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As Ansible adoption grows, a challenge can arise: How do organizations track automation efforts across the entire enterprise? A common solution is to establish a Center of Excellence (CoE) for Ansible, helping organizations move from isolated automation efforts to a scalable, coordinated enterprise strategy. What is a Center of Excellence for Ansible?A CoE for Ansible is a group responsible for setting automation standards and promoting Ansible’s collaborative open source nature. The CoE acts as an enablement and governance body, allowing for more effective automation across the organization

As AI workloads move from experimentation to production, enterprises are consolidating GPU infrastructure into shared platforms. However, organizations that take this road face several tradeoffs. For instance, instead of dedicating entire accelerator nodes to a single workload, organizations are increasingly aiming to support multiple tenants per node. This boosts overall efficiency, because underutilizing GPUs by dedicating them to individual workloads increases infrastructure cost. But in such multitenant GPU environments, poor isolation can lead to serious issues, including performance inte

In the telecommunications industry, the Radio Access Network (RAN) has moved from a set of fixed functions to a dynamic, software-defined environment that is characterized by cloud-native technologies and methodologies that will be fundamental within the AI-native 6G era. By integrating AI with wireless infrastructure, service providers can improve network efficiency, reduce power consumption, and unlock new revenue streams through innovative edge services.Red Hat has demonstrated another milestone in this evolution, running the recently open sourced version of the NVIDIA Aerial CUDA-Accelerat

Every organization faces the same pressures: do more with less, move faster, and reduce risk while preparing for an AI-powered future. In this environment, automation is no longer optional—it’s the foundation that makes everything else possible.That’s why at Red Hat Summit 2026 (May 11–14 in Atlanta), we’re showcasing automation that is more accessible, intelligent, and impactful. With nearly 100 sessions, talks, and hands-on labs featuring real-world customer transformations, building the perfect agenda can feel overwhelming. To help you navigate, we’ve curated the definitive list

When Vodafone New Zealand separated from the Vodafone Group to become One New Zealand (One NZ), it faced an opportunity to go beyond a mere rebrand. Like many telecommunications providers, One NZ faced a 2-stack challenge as it managed legacy virtual machines (VMs) alongside modern containerized applications. To support its long-term digital ambitions, it launched the C1 Program, a telco core modernization project that aimed to build a unified, future-ready foundation. The goal was to standardize telco applications on a common platform that could accelerate business outcomes without vendor con

In today’s global volatility, corporate boards are being defined by their ability to manage seismic shifts in risk and navigate constant change. While geopolitical shifts and supply chain disruptions have long been staples of risk committee agendas, a new, more foundational risk has moved from the server room to the boardroom—digital sovereignty.For years, sovereignty was treated as a technical "compliance checkbox"—a matter of data residency or meeting regional privacy mandates. As we look toward 2026, however, the paradigm has shifted. Sovereignty is no longer just a technical umbrell

In the financial services industry, standing still is equivalent to falling behind. As VyStar Credit Union approached the $14 billion asset mark, it faced a pivotal crossroads: The organization had to maintain its growth while meeting the rigorous compliance and delivery demands of a highly regulated industry.Breaking the cycle of manual processesVyStar’s growth had historically been supported by manual efforts that worked well but were becoming increasingly difficult to sustain as the organization scaled. To match the customer experience offered by its competitors, VyStar needed to moderniz

This week, I developed a community operating system image for running AI agents: an agentic OS prototype. It is built using fedora-bootc, a community project that allows for defining a bootable Linux OS directly in a Containerfile. The creation of this agentic OS spotlights a critical evolution: By providing a hardened, image-based environment, it establishes a robust community template for what an agentic OS can look like in practice. It explores how a dedicated runtime built with open source tools could look – an example of open source’s profound ability to deliver a reliable infrastruct

Today, the Fedora Project is excited to announce the general availability of Fedora Linux 44, the latest version of the free and open source operating system. Learn more about the new and updated features of Fedora 44 below and don’t forget to ensure your system is fully up-to-date before upgrading from a previous release.General highlightsAnacondaAnaconda now only creates network profiles for devices configured during installation (by boot options, kickstart or interactively in UI) instead of providing default profiles for all devices. This change will simplify post-instal network configur

We are delighted to welcome Daniel Aw in his new role as the general manager for Red Hat’s Asia Pacific region. In this role, Daniel will lead the next phase of the company’s growth in the region, and advance customer success with AI and open hybrid cloud technology. Daniel brings more than three decades of international experience driving customer satisfaction, sales, and revenue growth. He is known for successfully scaling profitable businesses and expanding operations across Asia Pacific. Prior to this role, Daniel led Red Hat’s enterprise business in the region, helping customers ac

