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From operations to outcomes: The business value of automation

Red Hat News - Fri, 02/27/2026 - 08:00
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

Friday Five — February 27, 2026

Red Hat News - Fri, 02/27/2026 - 08:00
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

sudo-rs Breaks Historical Norms With Now Enabling Password Feedback By Default

Phoronix - Fri, 02/27/2026 - 05:31
On recent builds of Ubuntu 26.04 when being prompted by sudo for the password, password feedback is now enabled by default to show asterisk (*) characters when inputting your password. Traditionally sudo has not provided password feedback in the name of security to not divulge the length of your password in case anyone is looking/capturing your screen. But upstream sudo-rs has now changed the default behavior in the name of an improved UX...

Microsoft Updates DirectX Shader Compiler With Improved Vulkan Driver Interoperability

Phoronix - Fri, 02/27/2026 - 04:18
Microsoft has published a new version of its open-source DirectX Shader Compiler. Besides adding Shader Model 6.9 production support, making this DX Compiler update interesting to us are the SPIR-V back-end improvements and enhancing interoperability with Vulkan drivers...

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