Red Hat’s journey in 2023 unfolds with a series of noteworthy moments that showcase its capacity to innovate and shape the course of technological progress on a global scale. In the ever-evolving landscape of open-source solutions and enterprise software, Red Hat takes the spotlight in 2023 with a compelling array of news stories that encapsulate its pivotal role in shaping the future of IT. As the digital world navigates through complex technological terrains, Red Hat emerges with a set of groundbreaking developments, positioning itself as a trailblazer in the realm of open-source innovation in 2023.
From strategic acquisitions to key partnerships and the launch of cutting-edge solutions, Red Hat’s narrative for 2023 unfolds as a testament to its ongoing commitment to empowering organizations with transformative open-source technologies.
Top 10 News of Red Hat in 2023
Red Hat Launches Ansible Automation Platform on Google Cloud
According to an IDC report, “to reduce the complexity and training costs of supporting multiple clouds, IT will look for a ‘learn-once and run-anywhere approach’ to automation. Vendors with an infrastructure as code approach to provisioning cloud resources tightly coupled with automation will gain market share.”
Packaged cloud content like Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collection for Google Cloud helps perform automation in customers’ environment and across the organization by enabling more efficient ways to create, share and manage content, with the security to run it when and where it’s needed. IT teams can integrate automation with existing organizational processes and governance at scale as demand requires, with a consistent, end-to-end cloud automation experience.
Red Hat Simplifies and Expands Application Development with New Capabilities in Red Hat OpenShift
According to Gartner®, the current demand for IT talent significantly exceeds supply – with a recent Gartner survey finding that 86% of CIOs report facing more competition for qualified candidates and 73% saying they were worried about IT talent attrition.
“Accelerating time to value is one of the top priorities we hear from our customers, but this can be a difficult ask for IT teams who are strapped for both time and resources. Red Hat OpenShift aims to simplify modern application development and IT operations with a complete application platform – abstracting away complexity and providing a comprehensive set of tools and services in a single platform. With the latest version of Red Hat OpenShift, we further reduce the strain of day-to-day infrastructure operations facing IT teams, enabling organizations to focus on driving innovation and building solutions that best meet changing customer and business needs.”
Red Hat OpenShift provides integrated security and compliance features designed to help organizations mitigate risks and better address compliance requirements, helping teams further streamline operations and limit additional tools needed to implement DevSecOps strategies.
Nokia and Red Hat Announce Partnership for New Best-in-Class Telecommunications Solutions
Nokia and Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced that they have reached an agreement to tightly integrate Nokia’s core network applications with Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat OpenShift. As part of the agreement, Nokia and Red Hat will jointly support and evolve existing Nokia Container Services (NCS) and Nokia CloudBand Infrastructure Software (CBIS) customers while developing a path for customers to migrate to Red Hat’s platforms over time. Additionally, Nokia will leverage Red Hat’s infrastructure platforms to enable faster development and testing of Nokia’s extensive core network portfolio.Darrell Jordan-Smith, Senior Vice President, Telecommunications, Media and Entertainment & Edge, Red Hat
“Red Hat recognizes the explosive impact of 5G — not only for service providers, but across all industries — with the most exciting developments still to come. 5G is revolutionizing how businesses and people interact with the development of next-generation applications, services and use cases. As part of this partnership, Nokia is offering our multicloud, cloud native infrastructure together with their core networks applications, enabling service providers to capitalize on the 5G opportunity by deploying their 5G networks using Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat OpenShift.”
Red Hat to Help Transform the Automotive Industry at the Edge with ETAS
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced a collaboration with ETAS, the Bosch subsidiary responsible for the development of application-independent software for vehicles and the cloud, to deliver an in-vehicle automotive platform that will lower the development cost and further accelerate time-to-market for automakers. This pre-integrated and pre-tested foundation platform will provide automakers with a streamlined out-of-the-box developer experience to deliver application software. The ETAS deterministic middleware solution will significantly accelerate the development of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) applications with Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System positioned to provide a continuously-certified and open standards-based operating system.
Francis Chow, VP & GM, In-Vehicle Operating System and Edge, Red Hat
“This exciting collaboration continues the journey that we undertook two years ago to accelerate open source adoption in the automotive industry. With ETAS, our respective expertise will be put towards a next-generation foundational platform for modern in-vehicle software development, ultimately built on a standardized, scalable backbone provided by Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System.”
Red Hat Delivers Latest Releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 and the forthcoming availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8. These new releases further Red Hat’s efforts to simplify and streamline complex Linux platform tasks across the hybrid cloud, from datacenters to public clouds to edge deployments, helping IT teams to better overcome staffing and skill shortages and improve efficiency in critical infrastructure areas.
Image builder also now supports the creation and sharing of Red Hat Enterprise Linux blueprints, both inside and outside of the datacenter. Blueprints provide a framework for specific, standardized operating system images, which can then be consumed by image builder as a specification. This helps to drive internal image standardization, even for disconnected or air-gapped Linux systems. IT teams can also use this capability to further external collaboration with partners, end users and open source communities around Linux configurations that meet unique challenges.
