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Red Hat to deliver enhanced AI inference across AWSRed Hat collaborates with AWS to power enterprise-grade gen AI on AWS with Red Hat AI and AWS AI silicon. With this collaboration, Red Hat focuses on empowering IT decision-makers with the flexibility to run high-performance, efficient AI inference at scale, regardless of the underlying hardware. Learn more Technically Speaking with Chris Wright: Platform engineering for AI agents ft. Tushar KatarkiAs we move from chatbots to autonomous AI agents, complexity is exploding. Red Hat’s Tushar Katarki joins Chris Wright to discuss building a "K

Modern IT departments are wrestling with a sprawling array of automation and operations tools, often numbering in the dozens or even hundreds. This complexity makes efficient management and integration a significant obstacle, especially as organizations accelerate their investment in hybrid IT ecosystems, cloud services, and cloud-native application modernization. To help overcome this "tool sprawl" and its impact on productivity, enterprises are working to establish a common environment for orchestrating and managing critical IT processes—a "unified IT automation platform."To understand the

Red Hat is excited to announce the release of Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers 1.11 and Red Hat build of Trustee 1.0, marking a significant milestone in our confidential computing journey. These releases bring production-grade support for confidential containers in Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift and introduce technology preview support for bare metal environments with Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP processors. Organizations can now protect their most sensitive workloads with hardware-based memory encryption and attestation capabilities across cloud and on-premises infrastructure. OpenShift

The Center for Internet Security® (CIS®) has officially published guidance for hardening Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.The official publication of the new CIS Benchmark® for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is an important development for organizations running traditional virtual machines (VMs) alongside modern containers. OpenShift Virtualization is a feature of Red Hat OpenShift that allows existing VM-based workloads to run directly on the platform. This globally recognized, consensus-driven benchmark provides recommendations for creating a security-focused configuration for those env

IT teams are stuck between wanting to implement AI solutions across their organizations and dealing with the messy reality of increasingly complex infrastructure. Many are attempting to build their own automation solutions, cobbling together a patchwork of tools that, while well-intentioned, can actually make things worse. Red Hat dug into this with SP Global Market Intelligence 451 Research, and their findings point to a simpler alternative: use a unified platform instead of patchworking tools together.The DIY dilemma: More tools, more problemsMost teams are drowning in tools, often ending up

Twenty-eight percent of businesses surveyed in the recent SP Global Market Intelligence 451 Research report, “The value of a unified automation platform,” responded that their company uses 50-100+ tools that don’t seamlessly integrate. This widespread adoption of disparate solutions, often driven by a "do it yourself" mentality, can lead to overwhelming tool sprawl. The resulting lack of interoperability directly hinders innovation, fragments data insights, and ultimately undermines the effective delivery of AI solutions.As automation and AI become increasingly interdependent, systems mu

There are many reasons you might be running a virtual machine (VM) at your organization, and you're probably also using or planning to use containers at the same time. Whether you're looking to migrate away from your current virtualization platform or you're just looking for a unified platform for both VMs and containers, Red Hat OpenShift is a centralized control center for all the services you provide to your users. Here's how to get started with OpenShift Virtualization, a feature of Red Hat OpenShift.Install OpenShift and virtualization operatorsTo use OpenShift Virtualization, you must ha

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is a fully managed application platform that offers a more seamless experience for building, deploying, and scaling applications. For machine learning (ML) workloads, ROSA now supports On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCR) and Capacity Blocks for ML, allowing cloud architects and platform administrators to strategically utilize their existing AWS purchases to help deliver uninterrupted access to essential compute infrastructure. Today, ROSA is available in over 30 regions and supports over 600 instance types, allowing customers to run diverse workloads

Rising virtualization costs, licensing constraints, and operational complexity are driving teams to evaluate more flexible and cost-effective paths to the cloud. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, combined with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), supports hardware overcommit in the cloud, allowing customers to run more virtual machines (VMs) on fewer cloud resources. By aligning resource consumption more closely to actual usage patterns, organizations can significantly reduce compute costs. This provides a practical way to consolidate VM footprints and maximize the value of cloud investmen

Last month, we launched Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6, and introduced several new features including an automation dashboard, a self-service automation portal, and the Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant. We hosted a follow-up webinar, What’s new with Ansible Automation Platform 2.6, during which we received some great questions from the audience about how to install, migrate, and upgrade to the latest version. To help you prepare for and navigate the Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 release, we've compiled the top questions and their answers.Installations, upgrades, and migrat

