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Quali Introduces Torque: The Future Control Plane for AI Infrastructure Management

A Revolutionary Solution for AI Infrastructure Management

In an era where traditional cloud management approaches are hitting their limitations, Quali is stepping up to address these challenges head-on. On June 24, 2026, Quali announced a substantial enhancement of Torque, its intelligent infrastructure management platform. Unlike conventional cloud management portals that operate in silos, Torque integrates various managed resources into a single, smart control plane, offering unified governance and continuous intelligence across diverse environments, including bare metal, multi-cloud, hybrid, on-premises, edge, GPU, and AI settings.

Embracing Existing Tools with Seamlessness

One standout feature of Torque is its seamless integration with existing tools. Organizations are not required to overhaul their current systems for Torque to function effectively. It supports industry-standard tools like Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes, and CloudFormation natively. By normalizing these varied automation tools, Torque transforms them into standardized building blocks, making every resource discoverable, governable, and operable by all team members.

Furthermore, for teams that prefer a no-code approach, Torque offers a Generation AI-powered environment designer that converts natural language commands into production-ready Infrastructure as Code (IaC). This automated IaC is present and fully auditable, yet remains hidden for users who don’t need direct interaction with it.

Understanding Context: A Game Changer

What sets Torque apart from its predecessors is its holistic understanding of the environment's context — identifying not only what resources are running but also who owns them, the purpose they are serving, their costs, performance metrics, and optimization strategies. This level of context allows the governance to be actionable and the cost intelligence to be meaningful. As a result, organizations can measure their expenditures against their outcomes, rather than solely focusing on invoice totals.

Lior Koriat, CEO of Quali, states, "Every enterprise managing AI infrastructure grapples with a common issue: environments provisioned through numerous tools by multiple teams, all lacking visibility. Torque aims to solve this fundamental problem by acting as the intelligence layer that unifies governance across the stack."

Comprehensive Capabilities of the Expanded Torque Platform

The upgraded Torque platform is designed to cater to the complete lifecycle of infrastructure management, offering capabilities such as:

1. Continuous Discovery and Automatic Codification

Torque automatically scans cloud accounts and on-premises systems, identifying every deployed resource, irrespective of its provisioning method. It converts live configurations into reusable Infrastructure-as-Code, thereby bringing shadow IT and untagged resources under governance effortlessly.

2. Outcome-Linked Cost Governance

Every environment is tagged at the moment of provisioning with pertinent information, such as ownership and business purpose. This mechanism ensures that all infrastructure spends are traceable to their corresponding outcomes, automatically flagging idle or orphaned resources to minimize unnecessary costs.

3. Continuous Drift Detection and Remediation

Torque continuously assesses live environments against their designated configurations, promptly detecting any drift and initiating remediation automatically, ensuring operational compliance and integrity without requiring manual input.

4. Full Environment Context and Intelligent Optimization

With a complete view of every active environment, the platform provides recommendations for optimization. Its AI Copilot features anomaly detection and guides teams toward better infrastructure decisions, always with the intended outcomes in mind.

5. Governance for Sovereign AI and Regulated Deployments

For companies working under Sovereign AI mandates or dealing with regulated workloads, Torque embeds policy enforcement and data residency controls within each environment, guaranteeing compliance from the moment of deployment.

6. Governed Infrastructure for Autonomous AI Agents

Torque serves as a control plane for both AI agents and the infrastructure they access. By employing a live Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, it allows agents to provision environments and trigger workflows while adhering to role-based permissions, ensuring governance does not falter even with autonomous requests.

7. Full-Stack Management from Bare Metal to Cloud

Apart from managing cloud resources, Torque offers Bare Metal as a Service, facilitating rapid, governed provisioning of physical servers across the complete infrastructure spectrum, encompassing traditional and modern workloads alike.

Built on Robust Foundations

Torque shares its platform core with Stack Automation by Quali, a deployment automation platform developed in collaboration with Cisco, showcased at the recent Cisco Live 2026 event. This partnership highlights Torque’s enterprise credibility and its widespread applicability across various vendors and cloud solutions.

Conclusion: Empowering Enterprises with Torque

The newly enhanced Torque platform is now available, empowering enterprises to effectively discover, govern, provision, and operate workloads in a highly intelligent manner. For further details, interested parties can visit quali.com/products.

About Quali

Quali is recognized as a pioneering leader in AI infrastructure management and Environment-as-a-Service automation. Its commitment to providing robust solutions has earned the trust of around 100 enterprise clients globally. Quali continues to facilitate over 40,000 monthly environment launches from its headquarters in Austin, Texas.