The OpenStack foundation is holding a summit in Hong Kong this week, and a barrage of vendors used the event to roll out new products and upgrades of existing ones designed to further integrate with the popular open source cloud architecture and operating system.

Here is a look at a few of them:

AMD adds support for OpenStack bare metal features

Chip-maker-turned-server-vendor AMD announced that its SeaMicro SM15000 server now supports the bare metal features in OpenStack Compute – the cloud server provisioning part of OpenStack. Instead of provisioning virtual machines, the bare metal features are there to provision actual hardware server nodes.

In AMD's words, bare metal cloud is for users that want more predictable performance than a shared environment offers. It is a way around the delays that may result from multiple virtual machines competing for the same physical resources of a host server.

The SM15000 is AMD's microserver that packs up to 512 compute cores, 160Gb of I/O and five petabytes of storage in a 10-rack-unit box. The resources are interconnected by the Freedom fabric, which received through its acquisition of the server vendor SeaMicro in 2012.

Cloudian and Penguin build Intel Atom-based object storage product

Cloud storage software company Cloudian has partnered with server vendor Penguin Computing and Intel Corp. on a bundled turnkey storage server optimized for OpenStack. Cloudian's object storage technology also supports APIs (application programming interfaces) of Amazon's cloud storage service S3.

The solution is built by Penguin and powered by Intel's Atom C2000 processors, the chip maker's answer to low-power ARM processors for servers a number of vendors are bringing to market next year.

This is Foster City, California-based Cloudian's first entry into the OpenStack market. The company's solution has been deployed in non-OpenStack environments by NTT and LunaCloud among others.

Red Hat upgrades CloudForms with more OpenStack support

Open source software company Red Hat has released the latest version of its cloud management platform: CloudForms 3.0. The release adds enterprise-grade cloud management capabilities for the company's Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and more management features for Amazon Web Services.

CloudForms is a virtual appliance for central management and automation of workloads throughout their lifecycles. It includes features like self-service portals, chargeback and metering and multi-site management.

The expanded capabilities mean support of management and automation for VMware vSphere, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and the Amazon cloud infrastructure services by Red Hat's OpenStack distribution. With support for both OpenStack and Amazon, users can have a single-interface management solution for workloads in the public cloud and in their private clouds.

OpenStack Horizon at core of HP's public cloud console

HP announced that its new public cloud management solution, the Public Cloud Console, has at its core OpenStack Horizon, a web-based user interface for OpenStack services, such as Nova, Swift and Keystone. It provides compute, storage and database provisioning as well as load balancing and other public cloud services.

HP's console adds things like identity management capabilities, networkign topology maps and support for the company's cloud relational database service.