Friday Five — April 30, 2021

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Assess. Build. Deploy. Manage. Every CIO is now a cloud operator.

The prominence of cloud computing and always-on services means that enterprise organizations are leaning more and more on the hybrid cloud as their operational model. Blending services from multiple public clouds into existing datacenter infrastructure and on-premises workloads while extending out to the edge is building a hybrid cloud and it’s no small feat - this requires new skills, new tools and new strategies. In short, it is not enough to view every company as a software company. Now, every CIO is a cloud operator.

 

IN THE NEWS:

Red Hat Summit 2021 Newsroom

From new portfolio innovations to key customers and major partnerships, catch up on all the news and announcements from Red Hat this week by visiting the Red Hat Summit newsroom.

 

RED HAT SUMMIT:

Red Hat Summit Virtual Experience now on demand

In case you missed the Red Hat Summit 2021 this week or didn't have time to watch all the sessions you had on your list, registrants now have access to all the on-demand content through April 2022.

CHECK IT OUT:

We see edge differently

Red Hatters see edge computing as a really interesting way to solve problems, not a new buzzword to sell products. With our open approach and open platforms, customers are extending the reliability of their datacenters to the places that need it most: the factory floors, retail outlets, and devices where human interactions happen.

GOOD READ:

EnterpriseAI - At Red Hat Summit, it’s all about open hybrid cloud

Over the last two years, Red Hat, which was acquired by IBM in 2019, has been morphing again, this time as an open hybrid cloud platform vendor that has found a way to wrap its heritage up with new components in an always changing world of IT. At the virtual Red Hat Summit this week, the company unleashed a wide range of new product and services announcements that build on this open hybrid cloud theme.