Friday Five — July 10, 2026

IBM and Red Hat Expand Lightwell with New Offerings to Build the Trust Infrastructure for AI-Era Open Source

Developed with leading global financial institutions and backed by a growing partner ecosystem, the new Lightwell offerings help enterprises reduce open source risk without disruptive upgrades. Learn more

The new currency of enterprise velocity

With a vast global force of engineers with advanced AI tools, we're delivering the enterprise trust infrastructure for the open source supply chain far beyond our own traditional platform boundaries. It is the largest single commitment to open source security since IBM’s landmark $1 billion investment in Linux in 1999. Learn more

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Silicon Angle: IBM and Red Hat partner with Deloitte to fix open source vulnerabilities

Deloitte will work with IBM to help customers map out what open source components their developers use. Furthermore, they will continuously update that component inventory as companies’ software changes. The goal is to avoid situations where an enterprise is unaware that one of its applications contains a vulnerable open-source module. Learn more

Techzine EU: Red Hat OpenShift tackles the tough virtualization headache

Red Hat has made huge strides in virtualization. Managing VMs, containers and heavier AI workloads demands constant attention from IT. At the same time, the virtualization issue is starting to extend beyond the traditional IT department because of the rising costs tied to virtualization challenges. Learn more