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This series takes a look at the people and planning that went into building and releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. From the earliest conceptual stages to the launch at Red Hat Summit 2025, we’ll hear firsthand accounts of how RHEL 10 came into being.Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5In our previous installment of the story of how Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 came to be, years of hard work arrived at the Red Hat Summit stage and the team shared what it felt like to watch the world react. In our final installment, the team reflects on how Red Hat comes together to support the

In the early days of automation, the math was simple. If a task took 60 minutes manually and 2 minutes with a script, you saved 58 minutes. Multiply that by 100 times and you had your ROI. Today’s IT leaders are moving beyond these basic stopwatch metrics; they are using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and finding that automation’s real impact is measured in reliability, security, and the ability to accelerate in daily tasks.In dynamic and distributed IT environments, measuring automation success purely by task-level time savings fails to capture the true scope of its impact. For IT le

SDTimes - Red Hat launches unified platform for deploying and managing AI models, agents, and appsRed Hat introduced a unified AI platform to move organizations from pilot to production. Red Hat AI Enterprise offers a standard environment for managing models, agents, and apps, featuring high-throughput inference runtimes, bias monitoring, and day-2 capabilities like dynamic resource scaling and unified security across any hardware. Learn more Fierce Network - Red Hat, Nvidia hand enterprises keys to the AI factoryRed Hat launched turnkey Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA offering, pairing NVIDI

For the last decade, the story of 5G has been like a body that developed a massive high speed nervous system but lacked the central brain to command it. The telecom industry spent billions on the most sophisticated nervous system the world has ever seen including fiber, towers, and low latency spectrum, only to find out that this powerful system was mostly being used to carry the impulses and commands of others.For years, communication service providers (CSPs) have been the world’s indispensable circulatory system. They own the veins and arteries, but hyperscalers provide the lifeblood, the

Together, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Cisco Meraki provide a unified, automated approach to network management. This partnership simplifies edge networking with automated, cloud-based management and extends network automation frameworks to Cisco Meraki devices. Now, with Ansible Automation Platform available through Cisco, this powerful automation foundation delivers tangible benefits for common Meraki use cases.The Power of Automation at Scale with Cisco MerakiCombining Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with Cisco Meraki offers organizations a unified strategy for network automa

If you aren't currently architecting for AI, you are part of a rapidly dwindling minority. By 2026, the pivot is no longer optional: AI has moved from a peripheral tool to the primary engine for transforming digital businesses, slashing operational complexity and driving revenue growth.The shift to agentic AI and zero-touch operationsThe industry is moving beyond passive chatbots toward agentic AI. While traditional AI provides insights, generative AI makes suggestions, now agentic AI provides action. In a practical telco context, this means autonomous agents capable of navigating complex work

Refactoring is not a technical clean-up activity. The choice to refactor is an economic decision about how you allocate human effort. Refactoring in this sense goes beyond cleaning up code—it includes improvements to architecture, operations, and decision structures, because the real cost of legacy systems rarely lives in the code alone. Refactoring is necessary to maintain system stability. But in an environment where your competitors are accelerating with AI, even when systems appear healthy, achieving stability through manual intervention is increasingly structurally expensive. The questi

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol designed to standardize how large language models (LLMs) connect to external tools, APIs, and data sources. Rather than relying on ad hoc, model-specific integrations, MCP defines a structured client–server architecture that allows AI applications to request context and invoke tools in a more consistent and interoperable way. This abstraction layer is becoming more important as enterprises move beyond isolated chat interfaces toward AI systems that must integrate with ticketing platforms, code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, knowledge bases

Red Hat AI Enterprise is now generally available, offering a unified AI platform designed to simplify the development, deployment, and management of AI-powered applications across the hybrid cloud. With this new offering, Red Hat provides a streamlined, cost-effective path to operationalizing generative, predictive, and agentic AI at scale.What is Red Hat AI Enterprise?Red Hat AI Enterprise is an integrated AI platform for deploying and managing efficient and cost-effective AI models, agents and applications across hybrid cloud environments. It unifies AI model and application lifecycles to in

The transition from AI experimentation to production-grade deployment is often the most difficult hurdle for an enterprise. At Red Hat, we believe that choosing a model should come with predictable outcomes, rather than uncertainty. Our third-party model validation initiative is designed to remove the guesswork, providing the guidance and predictability organizations need to scale their AI infrastructure effectively.The January and February 2026 batches of validated models are now available on the Red Hat AI Hugging Face page, coinciding with the Red Hat AI 3.3 release. These model releases in

Organizations must balance the need for fast virtual machine (VM) migrations with predictable, low-risk execution. Red Hat has released the general availability (GA) of storage offload migrations in the migration toolkit for virtualization 2.11, included in Red Hat OpenShift. This update allows you to migrate with speed and confidence. Migrate with speed: Storage offloading is now generally availableStorage offload migrations are now generally available to help you move critical VM workloads quickly with minimal downtime. This feature uses your existing storage systems for smoother migrations.

