The Executive’s Collection
Open thinking for disruptive times
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Featured The adaptable enterprise: Why AI-readiness is disruption-readiness
September 22, 2025 | Michael Ferris
Everyone’s building AI capabilities. The winners are building something deeper: the ability to turn constant change into competitive strength. Here’s how to join them.
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Featured Open the future: Navigating the era of constant innovation
October 24, 2024
Technological disruption isn’t an exception in the IT world; it’s the new normal. The days of incremental change are gone, replaced by the reality of relentless innovation. Find out how to keep up.
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Our take on what matters now
Perspectives from Red Hat leaders and industry analysts on the technologies reshaping business.
The future of AI demands a hybrid foundation
Andrew Brown
Every IT leader Andrew Brown talks to is trying to do two things at once: move fast on AI, and not break what the business can't afford to lose. Red Hat's Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer makes the case that the way through isn't bigger models—it's a foundation built for choice.
2026 Red Hat Innovative Executives
This year's Red Hat Innovation Award winners run banks, health systems, and national networks—operations that can't simply be switched off and rebuilt. So they didn't. Each modernized progressively, without disruption, and walked away with more time, lower costs, and a clearer path to AI.
The AI-enabled enterprise: Why we are applying software engineering principles to business operations
Michael Ferris
Before an AI agent can take on real work across your company, your business operations have to be legible to it. Mike Ferris, Red Hat's COO and Chief Strategy Officer, explains Business as Code, an approach Red Hat uses to run its business operations like software and scale AI across the organization.
The new AI stack: Choice, control, and production-ready innovation
Ashesh Badani
Much of today's AI market runs on proprietary solutions, but history suggests that's not how this ends. Ashesh Badani, Chief Product Officer at Red Hat, explains why the smarter bet has always been open source—and what that means for AI strategy today.
The virtualization game has changed: A new playbook for IT leaders
Andrew Brown
A massive virtualization shift is underway—70% of organizations have moved VM workloads or are making a switch. Andrew Brown, Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer, shares what he's hearing from customers and why leaders need a fundamentally different strategy.
Navigating complexity, delivering value: Why Forrester named Red Hat OpenShift a Leader
Ashesh Badani
Your applications live everywhere. Your data lives everywhere. Your teams want everything to just work, everywhere. Ashesh Badani, Red Hat’s Chief Product Officer, explores the platform approach that makes it possible, informed by The Forrester Wave™: Multicloud Container Platforms, Q3 2025.
Red Hat OpenShift: Where vision meets execution
Mike Ferris
A unified platform spanning datacenter to cloud to edge—ambitious or essential? Mike Ferris, Head of Corporate Strategy at Red Hat, makes the case for consistency across environments, with evidence from the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management.
Taming hybrid cloud complexity: A path to true agility
Marco Peter
Marco Peter, CIO at Red Hat, examines complexity from a unique angle—as a customer advocate turned internal customer. Read his perspective alongside the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms.
Move from data to decisions
The business value of Red Hat hybrid cloud solutions
IDC Business Value Solution Brief
The migration catalyst: Turning virtualization disruption into application innovation
451 Research Vanguard Report
Digital sovereignty in action: Building resilient, compliant, and transparent cloud ecosystems
IDC InfoBrief
Navigating the generative AI landscape: Global strategies for implementation and scaling
HBR Analytic Services Report
