The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat® blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye.


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7 ideas to make Red Hat Summit Virtual Experience feel more like being there in person

You’re excited about hearing Red Hat's plans for the next year, product announcements and learning from other Red Hat customers, but feeling a little virtual fatigue? We get that, and we're adding some features and have a few tips to help make Summit much more fun.

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AWARD WINNERS:

Announcing the winners of the 15th annual Red Hat Innovation Awards

Now in its 15th year, the Red Hat Innovation Awards recognize the technological achievements of Red Hat customers around the world who demonstrate creative thinking, determined problem-solving and transformative uses of Red Hat technology.

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Red Hat honors North American partners for open hybrid cloud innovation

The annual Red Hat North America Partner Awards recognize partners for their commitment to open innovation and collaboration with Red Hat. The awards honor commercial and public sector partners for developing solutions using Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud portfolio to meet unique customer needs.

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IN THE NEWS:

The Business of Cloud-Native Podcast - The edge, the cloud and Kubernetes with Brian Gracely

This week on The Business of Cloud Native, Red Hat's Brian Gracely spoke about using Kubernetes for edge workloads as well as the difference between “cloud” and “edge.”

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RECOMMENDED READING:

Why Red Hat's universal base image is crucial for a standard operating environment

This post discusses the merits of standardizing on container base images, and is an excerpt from the new ebook on Red Hat universal base images.

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