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Red Hat Enhances Enterprise Stability with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle, PremiumRed Hat launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle Premium, offering a predictable 14-year life cycle for major releases. This new subscription simplifies support for mission-critical, change-averse workloads, providing organizations in highly regulated industries with greater operational certainty and long-term infrastructure stability. Learn more Red Hat and Google Cloud Expand Collaboration to Accelerate Application Modernization and Cloud Migration with Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat and

One of the strengths of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is its flexible automation of an array of use cases across ITOps. It includes multiple options to help you jumpstart new automation projects, using Ansible Content Collections. With Ansible Content Collections, you can access more than 200 Red Hat Ansible-certified and validated collections, built and delivered by partners and Red Hat so you can automate more quickly. In this blog post, you’ll learn about new and updated content for some of the most common use cases. So, let’s jump into it!Comprehensive Microsoft Windows automatio

The promise of large language models (LLMs) is clear. From code generation to customer support, from document analysis to creative workflows, organizations everywhere are racing to integrate LLMs into their products and operations. The enterprise LLM market is projected to grow from $6 billion in 2025 to over $50 billion by 2035. But behind the excitement lies a practical challenge—serving LLMs in production can be expensive, inefficient, and operationally complex.The production scale challengesInference cost is the real billThere's a common misconception that training is where most of the m

Red Hat is proud to announce industry-leading results from the latest MLPerf Inference v6.0 benchmarks, achieved through deep engineering co-design with NVIDIA. These results demonstrate that when you combine Red Hat’s open-source leadership with NVIDIA’s leading AI infrastructure, the result is a versatile, proven platform ready for any enterprise inference workload—from vision and speech to complex reasoning.Our latest submissions focused on maximizing the potential of the NVIDIA HGX H200 and NVIDIA HGX B200 systems, proving that software optimization is just as critical as raw horsepo

For organizations managing mission-critical workloads, long-term stability and predictability are not just preferences—they are necessities. Recognizing this need, Red Hat is proud to introduce Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Extended Life Cycle, Premium, a new, stand-alone offering designed to provide easily consumable, significantly longer life cycles for your most vital systems.This premium offering builds upon the solid foundation of the RHEL Premium subscription, extending maintenance beyond the traditional ten year timeline. It is an indispensable solution for highly regulated industri

As the first quarter of 2026 comes to a close, we have seen a shift in the role of network automation. It's no longer a "nice to have" and instead is a critical support for AI-driven workloads, edge computing, and hybrid cloud environments. For network operations (NetOps) teams, there has been a transition from managing individual devices to orchestrating entire service delivery frameworks.The momentum we've seen this past quarter highlights that Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is the standard trusted execution layer for this transformation. Organizations are moving away from isolated team

Most leaders I speak with are well past the hype cycle of AI. The question is no longer whether AI matters. The question is how to move from experimentation to production in a way that is security-focused, supportable, and repeatable across teams.From where I sit—leading strategy and operations for AI Platform Core Components (AIPCC), an engineering function within Red Hat’s AI Engineering organization—that shift changes everything. The conversation moves from a tooling decision to an operating model decision. A strong AI platform is the foundation that helps teams ship AI-enabled capabi

Red Hat is proud to announce our strong results from the latest industry-standard MLPerf Inference v6.0 benchmark. Our submission includes four AI workloads (Whisper-Large-v3, GPT-OSS-120B, Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B, and Llama-2-70b) on NVIDIA (H200, B200, L40S) and AMD (MI350X) GPUs, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat OpenShift AI with our open source inference stack: vLLM, and llm-d. We achieved top scores across several configurations, including the highest offline throughput on B200 for GPT-OSS-120B, the leading H200 result on Whisper, and the top B200 submission on Qwen3-VL,

As AI workloads move from experimental prototypes into production environments, enterprises face a familiar challenge—how do you protect, manage, and govern these new components with the same rigor you apply to traditional software applications? A key piece of the puzzle lies in something your organization likely already uses extensively—containers, specifically Open Container Initiative (OCI) containers.What is the Open Container Initiative?The Open Container Initiative defines open specifications for image formats, container runtimes, and distribution, helping organizations avoid vendor

In the first part of this series, we discussed the messy and challenging work of fixing our foundation—standardizing on Red Hat OpenShift and cleaning up years of fragmented data. With that foundation in place, we faced a new challenge: how to integrate AI into how Red Hatters work without creating new internal barriers or security risks.Moving from policy to participationWhen gen AI first arrived, we made a mistake common to many enterprises: we led with a policy of "no." Our first move was to release a dense legal document so restrictive that it inadvertently discouraged people from explor

