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Bringing enterprise Linux to the robotics frontier: ROS2 adds Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a tier-1 supported platform

The convergence of enterprise IT and physical computing is accelerating. As artificial intelligence transitions from purely digital environments into autonomous systems, industrial automation, and smart edge devices, the software foundation behind these systems must be as resilient as the physical machines themselves.To power this next generation of intelligent systems, we’re pleased that Red Hat…

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Breaking the AI productivity paradox: an intelligent migration factory to modernize infrastructure and applications

The rise of generative AI promised a silver bullet, but for most enterprises, especially banks, digital transformation remains a slow, complex, and costly endeavor. Early reports suggested massive developer productivity gains. But when AI is applied to complex enterprise systems, organizations often collide with what we call the AI productivity paradox.According to a Stanford software engineering…

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AI Reliability Engineering for Dependable Humans | Solo.io

Learn AI reliability engineering (AIRE): how AI agents help SRE and platform teams triage incidents faster and stay dependable.

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Unlock 3x QPS and microsecond latency with Memorystore for Valkey 9.1

At Google Cloud, we are committed to delivering the best managed experience backed by open source software. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Memorystore for Valkey 9.1 , which achieves up to 3x queries per second (QPS) at microsecond latency compared to Memorystore for Redis Cluster. Our support for Valkey dates back to 2024 , when Redis Inc. shifted its licensing away from the…

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Storage Intelligence advisor: Know what changed in your storage estate and act on it

The volume of data being generated today brings both opportunity and massive operational complexity. Most teams that operate at scale don't discover issues until they appear on an invoice — and by the time an unusual access pattern shows up as a line item, it has often been running for weeks. Understanding what happened means exporting inventory, joining it against access logs, and hoping someone…

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What’s new with Google Cloud

Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip : Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google Cloud blog? Start here: Google Cloud blog 101: Full list of topics, links, and resources . aside_block <ListValue: []> Sept 21 - Sept 25…

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ShinyHunters Renewed Mass Exploitation Campaign Targeting Oracle PeopleSoft

Introduction As an update to the June 2026 post, ShinyHunters Targets Education Sector with Oracle PeopleSoft Exploit , Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have identified renewed mass exploitation of CVE-2026-35273 by UNC6240 (ShinyHunters), along with expanded global targeting across multiple sectors. In June, the threat actor exploited this vulnerability as a zero-day…

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The path to a sovereign autonomous enterprise: Why open source is your clean core advantage

Key Takeaways Building an autonomous SAP environment requires balancing rapid AI innovation with strict data control and compliance. Keeping your SAP core clean relies on hybrid integration, private AI deployment, and open virtualization strategies. Open-source architecture provides true technological sovereignty, preventing lock-in and eliminating rising hypervisor costs. Managing…

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Managing multiple EKS clusters: why cluster #3 is the wall

Do the arithmetic before you read the rest of this. Count the people on your team who need access to a cluster. Multiply by the number of clusters you run. That result is how many access decisions somebody is maintaining by hand today. Now add one cluster and run it again. The jump between those […] The post Managing multiple EKS clusters: why cluster #3 is the wall appeared first on SUSE…

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From SAP data to operational insight: Modernizing Day-Two SAP operations with SUSE Trento

Key takeaways: Day-Two Operations are critical for maintaining SAP environment health, security and configuration consistency. SUSE Trento automates discovery, prevents configuration drift and standardizes high-risk administrative workflows. Integrating AI safely through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) exposes hidden or multi-view Trento data through direct, unified querying. Getting an SAP…

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Securing SAP from the inside out: OS-level security for IT leaders

Key takeaways: The operating system beneath SAP remains a critical attack surface requiring stringent security controls. Mandatory Access Control (MAC) through SELinux provides strict process confinement and limits the blast radius of compromises. Implementing a phased security deployment protects live SAP environments from unexpected downtime while enforcing policies. Traditional SAP security…

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Architecting SAP for resilience: A business continuity guide for IT leaders

Key takeaways: Achieving SAP resilience requires moving beyond basic hardware failovers to address patching, upgrades and regional outages. IT leaders must balance Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) with operational complexity. A robust architecture covers local High Availability (HA) and regional Disaster Recovery (DR) to ensure core business continuity. When an…

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AI adoption is a security survival metric

AI is moving from experiment to infrastructure. Sysdig research shows more organizations building their own infrastructure, reducing the AI attack surface.

