GLBNXT delivers a sovereign AI platform powered by SUSE

While innovative AI use cases emerge daily, European organizations are facing the increasing challenge of deploying AI quickly and effectively without compromising on security. On-premises hardware costs for large language models (LLMs) are often prohibitively steep, leading to overreliance on LLMs hosted by foreign-based cloud hyperscalers. Meanwhile, strict new regulations like the EU AI Act demand fully auditable, sovereign solutions. Moreover, while organizations are carefully planning pilots and rollouts, employees may already be using public LLM models, increasing the risk of proprietary information being inadvertently shared outside the organization.

GLBNXT's founders decided to tackle these growing concerns. Their goal was to introduce a sovereign, Europe-based AI platform that enables organizations to deploy and scale AI rapidly and safely. To turn this vision into reality, GLBNXT needed a reliable, scalable and secure enterprise-grade foundation for its platform.

To power its cutting-edge AI platform, GLBNXT chose Rancher and Harvester, the open source technologies behind SUSE Rancher Prime and SUSE Virtualization, as the strategic cornerstones.

“All of us were early adopters of SUSE Rancher in our previous roles, so building the GLBNXT platform with it was the obvious choice,” says Jan Saan, Co-founder of GLBNXT. Adding, “SUSE has the winning combination of open source security and knowledge at speed, and enterprise-grade investment in innovation.”

SUSE’s commitment to open source also aligned with GLBNXT’s broader strategy for sovereign AI. GLBNXT needed an open, Europe-based technology foundation that could support customer control over data and infrastructure, enable flexibility across the platform and provide enterprise readiness as the company scaled.

Deployed on a Dell and NVIDIA infrastructure, GLBNXT’s solution utilizes Rancher and Harvester to turn enterprise-grade hardware into a software-defined, repeatable platform foundation for sovereign AI. In less than a year, the company created a modular containerized architecture tailored to AI development, seamlessly integrating proven open source components like vector databases, RAG pipelines, APIs and more.

Streamlines deployment for 18x faster time-to-value

Powered by Rancher and Harvester, GLBNXT’s platform is transforming how European organizations deploy AI. For example, a division of the Dutch government used the platform to develop a natural-language chatbot that allows employees to instantly retrieve information across hundreds of thousands of documents. 

Furthermore they became faster. GLBNXT estimates that while typical AI projects using hyperscaler infrastructure require 12 to 18 months of development, customers using its products can go live in just 30 days, making deployments 18x faster.

“We deliver all the components an organization needs to speed up the process of creating AI tools without all the hassle of creating the infrastructure, managing it and dealing with all the compliance around it,” says Saan.

By bringing these components together on a SUSE-powered foundation, GLBNXT helps customers move from AI experimentation to production more quickly while maintaining control over their infrastructure and data.

Creates a repeatable, software-defined infrastructure foundation

Harvester, the open source technology behind SUSE Virtualization, plays a key role in helping GLBNXT turn enterprise-grade hardware into a repeatable foundation for sovereign AI. Together with Rancher, it gives GLBNXT a software-defined infrastructure layer that supports how the company develops, releases and scales its platform.

Rather than rebuilding infrastructure for each customer, GLBNXT can repeat the same proven architecture across isolated customer environments. This helps ensure each customer works with its own data, infrastructure and components while giving GLBNXT a scalable model for growth.

“We use Rancher and Harvester to make sure that our whole infrastructure is scalable and stackable in a quick and efficient way,” confirms Saan. “That’s the trick to building a great platform. With SUSE as our foundation, once you build something very good, you can scale it a thousand times.”

Provides the foundation for AI productivity

Operating as its own “customer zero,” GLBNXT uses the same SUSE-powered platform internally that it delivers to customers. This gives the company a practical proving ground for new AI capabilities before they are delivered more broadly.

This foundation supports GLBNXT’s agentic way of working across the business, from product development to finance and marketing. Today, each GLBNXT employee manages a digital team of 15 to 20 AI agents, driving a 20x boost in organizational productivity. These agentic operations run 24/7, scaling company growth around the clock, even while human employees are away.

Enables agility and customer choice

The open foundation provided by Rancher and Harvester helps GLBNXT move quickly while keeping customer environments separated and secure. The team can spin up new isolated containers in minutes, giving GLBNXT the agility to support new customer projects, internal workloads and AI capabilities without rebuilding infrastructure from scratch.

Customers also gain the flexibility to adapt their AI environments as needs change. They can move data, swap components or adopt new tools without being locked into a single proprietary stack.

“Digital sovereignty isn’t about not using technology from a specific country,” explains Saan. “It’s about knowing that we are flexible enough to change tools when we need and remain resilient for the future, and that is what SUSE gives us.”

As GLBNXT expands across Europe and works with larger enterprise customers, its relationship with SUSE will become increasingly important. By combining cutting-edge AI orchestration with trusted enterprise infrastructure, GLBNXT can continue helping organizations deploy sovereign AI quickly and securely. Looking ahead, SUSE can provide the enterprise-grade backing, service support and trusted partnership GLBNXT needs as their customer expectations continue to grow.

“Having an open source community is one thing, but being backed by professionals and an enterprise-ready ecosystem is key. As we grow, corporate customers will demand more service backup from serious suppliers. SUSE is such a supplier,” concludes Saan.