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:
Red Hat Drives Greater Consistency and Management Across the Hybrid Cloud with Latest Version of OpenShift Platform Plus
A new iteration of Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus is now available and includes new features and capabilities that go beyond the base Kubernetes platform to encompass storage, management and more.


RECOMMENDED READING:
CRN - Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks - Partners Key to $1 Trillion Open Hybrid Cloud Market
Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks sat down with CRN to discuss the essential role partners will serve in bringing Red Hat tools to market as the company works to broaden its reach in multi-cloud and edge environments.


CHECK IT OUT:
The Enterprisers Project - Cloud services: 4 ways to get the most from your committed spend
Budgeting for your cloud strategy can be complicated, especially when it comes to committed spend. Here’s what you need to know to maximize your investment.


GOOD READ:
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to Modernize Medicaid Systems Platform with KPMG and Red Hat
KPMG collaborates with Red Hat to deliver an integrated platform to transform the state’s Medicaid software program to help streamline the delivery of critical health services.


LISTEN TO THE PODCAST:
Compiler - Stack/Unstuck - The Great Stack Debate
The Great Stack Debate is the first episode in Compiler’s series on the software stack. We call it Stack/Unstuck. We explore each layer of the stack, what it’s like to work on them, and how they come together into a whole application.
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