Dynatrace Expands Collaboration with Red Hat, Launches New Integration Capabilities for Event-Driven Ansible
Dynatrace, the leader in unified observability and security, announced new integration capabilities for Event-Driven Ansible from Red Hat. As a result, customers using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform can integrate AI-powered insights and action from Dynatrace with Event-Driven Ansible to automate a broader range of DevSecOps use cases, including closed-loop problem and security remediation, application healing, and incident response. This helps platform engineering, DevOps, and security teams mature their automation practices and deliver flawless and secure digital experiences for their customers.
“We developed Event-Driven Ansible with the entire automation ecosystem in mind. Our goal is to make it easier to integrate valuable management systems with their established Ansible investments,” said Richard Henshall, Head of Product Management, Ansible, Red Hat. “Making solution integrations like the Dynatrace platform available for Event-Driven Ansible enables our customers to more quickly and efficiently use automation to simplify their Day 2 operations goals for improved efficiency and faster innovation.”
Red Hat OpenShift AI Accelerates Generative AI Adoption Across the Hybrid Cloud
Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions announced new capabilities for Red Hat OpenShift AI. Building and expanding upon the proven capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Data Science, Red Hat OpenShift AI provides a consistent, scalable foundation based on open source technology for IT operations leaders while bringing a specialized partner ecosystem to data scientists and developers to capture innovation in AI. To that end, Red Hat OpenShift AI underpins the generative AI services of IBM watsonx.ai, IBM’s artificial intelligence platform designed to scale intelligent applications and services across all aspects of the enterprise, fueling the next generation of foundation models.
Across industries, enterprises are already using Red Hat OpenShift AI to fuel AI/ML innovation, including:
- Atruvia, a German provider of IT services, including AI, to financial institutions worldwide, has based its organization-wide data science platform on Red Hat OpenShift AI.
- Clalit Health Care Services, Israel’s largest health service organization, selected Red Hat OpenShift AI as the foundation for building clinical research AI models.
- Guidehouse, a global provider of consulting and managed services, tapped Red Hat OpenShift AI as part of a comprehensive platform to help address the suicide rates of U.S. veterans.
- Tirando X Colombia, a Colombia-based reproductive health-focused nonprofit, deployed Red Hat OpenShift AI to optimize its AI/ML workflow for creating a teenage pregnancy prevention application.
- Veripark, a global solutions provider to financial services organizations, built its global AI/ML solution using Red Hat OpenShift Data Science in order to run the solution across cloud and on-premises platforms.
Tech Mahindra Join Forces with Red Hat to Deliver 5G Core on Hybrid and Multi Cloud Leveraging netOps.ai
Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering services and solutions, announced its partnership with Red Hat to enable communications service providers (CSPs) to modernize infrastructure and migration to cloud. This partnership will deliver customized solutions to help telcos move critical 5G and multi-access edge computing (MEC) workloads to hybrid cloud using Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS and Tech Mahindra’s hyper-automation platform netOps.ai.
Using Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, on-premises and with Tech Mahindra netOps.ai, this joint solution enables the telcos to develop and deploy 5G use cases with a clearer migration strategy to move network workloads from on-premises to hybrid and multi-cloud scenarios without changing their existing software stack. The joint solution will address multi-domain network transformation across RAN, 5G Core, transport, and enterprise edge use cases.
Red Hat and Samsung Collaborate on New 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) Solution
Samsung and Red Hat are working together to help address the constant need for service providers to validate network functionality, interoperability and performance of an end-to-end vRAN solution. The companies’ solution will be designed to provide customers with:
- An end-to-end virtualized solution that helps reduce complexity and mitigate operational and deployment risks with enhanced automation and integration capabilities;
- A future-proof and flexible network that can adapt to rapidly changing demands as admins will be able to remotely apply updates.
This solution will build on an array of Red Hat open hybrid cloud technologies including Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
As service providers continue to evolve, they’re evaluating sustainability alongside innovation. According to a Red Hat-sponsored sustainability study, RAN is responsible for 75% of a service provider’s total power consumption, indicating a potential need for service providers to optimize energy consumption. With Red Hat OpenShift, service providers will be able to optimize their energy consumption in multiple dimensions including: the node, cluster, system-level and domain-levels. For example, disabling unused components within a service provider’s network will result in noticeable reductions in power consumption.
Red Hat Introduces New Partner Subscriptions to Enable Ecosystem Innovation and Customer Success
Red Hat Partner Subscriptions equip partners with Red Hat subscriptions typically worth thousands of dollars to develop and sell solutions based on hardened, enterprise-grade open source software, driving improved operational efficiencies and technical capabilities for customers. Replacing traditional Not-for-Resale subscriptions, Red Hat Partner Subscriptions offer partners more comprehensive access to Red Hat’s industry leading platforms, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, as well as supported offerings, for a broader range of business and technical use cases.
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