Friday Five — October 17, 2025

Friday Five — October 17, 2025 Red Hat Brings Distributed AI Inference to Production AI Workloads with Red Hat AI 3 SiliconANGLE - Red Hat AI 3 targets production inference and agents Beyond the model: Why intelligent infrastructure is the next AI frontier Spotlighting partners who put innovation into action Channel Futures - NetApp Updates Enterprise Storage Lineup, Teams with Red Hat About the author Red Hat Corporate Communications More like this Blog post Blog post Original podcast Original podcast Keep exploring Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share Introducing Red Hat AI 3, a unified, open enterprise AI platform that enables distributed LLM inference with llm-d across hybrid environments and sets the stage for scalable agentic AI. Learn more Red Hat's Joe Fernandes discusses Red Hat AI 3, with enhancements across Red Hat AI Inference Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI, and Red Hat OpenShift AI, into one platform. Learn more Scaling AI from a successful LLM proof of concept to production-grade, distributed inference requires “intelligent infrastructure”—an AI-aware control plane that manages workloads, optimizes resources, and supports llm-d for efficient, scalable enterprise AI. Learn more Designed to celebrate partners who are driving innovation and delivering exceptional results for our joint customers across key focus areas such as AI, virtualization, and automation, the Ecosystem Innovation Awards nomination window is officially open. Submit today before December 12. Learn more NetApp has unveiled several new updates to its portfolio of enterprise storage offerings for businesses of any size, and a new partnership with Red Hat to help customers and partners streamline and accelerate enterprise application development and management. Learn more Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future. What is agentic AI? Article Predictive AI vs. generative AI Article Top considerations for building a production-ready AI/ML environment E-book Generative AI, the Ansible way Video Innovate and transform with a modern application platform E-book The latest on IT automation for tech, teams, and environments Updates on the platforms that free customers to run AI workloads anywhere Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud The latest on how we reduce risks across environments and technologies Updates on the platforms that simplify operations at the edge The latest on the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform Inside our solutions to the toughest application challenges The future of enterprise virtualization for your workloads on-premise or across clouds.