Transforming the Business Environment: Red Hat Innovations

Red Hat Inc. has been in the spotlight this year with innovative product announcements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, RHEL AI, and InstructLab dominating the headlines.

As an open source platform, it is transforming the way enterprises implement, develop, and maintain artificial intelligence, further democratizing technology and transforming the landscape and operations of business.

“When you think about what we do as a company, it's open source and we provide a platform. Those are the two foundational elements of everything we do,” said the company's senior vice president and chief executive officer. says Head of Strategy Mike Ferris (pictured). Red hat. “When we talk about the platform side here, extending what we've been doing with our customers for decades with automation with Enterprise Linux, OpenShift, and of course Ansible into the AI ​​space really helps our customers do everything. It means taking them on a journey away from things, leveraging all the infrastructure they've already employed and spent on, and all the skills they've developed and added to.”

Ferris spoke with Rebecca Knight and Rob Strechay of theCUBE Research at the Red Hat Summit during an exclusive broadcast on SiliconANGLE Media's livestreaming studio, theCUBE. They discussed where Red Hat is going with AI, the challenges customers are facing, and the opportunities customers are leveraging. (*Disclosure below.)

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Red Hat's Mike Ferris speaks with theCUBE about transforming the business landscape at Red Hat Summit 2024.

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“Safety, security, trust, these are all at the heart of the questions they're asking, not just about their existing infrastructure, but also about how we move forward in the AI ​​space,” Ferris said. “This is a concept that we apply to this what we've always done. Things like openness are at the core of what we do. Our decades of experience building enterprise open source products… It is currently being applied in the AI ​​field.

Over the years, Red Hat has maintained a strong identity centered around an open source ethos and has consistently adapted and grown while keeping this core philosophy intact. The company has come a long way from its early days with RHEL to embracing complex emerging technologies such as AI and cloud-native platforms.

“We've stayed true to our open source commitment, our open source roots,” Ferris said. “It's always a challenge to remain financially responsible to our stockholders and shareholders, employees and customers, because if we didn't exist, our customers and partners wouldn't be able to run their businesses. Because you won't be able to do it.”

Here is the complete video interview, part of Red Hat Summit coverage by SiliconANGLE and theCUBE Research:

(*Disclosure: Red Hat Inc. sponsors this segment on theCUBE. Neither Red Hat nor any other sponsor has editorial control over the content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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