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As enterprise IT enters the era of autonomous workflows, we are excited to introduce the Red Hat Lightspeed Agent for Google Cloud, now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace.The Red Hat Lightspeed Agent for Google Cloud is an enterprise-ready tool designed specifically for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to help Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and IT administrators manage their Red Hat infrastructure on Google Cloud using natural language. Built on the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol using Google’s Gemini models, the agent integrates directly into the Gemini Enterprise environment. The a

In the tech world, we often talk about the "next big thing." But as I’ve shared before, real innovation isn’t just about the initial spark of an idea; it’s about the collective effort required to move that idea from a research lab into a resilient, production-grade environment. It’s about the "and"—combining research and innovation with enterprise operations. That’s why I’m proud to announce that The Open Accelerator is joining the Google for Startups Cloud Program. With this collaboration, participants in The Open Accelerator will gain access to a breadth of Google resources des

In early 2025, I wrote that uncertain times call for greater operational control and IT resiliency. Today, those uncertainties have materialized into a permanent shift in how European organizations view their digital future. By moving AI from the sandbox to the center of the enterprise, the industry has placed a massive new burden on IT infrastructure, making rigorous operational oversight the new baseline for success. Enterprises need greater control over how and where AI runs and a consistent way to govern fast moving technologies like agentic AI.To understand how IT leaders are navigating t

Geopolitical shifts and evolving regulatory frameworks like the EU AI Act, the NIS2 Directive, and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) continue to redefine the landscape for global enterprises. This has shifted digital sovereignty from an abstract compliance concept to a critical strategic mandate for risk mitigation. For organizations in highly regulated industries, achieving true digital autonomy requires more than just localizing physical data centers. It demands developing a strong sovereign support model to help build, deploy and run critical workloads in-jurisdiction. This requ

Continue the grid modernization conversation at Red Hat Summit OT automation, industrial safety, predictive MLOps and more… The electric grid is no longer just a feat of physics and copper; it’s becoming a sophisticated data engine. For decades, substation secondary equipment, the relays and controllers that protect the expensive primary equipment, was seen as auxiliary. Today, it is the primary driver of grid innovation: if you can’t compute at the substation, you can’t innovate the grid.But here’s the challenge: modern digital secondary equipment must rely on modern IT or the innov

For years, the industrial sector has operated under the assumption that the core of a factory, the real-time control system, must remain a locked, proprietary environment. We've often accepted these restricted systems as a requirement for the deterministic performance mission-critical machinery demands. However, the existing industrial architecture is proving difficult to maintain as we move toward a modern environment defined by interconnected systems and the need for real-time data.Recent performance testing conducted by Red Hat and Intel provides the evidence needed to challenge the status

Today’s cybersecurity teams need proactive defense mechanisms to meet modern threats as the threat landscape continues to evolve and change. We're excited to announce a significant advancement for our customers: the integration of Red Hat Lightspeed with CrowdStrike, empowering Red Hat Enterprise Linux users with an expanded arsenal against malware threats.A new era of malware signature coverageCustomers who use Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Lightspeed, and CrowdStrike can now immediately benefit from the addition of over 2,400 new malware signatures to their defensive arsenal. While the

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) gave AI a memory. Agents give it a job description. This captures where enterprise AI is today—the first wave focused on helping models say the right thing, but the next wave is about helping systems do the right thing.Generative AI (gen AI) has moved quickly from experimentation with large language models (LLMs) to a race to operationalize AI at enterprise scale. For many organizations, RAG was the first practical step, grounding model outputs in enterprise data and making gen AI usable in real business contexts. But enterprises don't run on answers, the

Confidential computing is a complex topic, and often requires a deep understanding of hardware, kernel, and orchestration layers. The generic definition is "protecting data in use," but it's more than that. It's about verifying that the environment we are running has not been tampered with, that we don't need to trust Kubernetes administrators and the platform or even hardware we are running our application on.Confidential computing is a major pillar when it comes to data sovereignty and the Red Hat zero trust security principle. Confidential containers aims to bring this technology at the Kub

At MWC 2026, Telstra announced a major step forward in its journey towards building one of the world’s most advanced autonomous networks in collaboration with Red Hat and other industry partners. Telstra executed a proof-of-concept within a live telecommunication (telco) cloud environment to autonomously detect and resolve an unplanned infrastructure outage by shifting critical network applications to healthy infrastructure in just minutes. The result shows how a multivendor, AI-native architecture can enable self-healing operations at scale. Central to this exciting new capability are the o

