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.


RECOMMENDED READING:
From 5G to the future: How Red Hat supports Verizon in the drive for greater connectivity
Red Hat is committed to enabling innovations for the future of networks, including 5G and edge computing. This week, we announced we're working with Verizon to deliver their next-generation infrastructure on Red Hat OpenShift.


IN THE NEWS:
Red Hat Expands Workload Possibilities Across the Hybrid Cloud with Latest Version of OpenShift
This week, Red Hat introduced OpenShift 4.8, helping to further simplify the developer experience while expanding the use cases and workload possibilities across industries.


CUSTOMER SUCCESS:
KPMG Automates, Accelerates and Enhances Artificial Intelligence Workflows with Red Hat OpenShift
KPMG used Red Hat OpenShift as the foundation for their Ignite AI platform. With Ignite running on OpenShift, KPMG helps organizations make sense of unstructured data for better business decisions.


CHECK IT OUT:
SearchITOperations - Kubernetes security automation saves SecOps sanity
This article looks at how enterprise IT pros are tackling Kubernetes security in an increasingly distributed, multicluster world.


NEW ON THE BLOG:
How does Red Hat support Day 2 operations?
This blog post looks at why Day 2 operations are important and explores how products such as Red Hat OpenShift and RHEL work to optimize your software’s post-installation performance.
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