At its new India Systems Development Lab (ISDL) campus, IBM, a leading IT company, unveiled its first Infrastructure Innovation Center on Thursday.

As a center for cutting-edge infrastructure engineering and AI innovation, serving both domestic and international markets, the Sangam Infrastructure Innovation Centre strengthens IBM’s strategic investment in India.

The center is intended to be a cooperative engineering center that will bring together IBM’s systems architects and infrastructure professionals from ISDL to work with customers, independent software vendors, global system integrators, global capability centers, and ecosystem partners to co-create AI solutions, according to the firm.

The center seeks to hasten the creation and implementation of safe, scalable enterprise AI systems by bringing together hybrid cloud capabilities, cutting-edge infrastructure technologies, and AI solutions under one roof.

India is at a crucial point in its AI development, and the speed and extent to which businesses can innovate will depend on infrastructure, according to Sandip Patel, Managing Director of IBM India and South Asia.

Additionally, he said that Indian companies are upgrading their mission-critical systems to be AI-ready in a variety of sectors.

According to Patel, this facility demonstrates IBM’s enduring dedication to India and enhances our capacity to create, construct, and expand infrastructure solutions locally, all while fostering global innovation.

According to Vice President of the IBM India Systems Development Lab Subhathra Srinivasaraghavan, AI is only as good as the infrastructure that underpins it.

According to Srinivasaraghavan, the center integrates ecosystem collaboration with profound systems engineering skills to assist customers in scaling up AI operations while maintaining performance, security, governance, and dependability throughout mission-critical contexts.

In response to the growing demand for AI, 58% of Indian businesses boosted infrastructure investments last year, according to an IBM Institute for Business Value survey.

With 43 percent of firms creating or planning AI Centers of Excellence, the research predicted a 19% increase in infrastructure expenditures in 2025.