Friday Five — July 17, 2026

InfoWorld - Red Hat OpenShift 4.22 tackles cloud costs, AI workloads

InfoWorld looks at Red Hat OpenShift 4.22, the latest version of  Red Hat's hybrid cloud application platform. The release focuses on cutting cloud infrastructure costs, simplifying operations of virtualized workloads, and securing sensitive data. Learn more

Technically Speaking -  Defining sovereign AI with open source ft. Jered Floyd

What happens to your business operations when your AI workflows run on a proprietary black box? Red Hat CTO Chris Wright and Jered Floyd break down the 4 pillars of sovereign AI and challenge common misconceptions about data ownership and outline a clear path to platform autonomy. Learn more

Accelerating the time to science for the CDC and NIH

Check out how Red Hat, the CDC, and NIH are collaborating to harden the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for enterprise use in public health infrastructure. This co-engineering effort aims to make MCP a secure, standardized, and reliable backbone for agentic AI, reducing the risk of errors when using critical public health data. Learn more

Centris speeds up software delivery with modern developer portal

Find out how the Swiss IT managed services provider accelerated time-to-market and increased stability with Red Hat Developer Hub, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines and Red Hat OpenShift GitOps. Learn more

Bloomberg Intelligence Tech Disruptors - IOWN’s Wright, Wang on Photonics-Based Networks

In this episode IOWN Global Forum board members Chris Wright (CTO and SVP of Global Engineering, Red Hat) and Jefferson Wang (Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, Cloud, Accenture) talk through the accelerating shift towards photonics-based networks and how this next-generation technology can help unlock the full potential of the AI economy. Learn more