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 and Oracle expand collaboration to bring Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Starting today, customers can deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux on OCI and receive full support for these certified configurations from both Red Hat and Oracle.


GOOD READ:
SAP endorses Red Hat Linux as strategic cloud platform
Red Hat said its Linux offering has enhanced capabilities to support RISE with SAP deployments across cloud environments and to smooth the path toward cloud adoption for SAP customers. Red Hat and SAP will tighten their collaboration over the next year, with Red Hat providing dedicated product engineers and on-site resources to help SAP migrate to RHEL and ensure interoperability.


CHECK IT OUT:
Red Hat launches Ansible Automation Platform on Google Cloud
Marketplace offering enables rapid cloud automation to better manage IT ecosystems, deliver and scale high-quality applications and drive greater business innovation.


LEARN MORE:
VentureBeat - Red Hat gives an ARM up to OpenShift Kubernetes operations
Red Hat is perhaps best known as a Linux operating system vendor, but it is the company’s OpenShift platform that represents its fastest growing segment.


RECOMMENDED READING:
Fierce Wireless - Ericsson, Red Hat support Spark’s 5G standalone trial in New Zealand
Ericsson and Red Hat were part of a 5G standalone trial with Spark in New Zealand that was designed to demonstrate the ease with which standalone cloud-native solutions can be deployed.
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