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This series takes a look at the people and planning that went into building and releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. From the earliest conceptual stages to the launch at Red Hat Summit 2025, we’ll hear firsthand accounts of how RHEL 10 came into being.At Red Hat Summit 2025, we announced the latest version of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10. This release was much more than a few minor enhancements or feature additions; RHEL 10 delivers AI-powered Linux management, post-quantum cryptography capabilities and containers as the native languag

We’re delighted to welcome Navtez Singh Bal to Red Hat as a general manager for Red Hat India and South Asia region. In his new role, Navtez will be responsible for Red Hat’s business operations in a dynamic region with accelerated growth. Navtez brings over 25 years of broad industry experience, a proven track record of leading transformative strategies, and a deep commitment to delivering customer success. Prior to joining Red Hat, Navtez held several leadership roles, including chief operating officer for India at Microsoft, senior partner at McKinsey India, and vice president and gener

I have honed my expertise in digital sovereignty in recent years largely as a result of it being one of the things our EMEA-based partners and customers always ask about. There is no one unifying reason for this increased interest in digital sovereignty, but rather several converging factors are accelerating its urgency.The most obvious is geopolitical instability. Sanctions and trade wars continue to disrupt global business operations. As reported, a coalition of nearly 100 organisations has urged European Commission leaders to establish a dedicated fund for building technological independenc

Building on our commitment to simplify, empower and grow with our partners, Red Hat is excited to announce the latest enhancements to our global partner engagement experience. These updates underscore our ongoing transformation efforts to provide greater simplicity, choice and flexibility for our valued partner ecosystem.The epoch-making shift in the technology landscape, fueled by breakthroughs in AI and the dynamic world of virtualization, is reshaping every industry. Red Hat’s partner ecosystem is pivotal in helping customers navigate these seismic shifts and capitalize on emerging opport

In 2013, Redmonk analyst Steven O’Grady positioned application developers as the new kingmakers. It was a role that enterprise IT had served since the rise of business-driven computing. First, systems administrators held the keys to the kingdom by having the (then) esoteric knowledge of the operating system - but as Linux took hold in the late 90s/early 00s, the applications, not the OS, took center stage. This made developers the unlikely “voice behind the throne” in a CxO monarchy. But we’re looking at another shift in royalty fabrication with the continued velocity of generative AI

This week at Red Hat OpenShift Commons taking place at Red Hat Summit in Boston we had the chance to recognize a few OpenShift Superheroes. While each member of the OpenShift community is a hero, helping contribute to the project’s success and growth, some members really stand out. These contributors are the advocates and champions that make the community strong and successful.OpenShift Superheroes are made up of:Builders: contributing to the evolution of OpenShiftAdvocates: amplifying their OpenShift experience and learnings through events, blogs, meetups and more.Ambassadors: shares knowle

The hybrid cloud era demands agility and a clear path to future innovation, with generative AI (gen AI) serving as a powerful catalyst for change. Organizations are now navigating the critical juncture of optimizing existing virtualization investments while strategically building a foundation for modern applications and AI-driven workloads.Integrated directly within Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization acts as a dynamic bridge, connecting established virtualization environments with the transformative potential of cloud-native applications. This approach simplifies the moderniza

On the calendar, a year has 365 days. But in the world of AI, it often feels like every month brings a year’s worth of new innovation. This kind of speed can be exciting. However, the level of change required to take advantage of the increasing innovation invokes a range of emotions that ask us to both predict the future and try to place ourselves in this new future. This tension is being faced by every business executive, as well as every individual whose day-to-day role will be impacted by AI. As someone who closely tracks technology history and technology trends, I’m constantly asking m

For nearly two decades, the Red Hat Innovation Awards have celebrated the groundbreaking technological achievements of our customers worldwide. These organizations demonstrate visionary problem-solving, leveraging the power of open source to drive significant impact across industries and society. This year’s winners are Aramco, CAE, CalHEERS and the City of Vienna. A community-wide, online voting process will determine which customer is distinguished as the 2025 Red Hat Innovator of the Year. Voting is now open and will close at 9 a.m. ET on May 15. The winner will be announced on May 21, 20

Summary:Meta released its newest version of the Llama model family this weekend–Llama 4As a leading commercial contributor to the vLLM project, Red Hat collaborated with the Meta team to help enable Day Zero support for Llama 4 inference with vLLMFurthermore, the Red Hat OpenShift AI team has enabled our customers to experiment with Llama 4 using the latest release of vLLM inside their OpenShift AI environments.Read on to get started with inferencing the Llama 4 Heard inside OpenShift AI!Over the April 5 weekend, Meta released its newest version of the Llama model family–Llama 4, enabling

