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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

To achieve higher tiers of autonomy as defined by the global telecom industry association TM Forum, service providers must move beyond simple and reactive automation scripts. The goal is to achieve closed-loop, intent-driven operations where networks self-optimize, self-heal, and adapt to high-level business goals with zero human intervention. Enterprise and telecommunication service providers face a clear challenge: they need a robust, scalable, and secure cloud and an AI-native foundation that seamlessly integrates with specialized service orchestration.Red Hat is collaborating with Tata Elx

The AI-enabled enterprise: Why we are applying software engineering principles to business operationsRed Hat is applying the concept of Business as Code to reshape its own business operations. Serving as "Customer Zero," Red Hat uses the same principles that govern software engineering to transform standard operating procedures into a scalable, compounding enterprise asset that drives real growth. Learn more What's New in Ansible Automation Platform 2.7Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 builds on previous releases with more features and enhancements to help enable a platform engineering

When building and maintaining consistent execution environments, platform engineers and developers routinely lose valuable time identifying dependencies, tracking down content collections scattered across different repos, and wrestling with manual syntax configurations. With the release of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7, these challenges have become a thing of the past. The execution environment builder and unified content discovery experience within the automation portal work together to dramat

Platform engineering can improve developer experience, provide reusable platform services across an organization, and help teams deliver software more quickly without compromising trust and security. In practice, however, many platform teams struggle to achieve the level of adoption they expect. Some teams find themselves pulled into project-specific support work. Others build tools and standards that are technically sound, but rarely used, and as a result, the platform does not deliver the reusability or scale it was intended to provide.As a Red Hat consultant, I have worked on platform engin

Recently, Red Hat's Vincent Danen highlighted how AI models found 271 real security defects in Firefox in a single pass during Mozilla's collaboration with Anthropic. If AI can do that for defenders, it can do the same for attackers. As Danen put it, "if your security strategy is solely predicated on the assumption that software will be vulnerability-free, you've already lost." Vulnerabilities in code are only the entry point. The real damage comes after—lateral movement through misconfigured networks, overprivileged credentials, unrotated secrets, and services that blindly trust each other.

Today we released Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7, which builds on previous releases with more features and enhancements to help you enable a platform engineering approach to automation, accelerate adoption across different teams, and prepare your IT operations for AI-driven automation. Here's a look at what's included in our latest release. Empower platform engineering and boost developer productivity The self-service automation portal, released with Ansible Automation Platform 2.6, allows ITOps teams to make automation available to users who are not automation experts yet need easy