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Cloud-Native & AI Runtime Systems

A stable, elastic, and secure container runtime foundation for enterprise applications and AI workloads.

This system owns the Kubernetes, GPU scheduling, container, and infrastructure runtime foundation for application and AI workloads.

Customer challenges

Platform programs are moving from cluster delivery to a long-term operating system

01

Fragmented runtime environments

Multi-cloud, multi-cluster, and edge environments lack consistent standards, management, and operational visibility.

02

New demands from AI workloads

GPU scheduling, heterogeneous resources, isolation, and cost governance must become part of the common runtime system.

03

Disconnected security, continuity, and upgrades

Image, admission, runtime, backup, recovery, upgrade, and migration capabilities are often built by separate teams.

04

Platform delivery is not sustainable operations

Long-term governance for health, capacity, versions, incidents, cost, and service levels remains incomplete.

Value

Make the runtime foundation a shared capability for continuous business and AI evolution

01

Business continuity

Run critical business and AI scenarios on a stable, scalable, and rehearsable foundation.

02

Platform standardization

Turn environment, cluster, compute, security, and operations requirements into reusable platform standards.

03

Compute efficiency

Improve GPU availability and utilization through pools, scheduling, quotas, metering, and capacity governance.

04

Controlled security

Embed supply-chain, admission, network, runtime, and audit controls across the platform lifecycle.

05

Sustainable operations

Use SLO, capacity, version, incident, and cost evidence to evolve platform capability continuously.

System boundary

Connect onboarding, runtime, governance, assurance, and continuous optimization around containers and heterogeneous compute

Service work packages

From platform strategy and compute scheduling to continuity, migration, and long-term operations

01

Container platform strategy and implementation

Define architecture, implement the platform, integrate core services, and verify delivery.

Outcome
A standardized and extensible container runtime foundation.
Key deliverables
Target architecture · Platform delivery and operations guide
02

Unified multi-cloud and multi-cluster management

Implement cluster enrollment, configuration, policy, visibility, and lifecycle management.

Outcome
Consistent multi-cluster governance and operational visibility.
Key deliverables
Multi-cluster management design · Policy and operations baseline
03

Container scheduling for GPU and AI compute

Build resource pools, scheduling, quotas, isolation, capacity, and metering.

Outcome
More available, transparent, and efficiently used AI compute.
Key deliverables
GPU resource-pool design · Scheduling and quota policies
04

Integrated cloud, edge, and device operations

Unify node management, application distribution, offline operation, state reporting, and version governance.

Outcome
Consistent delivery and autonomous operation for distributed workloads.
Key deliverables
Cloud-edge-device architecture · Distribution and operations standards
05

Container security and compliance governance

Establish image, admission, secret, network, runtime, and audit controls.

Outcome
A security baseline spanning build, delivery, and runtime.
Key deliverables
Container security architecture · Compliance control catalog
06

Cloud-native disaster recovery and business continuity

Build application-consistent backup, cross-cluster recovery, orchestration, and drills.

Outcome
A business-continuity capability that can be rehearsed and verified.
Key deliverables
Disaster recovery system design · Recovery drill report
07

Platform operations assurance and continuous optimization

Establish monitoring, health checks, incident response, capacity, and version management.

Outcome
Platform delivery becomes a sustainable operating capability.
Key deliverables
Operations assurance model · Health and optimization reports
08

Container platform upgrades and migration

Assess, verify compatibility, migrate in waves, design cutover, and prepare rollback.

Outcome
Platform evolution with business continuity protected.
Key deliverables
Upgrade and migration plan · Verification, cutover, and rollback plan

Target system

Connect workload onboarding, compute runtime, cross-environment management, and operations governance

  1. 01

    Application and AI workload onboarding

    Onboard applications, data, and AI workloads through standard templates, artifacts, pipelines, and self-service.

    • Self-service
    • CI/CD integration
    • Images and artifacts
    • Workload templates
  2. 02

    Container and heterogeneous compute runtime

    Use Kubernetes to host general applications, data services, and GPU-intensive AI workloads.

    • Container runtime
    • GPU resource pools
    • Scheduling and isolation
    • Storage and networking
  3. 03

    Multi-cloud, multi-cluster, and edge management

    Manage central cloud, private cloud, factory edge, and field nodes through consistent enrollment and distribution.

    • Cluster lifecycle
    • Policy distribution
    • Cloud-edge collaboration
    • Offline autonomy
  4. 04

    Security, observability, and continuity

    Unify supply-chain security, admission, runtime protection, observability, backup, disaster recovery, and drills.

    • Security and compliance
    • Runtime observability
    • Backup and DR
    • Recovery drills
  5. 05

    Operations governance and continuous optimization

    Manage health, capacity, versions, incidents, service levels, cost, and capability roadmaps as a platform product.

    • Platform SLOs
    • Capacity and cost
    • Version and change
    • Continuous improvement

Delivery path

Five stages from strategy to sustainable operations

  1. 01
    ASSESS

    Assess

    Assess application, infrastructure, team, and governance baselines.

  2. 02
    DESIGN

    Design

    Define target architecture, standards, boundaries, and the evolution roadmap.

  3. 03
    BUILD

    Build and integrate

    Implement the core platform in stages and integrate identity, engineering, security, and operations systems.

  4. 04
    MIGRATE

    Migrate and verify

    Onboard applications, data, and AI workloads in waves and verify compatibility, performance, security, and recovery.

  5. 05
    OPTIMIZE

    Optimize and transfer

    Improve with operating evidence and transfer processes, tools, knowledge, and platform-team capability.

Deliverables

Deliver the platform together with standards, mechanisms, and sustainable operating capability

01Strategy and target architecture
02Container and AI compute platform
03Multi-cluster and cloud-edge governance
04Security and compliance baseline
05DR, upgrade, and migration plans
06Operating model, metrics, and knowledge transfer

Key scenarios

Programs for enterprise applications, multi-cluster estates, AI compute, and distributed operations

01

Enterprise containerization and unified runtime

Standardize application assessment, modernization, delivery, operations, and service levels for scaled onboarding.

02

Multi-cloud and multi-cluster governance

Unify cluster lifecycle, policy, quota, change, and operations while preserving necessary environmental differences.

03

GPU and AI compute platform

Build heterogeneous GPU pools, queues, quotas, isolation, metering, and capacity planning for training and inference.

04

Cloud-edge operations and business continuity

Support controlled distribution, offline autonomy, state reporting, disaster recovery, and drills across field environments.