IT vendors often choose to market a solution as “full-stack AI,” sometimes adding terms like “enterprise-ready” or “turnkey” to make it sound even more appealing. What does that actually mean, and how does it fit into existing IT infrastructures? And what can AI deliver when deployed to manage said infrastructures themselves? Techzine discussed this during SUSECON 2026 with Francisco Perez van der Oord, founder and president of ITQ, an IT service provider for approximately 500 European organizations.
In practical terms, an AI stack or “AI Factory” is often a mix of homegrown and proprietary solutions wrapped into one validated integration. Depending on the IT vendor, it’s either a solution for adding AI functionality to existing infrastructure or a reference architecture for a turnkey AI environment that current IT systems can integrate with. The theory sounds logical and coherent, but we’re curious to know how a company that implements…
