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Yesterday at Red Hat’s Open5G event, I was able to sit down with Fran Heeran, senior vice president and general manager of Nokia's Core Networks business, to talk more about our strategic partnership to deliver Nokia's core network applications together with Red Hat's industry-leading cloud infrastructure platforms. With this alliance, we can pair the full power of open source platforms with Nokia’s core network applications, providing customers with even greater choice and flexibility. It all starts with the horizontal cloud—a platform capability that spans a service provider’s ow

At Red Hat, we value customer feedback in helping us understand how we’re doing as we fuel innovation across the open hybrid cloud. This is why we began working with TrustRadius, a leading technology decisioning platform that helps buyers more confidently make decisions with comprehensive, vetted product information and customer-generated content. TrustRadius holds an annual Best Of Awards to recognize technology vendors that exhibit exceptional strengths across feature sets, customer relationships and value. We’re pleased to announce that Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Op

Back in September of this year, we announced a new industrial edge platform, designed in collaboration with Intel, that provides manufacturers with a modern approach to building and operating industrial controls. This industrial edge platform was created to provide a holistic solution, spanning from real-time shop floor control and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) to full IT manageability, that enables industrial control system (ICS) vendors, system integrators (SIs) and manufacturers to automate previously manual industrial automation tasks including: system development, deplo

OpenShift users have many options when it comes to deploying a Red Hat OpenShift cluster. Whether installing on-premises, in the cloud, or to your own hybrid configuration, OpenShift has integrations to help your journey. Today we are pleased to announce a new platform type to enable partners to achieve varying levels of integration not previously possible in OpenShift: the external platform. What is the External Platform? The external platform is a new configuration for OpenShift which allows deep infrastructure customization. Whereas integrated platforms such as AWS, GCP, or OpenStack insta

IDC predicts that by 2026, 75% of large enterprises will rely on AI-infused processes to enhance asset efficiency, streamline supply chains, and improve product quality across diverse and distributed environments1. At Red Hat, we know there is an additional component that is critical to driving AI-enabled applications at the edge – automation. This week, Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Device Edge, which now includes Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to help organizations more effectively automate and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux and MicroShift workloads at the

Editor’s note: Matt Hicks, Red Hat's president and chief executive officer, shared the following email with Red Hat associates today. Red Hatters, As I've watched the atrocities in Israel unfold, I wanted to share my deepest sympathy with our associates and express our commitment and solidarity with the Red Hatters suffering from this conflict. Just last week, I was discussing with a close friend how much I was looking forward to getting back to Ra'anana to see our team. It's unthinkable how, over the span of a few days, a violent terrorist act has impacted the world. Right now, w

Technology adoption is a key factor for achieving business goals and maximizing value, but many organizations face challenges when introducing or upgrading technology. In a previous blog post, I identified four common barriers to adoption. In this post, I'll provide a practical guide to overcome these barriers. Before we dive in, let's quickly revisit the common barriers discussed in my previous post: Technological: The challenge of integrating new technology with existing systems, processes and infrastructure, which may require significant changes and investments Financial: The cost

When we launched CentOS Stream in 2019, we wanted it to be a place where partners, customers, community members and individual developers could contribute to the future of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform. In the four years since its introduction, Stream has become a powerful voice in shaping Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), providing a shortened feedback window to Red Hat Global Engineering and making it easier for contributors to directly impact capabilities and features of RHEL. Today, we’re pleased to further strengthen our long collaboration with Intel by welcoming the

The Association of Support Professionals (ASP) has announced the Red Hat Customer Portal as one of the winners of the Best Support Websites of 2023, making it the 13th year in a row that the site has received this recognition. Our Customer Portal delivers comprehensive product documentation, intelligent troubleshooting tools, security updates, technical support, as well as Red Hat expert and community-powered knowledge—helping customers plan, deploy, maintain and manage their Red Hat solutions. This year’s award entry highlighted the Customer Portal’s recently redesigned product pag

Q: What is being announced on September 20, 2023? A: Red Hat OpenShift will be certified and supported on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for customer-managed installations running on OCI Compute virtual machines and bare metal instances as a Bring Your Own Subscription (BYOS). Additionally, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is now certified to support workloads on OCI Compute bare metal instances and Oracle VMware Cloud Solution, in addition to the previously announced OCI Compute flexible virtual machines. RHEL image builder can now also be used to create gold images for OCI-based workl

