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.


IN THE NEWS:
SDTimes - Red Hat Application Foundations launches to accelerate cloud-native development
This new platform will bring key services and components that will complement Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat OpenShift is a platform for modernizing applications, building cloud-native applications, streamlining development, and more.


CHECK IT OUT:
Red Hat Connecting Clouds: The Test
The software developers supporting scientific research on the International Space Station need to know their code will work as well in space as it does in a test environment. With infrastructure from Red Hat, they do.


WATCH THE VIDEO:
Technically Speaking (E13): Building a foundation for AI models
Why can't we build and reuse AI models? Mo data, mo problems? Learn how AI foundation models change the game for training AI/ML and join Red Hat CTO Chris Wright and IBM Research AI VP Sriram Raghavan to explore foundation models, an emerging approach to machine learning and data representation.


GREAT READ:
Total Economic Impact of Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Platform For MLOps - Forrester report available
With Hybrid Platforms and Verticals BU collaboration, Forrester Consulting was commissioned to conduct a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) financial services enterprises have realized by deploying OpenShift as a foundation for accelerating MLOps. The purpose of this study is to provide decision makers with a framework (analysis of benefits, costs, and risk) to evaluate the potential financial impact of Red Hat OpenShift as the foundation in their organizations.


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Red Hat Summit 2022 registration is open
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