Friday Five — January 30, 2026

Friday Five — January 30, 2026 Red Hat Summit registration is now open Red Hat Enterprise Linux now available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud TechTarget : Enterprise IT awaits ripple effect from Nvidia Vera Rubin InfoWorld : Edge AI: The future of AI inference is smarter local compute Northrop Grumman scales enterprise Kubernetes for AI and hybrid cloud with Red Hat OpenShift About the author Red Hat Corporate Communications More like this Introducing OpenShift Service Mesh 3.2 with Istio’s ambient mode Context as architecture: A practical look at retrieval-augmented generation Data Security 101 | Compiler Technically Speaking | Build a production-ready AI toolbox Keep exploring Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share Registration is now open for Red Hat Summit—heading to Atlanta, Georgia, in 2026—and this year’s event is shaping up to be one of our most impactful yet. Register by February 23 to get our lowest pricing, and save even more when 3+ people from your organization register together at our discounted group rate. Learn more European organizations in highly regulated sectors have faced the persistent challenge of balancing rapid innovation with strict digital sovereignty. To help address these needs, Red Hat is pleased to announce support for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, with RHEL available as a foundational platform for sovereign workloads. Learn more The Vera Rubin platform is a rack-scale hardware and software system designed to support mixture-of-experts (MoE) AI inference. Learn more Smaller models, lightweight frameworks, specialized hardware, and other innovations are bringing AI out of the cloud and into clients, servers, and devices on the edge of the network. Learn more Facing a "wild west" of disparate environments in 2020, Northrop Grumman transformed their landscape by building a modern, multicloud Kubernetes platform. At Red Hat OpenShift Commons, engineering leadership shared how they leveraged OpenShift to overcome security challenges and achieve enterprise-wide adoption across the organization. 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.