By Surbhi Jain
Publication Date: 2026-10-01 15:53:00
IBM (NYSE:IBM) confirmed Thursday that it is making its AI software-development platform available for on-premises, private-cloud, sovereign-cloud and even air-gapped environments.
IBM Bob, the company’s agentic software-development platform, can now run inside customer-controlled infrastructure.
That means sensitive source code, application context and development artifacts can remain within an enterprise’s own environment rather than being sent to an external AI service.
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AI adoption gets harder when the data involved is too sensitive, regulated or mission-critical to move.
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