Red Hat Summit: AI, Cloud, Kubernetes, Supply Chain Take Center Stage
The open-source software developer is talking up new releases at its event in Boston this week
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AI is everywhere. And now it’s gotten a boost at Red Hat.
On Tuesday, the company unveiled new capabilities for Red Hat OpenShift AI, its AI and ML operations platform. Those upgrades include:
• Deployment pipelines for AI/ML experiment tracking and automated ML workflows. This lets data scientists and developers get ML projects done more quickly while building automation into those projects.
• GPU support for inference, and custom model serving runtimes for better inference performance and deployment of foundation models.
• Model monitoring for managing performance and operational metrics from one dashboard.
• Bias detection (available in the coming months) for detecting bias during pre-production training and more.
Red Hat OpenShift AI underpins IBM WatsonX.ai and Ansible Lightspeed (more on the latter next). IBM, of course, owns Red Hat, so it’s no surprise that IBM has infused Watson with Red Hat AI.
Speaking of Ansible Lightspeed, Red Hat has created Ansible Lightspeed with IBM Watson Code Assistant.
It’s a generative AI service for Ansible automation. Red Hat says novice users can automate tasks, taking burden off experienced automators who need to focus on more advanced projects. Red Hat says this approach addresses the ongoing IT skills shortage.
Later this year, Ansible Lightspeed will use natural language processing, too, and integrate with Watson Code Assistant. That means users can then access IBM foundation models and build automation code, Red Hat said.
“The rapid pace at which many organizations are adopting AI requires solutions that will empower cloud developers and operations teams with the confidence and flexibility to scale and accelerate AI across their IT organization,” said Kareem Yusuf, senior vice president, product management and growth, at IBM Software. “IBM Watson Code Assistant, built on watsonx, will leverage carefully curated data in the Red Hat Ansible domain to help developers and operations teams across all skill levels write syntactically correct code with AI-generated recommendations.”
Red Hat also has taken the wraps off Event-Driven Ansible, “the team member that never goes home.” That’s per Thomas Anderson, vice president and general manager, Ansible, Red Hat.
“There’s an underlying and constant pressure for customers to innovate or risk falling behind competitors,” Anderson said. “If there’s strain in any of these areas, there’s often a ripple effect throughout budgets, staffing and business goals. Event-Driven Ansible greatly expedites IT response, eliminates the noise that can distract from key priorities, and can optimize productivity while improving satisfaction.”
Indeed, event-driven automation can “reduce risks associated with IT infrastructure errors or degradation, conserve scarce IT resources and increase return on investments in hybrid IT architecture,” 451 Research noted in a Red Hat-commissioned report.
The platform acts on events as soon as they occur, executing the appropriate action programmed in Ansible Playbooks or through direct execution modules. This removes the need for a lot of manual processes, which are prone to errors because of human intervention and are often overwhelming in volume.
Event-Driven Ansible will be available next month for customers already using Ansible Automation Platform 2.4.
Next up, meet Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service. It combines Kubernetes-native security capabilities with Red Hat’s fully managed services. That way, Red Hat says, organizations can build, deploy and maintain cloud-native apps across the hybrid cloud with security at the fore and without worry about the underlying Kubernetes platform.
The new service comes as Red Hat’s 2023 State of Kubernetes Security report found that 90% of respondents said they experienced at least one security incident in the past 12 months. Another 67% said they’ve had to delay or slow application deployments because of security concerns. The Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service aims to prevent those problems. It works on Red Hat OpenShift private and public clouds, and non-Red Hat Kubernetes services across major cloud providers.
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service has limited availability on the AWS Marketplace.
Attacks on supply chain software remain a big and frequent problem.
So, Red Hat has introduced the Trusted Software Supply Chain portfolio, cloud services with embedded security measures.
Red Hat created two new cloud services for its supply chain software.
The first is Red Hat Trusted Application Pipeline, which offers continuous integration/continuous delivery with built-in security gating; the second is Red Hat Trusted Content, security-focused systems software with packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and in a catalog of critical application runtimes across Java, Node and Python ecosystems.
Attacks on supply chain software remain a big and frequent problem.
So, Red Hat has introduced the Trusted Software Supply Chain portfolio, cloud services with embedded security measures.
Red Hat created two new cloud services for its supply chain software.
The first is Red Hat Trusted Application Pipeline, which offers continuous integration/continuous delivery with built-in security gating; the second is Red Hat Trusted Content, security-focused systems software with packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and in a catalog of critical application runtimes across Java, Node and Python ecosystems.
BOSTON—RED HAT SUMMIT—Artificial intelligence and cloud rule the tech world right now, and there’s no exception to the trends at this week’s Red Hat Summit in Boston.
We’ve got a quick look at the most partner-impacting announcements from the event, but in case you need a preview, here goes: The summit is all about capabilities for AI and machine learning. Find out which new platforms support those aims.
Security, too, is making a run for the spotlight. After all, hacks and breaches continue on a general basis, as do specific attacks on supply chain platforms. One of the new platforms showcased delivers event-driven alerts and another addresses supply chain problems specifically.
Finally, it wouldn’t be a Red Hat Summit without some mention of Kubernetes. We oblige.
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