Bud Ecosystem is proud to announce that its flagship offering, Bud Runtime, has officially achieved Red Hat OpenShift certification. This milestone signifies Bud Runtime’s compatibility and performance optimization across Red Hat OpenShift environments, providing enterprises with cutting-edge AI serving and inference capabilities that deliver unmatched efficiency and scalability.

Bud Runtime is a powerful, generative AI serving and inference optimization software stack designed to deliver state-of-the-art performance across any hardware and operating system. The platform ensures smooth, production-ready deployments on a wide range of processing units, including CPUs, GPUs, HPUs, and NPUs, offering seamless scalability and exceptional operational efficiency.

With Red Hat OpenShift certification, the software is now officially validated to run on OpenShift clusters, ensuring customers benefit from the best in scalability, security, and ease of management. With this certification, Bud Runtime ensures the following;

• Runs on OpenShift: Bud Runtime is now fully compatible with Red Hat’s OpenShift platform, allowing enterprises to leverage its powerful container orchestration and management capabilities.
  
• Fully Containerized: Bud Runtime is completely containerized, ensuring efficient deployments and consistency across environments.
  
• Continuous Vulnerability Scans: Bud Runtime undergoes continuous vulnerability scans to ensure it meets the highest security standards for production-ready environments.
  
• Collaborative Support: With Red Hat’s industry-leading support network, Bud Ecosystem customers now benefit from collaborative support to address any deployment or operational concerns.
  
• Meets Red Hat Best Practices: Bud Runtime has been rigorously tested to meet Red Hat’s best practices for deployment on OpenShift clusters, guaranteeing optimal performance, reliability, and scalability.

With this new certification, Bud Ecosystem further extends its commitment to enabling organizations to fully optimize their AI infrastructure. The integration with Red Hat OpenShift’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform ensures that businesses can confidently run Bud Runtime in production environments, unlocking maximum value from their AI investments while enhancing their ability to deploy advanced AI models at scale.

“Achieving Red Hat OpenShift certification underscores our dedication to offering enterprises a flexible, reliable, and high-performance solution for their generative AI and machine learning needs,” said Ditto P.S. CTO at Bud Ecosystem. “As AI continues to drive transformative changes across industries, this certification provides our customers with a robust foundation to deploy and scale generative AI models efficiently and securely, regardless of their hardware and infrastructure preferences.”

Bud Runtime, the GenAI serving and inference stack developed by Bud Ecosystem, is designed to deliver performance and accuracy comparable to GPU-based solutions while utilizing CPU architecture. This innovative approach significantly reduces capital and operational expenditures for enterprises adopting Generative AI. Joint benchmarking experiments reveal that the integrated solution of Bud Runtime on Intel processors can achieve a 12-fold increase in speed for GenAI applications on client devices, 130 percent better inference performance in the cloud, and reduce the total cost of ownership by up to 55%.

Bud Runtime is already trusted by leading enterprises across diverse sectors to unlock new opportunities through generative AI. With the addition of Red Hat OpenShift certification, the company is further solidifying its position as a key player in the GenAI space, delivering optimized performance while minimizing total cost of ownership (TCO) to meet the evolving needs of modern enterprises.

About Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat OpenShift is a comprehensive enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform that provides an open-source solution for containerized application deployment, scaling, and management. Built on top of Kubernetes, OpenShift offers enhanced capabilities for automating the deployment of containerized applications across on-premises, hybrid, or multi-cloud environments. It is designed to streamline the development and operations of modern applications, ensuring consistency, scalability, and security in enterprise environments.

About Redhat

Red Hat, Inc. is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises and is a subsidiary of IBM. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with other offices worldwide. Red Hat has become associated to a large extent with its enterprise operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat provides storage, operating system platforms, middleware, applications, management products, support, training, and consulting services.