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.
GOOD READ:
CIO Influence - Zooming Out: Enterprise-Level Cloud Infrastructures
As customers expand their infrastructure in the cloud, their needs mature. Footprints get bigger, additional players are needed, and oftentimes they are working across more ecosystems. Stated simply, cloud development can get complicated. In this article, Sarwar Raza, vice president of Cloud Services at Red Hat, shares his thoughts on how -- and why -- an enterprise-level viewpoint is important when building a cloud environment.
CHECK IT OUT:
A look back on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in 2022
Last year was marked by a number of notable Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases that helped drive greater value for organizations, and set the stage for more exciting innovation in the year ahead. Check out these amazing releases from 2022.
RECOMMENDED READING:
Beyond the STIG: The wider world of cybersecurity
Tara Houlden, director of Red Hat product security compliance and risk, examines the way Security Technology Implementation Guides (STIGs) are used, how IT security postures incorporate and extend beyond STIGs, and what other aspects of cybersecurity CIOs and other leaders should consider and address.
IN THE NEWS:
Red Hat build of OptaPlanner is now available in Red Hat Application Foundations
The Red Hat build of OptaPlanner is now available in Red Hat Application Foundations, enabling application developers to turn data and constraints into a best-fit solution. Using the lightweight, embeddable planning engine from the open source OptaPlanner project, customers can build scalable planning applications that efficiently solve complex optimization challenges such as rostering, vehicle routing, scheduling, or many other constraint satisfaction problems.
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Partner success: Highlights from our partner success stories in 2022
The Red Hat partner ecosystem is an integral part of how Red Hat develops and delivers business and technical value to customers. It provides a community to solve customer challenges, build integrated solutions and establish and grow deep relationships—all built around Red Hat’s enterprise open source solutions. Check out these partner success stories from 2022, covering everything from 5G telecommunications through manufacturing and financial services.
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