Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025

Let's examine the core business advantages stemming from our recent product introductions, focusing on how they empower regional organizations with enhanced capabilities. Our hybrid cloud evolution is fundamentally rooted in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with version 10 offering crucial advancements in security and deployment adaptability essential for current demands. Automation plays a pivotal role in optimizing operational efficiency, extending beyond infrastructure to cultivate proactive responses to issues and threats. While OpenShift is establishing itself as the leading platform for cutting-generation applications, OpenShift Virtualization is accelerating its adoption for managing conventional workloads. Furthermore, initiating your organization's AI path involves achieving tangible business results while effectively managing container expenses and operational complexities.

AWS empowered enterprises to deploy their applications securely, at scale, and with resilience. Through Red Hat Openshift Services on AWS (ROSA), enterprises can leverage wide variety of latest instance types available on AWS to run workloads for different nature and industry and accelerate the delivery of applications with ROSA. This session will highlight ROSA and share a financial usecase that leveraging both AWS and ROSA.

In todays rapidly evolving IT landscape, operational efficiency and agility are paramount. This session will explore how Red Hat's core technologies can drive transformative automation across your organization. We will unpack the power of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as our element of your hybrid cloud strategy, and introduce Red Hat Insights for proactive system management and threat detection. Discover how Red Hat AI integrations can elevate your operational response, moving beyond reactive fixes to intelligent, predictive action. The session will highlight the critical role of Ansible in automating infrastructure and application deployment, and touch upon the strategic integrations with Terraform. Learn how to leverage these tools to reduce operational complexities, free up valuable IT resources, and accelerate the delivery of business-critical capabilities in your organization.

Dell Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift is a turnkey, integrated infrastructure solution jointly engineered by Dell and Red Hat for on-premises deployment of Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat’s leading Kubernetes platform. This platform is designed to simplify, accelerate, and optimize the delivery of containerized applications, virtual machines, and AI/ML workloads—making it ideal for modernizing IT environments across enterprise, service provider, and large organizational segments.

As organizations adapt IT architectures for the AI era, integrating new hardware like GPUs and enabling services such as "model-as-a-service" across hybrid and edge environments is critical. This session reveals how intentional hybrid architecture design generates over three times the ROI compared to reactive or default adoption. Join IBM Consulting and Red Hat to explore how starting with your business's customer-centric product goals and applying design thinking identifies capability gaps, shaping a clear roadmap for new technology adoption. You'll gain strategic insights into maximizing ROI and discover how open source software uniquely contributes to a flexible, scalable hybrid cloud architecture, enabling significant financial returns. Learn best practices for enterprise architects tasked with integrating new technologies effectively.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is trusted by organisations across the globe to securely and consistently support applications from the datacenter to the edge. In this session we'll take a look at how you can take advantage of the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 capabilities to support your organisation: RHEL 10 Image Mode: enables a container-native approach that unifies OS and application delivery. RHEL Lightspeed: an AI-powered assistant designed to augment system administration with context-aware guidance and actionable recommendations directly within the command line. RHEL at the Edge: explore the latest capabilities to manage RHEL fleets from the datacenter to the edge. Join this 20-mins session to learn how RHEL 10 confronts tomorrow's challenges today.

Unlike monolithic applications, the containerized, microservice-based workloads in Kubernetes require specialized data protection mechanisms to ensure integrity and availability. Simply backing up Kubernetes worker nodes, or the Kubernetes configuration database, does not ensure that applications can be successfully recovered. In this session, Chris will not just cover the data protection strategies in Kubetentes, but also the tightly integrated features of Kasten to enhance your data security.

Generative AI is transforming business, but success requires solutions that are open, portable, and economical. In this session, learn how Red Hat turns bold ideas into production reality—fast, open, and on any hardware or cloud. We'll unpack Red Hat's blueprint for making AI more accessible and energy-efficient, showing you how to build, train, and run models anywhere using Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI, OpenShift AI, and the Red Hat AI Inference Server. Discover how the Inference Server leverages open source vLLM to deliver fast, cost-optimized LLM serving. By parallelizing GPU requests and using pre-compressed models, it maximizes hardware efficiency, cutting costs, and reducing latency without sacrificing quality. We’ll also preview upcoming features and discuss how the llm-d initiative provides a scalable, Kubernetes-native service for distributed GPU inference and training. Join us to learn how to accelerate time-to-value while keeping governance, security, and cost firmly under control.

Modernize data with Red Hat OpenShift + NetApp ONTAP: portable, secure, AI‑ready. OpenShift standardizes Kubernetes; ONTAP delivers dynamic PVCs via Astra Trident, snapshots/clones, encryption, and tiering. SnapMirror enables hybrid cloud mobility; managed cloud options scale globally. GitOps and policy‑as‑code automate compliance. Result: faster insights, resilient operations, optimized TCO and FinOps everywhere.

With a decade of unparalleled success, serving more than 3,000 customers across diverse industries and hundreds of strategic partnerships, Red Hat OpenShift has established itself as a cornerstone of innovation and reliability. In 2025 and beyond, we continue to innovate to meet the challenges of tomorrow, and deliver solutions that address emerging use cases. Join us as we take a closer look at just a slice of those enabling features: - Connectivity Link: Next generation kubernetes native gateway - OpenShift Lightspeed: Super charge your admin skills on OpenShift - Advanced Developer Suite: Integrated solutions supporting builders - Zero Trust Workload Identity: Unified identity framework - Confidential Containers: Encrypt and protect data in-use