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As the world prepares for the next era of human spaceflight, ensuring the health of astronauts on missions to the Moon and Mars is a top priority. However, it presents a significant challenge for missions the farther away from Earth we go: providing high-quality medical care when real-time communication with Earth-based doctors could be limited or impossible.Researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are testing the Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant (CMO-DA) to meet this challenge. Powered by RamaLama for local AI inference, this clinical decision support system is designed t

AI coding assistants are transforming software development. The debate is no longer about whether to adopt them, but how to integrate them without compromising platform security, code quality, or operational compliance.AI has changed the economics of code productionWhether you're developing software in a proprietary enterprise or open source environment, you've witnessed a fundamental shift over the past year. Your developers are using AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT Codex, etc.) to accelerate development. Productivity gains are real—features can ship faste

This past March, the community gathered for Red Hat OpenShift Commons in Amsterdam. As the "zero day" kickoff to KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, there was no shortage of innovative presentations and discussions, but one session stood out, "Sit, Stay, Deploy: Teaching a Robot Dog with Red Hat OpenShift." Figure 1., ITQ staffers Johan van Amersfoort, Chief Evangelist and AI Lead, and Sander Harrewijnen, Technologist speaking at the OpenShift Commons Gathering in Amsterdam.Presented by ITQ staffers Johan van Amersfoort, Chief Evangelist and AI Lead, and Sander Harrewijnen, Technologist, t

Every technology—from the steam engine to the smartphone—follows a predictable arc: slow start, explosive ascent, then a plateau as physics or economics set in. This arc is the innovation S-curve, and it's a lens for understanding why Broadcom bought VMware, why Kubernetes has defied all expectations, and why the jump from hypervisors to cloud-native platforms is the most consequential architectural decision a modern enterprise can make.The 3 phases of the S-curveThe S-curve plots time or effort against performance or adoption, always producing the same shape.Phase 1 - Ferment: Progress is

For years, the industrial world has anticipated the imminent shift toward open automation. Initiatives like OPAF, Industry 4.0, and Margo have signaled a move, but the missing ingredient has been the technical rigor required to take these concepts from slide decks to the plant floor.The journey of IT and OT convergence continues to evolve. To move from vision to reality, IT and OT teams are finding new ways to align their specialized expertise. Achieving meaningful results requires a collaborative approach that respects the rigorous demands of the factory floor while leveraging the agility of

Artificial intelligence is a long-standing operational asset for telecommunication service providers, but the focus has shifted from localized capabilities to massive scale and quick return on investment. Telco service providers need to deliver real, industrial-scale results. My message to Red Hat partners is clear: Technology alone will not determine who wins the enterprise AI race. Success depends entirely on ecosystem alignment.According to a report from MIT, roughly 80% of AI initiatives fail to deliver tangible value because of misalignment between technology and business functions. Servi

For years, the telecommunications industry has looked at sovereignty through a defensive lens. It was treated as a compliance checklist and an (understandable) regulatory requirement for telco networks.After meeting with several customers across the globe at both MWC and Red Hat Summit this year, one clear takeaway is that the defensive era is over and sovereignty represents a new business opportunity where service providers can differentiate.Today, sovereignty is about control as a currency and differentiator. In a world where AI is the new engine of growth, the ability to maintain data resid

You've picked a model. Maybe it's a 70 billion parameter large model because someone on the team saw it top a leaderboard. Now you need it running in production on your Red Hat OpenShift AI cluster. So you start tuning batch sizes, figuring out quantization, sizing GPU requests, writing Kubernetes manifests, and hoping the out of memory errors stop before your deadline hits.We've watched this play out enough times to see the pattern. The hard part of enterprise AI isn't just picking a model, it's the stretch between "this model looks good" and "this model is serving traffic reliably." That str

Enterprise organizations are pushing past initial AI experimentation, shifting priorities from testing isolated models to safely deploying governable, production-ready workflows across the open hybrid cloud. Managing this transition requires an infrastructure strategy that balances rapid automation and platform innovation with a rock-solid security posture that safeguards data perimeters against emerging threats. Check out this curated roundup of the top cross-portfolio posts our readers are exploring right now. The content spans from groundbreaking command-line AI assistants and quantum-resis

Many organizations now operate under strict data governance requirements—whether driven by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), or NIS2 directive, by other national security classifications, or by sector-specific regulations in financial services, healthcare, government, and defense. These organizations, like everyone today, are increasingly seeking to adopt AI-powered infrastructure management and intelligence, but regulatory constraints mean they must figure out how to do so without sending data to the cloud.Red Hat Lightspeed (fo

