Monday, May 7, marked the unofficial kick-off of Red Hat Summit 2018, with news centering around global enterprise and partner adoption of Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud technologies, including Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat OpenStack Platform. Highlights include:

• Cathay Pacific Takes Customer Experiences to New Heights with Red Hat’s Hybrid Cloud Technologies - Cathay Pacific, a leading international airline, is using Red Hat solutions and services to transform its legacy infrastructure into a modern hybrid cloud architecture.

• Leading Solutions Providers Turn to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to Drive Customer Innovation - Highlighting Red Hat's global momentum for its enterprise Kubernetes platform, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, with expanded support from global systems integrators (SI).

• Red Hat, Vorwerk Bake the Hybrid Cloud and Internet of Things Into Leading Cooking Appliance - Vorwerk is implementing a new Internet of Things (IoT) environment with an infrastructure based on solutions from Red Hat.

• Using OpenShift on OpenStack, Red Hat Customers Power IT Infrastructure and Application Modernization - Organizations across the globe including Banco Multiva; Genesys; and UKCloud have deployed a fully open hybrid cloud infrastructure based on Red Hat technologies.

• Growing Number of Organizations Around the World Choose Red Hat Container-Native Storage with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - A growing number of organizations around the world are turning to its container-native storage offering to support the adoption of Linux containers. In the last year, Red Hat has surpassed 150 customers worldwide adopting container-native storage with its Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environments.

• Lufthansa Technik Builds its Digital Future with Red Hat - Lufthansa Technik, a leading provider of aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services, has moved to a hybrid cloud infrastructure based on Red Hat’s enterprise-grade open source technologies running on Azure, Microsoft’s public cloud.

Stay tuned for more exciting news from Red Hat Summit 2018, with Day 1 officially kicking off today!