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The nomination period for the 2022 Red Hat Innovation Awards has been extended to September 20, 2021 - which means there is still time for you to nominate your organization for innovative uses of Red Hat’s open source technology. 

For the 30th anniversary of the Linux kernel and the 2nd version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2), we talked to Red Hatters who have been involved with Linux since the early days. Read our interview with Red Hat's Pete Zaitcev.

In this month’s customer success highlights, we’ll share how two media companies, Verizon and Globo, used Red Hat OpenShift to manage their data and stay ahead of the market.

For the 30th anniversity of the Linux kernel and the 2nd version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2), we talked to Red Hatters who have been involved with Linux since the early days. Read our interview with Senior Software Engineer Stephen Smoogen.

What could you accomplish with the freedom of Red Hat’s open culture? For Og Maciel, a Senior Software Engineer Manager at Red Hat, our open culture has proved to to be a natural fit for his drive to empower others. 

Today we’re launching the next video in our Open Source Stories "Common Connections" series, "Common Connections: Healthcare Made Human." The series features scholars, CEOs, educators, and engineers coming together to find the common threads in their work, and exploring the potential for future open source innovation and building unexpected connections.

The Linux kernel has had a huge technological impact on the world, but it couldn't have been at the center of this without the provisions of the GNU General Public License 2.0.

According to "The State of Enterprise Open Source" report Red Hat published earlier this year, open source will continue to play an important role in the future of telecommunications. Let’s see how it’s positioning telecommunications providers to keep up with their technology revolution.

As part of that major milestone we asked Red Hatters who have been using or contributing to Linux since the early days about their experiences. Today we’re talking to Richard Jones who has been using Linux since the early 1990s, joining Red Hat in 2007. Richard is now a Senior Principal Software Engineer in Red Hat’s R&D Platform team.

As organizations think about IT modernization, they also have to consider the impact of new processes and technology on their partners, vendors, and customers. This month, we’ll highlight success stories from organizations in banking and telecommunications—dynamic industries that are facing rapidly changing customer demands. Let’s see how Banco Original and HKT built efficient, flexible IT foundations with Red Hat to better meet customer and market needs.

Editor’s note: Jennifer Dudeck, Red Hat's senior vice president and chief people officer, shared the following email with all Red Hat associates around the world today.

Summary (TL;DR): Red Hat is extending its global default to remote guidance to the first business day of 2022. Beginning Monday, Aug. 9, 2021, Red Hatters working or gathering in a Red Hat office in the United States must be vaccinated. We are currently determining how this vaccination guidance will be extended across countries, including considering the availability of vaccines.

We conducted interviews with 1,250 IT leaders worldwide to get the ins and outs of why they use enterprise open source. In this post, we dive into key findings from IT leaders hailing from banks, insurance providers, and other financial services.

Red Hat's Products and Technologies organization is doing game-changing work in the IT industry. In showcasing the unique stories of Red Hatters around the world, it's clear that there's no one path to finding success at Red Hat. For each of us, it's about open collaboration and building something together.

Culture is something that is talked about a lot when it comes to the workplace. It can be what attracts people to a company in the first place and it is what keeps associates at an organization in the long run. And let’s be clear, culture is about much more than free snacks and ping pong tables. It’s about how we work together. But creating and maintaining a culture takes work and it’s something we take seriously at Red Hat.

Every summer for the past ten years, the Red Hat Toronto office has hosted approximately 9-12 interns for 16-month terms. During the last 15 months, I have been a software engineering intern working on WildFly Elytron, a security framework that ships with Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. I hope to shed some light on the specifics of our internship program in Canada and perhaps steer you towards deciding whether a "red hat" would look good on you or someone you know!

We’re delighted to welcome Giang Dao to Red Hat as a country manager for Vietnam. In the new role, Dao will be responsible for Red Hat’s business operations in one of ASEAN’s fastest-growing markets.

As Red Hat remains focused on our vision for open hybrid cloud, Red Hat customers, partners and associates are delivering the products and services needed to revolutionize the cloud. We are proud to have a strong open source ecosystem and team of innovators standing by us through it all. Together, we have received more than 30 accolades from industry publications and organizations in the last five months.

We conducted interviews with 1,250 IT leaders worldwide to get a picture of how, where, and why they’re using enterprise open source. We shared the results in the third installment of Red Hat’s "The State of Enterprise Open Source" report earlier this year. Let’s dive into key findings in healthcare.

Red Hat recognizes partners with the 2021 Red Hat Australia and New Zealand Partner Awards. These partners are instrumental in helping customers in Australia and New Zealand, including Tech Data A/NZ, Deloitte, Integral Technology Solutions, Advent One and several others.

One key challenge enterprises face is launching into cloud adoption without first establishing an overarching cloud strategy. This leads to the so-called Frankencloud–a patchwork of platforms that is hard to manage and increases the difficulty of bringing information together to get a broad view of the business and customers. Learn more about Red Hat’s partner ecosystem and how we work with our GSI partners to help organizations build effective cloud environments.