Friday Five — February 20, 2026

How sovereign is your strategy? Introducing the Red Hat Sovereignty Readiness Assessment tool

Red Hat believes that sovereignty shouldn't be a wall but a foundation for the freedom to choose where and how you run your workloads. To accelerate this push towards sovereign independence, we are introducing the Red Hat Digital Sovereignty Readiness Assessment tool. Learn more

Register today for Red Hat Summit

Red Hat Summit 2026 heads to Atlanta, Georgia! Register by February 23 for our lowest pricing and discounted group rates for your organization, so you can uncover opportunities for your business, your customers, and yourself. Learn more

How llm-d brings critical resource optimization with SoftBank’s AI-RAN orchestrator

In Red Hat’s latest collaboration with SoftBank Corp., we have integrated llm-d into SoftBank’s AI-RAN orchestrator, AITRAS. Founded by Red Hat alongside other industry leaders, llm-d is an open source framework designed to dynamically and intelligently distribute the inferencing of LLMs within a RAN more efficiently and with increased performance. Learn more

Introducing Red Hat build of Podman Desktop

The general availability of the Red Hat build of Podman Desktop brings the same user-friendly experience into the enterprise with an integrated and fully supported path from local development to Red Hat OpenShift. Customers can harness the momentum of the Podman Desktop community, which recently celebrated 3 million downloads. Learn more

SiliconANGLE - How Red Hat and the Nvidia ecosystem are standardizing AI factories

Red Hat and the Nvidia ecosystem are standardizing AI infrastructure, moving beyond bespoke setups to repeatable AI factory stacks where Linux, Kubernetes and Nvidia hardware/software integration enable consistent, scalable enterprise AI deployments. Learn more