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 Brings Red Hat Universal Base Image to Docker Hub
Red Hat announces the availability of Red Hat Universal Base Image on Docker Hub as “Verified Publisher” images, bringing the power, reliability and enhanced security of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform to the largest and most easily accessible registry for container images.
WATCH NOW:
Technically Speaking (S1E05): Weird Data Science
In this episode, Red Hat's Chris Wright and Sherard Griffin explore artificial intelligence and machine learning's relationship to data, the role that open source plays in the development of models, and how projects like Open Data Hub can foster a culture of innovation.
CHECK IT OUT:
Red Hat Brings JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to Microsoft Azure, Easing Shift to the Cloud for Traditional Java Applications
With JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on Microsoft Azure, organizations can tap into the benefits of a cloud-based architecture for modernizing their existing Jakarta EE applications.
GOOD READ:
GovConWire - Red Hat's Dave Egts on Potential of Edge Computing, Open Hybrid Cloud for Government Data Management
Red Hat's David Egts discusses the potential of edge computing and open hybrid cloud for government data management.
ON THE BLOG:
Stability plus innovation: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 is now GA
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 is now generally available and brings important features for hybrid cloud, edge deployments and enhancements for operators, developers and organizations standardized on RHEL.
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