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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Announcing the winners of the 14th annual Red Hat Innovation Awards
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. This year's winners are Argentine Ministry of Health and Social Development, BMW Group, Edenor, Ford and Vodafone Idea Limited.
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What's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is about much more than just the bits that we deliver with each release. We are focused on providing tools that allow customers to more easily manage and maintain their Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances across the hybrid cloud.
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VERDICT - Communication is key to cultural change in the digital enterprise
Culture-as-a-Service brings people together, helping them to realise they are working to achieve similar goals. Once people start talking, they start sharing ideas and collaborating. This creates common tools and platforms, driving down costs and speeding up time to market.
IN THE NEWS:
siliconANGLE - Red Hat Summit 2020 preview: Going digital without the hoopla
With new leadership and unprecedented challenges, Red Hat finds itself in the unique position of strengthening its business to survive a global pandemic and grow its open-source software efforts to help customers do the same. Fortunately, Red Hat seems prepared to fight the battle on both fronts, even when that means moving forward with its annual Summit, now gone digital.
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Strengthening the partner ecosystem today, tomorrow and beyond
Year after year, our partners continue to champion open source solutions for customers. While the challenges of today are unlike those of yesterday, the Red Hat partner ecosystem, or "community" rather, remains strong. Together, we will navigate the future and any obstacles that may come.
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