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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

Technology is only as effective as the trust behind it. While AI and automation now provide the baseline for speed and responsiveness in customer support, they cannot replace the singular need for human connection. At Red Hat, we believe the most effective enterprise support happens when powerful software is backed by people who actually listen.This is why Red Hat Support and Customer Experience is adopting the H.E.A.R.T. mindset. We are putting human connections at the center of how we collaborate with our customers, using a framework built on five pillars:Hear:Actively listening to customers

Many platform failures at scale often stem from overlooked control plane dependencies. Among them, the container registry is one of the most critical.In the early stages of Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift adoption, the registry is treated as a supporting component, a place to store and retrieve images. That assumption quietly breaks as a platform scales across environments, supports production workloads, and introduces disaster recovery requirements. At scale, the container registry becomes part of the platform control plane, not its artifact store: Thus is the very nature of the “infrastru

Mozilla recently published a fascinating piece titled "The zero-days are numbered," focusing on their collaboration with Anthropic to use AI models to find vulnerabilities in Firefox. The results Mozilla reports are staggering: 22 security-sensitive bugs found in one release cycle, followed by 271 vulnerabilities identified in a subsequent pass. These aren't trivial issues and they weren't theoretical; they were real defects, the kind that elite human researchers spend careers finding. But a machine found them in a fraction of the time.This is one of those moments where the ground shifts under

As organizations embrace agentic AI for cluster operations, the central challenge shifts from whether or not AI can control a cluster to whether it can do it safely and with accountability. How do large language models (LLMs) provide meaningful context and operational capability within our clusters without compromising security or relying on brittle, script-based wrappers?To address this challenge, Red Hat has introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Red Hat OpenShift, available as a technology preview. MCP refers to an open source standard for connecting AI applications to exter

Humanoid robots are having a moment. Every major tech conference features new demos—robots walking, grasping, responding to voice commands, and navigating crowded spaces. The hardware is impressive and the AI is advancing rapidly, but what happens after the demo?The answer to this matters because humanoid robots are not just AI systems, they are meant to be long-lived, safety-critical machines that operate continuously in human environments. Unfortunately, the gap between a compelling demonstration and a reliable production deployment is where many robotics programs stall.Red Hat and Intel a

Model Context Protocol (MCP) has moved fast, and thousands of MCP servers now exist across the ecosystem. What started as an open source project from Anthropic in late 2024 is now governed by the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation with over 140 member organizations. Red Hat joined the AAIF as a Gold Member earlier this year, alongside the foundation’s work to advance open standards for agentic AI. Earlier this year, the MCP Dev Summit in New York had over 1,200 attendees, gathered to discuss the protocols evolution, and running MCP in production at scale. Thousands of MCP serve

From detection to analysis to remediation, AI is reshaping every layer of IT operations. It can find the problem, write the fix, and run it. But the same AI accelerating your team's capabilities is also accelerating environmental complexity: more signals, more telemetry, and more tools, all moving faster than before. The question enterprises are asking now isn't whether AI can act, but how to ensure its actions are governed, repeatable, and safe.It starts with a simple distinction: knowing what to do and safely doing it are different problems. AI is great at providing the recommendation for th

For two decades, the Red Hat Innovation Awards have celebrated the groundbreaking technological achievements of our customers worldwide. These organizations demonstrate visionary problem-solving, leveraging the power of open source to drive significant impact across industries and society. This year’s winners are ARSAT, Emirates NBD, One NZ and TD. A community-wide, online voting process will determine which customer is distinguished as the 2026 Red Hat Innovator of the Year. Voting is now open and will close at 9 a.m. ET on May 7th. The winner will be announced on May 11, 2026, during Red

The countdown to Red Hat Summit 2026 is on! As we gear up for Atlanta next week (May 11-14), here’s everything you can expect from Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud at the event.If you’re new to the service, Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud is a fully managed application platform that allows customers to focus on building and scaling applications that drive their core business. Customers can run containers, virtual machines, and AI enabled workloads on a single, unified platform. Before Summit kicks off, we want to make sure you know Red Hat and Google Cloud recently a

Red Hat and Oracle are integral to the modern enterprise, with a large portion of global Fortune 500 companies using both Red Hat and Oracle solutions. That's why we’re continuing to grow our collaboration in ways that will support the dynamic needs of our joint customers. This means that we’re emphasizing concrete, technical, and commercial benefits that eliminate friction and maximize the value you get from your joint Red Hat and Oracle investments. From simplifying procurement through the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) console and Oracle Marketplace to confirming that your core workl

There is a fundamental tension between using AI and the cloud while adhering to strict privacy mandates like digital sovereignty and sovereign AI. Encryption of data at rest and in transit is increasingly common, but traditional computing leaves data exposed in system memory during processing—known as data in use—which puts it at risk. To address this challenge, confidential computing has been developed, using hardware-based, attested Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) protecting data confidentiality, data integrity, and code integrity while data is in use. This enables protected collab