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Idle GPUs and runaway token bills: the real economics of production AI - Spectro Cloud

Recap of the TeraSky x Spectro Cloud webinar on GPU utilization, tokenomics and inference tuning, with advice from Scott Rosenberg and Pedro Oliveira.

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AI ROI and token economics in financial services: NYC panel recap - Spectro Cloud

Recap of the AI ROI + token economics panel at AI for Financial Services NYC, with Tenry Fu (Spectro Cloud), American Express, Silicon Data and Data Maverick.

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Friday Five — September 25, 2026 | Red Hat

The blueprint for scalable enterprise security in the age of AIThroughout this series, we will unpack how Red Hat can help customers implement a layered security defense, from the operating system (OS) foundation to autonomous AI agents, ensuring enterprise resilience in the age of AI and emerging threats. Learn more Techstrong tv: Red Hat Lightwell targets the AI vulnerability patch crisisRed…

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 STIG automation now matches DISA STIG V1R2

For the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and its contractors, security has to hold up against a published baseline—not a general claim that systems are “secure.” The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) defines that baseline in Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), and STIG compliance is required for information systems that connect to DoD networks.In March 2026, the Defense…

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Manufacturing Trust for AI Agents &#124; Docker&#8217;s WeAreDevelopers Keynote

Docker's WeAreDevelopers keynote shows how Sandboxes, Kits, and Cloud Sandboxes give AI agents strong isolation and reproducible authority.

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Introducing Cloud Sandboxes: Start on Your Laptop, Finish in the Cloud

Run agents on your laptop, in the cloud, and move between them with one command, all safely. Earlier this year we launched Docker Sandboxes: microVM environments where coding agents can work autonomously in a safe way.

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From Dockerfile to Kit: the Docker Sandboxes Kit Specification

Docker's Sandbox Kit Specification v3 packages an AI agent's network rules, credentials, and volumes as an ordinary, pinnable OCI image.

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Docker and CNCF partner on an open spec for agent permissions

Docker is bringing the open source Sandbox Kit Spec to the CNCF, so AI agent permissions become a neutral, vendor independent standard built on OCI.

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Why are SBOMs failing to stop supply chain attacks?

A software bill of materials (SBOM) could prevent most supply chain attacks. Let’s analyze what’s holding back their broader adoption.

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Searching for the 2027 Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year

We’re looking for the 2027 Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year! This award is more than just a title; it's a testament to the impactful work and dedication that all Red Hat Certified Professionals bring to the open source ecosystem. Every winner uses their hands-on Red Hat expertise to overcome complex challenges and promote continuous innovation.Meet our 2026 winnerThe 2026 Red Hat…

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Automate security risk management across enterprise IT operations

Any modern IT strategy has to address the security risks fueled by AI. In the wake of headlines about powerful frontier AI models autonomously breaching security controls, IT operations and security leaders responsible for risk across hybrid environments are rapidly adjusting their approaches to vulnerability risk management to achieve better outcomes. As a key part of this transformation, IT…

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Fine tune your own custom LLM with Canonical Charmed Kubeflow and Feast

So you want your own pet LLM huh? Knowing where to start can be quite tricky, so luckily for you I’ve put together this end-to-end guide. It’ll get you not just started; you’ll end with a fully working chatbot that you’ve fine tuned on the dataset `nampdn-ai/tiny-webtext`, which is a training dataset designed to improve [&hellip;]

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The Clearinghouse For AI Agents Has A Blind Spot

Jamin Ball’s recent piece, “Systems of Record Won the SaaS Era — Clearinghouses Will Win the Agents Era,” is the cleanest articulation I’ve seen of where the durable moat goes next. His argument is simple... The post The Clearinghouse For AI Agents Has A Blind Spot appeared first on Tigera – Creator of Calico .

