Friday Five — December 12, 2025

Friday Five — December 12, 2025 Demystifying llm-d and vLLM: The race to production Forbes - Open Source And Orchestration Will Define Enterprise AI Leadership In 2026 Accelerating open source development with AI CRN - 2025 Products Of The Year Key considerations for 2026 planning: Insights from IDC About the author Red Hat Corporate Communications More like this Solving the scaling challenge: 3 proven strategies for your AI infrastructure From incident responder to security steward: My journey to understanding Red Hat's open approach to vulnerability management Technically Speaking | Platform engineering for AI agents Technically Speaking | Driving healthcare discoveries with AI Keep exploring Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share As organizations accelerate the journey to production for large language model (LLM) workloads, the ecosystem of open source tools is growing fast. Two powerful projects—vLLM and llm-d—have recently emerged to tackle the complexity of inference at scale. Learn more Red Hat’s CEO Matt Hicks discusses how enterprise AI leadership in 2026 will hinge on open source adoption and orchestration capabilities. This shifts the focus from model performance to control, interoperability, flexibility, and strategic integration across complex systems. Learn more Open source communities are skeptical of generative AI, and these concerns should be addressed directly. The article outlines guidelines that we've established for Red Hat engineers rooted in open source principles and offers context for today’s emerging AI tools. Learn more CRN identified top partner-friendly products launched or updated over the past year and consulted solution providers to crown the winners. Red Hat was selected in two categories: Ansible Automation Platform for Enterprise IT Management and Red Hat OpenShift for Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure. Learn more Based on insights from an IDC study, Red Hat advises IT leaders to focus on unified hybrid cloud platforms like OS, development, and automation to support AI adoption, enhance agility, and guide strategic planning for the year ahead. 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.