Friday Five — September 11, 2026

Red Hat Positioned as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management

Red Hat is recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management. In Red Hat's opinion, this recognition reinforces OpenShift’s ability to manage containers, VMs and AI workloads with the same operational and security rigor across any infrastructure footprint. Learn more

Red Hat Puts Safety and Observability at the Core of Enterprise AI with Red Hat AI 3.5

Major advancements across the Red Hat AI portfolio deliver the verifiable trust, operational control, standardized architectures and performance transparency required to run AI as a shared enterprise service. Learn more

The Lightwell reality check

Red Hat's Gunnar Hellekson, VP and GM, Lightwell, discusses why simply having access to the latest patches isn't enough and why pipeline modernization is key to consuming AI-speed patches. Learn more

Red Hat sponsors the OpenClaw Foundation to advance an open future for production AI agents

OpenClaw has quickly become a premier open source autonomous agent framework and Red Hat’s involvement aims to bring the enterprise readiness and infrastructure needed to transition technology from a powerful personal tool to a production-grade business asset. Learn more

NVIDIA BlueField security and acceleration arrive on the Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA and Red Hat OpenShift

To help service providers and enterprises modernize without sacrificing profitability, Red Hat OpenShift now offers general availability support for NVIDIA BlueField—delivering line-rate acceleration, in-silicon security, and lower total cost of ownership across hybrid networks. Learn more

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