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No enterprise application exists in a vacuum. Applications interact with services, other applications, external resources, databases, and more. As these applications scale, so does the complexity—more containers, more datasets, and more moving parts.At Red Hat, our view is that most developers should not need to manage containers or Kubernetes directly. The most effective approach is to focus on writing business logic and push code to production through a platform like Red Hat OpenShift, using capabilities such as Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces and the OpenShift application platform to handle

As AI adoption grows and agents multiply inference demands, a reliable inference foundation becomes critical to running AI initiatives profitably.Today at Red Hat Summit, we are excited to announce that Red Hat AI Inference now runs on any managed Kubernetes service. This expansion enables organizations to leverage a consistent, open inference stack and Kubernetes-native operations wherever they already run their workloads. At launch, we are delivering validated deployment blueprints on 2 platforms: CoreWeave Kubernetes Service (CKS) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). With this release, Red H

Reactive support models can be a liability when a single misconfiguration can stall a global rollout or an essential production upgrade. To address this, Red Hat Support has introduced Red Hat Technical Supportability Review with AI, transforming a reactive hurdle into a proactive advantage.For IT organizations, the future of infrastructure is one of rapid, dynamic evolution and increasing demand. As customers scale Red Hat OpenShift environments to power massive AI-driven workloads, they are frequently managing an unprecedented volume of operational intelligence. At this level of ambition, r

With Red Hat Summit 2026 just around the corner, we’re shifting our focus from 'what’s new' to 'what’s next.' Whether you’re scaling AI or modernizing legacy VMs, this guide highlights the specific sessions and stories that will help you solve your toughest architectural challenges on Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift.If you’re new to the service, Azure Red Hat OpenShift is a fully managed application platform—jointly engineered and operated by Red Hat and Microsoft. This first-party Azure service helps you build, deploy, and manage containerized, virtualized, and AI-enabled applic

At Red Hat, we’ve always believed that the best way to validate true technical skills is through hands-on evaluation of real-world tasks directly aligned with the technologies professionals use every day. That is why we are thrilled to announce a strategic evolution of Red Hat Certification, aligning it more closely with the Red Hat platforms you rely on daily.Whether you are currently a Red Hat Certified Professional looking to maintain your edge, an individual actively pursuing your first certification, or a decision-maker needing transparency to hire top-tier talent, this massive revamp i

It’s no secret – the tech industry is rapidly adopting agentic software development to convert business processes into fully autonomous, agentic workflows. While the power of these tools is undeniable, the current consumption models present a challenge. Most of these solutions are delivered leveraging a model-as-a-service approach that’s poised to trigger an AI version of the cloud paradox: The agentic paradox.The paradox is simple. The fastest path to increase the velocity of your business processes is to use powerful frontier models. However, as adoption scales, this strategy becomes u

As AI compute and storage have evolved to become abstracted, multi-tenant, and automated, AI infrastructure now demands accelerated networking that delivers the same levels of automation, orchestration, and multi-tenancy across fabrics spanning NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet, NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand, NVIDIA NVLink, and NVIDIA BlueField DPUs. Yet many deployments still rely on fragmented, manually provisioned network environments that struggle to provide the scalability, operational efficiency, and workload isolation required for regulated and sovereign AI deployments. Red Hat is teaming with Net

For teams running virtualization estates of any size today, three pressures are converging at once. Hardware budgets that looked generous in late 2024 have been blindsided by memory costs, turning routine refreshes into financial hurdles. Licensing models have moved in directions most renewal cycles weren't built to absorb. And in many organizations, leadership has moved from "how do we plan the next infrastructure refresh," to "how can we get more out of the infrastructure already in place?" These pressures are not unique to virtualization, but virtualization is where they all show up at once

At Red Hat, we’ve always known that "open" is a team sport. While our technology provides the foundation, our partners act as the ultimate force multipliers—building, integrating, and delivering the solutions that solve the world’s most complex business challenges. Today, we are thrilled to celebrate that spirit of collaboration by announcing the winners of the 2026 Red Hat Ecosystem Innovation Awards. These awards recognize partners who have demonstrated exceptional ingenuity using Red Hat’s open source portfolio to drive measurable, transformative results for our joint customers. Fro