Earlier this year, Red Hat engineering took a close look at how to accelerate compression within applications by using 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors that include Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT), which can accelerate both compression and encryption. Today we will examine the encryption capabilities and show how to achieve major performance improvements with leading load balancing applications. HAProxy and F5’s NGINX were tested running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2. Setting up We started with a RHEL 9.2 installation on a system with an Intel Xeon Platinum 8480+ p

Like many, the cable, media and entertainment industry is undergoing a period of transformation in the face of increasing cloud-based operations, growing hybrid cloud adoption and rising demand for live streaming and interactive event services. To meet this need, Red Hat is working with Summit Tech, a platform provider for virtual event and live streaming services, to deliver enhanced, cost effective livestream 360 VR event experiences on the trusted foundation of Red Hat OpenShift. Odience is a remote participation platform that delivers enhanced live streaming experiences and virtual inte

BlueAlly is a Red Hat Advanced Build (AB) partner focusing on network and cloud automation using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. In May of 2023, the BlueAlly Consulting team was invited to the Cisco Federal Innovation Challenge (CFIC) hosted at the GSA Workplace Innovation Lab 1 in Washington, DC. The goal of the CFIC is to bring together ideas to accelerate modernization across the federal and defense landscape. The focus is NetDevOps, IT modernization, telemetry and visualization. The team's solution is an extensible architectural framework based on streaming services and Event-Dr

As organizations continue to move towards hybrid and multicloud, investing in cloud-ready software platforms has become a top priority to establish a more solid, flexible and adaptable foundation for growth in the cloud1. However, many organizations also face economic pressure to make the most of existing budgets while continuing to scale business and deliver results. Red Hat and Google Cloud have been collaborating for over 11 years to pave the way for customers migrating to the cloud. At the core of this relationship is Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the world’s leading enterprise Li

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have created a new frontier in business innovation. Significant progress in computing power, data storage and algorithms have enabled the development of more sophisticated AI systems. Improved software deployment processes like containerization and orchestration will advance AI and machine learning (ML) applications in both reach and scope. For example, now developers can build, deploy and manage AI/ML workloads in a scalable and efficient manner with generally available solutions like Red Hat OpenShift Data Science and NVIDIA AI-ready Enterpr

The world’s oldest tennis event has always delivered an iconic fan experience. Strawberries and cream, queueing overnight for tickets and pristine grass courts come to mind. For The All England Lawn Tennis Club, running Wimbledon is about understanding the different ways people like to engage with the game and constantly innovating for a diverse audience. For many fans, the mobile app and website are a key part of how they track the action: during The Championships 2022, Wimbledon reached approximately 21 million people through its digital platforms. IBM has been the Official Technology

What was announced? On June 29, 2023, Red Hat announced an agreement with Nokia to tightly integrate Nokia’s core network applications with Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat OpenShift, the leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes. As part of this strategic partnership, Red Hat will support Nokia cloud infrastructure platforms, including Nokia Container Services and Nokia CloudBand Infrastructure Software, while developing a transition path with Nokia for customers who choose to move to Red Hat platforms. Additionally, Red Hat will serve as Nokia’s primar

The very act of modernizing means not only is there an application feedback loop to improve, there will be a similar loop running around infrastructure and security compliance that allows the application to operate in its current state in a production environment. Let’s talk a bit about what this might look like and some challenges to keep in mind when modernizing. Importance of the operations feedback loop In most legacy environments, a separate operations team is responsible for the operations feedback loop. In spite of movements such as the site reliability engineering movement (SRE

Here at Red Hat, we do things because they are the right things to do for our business, our future and our customers. But it never hurts to be acknowledged for them and to spread the word that what works at Red Hat can work for our current and future customers, too. I’m pleased to note that CNBC has recognized Red Hat for bringing open hybrid cloud to Red Hat IT as part of its annual review of award-winning initiatives. This acknowledgment springs from our work to move off legacy data centers, retire old and unused applications and architect a hybrid cloud infrastructure with distinct

Disasters that affect companies can take many forms: public health, terrorism and war, and extreme weather. They can also affect companies in different ways, including needing to shut down offices, helping affected employees and regaining access to networks and computers. It’s a multifaceted challenge but, for the purposes of this blog, we’re going to focus on anticipating and responding to supply chain challenges due to natural disasters such as hurricanes, typhoons, floods, earthquakes, wildfires and droughts. These are not unusual challenges. In 2020, there were 22 separate billion-d