As AI adoption accelerates, companies want to modernize their infrastructure without locking into a single platform or deployment model. That pressure is reshaping vendor alliances, particularly those built to support AI infrastructure flexibility through open architectures and hybrid approaches.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Red Hat  Inc. have spent the past decade building exactly that kind of partnership. By aligning AMD’s compute portfolio with Red Hat’s open platforms, the two companies are helping enterprises move from rigid legacy systems to more adaptable environments while reducing costs and energy use, according to Phil Guido (pictured), executive vice president and chief commercial officer at AMD.

“What we really wanted to do is give customers optionality, choice, flexibility, and that provides them the ability … to leverage that ecosystem … that gives them greater insight, flexibility and choice,” he said. “We started to show how we could partner together and really save significant amounts of savings for them … up to 77% in [capital expenditure].”

Guido spoke with theCUBE’s Rob Strechay and Rebecca Knight at Red Hat Summit, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed enterprise AI priorities, modernization trade-offs, and how AMD and Red Hat are enabling AI infrastructure flexibility at every layer, from edge to cloud. (* Disclosure below.)

Choice across every environment for AI infrastructure flexibility

Many enterprise teams want the freedom to run AI where their data lives, whether that’s in the cloud, on-premises or at the edge. Supporting that diversity requires both hardware versatility and software interoperability, which remains central to the AMD and Red Hat strategy, according to Guido.

“From Linux to OpenShift to all those different open platforms … a lot of them are saying, ‘I’d like to do it on the cloud, I’d like to do it on prem, I’d like to do it on the edge,’” he said. “Once again with Red Hat and AMD, we could provide that in every dimension.”

Beyond deployment location, enterprises also need pragmatic ways to scale. Defining early use cases and delivering results quickly builds momentum. Red Hat and AMD help companies scope those pilots, prove value quickly and expand, according to Guido.

“Don’t make it so ambitious where it’s unachievable, and then you get the mind share … and then you could scale it out,” Guido said. “That’s really what we’re trying to help customers [do]. That’s why working with Red Hat is such an exciting time.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Red Hat Summit:

(* Disclosure: Advanced Micro Devices Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither AMD nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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