Confidential computing is needed to protect sensitive data not only when it is stored or transmitted, but also while it is actively being processed in memory - traditionally the most vulnerable phase. In this article, I demonstrate how to implement a secure runtime environment using AWS Nitro Enclaves for applications on EC2 instances running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6+ (RHEL).To fully understand the concepts, use cases, and justifications for confidential computing, read our previous articles. The hardware used to provide secure communication and certification is based on AWS Nitro architec

As organizations race to productionize large language model (LLM) workloads, two powerful open-source projects have emerged to tackle the complexity of inference at scale: vLLM and llm-d.Are llm-d and vLLM on the same track, or are they steering toward different finishing lines?vLLM: The High-Performance Inference EnginevLLM is an enterprise open-source based inference engine for LLMs. Its performance edge comes from innovations like:PagedAttention, which enables efficient KV cache managementSpeculative decoding supportTensor parallelism (TP) and multi-model supportIntegration with Hugging Fac

Red Hat Research Quarterly - “It’s the wild frontier”: Security, agentic AI, and open source Luke Hinds and Ryan Cook discuss the urgent need to develop security in AI, the importance of model provenance and transparency, the essential role of the open source community, and adapting authorization protocols for AI agents. Learn more Alliander modernises its electricity grid with Red Hat for long-term reliability in balance with rapid innovationAlliander, a Dutch grid operator, modernized its electricity network by decoupling short-lifecycle control software from long-lasting hardware us

Sovereignty concerns are the greatest barrier to cloud adoption for large enterprises across EMEA, as cited by 63% of respondents to a Red Hat survey of over 900 IT managers, directors and AI engineers across nine countries. Over two-thirds (68%) of organisations have identified sovereignty as a top IT priority for the next 18 months, with that figure rising to 80% in Germany, where it ranks as the number one strategic focus.The importance of sovereignty stems from a convergence of rising operational issues, such as supply chain instability and the threat posed by cyber attacks, and frequently

In industrial environments, the drive toward smart manufacturing means blending the worlds of operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT). To this point, these worlds have existed in silos—OT managing the physical, real-time control of machinery, and IT focusing on data, security, and enterprise efficiency.But today, the industrial edge depends on this convergence. This unification demands a reliable platform that provides low latency as well as predictable latency—what we call deterministic performance. Determinism means that a high-priority task, like motion control or

Technology is the fundamental foundation of modern business and the catalyst for career advancement. While students seek skills that inspire innovation and leadership, it's the educator who specializes in making the transformation possible. A great educator acts as a dedicated mentor, and doesn't just teach theoretical concepts but actively unlocks potential in the next generation.The path to IT leadership is rarely linear, especially when traditional academic curriculum struggles to maintain pace with rapidly evolving industry practices. A significant gap often exists between classroom knowle

As organizations shift from reactive automation to proactive and intelligence-driven operations, Event-Driven Ansible continues to gain momentum. By combining real-time system insights from Red Hat Lightspeed (formerly Red Hat Insights) with Event-Driven Ansible rulebooks, teams can automatically respond to security risks, configuration changes, compliance findings, and operational anomalies, without waiting for human intervention. With Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6, we introduced a small but meaningful enhancement that strengthens trust and observability in automated operations. Any

Picture this: You're working late to troubleshoot a production issue and an AI assistant suggests a fix in seconds. Problem solved, right? Not quite. While it seems like it should be easy to use AI assistance, where do you start? What's your prompt? How do you find the issue within the system? AI tools and other large language models are transforming our daily workflows, helping with everything from debugging scripts to generating boilerplate code in seconds, but you still have to know how (and when) to use them.This raises a valid question for many IT practitioners—with so much knowledge at

In this October roundup, we cut through the noise to focus on the essential technical blueprints and policy foundations required to succeed. These articles, from key platform updates and critical security integrations to the future of open source legality, represent the core strategic reading for Q4. We highlight how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 streamlines operations, how Red Hat AI 3 and its intelligent control plane transform GPU infrastructure, and how our strategic partnership with NVIDIA simplifies the AI software stack. This is the quarter for planning that prepares your orga

Data Processing Units (DPUs) represent a significant evolution in datacenter architecture. By offloading infrastructure tasks like networking, security, and storage from the main CPU, they promise to unlock new levels of cloud capabilities. Red Hat OpenShift 4.20 delivers a major breakthrough in solving the primary challenge of DPU adoption: vendor lock-in.This new capability provides unified, vendor-agnostic support for different DPUs, all within a single cluster. This is the result of our focused, standards-based strategy. We began this journey by introducing tech preview support for the fir