--- title: The Agentic Era Demands a New Class of Infrastructure:... description: DigitalOcean has acquired Katanemo Labs, the team behind the open-source agentic data plane Plano, as part of its strategy to become the premier Agentic... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-agentic-era-demands-a-new-class-of-infrastructure-why-digitalocean-is-acquiring-katanemo-labs--l4n7cs4st twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Agentic Era Demands a New Class of Infrastructure: Why DigitalOcean is Acquiring Katanemo Labs, Inc. | daily.dev og:description: DigitalOcean has acquired Katanemo Labs, the team behind the open-source agentic data plane Plano, as part of its strategy to become the premier Agentic... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-agentic-era-demands-a-new-class-of-infrastructure-why-digitalocean-is-acquiring-katanemo-labs--l4n7cs4st og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/L4n7Cs4st.png og:image:alt: The Agentic Era Demands a New Class of Infrastructure: Why DigitalOcean is Acquiring Katanemo Labs, Inc. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Agentic Era Demands a New Class of Infrastructure: Why DigitalOcean is Acquiring Katanemo Labs, Inc. **[DigitalOcean](https://daily.dev/sources/do)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary DigitalOcean has acquired Katanemo Labs, the team behind the open-source agentic data plane Plano, as part of its strategy to become the premier Agentic Inference Cloud. The acquisition brings a framework-agnostic 'NoOps' data plane for AI agents, agentic observability capabilities, and research into Small Action Models (SAMs) like the Arch-Agent family. The goal is to close the prototype-to-production gap that 61% of developers cite as their biggest AI challenge, by providing built-in orchestration, workflow execution, and safety protocols so teams can focus on agent logic rather than infrastructure assembly. Katanemo's co-founder Salman Paracha joins as SVP of Agentic AI Engineering. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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