Pliant Acquired by IBM to bolster Network IT Automation capabilities

IBM is announcing that it has acquired Pliant, a leading provider of network and IT infrastructure automation products.

Pliant adds essential capabilities to automate network and IT infrastructure tasks and abstract these functions to the application layer, enabling applications (and developers) maximum control for simplified provisioning and management of infrastructure directly within applications themselves. These optimizations include infrastructure resource provisioning and management, traffic management and configuration management for both traditional network & IT infrastructure and public clouds.

Ranovus, AMD demo enhanced co-packaged optics for AI/ML at OFC 2023

Their efforts included an interoperability demonstration of AMD’s Versal adaptive SoCs co-packaged with Ranovus’ Odin 800G direct-drive optical engine with third-party 800G DR8+ retimed pluggable modules.