In our previous 3 articles, we laid the groundwork for a protected Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem by analyzing the current threat landscape, implementing robust authentication and authorization, and exploring critical logging and runtime security measures. These focused on who can access what, and how to monitor those interactions. Now, we'll shift the focus to the physical and virtual environments in which these systems live. Of course, security-focused development is only half the battle. Deploying an MCP server with weak security protections can negate even the most robust code, as

InformationWeek - Red Hat CIO Marco Bill: Resource control is key for AI sovereigntyRed Hat CIO, Marco Bill, explains why a comprehensive inventory of data, infrastructure, and architecture is essential for maintaining security, ensuring regulatory compliance, and navigating the complexities of a globally interconnected AI ecosystem. Learn more Navigating the Mythos-haunted world of platform securityAdvanced AI models like Claude Mythos are revolutionizing vulnerability discovery, but they also risk industrializing cyberattacks. This Red Hat blog explores how context and curation remain the

Earlier this month at Red Hat OpenShift Commons in Amsterdam, co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeConEU, we celebrated a few Red Hat OpenShift Superheroes. While each member of the Red Hat OpenShift community is a hero for helping contribute to a project’s success and growth, some members really stand out. They are the advocates and champions who make the community strong and successful. From left: Xuan-Son Nguyen - BNP Paribas, Jan-Willem - ING Bank.Red Hat OpenShift Superheroes are:Builders: Contributing to the evolution of Red Hat OpenShiftAdvocates: Amplifying their Red Hat OpenShift ex

That GPU you're running? You're most likely not using it to the fullest. You’ve deployed your large language model (LLM). It’s working, but many production deployments waste significant GPU capacity through suboptimal configurations. Your hardware spends time idle, waiting for data to move, or re-computing work it already did.The obvious fix? Switch to a smalle

Does your private cloud feel like a free-for-all buffet? You know it's providing value, but when the bill comes due, it’s nearly impossible to tell who’s eating what.In today's dynamic cloud environments, it’s increasingly important to be able to properly attribute costs to internal users, especially for enterprises running their own cloud infrastructure. You need to establish accountability in order to distribute costs fairly among departments or encourage teams to right-size their workloads—and gaining visibility is the first step.With feature release 5 (FR5) of Red Hat OpenStack Ser

Are you ready to accelerate your business and dive into the future of open innovation? We certainly are! Red Hat Summit 2026 is coming quickly and we can’t wait to see you all in Atlanta, Georgia, from May 11-14, especially as we have something extra special lined up just for our partner community.If you’re a Red Hat partner, you don't just get a seat at the table—you get an entire event dedicated to you on Monday, May 11. Ecosystem Success Day at Red Hat Summit is a high-impact experience designed exclusively to help Red Hat partners connect with other industry leaders, expand business

Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines 1.21 is now available, improving pipeline performance, security capabilities, and troubleshooting for Kubernetes-native continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) on Red Hat OpenShift. This release introduces AI-assisted troubleshooting via Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed and moves Tekton Cache to general availability. It also features several updates designed to enhance pipeline speed, reliability, and ease of use.This blog post will explore several key highlights of OpenShift Pipelines 1.21. AI-assisted pipeline troubleshooting with Red Hat OpenShift LightspeedOpenS

Legacy infrastructure is the primary barrier to AI strategy. Current systems simply weren't built for these workloads. Platforms lack native AI support, leaving expensive GPUs underutilized at rates as low as 30%. While teams often customize models, the accuracy of those models tends to drop. In some situations, slow provisioning times force data scientists to build their own shadow environments—unauthorized tools and systems that IT and security teams don't know about. It's clear that AI success requires a platform that helps simplify workload management and boost productivity.To quantify t

The only thing harder than finding a critical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) is fixing it across your entire infrastructure. Red Hat Lightspeed simplifies this challenge by enabling you to address advisor recommendations, content advisories, vulnerability CVEs, and failed compliance rules on your connected Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems using Ansible Playbooks—saving up to 86% of manual remediation time.We heard your requests for a faster, clearer workflow and have overhauled the experience to be simple yet operationally robust. Here is your crash course on the new, stre

Red Hat is excited to announce the release of Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.12 and Red Hat build of Trustee 1.1, marking a major leap forward in our confidential computing journey. These releases graduate confidential containers on bare metal from Technology Preview to General Availability (GA), delivering production-ready, hardware-based memory encryption and attestation for on-premise and hybrid cloud infrastructure, We are also introducing Technology Preview support for confidential containers with NVIDIA Confidential Computing, paving the way for digital sovereignty, hardened en