Stories from the infra bleeding edge
Network Engineer Andrei Tomus took the Applied AI stage with a practical look at AI Factory networking using NVIDIA Spectrum-X and MetalSoft Fabric Manager in NVIDIA DSX Air.
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.
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.
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.
The latest release transforms how teams deploy, manage, and optimize physical infrastructure, with AI agents, full network orchestration, and enterprise-grade storage support.
MetalSoft at Gartner IOCS 2025: Conversations at the Heart of Infrastructure Strategy.