Sovereignty isn’t something that’s purely discussed in boardrooms in 2026—it’s a strategic initiative centered around business continuity and a way for organizations to reclaim autonomy, control, and choice across their technology stacks. However, sovereignty isn’t a static checklist; it’s a dynamic landscape spanning compliance, supply chain integrity, data residency, and the rapid evolution of AI. Sovereignty must be viewed not as a single thing to be achieved, but as a foundational building block for organizations—spanning everything from the underlying technology infrastructu

Developer experience (DevEx) is often dismissed as a "soft" cultural metric. But I can prove to you that DevEx is a reliable predictor of whether your developer platform will actually deliver business value.I’ve noticed a recurring pattern where companies invest millions in a state-of-the-art container platform or cloud infrastructure, only to find their delivery speed hasn't budged. This is the "empty cluster problem." It happens because the focus was entirely on the infrastructure and not on the interface between that infrastructure and the people using it.The growth advantageWhen you impr

In the AI industry, we’ve spent the last 3 years obsessed with scale. We’ve chased parameter counts into the trillions, believing that "bigger" was the only path to "smarter." But as the dust settles, a new reality is emerging for the enterprise—size is not the metric that matters, delivering reliable, deterministic outcomes is.At Red Hat, we’ve always believed that the most powerful technologies are those that are distributed, open, and fit-for-purpose. Small language models (SLMs) represent that exact shift. The distinction between SLMs and large language models (LLMs) is less import

Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 continues to expand the reach of enterprise Kubernetes into Oracle's infrastructure portfolio. Our expanded Oracle Cloud Infrastructure support in OpenShift 4.20 brings OpenShift to Oracle's distributed and edge cloud services. We now extend support to another key Oracle offering: Oracle Database Appliance (ODA).What is Oracle Database Appliance?Oracle Database Appliance is an engineered system designed to simplify Oracle Database deployments for small to medium organizations and distributed environments. ODA combines optimized hardware and software into a single applian

How sovereign is your strategy? Introducing the Red Hat Sovereignty Readiness Assessment toolRed Hat believes that sovereignty shouldn't be a wall but a foundation for the freedom to choose where and how you run your workloads. To accelerate this push towards sovereign independence, we are introducing the Red Hat Digital Sovereignty Readiness Assessment tool. Learn more Register today for Red Hat SummitRed Hat Summit 2026 heads to Atlanta, Georgia! Register by February 23 for our lowest pricing and discounted group rates for your organization, so you can uncover opportunities for your busine

Every year, when I look at the landscape of the technology industry, I am reminded of why Red Hat exists. We have always thrived at the intersection of complex technology challenges and open source-based, community-driven innovation. Over the last few years, that has meant exploring the horizons of new methods of virtualization and artificial intelligence, which were just beginning to take shape.Today, as we move into 2026, I am here to tell you that Red Hat is no longer just a software provider; we have the opportunity to partner with our customers to build the platforms that will redefine th

No breakthrough in the open hybrid cloud happens in isolation. Whether it’s a developer in a community project, a partner building a specialized solution, or an architect scaling a global fleet, the most impactful stories are those where expertise and collaboration meet. In this month’s roundup, we’re moving beyond the technical specifications to look at how we’re solving real-world challenges together. From the leadership vision guiding our partner ecosystem to new protocols that bridge the gap between human intuition and AI, these stories reflect a shared commitment to building more

Last November, we announced that Red Hat Insights is now Red Hat Lightspeed, the next evolution of our predictive analytics service. While the name is new, the mission is the same: Provide you with powerful, AI-powered insights that help you work faster, smarter, and with an enhanced security profile. If you're already using Red Hat Insights, all the features you rely on—like the advisor, vulnerability, and compliance services—are staying exactly the same. They're just getting a new name that better captures the speed and power they bring to your work.In addition to this update, we release

Virtual training, which flexibly delivers live, instructor-led learning, has become a core component of modern IT skills development. As demand for scalable, role-relevant training has grown, virtual training has become a trusted way to accelerate onboarding, upskill teams, and support certification goals without the constraints of physical classrooms.However, virtual training’s delivery model suffers from some of the same limitations as in-person training. The typical virtual course is a single, point-in-time experience with a rigid start and end date. Learners often lack the structured pre