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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

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

You no doubt have a limited budget and a lot of choices about what industry events to attend—but bringing your whole team to Red Hat Summit 2026 will deliver big benefits. Many organizations came to last year's Red Hat Summit with both decision makers and technical developers, and our research showed that technical practitioners were the most engaged attendees, unlocking the value of the event for their whole organization.This year in Atlanta, we’re focusing on collective innovation. From scaling AI across your organization to managing complex hybrid cloud environments, the challenges you

As enterprise IT enters the era of autonomous workflows, we are excited to introduce the Red Hat Lightspeed Agent for Google Cloud, now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace.The Red Hat Lightspeed Agent for Google Cloud is an enterprise-ready tool designed specifically for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to help Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and IT administrators manage their Red Hat infrastructure on Google Cloud using natural language. Built on the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol using Google’s Gemini models, the agent integrates directly into the Gemini Enterprise environment. The a

In the tech world, we often talk about the "next big thing." But as I’ve shared before, real innovation isn’t just about the initial spark of an idea; it’s about the collective effort required to move that idea from a research lab into a resilient, production-grade environment. It’s about the "and"—combining research and innovation with enterprise operations. That’s why I’m proud to announce that The Open Accelerator is joining the Google for Startups Cloud Program. With this collaboration, participants in The Open Accelerator will gain access to a breadth of Google resources des

In early 2025, I wrote that uncertain times call for greater operational control and IT resiliency. Today, those uncertainties have materialized into a permanent shift in how European organizations view their digital future. By moving AI from the sandbox to the center of the enterprise, the industry has placed a massive new burden on IT infrastructure, making rigorous operational oversight the new baseline for success. Enterprises need greater control over how and where AI runs and a consistent way to govern fast moving technologies like agentic AI.To understand how IT leaders are navigating t

Geopolitical shifts and evolving regulatory frameworks like the EU AI Act, the NIS2 Directive, and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) continue to redefine the landscape for global enterprises. This has shifted digital sovereignty from an abstract compliance concept to a critical strategic mandate for risk mitigation. For organizations in highly regulated industries, achieving true digital autonomy requires more than just localizing physical data centers. It demands developing a strong sovereign support model to help build, deploy and run critical workloads in-jurisdiction. This requ

Continue the grid modernization conversation at Red Hat Summit OT automation, industrial safety, predictive MLOps and more… The electric grid is no longer just a feat of physics and copper; it’s becoming a sophisticated data engine. For decades, substation secondary equipment, the relays and controllers that protect the expensive primary equipment, was seen as auxiliary. Today, it is the primary driver of grid innovation: if you can’t compute at the substation, you can’t innovate the grid.But here’s the challenge: modern digital secondary equipment must rely on modern IT or the innov

For years, the industrial sector has operated under the assumption that the core of a factory, the real-time control system, must remain a locked, proprietary environment. We've often accepted these restricted systems as a requirement for the deterministic performance mission-critical machinery demands. However, the existing industrial architecture is proving difficult to maintain as we move toward a modern environment defined by interconnected systems and the need for real-time data.Recent performance testing conducted by Red Hat and Intel provides the evidence needed to challenge the status

Today’s cybersecurity teams need proactive defense mechanisms to meet modern threats as the threat landscape continues to evolve and change. We're excited to announce a significant advancement for our customers: the integration of Red Hat Lightspeed with CrowdStrike, empowering Red Hat Enterprise Linux users with an expanded arsenal against malware threats.A new era of malware signature coverageCustomers who use Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Lightspeed, and CrowdStrike can now immediately benefit from the addition of over 2,400 new malware signatures to their defensive arsenal. While the

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) gave AI a memory. Agents give it a job description. This captures where enterprise AI is today—the first wave focused on helping models say the right thing, but the next wave is about helping systems do the right thing.Generative AI (gen AI) has moved quickly from experimentation with large language models (LLMs) to a race to operationalize AI at enterprise scale. For many organizations, RAG was the first practical step, grounding model outputs in enterprise data and making gen AI usable in real business contexts. But enterprises don't run on answers, the

Confidential computing is a complex topic, and often requires a deep understanding of hardware, kernel, and orchestration layers. The generic definition is "protecting data in use," but it's more than that. It's about verifying that the environment we are running has not been tampered with, that we don't need to trust Kubernetes administrators and the platform or even hardware we are running our application on.Confidential computing is a major pillar when it comes to data sovereignty and the Red Hat zero trust security principle. Confidential containers aims to bring this technology at the Kub

At MWC 2026, Telstra announced a major step forward in its journey towards building one of the world’s most advanced autonomous networks in collaboration with Red Hat and other industry partners. Telstra executed a proof-of-concept within a live telecommunication (telco) cloud environment to autonomously detect and resolve an unplanned infrastructure outage by shifting critical network applications to healthy infrastructure in just minutes. The result shows how a multivendor, AI-native architecture can enable self-healing operations at scale. Central to this exciting new capability are the o

In our previous 3 articles, we laid the groundwork for a protected Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem by analyzing the current threat landscape, implementing robust authentication and authorization, and exploring critical logging and runtime security measures. These focused on who can access what, and how to monitor those interactions. Now, we'll shift the focus to the physical and virtual environments in which these systems live. Of course, security-focused development is only half the battle. Deploying an MCP server with weak security protections can negate even the most robust code, as