Friday Five — July 7, 2023

IN THE NEWS:

Light Reading - Competition will be kicking itself over Red Hat deal, says Nokia cloud expert

"It was a very, very smart move on our part. Our competition is probably privately kicking itself it didn't think of it before we did." So said Fran Heeran, Nokia's general manager of core networks, cloud and network services, when Light Reading caught up with him to talk about the Finnish supplier's tie-up with Red Hat, announced last week.

 

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ITPro - Red Hat adds four years of extended support for RHEL 7

Linux vendor Red Hat has announced up to four years of extended support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, further prolonging the usability for customers that are unable to upgrade. This extended support ensures customers receive additional support for security and bug fixes and includes maintenance for Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability and Resilient Storage add-ons.

 

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Accelerating your network automation journey with Ansible network validated content

Network infrastructures growth in scale and complexity pose the need for modern enterprise automation solutions such as Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, to cover multi-domain and multi-vendor architectures including standalone and SDN (Software Defined Network) solutions. Read on to learn what considerations you should take to ensure a successful network automation journey.

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GovInsider - When ChatGPT arrives to code

Automation is being used everywhere. But can it write good code? Kelvin Loh, Senior Manager, Solutions Architect, ASEAN, Red Hat, shares how Red Hat is developing a generative AI/ML model that will help developers leapfrog automation code and bridge the IT skills gap with reliable and consistent code for automated tasks.

ON THE BLOG:

​​Red Hat bringing open hybrid cloud to Red Hat IT provides key learnings for others

Here at Red Hat, we do things because they are the right things to do for our business, our future and our customers. But it never hurts to be acknowledged for them and to spread the word that what works at Red Hat can work for our current and future customers, too. Jim Palermo dives deeper on some of the reasons why CNBC has recognized Red Hat for bringing open hybrid cloud to Red Hat IT as part of its annual review of award-winning initiatives.