Each year during Red Hat Summit, we recognize Red Hat Certified Professionals who make a difference in their organizations by demonstrating enthusiasm, commitment and dedication to their role and industry. We’re proud to announce that Firas Benbelgacem, Telco Cloud CaaS Engineer at Orange, has been named the 2026 Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year.Firas has worked diligently to earn a variety of Red Hat Certifications, including up to Red Hat Certified Architect in both Enterprise Linux and OpenShift. Earning these certifications highlights Firas’s commitment to open source technol

We're excited to share what's coming for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) at Red Hat Summit 2026. Sessions will cover everything from virtual machine (VM) modernization and AI workload scaling to cost optimization and developer velocity.If you're new to the service, ROSA is a fully managed OpenShift platform, jointly engineered and supported by Red Hat and Amazon Web Services (AWS). It's a service that lets you build, deploy, and manage containerized, virtualized, and AI-enabled applications, providing the user with a consistent hybrid cloud experience while Red Hat and AWS handle the u

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, a native feature included with Red Hat OpenShift, lets you migrate your virtual machine (VM) workloads from your legacy virtualization platform to a modern, consistent, and comprehensive hybrid cloud application platform. OpenShift Virtualization is based on KubeVirt, an upstream open source project that delivers container-native virtualization by using a kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) within a Kubernetes container.OpenShift Virtualization helps you transform and consolidate your on-prem, cloud, and virtualization platforms into a modern and unified tech

SiliconANGLE theCUBE- Red Hat 2026 Summit PreviewtheCUBE's Rob Strechay sits down with Ashesh Badani, CPO of Red Hat, to explore how enterprises are turning AI ambition into operational reality. Badani outlines Red Hat’s platform vision, covering inference optimization, token economics and the rise of hybrid, multicloud agentic workloads running at scale. Learn more Announcing the winners of the 20th annual Red Hat Innovation AwardsFor two decades, the Red Hat Innovation Awards have celebrated the groundbreaking technological achievements of our customers worldwide. These organizations dem

As enterprises scale their digital operations migrating to modern, cloud-native application platforms, security teams are consistently confronted with significant challenges. The dynamic and distributed nature of these environments makes traditional, perimeter-focused security tools and methodologies inadequate. Security for a modern hybrid cloud environment requires granular visibility, context-aware protection, and unified management across continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to live production runtimes. This fundamental shift toward using containers, virtual machi

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

If you're starting to rethink how you run virtualization workloads at your organization, you're not alone. Rising licensing costs, the pressure to apply AI, and a need to integrate services are inspiring organizations to look at new virtualization options.Here are five different organizations across a variety of industries including telecommunications, defense, and education, that are using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization to turn disruption into a strategic advantage.To hear more stories like this, check out the OpenShift Virtualization sessions taking place at Red Hat Summit 2026 in a few we

There’s a growing narrative in the platform engineering community that internal developer portals (IDPs) are "dead." That AI models are so good now, developers don’t need a portal to find things, scaffold projects, or understand their environment. That agents like Cursor, Claude, and GitHub Copilot have made the "alt-tab to a portal" workflow obsolete.I get the appeal of that argument. It’s clean, it’s provocative, and it contains a kernel of truth. But it also misses something fundamental about why developer portals exist in the first place—and why the agentic era makes them more im

There's a lot of pressure on many of us to use more AI to facilitate our jobs. This may sound familiar to you:"Where’s the AI?" the boss asks, somewhere between desperate and annoyed."Upgrades are deterministic! You can't use something that works MOST of the time!" the IT team replies. The boss replies, “But Alice built a new app environment in 2 hours with Claude Code! You've got servers that have been on my non-compliance list for 2 years." The boss has a point, but the fact is that upgrades don't lend themselves to "Just let the AI do it."So the IT folks (and the application owners) ten

Next week, thousands of IT leaders will gather in Atlanta for Red Hat Summit. The agenda covers everything from AI to digital sovereignty, but in the customer conversations I have continued to have over the past 24 months, a different topic keeps coming up: whether the virtualization platform they've been running for years and depend on is still the right foundation for their workloads today, and whether it sets them up for what's coming next. Most of them are already evaluating alternatives.For a long time, virtualization was a "set it and forget it" part of the stack. That isn't the case any

A financial services firm is deploying an AI assistant to help underwriters review policies, analyze risk documents, and answer compliance questions. The model is grounded in the firm’s own document collection, drawing answers directly from underwriting manuals, regulatory filings, and internal procedures. The business case is solid.Then the security review starts:Can a crafted prompt trick the model into ignoring its system instructions and exposing confidential data?What happens when a response surfaces personally identifiable information (PII) that's embedded in the retrieved documents?Is