Friday Five — July 8, 2022

IN THE NEWS:

siliconANGLE - Red Hat follows open-source game plan to drive the enterprise hybrid future

Red Hat’s Paul Cormier offered two key points at the start of the Red Hat Summit in May: Companies will have to adopt a hybrid model whether desired or not, and open-source code is driving the future of information technology. Red Hat’s product portfolio has been geared to architect, develop and operate applications in the modern hybrid enterprise environment.

 

ON THE BLOG:

Achieving speed and accuracy through event-driven automation

Companies are on a journey toward using automation more strategically across their organizations, and automating IT functions is a key step toward achieving this goal. Event-driven automation is a further building block; the need is to connect intelligence/analytics and service requests for an environment to automated actions so that activities can take place in a single motion.

 

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The Enterprisers Project - The term 'digital transformation' needs a makeover: What would you rename it?

Considered a buzzword by some, digital transformation is an essential component for businesses, having accelerated even more rapidly due to the pandemic. As a key to future success for most companies, it’s an unavoidable term unless we come up with something better. Experts in the community weigh in on this divisive term and offer suggestions for what they’d rename it.

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Network World - Linux Foundation works toward improved data-center efficiency

The Linux Foundation announced a project to make data-processing units (DPU) and infrastructure processing units (IPU) integral to future data-center and cloud-based infrastructures. The Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) Project calls for creating a community that establishes standards for building DPU/IPU-based architectures. OPI will develop technologies designed to enable more portable and efficient applications in the cloud and data center.

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Futurum - HPE Deepens Relationships with Red Hat and SUSE

At HPE Discover 2022, HPE announced that it is deepening its relationships with key Linux and open source providers Red Hat and SUSE. HPE has endeavored to position itself as the preeminent private cloud provider, fueled by its GreenLake consumption-driven approach. To provide the cloud native experience that many clients are seeking but delivered within the client datacenter, Kubernetes is crucial.