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Artificial intelligence (AI) workloads are transforming industries from financial services to healthcare. However, the use of AI models introduces risk around protecting models, weights, and data from malicious actors. While the industry has established robust traditional security frameworks to protect data at rest (with disk encryption, such as LUKS) and data in transit (with encrypted communication channels like TLS), a gap remains around data that's in use.When sensitive data, such as patient medical records or proprietary AI model weights are actively loaded into the CPU, GPU, and memory f

You've tried it. You've pulled a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server from a GitHub repo, wrestled it into a container, sorted out authentication yourself, and hoped it would hold up in production. That is the state of MCP adoption in the enterprise today—promising protocol, but painful deployment.Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4, part of the Red Hat AI portfolio, takes a different approach. We're introducing the MCP catalog (now in developer preview): a curated catalog of MCP servers that you can discover, deploy, and manage directly on Red Hat OpenShift. It ships pre-loaded with MCP servers from Re

As enterprises move from the hype of generative AI to building governed, production-ready AI applications, several new challenges have emerged. Currently, many businesses route all of their prompts to massive, cloud-based LLMs, which can result in excessive costs, high latency, and unnecessary data exposure. To solve this problem, Red Hat in collaboration with NVIDIA is bringing enterprise-grade AI development directly to the developer’s desk. We are excited to announce the development preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10) on NVIDIA DGX Spark. Powered by the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blac

Over the last year, Red Hat and HashiCorp have collaborated to create integrations that bring together infrastructure automation and secrets management. Our existing Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collections have enabled organizations to use HashiCorp Vault, HashiCorp Terraform, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for infrastructure automation and secrets management.HashiCorp Vault integration for secrets managementThe Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collection for HashiCorp Vault has enhanced how teams handle sensitive credentials in automated workflows. With version 1.0 and beyond,

As organizations continue to leverage edge computing for AI workloads running near the source of data generation, Red Hat aims to deliver the enterprise support that companies need to capture the full potential of AI operations at the edge. Following our successful technology preview, we are thrilled to announce that Red Hat Device Edge is now available on NVIDIA Jetson Orin, aligning with the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.8.During the tech preview phase, we saw tremendous interest from customers wanting to extend AI capabilities to the far edge, whether they are leveraging AI for adva

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