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.


ON THE BLOG:

Red Hat and AWS extend collaboration: Introducing Amazon Red Hat OpenShift

Amazon Red Hat OpenShift will be a fully managed service that enables IT organizations to more quickly build and deploy applications in AWS on Red Hat's powerful, enterprise Kubernetes platform, using the same tools and APIs.

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IN THE NEWS:

CRN - Red Hat's Strategy For Achieving Hybrid Cloud Dominance

During the Red at Summit 2020 Virtual Experience, executives—including new CEO Paul Cormier—lay out their vision for conquering the hybrid and multi-cloud market with its entirely open source technology stack.

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GOOD READ:

WRAL TechWire - Red Hat's new CEO ready for new challenge: 'My excitement is about what is yet to come'

Cormier talks about the IBM-Red Hat relationship, working with Whitehurst and Krishna, the challenges and opportunities he sees ahead for Red Hat and how the company has thus far dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic.

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CHECK IT OUT:

AnsibleFest 2020 is now a virtual experience

The AnsibleFest Virtual Experience will be a free, immersive multi-day event the week of October 12th, 2020, that will deliver timely and useful customer keynotes, breakout sessions, direct access to Ansible experts, and more.

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RECOMMENDED READING:

TechTarget SearchDataCenter - Red Hat Enterprise Linux still central to Red Hat's strategy

While it may be overshadowed by OpenShift and Kubernetes, Red Hat Summit attendees were reminded that Red Hat Enterprise Linux still has a strategic role to play.

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