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 named to Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For list

Red Hat has been ranked No. 50 on Fortune Magazine's list of 100 Best Companies to Work For!


CHECK IT OUT:

Awards roll call: Red Hat awards, November 2018 - February 2019

Since our last award round up, Red Hat has been honored with over twenty-five new award wins across our organization.


RECOMMENDED READING:

Backup partners target Red Hat Ceph Storage

With the release of Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.2, improved performance and functionality is driving new storage use cases in the modernized datacenter.


IN THE NEWS:

Red Hat receives overall 'Positive' company rating in Gartner’s 2019 Vendor Rating Report for fifth consecutive time

Red Hat has gained recognition as a vendor of software products and related services that span multiple tiers of data center investment. We believe our “Positive” rating reflects on the strength of our open hybrid cloud portfolio, container-based technologies and data center automation as well as our ability to meet customer’s needs as they modernize IT systems with flexible and agile open source solutions.


NEW ON THE BLOG:

Open Outlook: Middleware (part 1)

Mike Piech, vice president and general manager of Middleware at Red Hat, discusses the role of middleware technologies in a cloud-native, digitally transformed world.



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