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.


NEW ON THE BLOG:

Red Hat closes acquisition of StackRox

Red Hat has closed the transaction to acquire StackRox. With StackRox's Kubernetes-native security technology, Red Hat will be able to further expand its security leadership and reinforce our commitment to deliver a single, holistic platform for users to build, deploy and more securely run nearly any application across the hybrid cloud.

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Red Hat Refines Kubernetes for Both Traditional and Cloud-Native Applications with Latest Version of Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat announces the general availability of OpenShift 4.7. The latest version is designed to simplify and accelerate application modernization and help remove the strain on IT teams as they seek to unite traditional applications with cloud-native.

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CHECK IT OUT:

Bringing manufacturing to the edge with Red Hat OpenShift

Learn how Siemens is using Red Hat OpenShift to help its customers leverage the open hybrid cloud for edge deployments in the manufacturing industry.

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IN THE NEWS:

Extending no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux to open source organizations

Red Hat introduced the next phase of our new Red Hat Enterprise Linux programs: RHEL for Open Source Infrastructure. Aimed at open source projects, foundations, standards bodies and other open source software organizations, the program formalizes our existing process for getting no-cost RHEL into the hands of the communities building and testing the next wave of open innovations.

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WATCH THE VIDEO::

Technically Speaking (S1E02): Edge IT: A space odyssey

How do you manage IT Ops at the edge? Red Hat CTO Chris Wright chats with Stefanie Chiras, Senior VP and General Manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, about how edge computing is changing how businesses operate IT infrastructure and services.

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