Cisco used the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit to highlight its Nexus 9000 and Cisco 8000 portfolios targeting cloud operators to help transform their infrastructure to meet sustainability goals. New routers and switches are powered by Cisco Silicon One enabling customers to evolve their AI/ML networks by adopting either standard Ethernet or full scheduled

Eaton has announced the North American launch of its Open Compute Project (OCP) Open Rack v3 (ORV3) compatible solutions. It is purpose-built and preconfigured with a focus on the efficient, and scalable delivery of critical power for their data centers seeking to deploy ORV3 racks.

Dell Technologies has expanded its edge portfolio to make it easier for customers to manage and orchestrate edge applications and infrastructures. Project Frontier has been introduced to deliver an edge operations software platform integrated with Dell’s edge portfolio.

Dell has announced the continued collaboration with Microsoft to deliver new single-node configurations for customers with smaller data center footprints, increased AI/ML workload performance, and support for the latest release of Microsoft Azure Stack HCI. Dell is also expanding GPU support in these systems.

Broadcom and Arista have announced an open end-to-end networking solution optimized for Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE). Hyperscaler and enterprise data center operators can now deploy fully optimized systems using open-standard RDMA. Jointly integrated by Broadcom and Arista, this end-to-end solution features Broadcom’s Ethernet NIC and switch technology.

VMware has announced that vSphere 8 is available for download. More than just the initial release announced during VMware Explore, this is a major release with improvements to bring the benefits of cloud to on-premises workloads, improve performance through DPUs and GPUs, and accelerate innovation with an enterprise-ready integrated Kubernetes runtime.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of AWS EC2 Trn1 instances. Powered by AWS-designed Trainium chips, Trn1 instances are specifically designed for the high-performance training of machine learning models (in the cloud) with Amazon indicating a reduction of 50% in “cost-to-train” savings when compared to similar GPU-based instances.

OpenStack Zed, the 26th version of the open source cloud infrastructure software, gets released featuring enhanced security and expanded hardware enablement and is available for download. Concurrently, OpenStack introduced Venus, a log aggregation service for large deployments, and Skyline, a dashboard that delivers an improved web UI.

In a major growth announcement, IBM said it would transfer Red Hat Ceph Storage (RHCS) and Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) to the IBM Storage Hybrid Cloud Data Storage Platform. According to IBM, Red Hat Storage associates will transfer to IBM, indicating no plans to reduce staffing.