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:

The New Stack - Linux and Cloud Native Security: Red Hat’s Perspective

This week, The New Stack is running a series of posts examining how Linux distributors are securing their distros for cloud native operations, including a perspective from Red Hat.

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ON THE BLOG:

CRN recognizes Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux as Tech Innovators

Red Hat has been recognized by CRN as a winner of the 2021 CRN Tech Innovator Awards. Red Hat OpenShift came out on top in the Container Technology category, with Red Hat Enterprise Linux honored as a finalist for Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure.

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GOOD READ:

Welcoming Phlyt’s Team of Cloud-native Development Experts to Red Hat

We are pleased to share that the team from Phlyt, experts in cloud-native development, has joined Red Hat to enable us to help even more customers with digital transformation initiatives.

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WATCH NOW:

ITP.net - The Right Features Make Technology More Adaptable & Adoptable, says Red Hat’s Phil Andrews

Phil Andrews, VP and General Manager, CEMEA Region, Red Hat, shares insights into the findings of the latest ‘The State of Enterprise Open Source’ report and calls on organisations to work with the right vendors to fully maximise the opportunities and innovations within open source communities.

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IN THE NEWS:

Red Hat Extends Foundation for Multicloud Transformation and Hybrid Innovation with Latest Version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5, the latest version of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform.

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