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.
CHECK IT OUT:
Red Hat community and social responsibility site launches
We believe open unlocks the world's potential and that our commitment to community is key to our success. Red Hat's first community and social responsibility report shows how Red Hat gives back to those communities, and how we do so in a uniquely Red Hat way.
CUSTOMER SUCCESS:
Red Hat Ansible Automation Accelerates Past Major Adoption Milestone, Now Manages More Than Four Million Customer Systems Worldwide
Four million customer systems worldwide are now automated by Red Hat Ansible Automation. Customers, including Energy Market Company, Microsoft, Reserve Bank of New Zealand and Surescripts all use Red Hat Ansible Automation to automate and orchestrate their IT operations, helping to expand automation across IT stacks.
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NEW ON THE BLOG:
Powering your SAP HANA workloads with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for SAP Solutions
Red Hat's strategic alliance and long-standing collaboration with SAP makes it possible to pair the world's leading enterprise Linux platform with mission-critical SAP workloads, delivering a more stable, flexible, and highly available production platform for business transactions.
IN THE NEWS:
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 Enhances Infrastructure Security and Cloud-Native Integration Across the Open Hybrid Cloud
Based on the OpenStack community's "Stein" release, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 adds performance and cloud security enhancements and expands the platform's ecosystem of supported hardware, helping IT organizations to more quickly and more securely support demanding production workloads.
GOOD READ:
Fedora 31 Beta now available
Fedora 31 Beta offers a look at the advancements expected in the next version of Fedora, helping to address a host of modern computing challenges, from building and running cloud native applications to driving innovation in the connected world.
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