Stories from the infra bleeding edge
Explore NVIDIA Spectrum-X network automation in a digital twin environment, from fabric deployment and isolated tenant networks to moving hosts between tenants through Terraform.
A major release focused on infrastructure integrity, security and operational flexibility: server firmware drift detection, automatic switch drift detection, switch lifecycle tracking, OIDC authentication, expanded Pure Storage support, ad-hoc BGP sessions, container and NVIDIA NVLink support in preview, and more.
Gartner's Reference Architecture Brief lays out what a modern automation stack needs to look like now that AI agents, not just people, can act on infrastructure directly. Bare metal gets its own category, and MetalSoft is named in it.
As semiconductor prices go stratospheric, being locked into a single vendor is generating very high costs and delays for enterprises running on-prem infrastructure. What exactly is vendor abstraction for data center equipment, and what do clients typically ask for?
Broadcom and MetalSoft are forming a partnership aimed at getting the private cloud even closer to the public cloud: reducing skills requirements and operating cost, improving incident response times, enabling vendor diversification, and one-click deployment of the VCF AI Factory.
A big release focused on security, flexibility and ease of use: quota profiles, switch drift detection and health monitoring, NVIDIA SpectrumX NCP RA support, intelligent VM placement, DPU support, and more.
As AI workloads demand raw, unshared compute power, the enterprise world is rediscovering what bare metal always offered, and realizing it now needs to be automated, programmable, and cloud-like at the same time.
Security in infrastructure comes down to one fundamental question: who controls what, and can you prove it? In the cloud, that question has a complicated answer.
If your organization is still building infrastructure the traditional way: order, wait, rack, stack, configure, you're probably leaving a lot of value on the table.