Friday Five — July 24, 2026

Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering Salt Lake City 2026

Register for the in-person Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering alongside KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. This event brings together the global OpenShift community-including users, contributors, partners, and Red Hat experts-to share knowledge, build connections, and learn from real production experiences. Learn more

5 new ways Red Hat helps partners maximize business value

Red Hat is rolling out updates to the Red Hat Partner Program designed to streamline your daily operations, safeguard your investments, and give you a clear financial runway to build new pipeline. Here are five ways we are enhancing the global partner experience to help you maximize business value. Learn more

CX Today - Red Hat Explains the Agentic AI Cybersecurity Risk CX Teams Can’t Ignore

In this interview, Red Hat's Vincent Danen discusses how AI agents are reshaping enterprise risk. AI is already being embedded across customer support, software development and operational workflows. Yet as these systems become more capable and more autonomous, the security model around them needs to evolve too. Learn more

Preparing for Q-day: Four steps to prepare your hybrid cloud today

Cryptographically relevant quantum computers are moving from a distant theoretical challenge to an urgent timeline that security teams must plan for today. Bad actors are already capturing and storing encrypted enterprise traffic, intellectual property, and data logs to run them through quantum hardware as soon as it becomes available. Learn more

The State of Kubernetes fleet management 2026

The report examines how organizations manage Kubernetes across increasingly complex distributed environments. With Kubernetes now being essential rather than experimental, the challenge has shifted from adoption to operations: running clusters consistently at scale across clouds, regions, and constrained environments. Learn more