There are a lot of choices when it comes to container base images, so why should you select Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI)? First of all, the code in Red Hat Universal Base Image is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and the mission of RHEL is to be your source for safe and reliable Linux innovation that makes your workloads successful. Because all containers are Linux, and UBI is derived from RHEL, the same values apply to UBI, including:Innovate: Organizations are constantly looking to innovate quickly without friction and provide consistency from the data center to the edge b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.0 Extended Update Support (EUS) has been included in the Catalogue of Information and Communication Technology Security Products and Services (CPSTIC) of the National Cryptologic Centre (CCN). This inclusion enables RHEL for deployment in public sector bodies operating under the strictest requirements of Spain's National Security Framework (ENS).The ENS is the rigorous cybersecurity framework mandatory not only for all Spanish public administrations but also for the extensive network of private companies that provide them with services. It is a regulation aime

Organizations running Microsoft SQL Server 2025 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in Azure can now install and integrate with the SQL IaaS Agent extension (see SQL Server IaaS Agent Extension for Linux - SQL Server on Azure VMs), which enables full licensing flexibility for their SQL deployment. As of today, the extension supports three licensing options. When registering in lightweight mode, you can choose:PAYG (Pay-As-You-Go): Pay per usage. The pay-as-you-go model means that the per-second cost of running the Azure VM includes the cost of the SQL Server license.AHB (Azure Hybrid Benefit):

At Red Hat, our IT and Engineering functions encounter the same challenges and make the same decisions our customers face every day, from infrastructure optimization and application delivery to automating and enhancing the security of our global business. Right now, almost every organization we talk to is navigating the complexities of an AI journey, and we’re in that same boat. As users of our own products—because we love and believe in the technology we build—we want to pull back the curtain on our internal experience. We hope that the lessons we’ve learned through some foresight an

The data is there. The insight isn't.Telecommunications networks generate unprecedented volumes of telemetry. Every authentication attempt, packet flow, device heartbeat, controller update, and service interaction produces telemetry. As networks expand into Wi-Fi offload, 5G standalone, and distributed edge deployments, that volume continues to grow. Yet turning that data into operational intelligence remains one of the industry's hardest challenges.The challenge for operators today is not collection. It is a correlation. Modern networks produce multiple operational signals simultaneously: Net

Security is an important aspect of any digital undertaking, and Kubernetes is no different. We’ve built Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes to form a foundational layer of security across fleets, estates, and platforms, be it public, private, or hybrid clouds. Today we release Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes version 4.10 as part of our ongoing effort to make life easier for Red Hat OpenShift users when it comes to building and enforcing security policies for their clusters.Chief among these updates is the new integration of vulnerability management into OpenShif

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4.21 is now Generally Available. The release of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4.21 introduces new capabilities that simplify virtual machine (VM) management, enhance operational efficiency, and expand deployment flexibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This release brings streamlined VM administration with multi-cluster management, guided networking configuration through new physical and virtual network creation workflows, and generative AI–powered assistance with OpenShift Lightspeed integrated directly into virtualization operations. Addi

Red Hat news and announcements from KubeCon + CloudNativeConSee the latest Red Hat news and content from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Amsterdam, including updates on OpenShift 4.21, cloud-native security, and AI. Learn more SiliconANGLE - Red Hat sees inference as AI’s next battleground — with Kubernetes at the coreAs AI demands drive orders-of-magnitude increases in token consumption, the challenge now is less about training larger models than about running them reliably, cost-effectively and at scale. Red Hat has contributed llm-d, an open-source project for running LLMs across K

Moving to the edge isn't just a trend; it’s a response to the need for faster results. By processing data right where it’s created, organizations are finding they can finally unlock real-time decision-making and make their operations significantly more efficient.Whether it’s a factory floor, a wind turbine, or a retail backroom, the edge is where the most impactful business data is being generated. Most operational leaders already recognize that moving processing power closer to that data is the key to transforming how they work. The real challenge, however, isn’t just getting there—

In our first 3 articles, we framed AI security as protecting the system, not just the model, across confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and we showed why the traditional secure development lifecycle (SDLC) discipline still applies to modern AI deployments. We also focused on guardrails and different architectural approaches such as dual LLMs and CaMeL to help protect against prompt injection and unsafe actions.This article completes the defense strategy by focusing on the backbone that makes guardrails enforceable in production—identity, authentication, authorization, and zero trus