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.


NOMINATE NOW:

Nominations are open for the 2020 Women in Open Source Award

Red Hat recognizes women who make important contributions to an open source project or the broader open source community through the annual Women in Open Source Award. Help us put a spotlight on the many significant contributions women around the world make to open source. Nominations will be accepted through January 27 at 5 p.m. ET.

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NEW ON THE BLOG:

OpenShift under the hood: How global systems integrators like DXC Technology are using enterprise Kubernetes to build on the promise of PaaS

DXC Managed Container PaaS, powered by Red Hat OpenShift, lets developers build, deploy, and manage containerized applications at scale on a single platform—on bare-metal or virtual networks, as well as across private and public clouds.

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IN THE NEWS:

SD Times - ‘API First’ paves the way for agile integration

Red Hat's Integration [solution] has enabled, among other things, organizations to transform their traditional middleware architectures into a more agile framework. Sameer Parulkar, Red Hat's product marketing director for middleware integration, believes organizations that are looking to roll out modern, cloud-native apps should embrace agile integration as a core component of their app architectures.

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GOOD READ:

What does an open source program office do?

Increasingly, organizations are recognizing the need for building centralized open source programs offices (OSPOs) that nurture, guide, and align open source best practices with business strategy.

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CHECK IT OUT:

Triangle Business Journal - Sneak Peek: Inside Red Hat's new 'open studio'

Red Hat's Chief People Officer DeLisa Alexander describes [the space] as Red Hat's in-house "marketing agency." And the new space – 9,000 square feet directly adjacent to its lobby - is designed for them to collaborate, and publicly.

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