The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat® blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye.


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ITPro Today - Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier Talks About IBM and His Vision for the Future

Paul Cormier recently sat down for a talk with Data Center Knowledge about how the company's relationship with its new owner, IBM, is working out and to reflect on where the company is going.

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IN THE NEWS:

Red Hat expands cloud and service provider footprint with Ingram Micro

Ingram Micro, Inc. has been appointed as distributor for the Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider (CCSP) program supporting ASEAN countries (Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand) and Hong Kong. As part of the program, Ingram Micro will work with Red Hat to qualify, recruit and onboard partners as Certified Cloud and Service Providers.

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NEW ON THE BLOG:

Here's to six years, Kubernetes!

Saturday marked the 6th anniversary of the commencement of the Kubernetes Project. While there are other milestones coming up this summer, such as the first time code was checked in for the project, we thought we’d use today as an opportunity to share some of Red Hat’s favorite memories from the first six years.

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GOOD READ:

ITProPortal - Automating business for Covid-19 continuity

Some industry leaders have already said that their customers went through more digital transformation in the last two months than in the last two years. IT automation is one of the key technologies fuelling that digital transformation.

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CHECK IT OUT:

Enterprise Channels MEA - Which cloud strategy is right for you in 2020?

While most organisations are certain that the cloud has a vital role to play in the future of business, the various strategies, from a public or private cloud first approach to the hybrid or multicloud routes, can be confusing to some.

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