive, trusted ecosystem. By establishing a rigorous ISV certification program for SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA, and expanding our partner catalogue with top-tier third-party software, we are enriching our portfolio with pre-validated capabilities. Together with our ISV partners, we offer a deeply-integrated fully supported platform that allows customers to move seamlessly from experimentation into sovereign, enterprise-grade, production.”
“At the same time, we are building out robust agentic AI capabilities across our platform, while leveraging the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a standardized bridge for seamless ecosystem integration. This complete end-to-end focus ensures that our ecosystem partners, whether delivering additional value-add functionality or advanced agentic applications, can integrate cleanly into SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA. Customers get the best of both worlds: world-class sovereign infrastructure paired with cutting-edge, governed AI workflows.”
ISV certifications expand the SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA ecosystem
To simplify software validation, eliminate integration hurdles, and ensure dependable long-term support, SUSE is introducing a two-tiered ISV certification structure. This framework gives customers complete confidence that SUSE AI Factory operates seamlessly alongside partner technologies, backed by joint validation and firmly aligned vendor commitments that ensure clear support accountability and streamlined issue resolution, including:
- “Ready for” Certification: Partner self-validation confirming software compatibility and committed vendor support on either SUSE AI Factory or SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA.
- “Certified for” Certification: Jointly engineered and validated configurations featuring fully automated deployment and lifecycle management across both SUSE AI Factory and SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA.
Newly integrated ecosystem partners & use cases
The ISV program welcomes an initial cohort of enterprise partners delivering targeted capabilities across control planes, performance, cost governance, defense, and disaster recovery:
Klique (by ClearML)
Klique by ClearML serves as an enterprise AI control plane that provides LLM gateway routing, AI resource management, and governance across shared infrastructure. Deployed alongside SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA, it empowers teams with self-service access while giving IT leaders centralized visibility over workload orchestration, token usage, and cost management. Utilizing NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NeMo, and NIM microservices, the platform turns complex GPU infrastructure into readily consumable operational AI capacity for all industries.
Tensormesh
Tensormesh Platform provides high-performance Key-Value (KV) cache management designed to optimize AI inference for agentic AI, RAG, and long-context enterprise workloads. Built by the creators of LMCache and integrated with NVIDIA NIM and vLLM, the platform reuses KV caches across infrastructure layers to significantly lower latency and reduce GPU costs. It seamlessly adds inference optimization to Kubernetes deployments on SUSE AI Factory, making it an ideal choice for enterprise and NeoCloud providers.
Traefik Labs
Traefik Hub brings runtime governance to SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA. Its AI Gateway and MCP Gateway route every model call and every agent tool call through one control point that identifies the caller, decides which models and tools it may use, masks sensitive data, blocks unsafe prompts and controls token budgets. Delivered as a SUSE AI Factory partner blueprint for token factories and rolled out with Rancher Prime, it lets enterprises and NeoCloud providers put AI applications and agents into production with security and cost under control.
AlchemiStudio
AlchemiStudio provides a comprehensive sovereign AI platform designed to deliver governance, real-time cost, budget, AI gateway and compliance control. Built on SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA and powered by NVIDIA NIM and Nemotron, it offers business productivity tools, developer consoles, and secure agent runtimes while keeping proprietary data strictly on customer-controlled infrastructure. This enables organizations in financial services, public sector, healthcare, telecommunications, and critical infrastructure to enforce granular access policies, cost limits, and audit trails across all AI activities.
Wiser Technology
Wiser delivers a sovereign AI platform named Preslav that provides real-time decision support by ingesting live digital twins from vehicle fleets and sensors. Operating entirely within customer boundaries via co-located NVIDIA NIM reasoning models on SUSE AI Factory, it delivers explainable, cost-aware recommendations without exposing sensitive data to external clouds. The solution keeps a human in the loop for critical approvals, appealing directly to defense, public sector, and critical infrastructure organizations.
CloudCasa by Catalogic
CloudCasa delivers enterprise backup and disaster recovery for AI workloads running on Kubernetes within the SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA ecosystem. The solution protects full inference stacks, including vLLM chatbots, Milvus vector stores, and object data, enabling rapid byte-for-byte restoration without requiring time-consuming re-embedding. For workloads leveraging the NVIDIA GPU Operator and CUDA acceleration, it primarily serves regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and the public sector.
About SUSE
SUSE is the leading sovereign open infrastructure company where hybrid AI runs. Backed by 30 years of community collaboration, we transform open source innovation into secure, enterprise-grade solutions for mission-critical environments. Built on choice and neutrality, SUSE is the only platform that manages any Linux and Kubernetes distribution. Through our open infrastructure platform and partner ecosystem, IT leaders gain control over their data, budgets, and sovereign AI strategies. Our solutions deploy across hybrid environments, from developer workstations and on-premises data centers to multi-cloud and the farthest edge, and are optimized and validated by SAP. With SUSE, choice happens.