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Scaling Android™ development without scaling hardware

How shared Android capacity helps engineering teams move beyond fixed device labs In the first blog of this series, we discussed how programmable Android environments can replace manual device preparation with a repeatable lifecycle. A workflow requests an environment with a predefined configuration, executes the required task, collects the results, and releases the resources once [&hellip;]

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41 billion tokens later: dogfooding local inference routing

85 engineers, 41 billion tokens, 97.5% served locally and Claude bills 46% lower: what we learned dogfooding PaletteAI Inference Launchpad for a month.

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From incident insight to governed action with LogicMonitor Edwin AI and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Despite substantial investments in observability tools and automation, IT operations teams still spend critical incident response minutes context-switching across dashboards, copying data into chat channels, and evaluating whether a potential fix is safe to run in production.Integrating LogicMonitor Edwin AI with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform can help bridge the gap between incident…

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The playbook behind Red Hat’s most successful OpenShift deployments

The cluster is up. The team celebrated. A year later, the same 5 applications you migrated at launch are still the only workloads running on it. Developers are confused about what's expected of them. Operations is buried in manual processes and don’t have the bandwidth to handhold developers. Leadership is starting to ask pointed questions about the investment.If that sounds familiar, you've run…

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Unify VMs and containers with Everpure Cloud on Azure Red Hat OpenShift

As organizations accelerate their cloud transformations, IT teams often find themselves trapped between 2 worlds—managing mission-critical legacy virtual machines (VMs) in isolated silos while simultaneously attempting to build cloud-native applications on modern platforms. This divide creates operational friction, inflates cloud storage costs, and forces teams to maintain duplicate management…

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Meet the Ecosystem: Partners and Customers at WeAreDevelopers with Docker

Meet the partners and customers bringing practical AI, security, and development sessions to the Docker Pavilion at WeAreDevelopers. The post explains why a strong ecosystem matters to developers, announces the sessions and speakers, and invites attendees to connect with the teams building and using these technologies.

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Connect Amazon Bedrock to PaletteAI Inference Launchpad

Step-by-step demo: register Amazon Bedrock as an external inference endpoint in PaletteAI Inference Launchpad, scope egress to one client and route an alias to a hosted model.

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Risky identities continue to plague cloud infrastructures

Our research finds cloud-native IAM remains one of the most persistently misconfigured and poorly governed areas of security. Here’s what you can do.

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Celebrating 100 Days of Kagent | Solo.io

Celebrating 100 Days of Kagent

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Celebrating the Winners of the 2026 Hackathon for MCP & AI Agents | Solo.io

Meet the winners of the 2026 Hackathon for MCP & AI Agents - showcasing open source AI agents, MCP servers, and cloud-native tooling built with kagent, agentgateway, agentregistry, kgateway, kmcp, and more.

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Agent Identity and Access Management - Can SPIFFE Work? | Solo.io

Solo.io Blog | Digging into AI identity and how the current SPIFFE models may need to be revised to support AI Agents

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Attach an Ubuntu Pro subscription to your AWS Image Builder image

We are pleased to announce that you can now attach an Ubuntu Pro subscription directly to any base image in AWS Image Builder, allowing you to create enterprise-grade custom images from the get go.

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What is hybrid AI? The seven-stop spectrum (part 1) | Spectro Cloud

Spectro Cloud CEO Tenry Fu argues enterprise AI will be hybrid by default: what hybrid AI means, the seven stops inference can land on, and the forces driving it.

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Every regulatory disclosure rule asks the same question. Each calls it something else

EU orgs must juggle reporting obligations and timelines for CRA, GDPR, NIS2, and more. But the most important step is judging what needs reporting.

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