At Red Hat, our deep focus on security doesn't stop at the code, it extends to how we communicate vulnerability information to our partners and customers. Based on valuable feedback from our partner community, Red Hat Product Security is announcing a major evolution in our security data ecosystem—the complete overhaul of our Common Security Advisory Framework (CSAF) and Vulnerability Exploit eXchange (VEX ) files.Why the change?Security data is only as good as its usability. We are modernizing and transforming our formats to improve clarity and simplify integration for the entire security ec

In Norse mythology, the god Heimdall protects the rainbow bridge Bifröst from invaders, a bridge that connects the realm of the gods to the realm of humans. This legend provided the name for Exercise HEIMDALL, a unique initiative held this past February in the High North of Norway. Organized by the NATO Center of Excellence - Cold Weather Operations, the exercise focused on innovating in extreme environments where the rapid development of autonomous systems is changing how organizations maintain situational awareness and operational resilience. Building a foundation of trustHEIMDALL brought

Enterprise AI has officially moved past the "can we build it?" phase. Business leaders aren't just asking how to train a model, they’re asking how to scale, protect, and operationalize these systems to drive return on investment (ROI) without losing control of their data.At Red Hat Summit 2026, you'll be able to dive deep into technical architecture, partner integrations, and other topics through our AI session builder. You can choose from breakout sessions, hands-on labs, demos and network with Red Hat AI specialists, technology partners, and other companies like yours.Here are some of our

Running Llama 70B as an on-demand cloud inference endpoint costs roughly $16,000 per month. Running Llama 8B costs about $734. For teams where an 8B model meets the quality bar for their workload, that gap is very hard to ignore.The question enterprise teams are asking is rarely, "how do we get the most powerful model?" It is almost always, "how do we get a model that's fast enough, accurate enough, and affordable enough to run reliably in our environment?" Those are different questions, and they often lead to different answers, pointing toward smaller models more often than teams expect.The c

5 reasons to go with your team to Red Hat Summit 2026Red Hat Summit is where the global community comes together to solve the industry's biggest challenges, and there is no better way to navigate that future than with your team by your side. Register today to join us in Atlanta, May 11-14. Learn more Red Hat Further Drives Digital Sovereignty for the AI Era with Red Hat OpenShift on Google Cloud DedicatedWe’re bringing Red Hat OpenShift to Google Cloud Dedicated, providing a sovereign-ready foundation for the AI era. This collaboration empowers organizations in highly regulated industries to

Disruption in the virtualization market has not slowed down. The fallout from industry licensing and packaging changes continues to push organizations into decisions they were not planning to make this year, and for many, the timelines are getting shorter, not longer. Over the past 12 months, we have worked with hundreds of organizations navigating exactly this situation, and at Red Hat Summit 2026 (May 11–14, Atlanta), many of them will share what they have learned.The early conversations were almost entirely about migration: how to move virtual machines (VMs) safely, how to avoid downtime,

Looking at the release notes or changelogs for QEMU upstream, you might notice that there's something new in version 11.0:SEV-SNP and TDX machines can now be reset.This is a feature we at Red Hat helped implement. The motivations and associated challenges have been explained in detail in a FOSDEM 2026 presentation. Before this feature was available, some confidential guests (AMD SEV-based guests) could be reset normally like other non-confidential guests. Other confidential guests (like TDX, SEV-ES and SEV-SNP guests) would terminate if a reset was attempted (for example, when you initiate a r

Extending confidential computing from individual workloads to the entire cluster is a new frontier in cloud-native security.Today, Red Hat is announcing the Developer Preview of confidential clusters for Red Hat OpenShift, a new feature of OpenShift that extends confidential computing to the cluster infrastructure level. Confidential clusters establish hardware-rooted trust across every node in an OpenShift cluster, creating a fully attested, encrypted, and verifiable execution environment from the ground up.This Developer Preview is available today for OpenShift on Microsoft Azure, powered by

Organizations are facing difficult decisions on choices of how to accelerate cloud-native innovation without sacrificing the stability of existing business critical applications and systems. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization running on Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated provides the answer, offering a unified foundation that runs both containerized applications and virtual machines (VMs) on the same infrastructure to provide a gradual, risk-mitigated path to cloud-native modernization. Today, we're excited to announce that Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV) is now certified as a supported storage prov

You have probably heard the narrative by now: AI is coming for your job. Headlines suggest that entire professions will soon disappear, replaced by increasingly capable models that can analyze, code, write, and reason faster than any human. But is that really the case?In this blog post, I want to share a practical perspective based on my own daily work. Rather than speculating about the future in abstract terms, I looked at where AI can actually replace parts of my job today. The conclusion is something I will leave for you to decide.First, a bit of context. I work as a senior specialist solut