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.


ON THE BLOG:
Red Hat’s response to the war in Ukraine
Paul Cormier, Red Hat's president and chief executive officer, shared the following email with Red Hat associates today.


IN THE NEWS:
TelecomLead.com - VMware and Red Hat top 5G telco cloud-native platforms ranking
Cloud-native platforms will make use of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, service meshes, Kubernetes-based container technology, and other cloud-native tools to host new applications including containerized network functions (CNFs) and the new 5G service-based architecture (SBA) core.


CHECK IT OUT:
The Enterprisers Project - Four metaverse tools that tackle workplace collaboration
Poised as the next hot technology in 2022, the metaverse is finding its way into the workplace with some surprising benefits.


RECOMMENDED READING:
University Health Network transforms core connected healthcare system with Red Hat Integration
University Health Network, a Toronto-based healthcare and medical research organization, transformed its core hospital information system using Red Hat Integration to improve data accessibility across specialized patient care applications throughout the organization.


GOOD READ:
Telecoms.com - Red Hat wants to be the default platform for open RAN
Telecoms.com spoke to Honoré LaBourdette, VP of Industry Verticals and Edge at Red Hat, at Mobile World Congress 2022 last week. The telco sector is one of her main areas of focus and, in that context, LaBourdette insisted “The industry is coming to Red Hat.”
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