Friday Five — November 14, 2025

Friday Five — November 14, 2025 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Newsroom FastForward - Red Hat’s CTO sees AI as next step for company’s open approach TechTarget - Northrop Grumman, Ford prep AI infrastructure with OpenShift ComputerWeekly - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 and 9.7: An ‘evolving foundation’ for the stack ZDNet - Why even a US tech giant is launching 'sovereign support' for Europe now About the author Red Hat Corporate Communications More like this Blog post Blog post Original podcast Original podcast Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, Red Hat is redefining the modern application platform to unite your IT estate: from legacy VMs to next-generation AI workloads. Check out the headlines and dive into our newsroom. Learn more Red Hat's CTO, Chris Wright, talks with FastForward about how AI is the logical next step in the company's long-standing open hybrid cloud strategy. To do this, Red Hat is focusing on leveraging existing open source tools like Linux and Kubernetes, extending them to meet AI requirements, rather than reinventing its entire platform. Learn more See how Northrop Grumman and Ford are leveraging Red Hat OpenShift to build out their environments and prepare for the future of AI innovation. Learn more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 and 9.7 are now available, building on the innovations of RHEL 10 for a more intelligent and future-ready computing foundation. Learn more In response to the growing push for digital sovereignty in Europe, Red Hat has become the first US company to launch an EU-specific program: Red Hat Confirmed Sovereign Support (RHCSS). By anchoring its support structure within Europe, Red Hat aims to meet strict EU regulations and enhance data control, supply chain transparency, and jurisdictional security for organizations modernizing their cloud and AI infrastructures. 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.