This week at Red Hat OpenShift Commons in London we had the chance to recognize a few OpenShift Superheroes. While each member of the OpenShift community is a hero, helping contribute to the project’s success and growth, some members really stand out. These contributors are the advocates and champions that make the community strong and successful.OpenShift Superheroes are made up of:Builders: contributing to the evolution of OpenShiftAdvocates: amplifying their OpenShift experience and learnings through events, blogs, meetups and more.Ambassadors: shares knowledge across diverse teams, indus

Today, we are proud to announce that Red Hat has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2025. The 2025 list recognizes 609 organizations across 58 sectors and regions, all businesses that are shaping industry and culture through innovations that set new standards and achieve remarkable milestones in all sectors of the economy.For context, here’s what Fast Company Editor-in-Chief Brendan Vaughan says about this year’s list:“Our list of the Most Innovative Companies offers both a comprehensive look at innovation today and a playbook fo

The upcoming Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering in London is taking place on April 1, co-located alongside KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe. OpenShift Commons Gatherings bring together users, partners, customers, contributors and upstream project leads to collaborate and work together across the OpenShift cloud-native ecosystem. Next month’s event is shaping up to have a great line up of end-users who will be sharing use cases, insights into their workloads and lessons learned along the way. The event will also feature an Ask-me-Anything area, breakout sessions, labs and the presentation of

Today, we are sharing news that Carolyn Nash, Red Hat’s senior vice president and chief operating officer (COO), will retire after a 35-year career spanning numerous leadership positions and more than eight years with Red Hat. Bobby Leibrock will step into a combined role of senior vice president, chief operating officer and chief financial officer, effective immediately. Carolyn will remain with Red Hat in an advisory capacity through June 2025 to assist with the transition. As part of this move, Marco Bill has been named senior vice president and chief information officer, reporting to Bob

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly paving the way for technological innovation across countless industries and has infiltrated many of our day-to-day activities–especially in education. Educational institutions have increasingly adopted AI technology in the spirit of innovating teaching and learning practices and providing greater access to educational resources. History, for example, is a core subject that can benefit from the use of AI to enrich and synthesize the context of historical events, figures and movements as additional background information and sources are uncovered–and R

How many times have you had to start running a program on your terminal, and then… you’re just stuck there? Suddenly, you can’t close out your terminal or multi-task.Well, no more–kind of!With the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AI 1.4, Red Hat is introducing background process management for developer preview. This feature enables you to run the synthetic data generation (SDG) process in the background by allowing you to detach it from the terminal, spin off child processes to remain running in the background, monitor the status, reattach the process to bring it back and te

Large language models (LLMs) are evolving rapidly enabling applications such as chatbots, code generation, and knowledge extraction. One crucial factor influencing their effectiveness is the context length - the number of tokens a model can look at once. While theoretical context lengths continue to grow, the practical, effective context length (ECL) determines real-world usability.In this blog post, we will explore the ECL of the Granite-3.1-8b instruct model and validate its capabilities across various tasks. The study takes its inspiration from the paper "Measuring Effective Context Length

The field of generative AI (gen AI) is evolving rapidly, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) is at the forefront of this transformation. RHEL AI 1.4 introduces support for a new, powerful Granite 3.1 model with multi-language support and a larger context window. The latest version also adds capabilities for evaluating customized and trained models with Document-Knowledge bench (DK-bench), a benchmark designed to measure the knowledge a model has acquired. Finally, we’re introducing the developer preview of our new graphical UI that helps to simplify data ingestion and writing InstructL

In every release of our products, the User Experience Design team at Red Hat (UXD) prioritizes implementing work that directly relates to customer feedback and insights. For a nascent product like RHEL AI, we have had to be creative about doing so. Feedback channels we used for this upcoming release to help us continuously improve the experience include upstream community engagement and direct feedback from users via Slack, interviews with internal team members, interviews with AI users and enthusiasts who may be interested in adopting RHEL AI, and examining our competitive landscape. This has

Editor’s note: Earlier today, president and chief executive officer of Red Hat, Matt Hicks, shared the following email with Red Hatters.--Hi all,Today, we’re sharing that Red Hat and IBM will join forces to secure the future of the Java application ecosystem for our customers. The Red Hat middleware engineering and product teams will join the IBM Data Security, IAM, and Runtimes organization, forming a single team.* This move supports and grows our combined customer footprint, and builds a unified product strategy for the future of Java applications and Integration solutions in the era of