Friday Five — October 30, 2026

Fierce Network - Telcos can cash in on AI, not just pay for it: Red Hat

Red Hat's Joe Fernandes discusses how open models can help telcos move from renting AI capacity to owning it and selling inference and agent services. Rising token costs and sovereignty needs are pushing operators like AT&T, T-Mobile and Orange Business toward open-weight models on their own infrastructure. Learn more

Computer Weekly - BMW uses Ansible to manage HPC cluster

BMW migrated its high-performance computing cluster of about 15,000 Windows and Linux servers from a 30-year-old custom system to Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Complex tasks that once took up to 60 hours now finish in about 20 minutes, and self-service cuts routine admin work. Learn more

RHEL for NVIDIA delivers trusted foundation for next-gen AI workloads

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26.03 is a partner-optimized RHEL edition with Day 0 support for the latest NVIDIA hardware, including readiness for Vera Rubin. It modifies a limited set of packages while keeping standard RHEL userspace, so teams can adopt new GPUs without a temporary OS. Learn more

The New Stack - The next 10 years of KubeVirt

A decade after Red Hat founded KubeVirt, contributors outline the roadmap: Dynamic Resource Allocation for GPUs and devices, confidential VMs with attestation, structured plugins, and pluggable virtualization stacks. The CNCF incubating project aims to keep VMs first-class on Kubernetes for AI and multi-tenant workloads. Learn more

How organizations can get more value from open source

Getting more from open source means participating in communities, not only consuming software. Red Hat explains how open source program offices, clear contribution policies and inner source practices help organizations scale collaboration, reduce duplicated work and align open source engagement with business goals. Learn more