Wind River®Private Cloud Suite 26.03 — which encompasses Wind River Cloud Platform, OpenStack, Conductor, andAnalytics improves performance, security, operations continuity, and system flexibility. This release has several enhancements. The new features help cloud infrastructure managers, network operationsengineers, and site reliability engineers (and the organizations that employ them) achieve resilient operations fromedge to core. They can enjoy more confidence and effective results across compute performance, orchestration, identitygovernance, and lifecycle automation. ARCHITECTURAL FLEXIBILITY FOR DISTRIBUTED DEPLOYMENTS The Private Cloud Suite 26.03 release optimizes the platform for faster lifecycle operations, operational agility, andefficient infrastructure utilization across distributed deployments. A hardware-agnostic approach takes advance of high-performance compute ecosystems to offer architectural choiceacross distributed and edge environments. That system design enables deployment on diverse processor architecturesso organizations can align their infrastructure decisions with performance requirements, cost objectives, and long-termmodernization strategies. In Private Cloud Suite 26.03, hardware support includes: •Intel®Xeon®6 performance foundation:Powered by Intel Xeon 6, this strengthens performance at the edge,supporting AI, telco, and enterprise applications in real time.•AMD EPYC platform expansion:Hardware support is expanded with deployment onAMD EPYC–based serversfor mission-critical private cloud environments. This flexible, high-performance compute foundation enablesorganizations to support real-time RAN workloads and AI-driven applications on shared infrastructure. Distributed deployments demand system efficiency, especially for routine upgrades and patches. The optimizedreboot and service initialization in Private Cloud Suite 26.03 minimizes reboot duration, which reduces maintenanceactivities’ impact. That lowers downtime exposure, deploys updates faster, and helps technical staff respond faster toinfrastructure changes. Targeted refinements to startup and shutdown sequences make service management better by eliminatingunnecessary configuration checks and removing services not required for specific deployments. Efficient shutdownhandling reduces reboot time by approximately 20% for single-node cluster (all-in-one simplex), depending on hardwareand workload dependencies. UP-LEVELING SECURITY FEATURES The security capabilities in Private Cloud Suite empower organizations to protect private cloud environments withgreater consistency, operational control, and confidence from edge to core. Release 26.03 additions include: •Zero-trust protection to centralize identity integration:Private Cloud Suite 26.03 strengthens access governanceto align private cloud authentication with enterprise identity and access management (IAM) frameworks and reduceadministrative complexity. •Enterprise OpenID Connect (OIDC) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) integration:Wind River Cloud Platformconnects with OIDC-compatible identity providers (IdPs), including solutions that enforce MFA. The result is strongeraccess controls, consistent policy enforcement, and centralized credential governance, without creating additionalidentity silos. That’s accomplished by federating authentication for StarlingX APIs, Kubernetes services, andmanagement interfaces using existing corporate identity systems. •Improved integration for enterprise lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) and Active Directory:PrivateCloud Suite 26.03 continues to support both Cloud Platform local LDAP and remote LDAP (Windows ActiveDirectory) back ends. In this release, that integration extends to additional platform interfaces and remote centralizedauthentication capabilities within OpenStack. Organizations now can authenticate users using an internally manageddirectory or an existing enterprise Active Directory infrastructure. Consolidating access control across infrastructureand virtualization layers helps the suite reduce fragmented identity stores, simplify user lifecycle management, andenhance auditability and compliance alignment across distributed environments. •Enforced least-privilege access using granular role-based access control (RBAC):With flexible, policy-driven RBAC,organizations can define custom roles aligned with operational responsibilities. Security policies remain consistentand scalable as deployments expand across sites and regions. MAKE OPERATIONS EASIER One goal for Private Cloud 26.03 is to help organizations transform their operations from reactive management toproactive, automated continuity. That’s accomplished by integrating infrastructure orchestration, lifecycle governance,workload protection, and service automation — tasks that are largely managed through Wind River Conductor, part ofPrivate Cloud Suite. Subcloud rehoming:Conductor now provides subcloud rehoming, which permits technical