Securing the enterprise software fabric: A blueprint for open sourceSecuring the software supply chain is a collective industry challenge, one that no single enterprise can solve alone. Through Project Lightwell, we are collaborating with a premier cohort of financial and critical infrastructure leaders to establish a secure enterprise clearinghouse. Learn more Raleigh News Observer - Raleigh’s Red Hat, IBM have a $5B plan to defend the software we use every dayRaleigh News Observer dives into IBM and Red Hat's Project Lightwell, a $5 billion initiative backed by 20,000 engineers to act as

The managed services market is navigating an unprecedented inflection point. For many service providers, recent changes in licensing and vendor partner tiers have elevated costs from a standard operational challenge into an existential threat to business continuity. If your organization has been de-certified, leaving you at risk of operating without valid VMware licensing, or if your virtualization cost overhead now compromises your profit margins, the key business question is no longer if you should migrate but how fast you can execute a transition to protect your customers and your business.

For decades, the power industry has relied on "black box" proprietary appliances. While reliable, these hard-wired fixed-function devices have created a landscape of vendor lock-in, where hardware refresh cycles (often lasting 20 years) dictate the pace of software innovation. The operational effort required just to apply a cyber-security patch can be immense, diverting resources that could be focused on introducing new functionality or AI capabilities.As we face a global talent shortage and the urgent need to integrate renewables and AI data center demands into the grid, the status quo is no

Last year, we released the automation intelligent assistant (formerly Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant), a generative AI service accessed through a chatbot embedded within Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Using a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipeline connected to Red Hat documentation and other trusted resources, the intelligent assistant allows administrators to use natural language prompts to help them manage and troubleshoot Ansible Automation Platform without leaving the platform UI. The automation intelligent assistant in the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platfor

Image builder for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a powerful tool for creating custom RHEL images with pre-installed software and configurations. It helps organizations standardize deployments, bring consistency, and reduce manual effort, generating ready-to-deploy images for virtual machines (VM), cloud, and bare metal. Image builder for RHEL can be used as a hosted service on the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console or as an on-premise service from the RHEL command-line interface and the RHEL web console.What's new for the image builder command-line interface in RHEL 10.2 and 9.8?The image-builde

At the OpenShift Commons gathering in Amsterdam at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon earlier this year, attendees got a front-row seat to the digital transformation of one of the world's most complex hubs. Roel Donker, Technology Lead within Royal Schiphol Group, joined Maxim Burgerhout, Principal Account Solution Architect at Red Hat, to discuss how the airport is utilizing Red Hat OpenShift to prepare for a "hybrid future." Image 1: Roel Donker, Technology Lead within Royal Schiphol Group, joined Maxim Burgerhout, Principal Account Solution Architect at Red Hat speaking at the OpenShift Commons Gathe

Lately, headlines dominated by AI-driven zero-day vulnerabilities have raised a question: Is open source software becoming too risky for the enterprise? With open source comprising more than three-quarters of the average enterprise codebase, the question matters. But the answer is clear: open source software remains inherently safe, structurally resilient, and fundamentally secure.Open source effectively serves as the foundation for all of modern technology, not just enterprise IT, and this is about much more than just Linux. Application servers, databases, network routing, developer environme

As telecommunications (telco) mobile networks evolve from physical hardware to virtualized and containerized infrastructure, the volume of necessary network element upgrades has increased exponentially. For Telstra, Australia’s leading telco and technology company, this shift makes traditional manual network configuration unsustainable.To support a connected future, Telstra needed to move beyond manual intervention and embrace a strategy where the network could manage, protect, and optimize itself. Telstra modernized its approach by transitioning to Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, shift

Every team that moves an AI model from experimentation to production hits the same wall. The model works. The serving stack works. Then someone asks how the continuous integration (CI) pipeline is going to authenticate, and the room gets quiet.What happens next is predictable. A developer's personal token gets copied into a secret. Or a service account gets created with more access than anyone intended, shared across pipelines, and forgotten. The traffic flows. Nobody knows whose budget it counts against. When that developer moves teams 6 months later, the credential lives on in places nobody

The initial release of the RISC-V Developer Preview, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.0, was in May 2025. Today, Red Hat is releasing a software refresh to that Developer Preview to update the code to RHEL 10.2. The hardware platform remains the same (SiFive HiFive Premier P550), but the new release contains more of the upstream code specifically for that platform as well as incremental upstream updates for support of the RISC-V instruction set architecture. Red Hat continues to work to integrate RISC-V support into the upstream community.The addition of the upstream code may enable