Open source innovation in the automotive industry
The automotive industry is racing towards a technological transformation. By Haaike van der Merwe, senior solutions architect: sub-Saharan African at Red Hat Car manufacturers are no longer only differentiating themselves by the engine or exterior designs to sell...
Get business value from AI and ML the open source way
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are nothing short of a technological revolution in the making. By Francis Viviers, senior solutions architect at Red Hat There are a tremendous number of applications for AI and ML (many of which we...
An open source approach to workplace culture could be significant
We tend to think of workplace culture as a naturally occurring phenomenon, and what business leaders may underestimate is that workplace culture plays a significant role in a business's overall success. By Karina Brijlal, senior marketing manager at Red Hat...
An open source approach to a hybrid cloud environment
With a mix of old and new applications, on-premise and cloud infrastructure, as well as legacy and modern processes, many organisations are faced with the challenge of managing the growing costs and complexity of a hybrid IT landscape. By Danie Thom, open hybrid cloud...
Is your business making the most of Open Source?
When it comes to business applications, Open Source Software (OSS) has become the technology of choice. In fact, according to a Red Hat survey on The State of Enterprise Open Source, 69% of IT professionals indicated that OSS is either highly important or very...
Fedora Linux 35 now generally available
The Fedora Project, a community-driven open source collaboration sponsored by Red Hat, has announced the general availability of Fedora Linux 35, the latest version of the fully open source Fedora operating system. The new features and enhancements in Fedora 35 are...
Open source: what vaccines taught us about its importance for innovation
Mention open source to most people and they'll probably conjure up images of geeks in Linux shirts working on operating systems that are unfathomable to the average person. But in truth, open-source is crucial to so much of the way the world operates, writes Greg...
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 drives cloud-native automation
Red Hat has announced Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 as the company's new standard for hybrid cloud automation. Refined for the evolving realities of computing at hybrid cloud scale, the latest version of the platform adds self-contained automation capabilities...
How to become a Linux Samurai
The beauty of Linux is that it is made by programmers, for programmers. It can run on almost any hardware and there is an endless variety of distributions for almost every use case. It is preferred by programmers for its versatility, scalability, container...
Expect more influence from open source in the cloud domain
Customer mindset that open source technology is somehow inferior to proprietary software has changed, fuelled by the superiority of Linux as the foundation for innovation. Additionally, the market should expect open source solutions to grow in cloud-based...
2021 trends in enterprise open source
We're now in the third year of our The State of Enterprise Open Source report in which we probe the use of and attitudes about enterprise open source. By Gordon Haff, senior principal product marketing manager at Red Hat This year we conducted interviews with 1,250 IT...
Perseverance Rover reaches Mars with the help of open source OS
After years of preliminary work by NASA and a traversed flight distance of 292 million miles, the Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars on 18 February 2021. One of the main goals of the Mars mission is to search for signs of primeval microbial life. The rover...