Friday Five — June 14, 2019

Looking to tackle the issue of the lack of access to education for many children across the globe, Unicef Innovation has teamed up with software giant Red Hat. They've developed a reusable open source platform that applies software and big data for social good, which has resulted in the co-creation of the School Mapping project.

A new series of vulnerabilities in Intel processors, known as Microarchitectural Data Sampling, or more simply MDS, was recently made public. To mitigate the risks exposed by MDS, a combination of updated microcode, updated kernel(s), patches, and administrator action will need to be taken for both the hypervisors and virtual machines in your Red Hat Virtualization deployment.

IDC interviewed 9 organizations to determine the value of using Red Hat Ansible Automation to standardize and automate IT operations and configuration activities across environments. The results: 498% 5-year ROI, 135% more apps developed per year, 53% reduction in unplanned downtime, and more.

"Hiring for culture fit alone is problematic, because doing so won't ensure a dynamic, innovative, and future-focused organization. As a chief people officer, I prefer to look for 'culture add.' This concept lets me assess a candidate's ability to thrive in the organization as it is today, and to help the organization grow into what it wants to be." –DeLisa Alexander, EVP and chief people officer, Red Hat

Typically, a company embraces Agile and DevOps concepts for applications that already run on modern platforms, and not to apply those principles to modernize legacy apps. But that's exactly what UPS did with its package-tracking system.