SUSE Acquires Losant: Extending the Open Edge Stack into Industrial IoT

SUSE announced the acquisition of Losant, a Cincinnati-based industrial IoT (IIoT) platform. The acquisition marks a material expansion for SUSE, moving the company from being primarily an edge infrastructure provider (built around SUSE Linux Micro and K3s) to the application and orchestration layer, where operational data from industrial devices is aggregated, visualized, and acted on.
Research Report: Beyond Legacy Virtualization: Wind River’s Modern Alternative for Enterprise Infrastructure

Wind River Cloud Platform emerges as a compelling enterprise-grade alternative that addresses both immediate VMware challenges and long-term infrastructure modernization needs. Built on proven open-source technologies including StarlingX, Kubernetes, and OpenStack, the platform delivers unified management of both virtual machines and containers under a single, highly automated infrastructure solution.
DataCore Acquires StarWind, Expands HCI Capabilities from Core to Edge

DataCore Software, a long-time player in software-defined storage (SDS) and data infrastructure, announced the acquisition of StarWind Software, a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) vendor best known for serving edge and ROBO environments
NVIDIA, Wind River & NTT DOCOMO Deliver First GPU-Accelerated 5G vRAN Solution

NVIDIA, along with Japanese telecom provider NTT DOCOMO, recently announced a pioneering GPU-accelerated commercial Open RAN 5G built on NVIDIA, Fujitsu, and Wind River technology. This marks the world’s first deployment of a GPU-accelerated commercial 5G network by a telecom provider.