Red Hat also has big irons in the storage, cloud and developer fires, and its Big Data strategy announcement addressed all three of these. Big Data is now a relevant factor in the entire ...

For example, Red Hat announced that RHEL 10 was now an “AI native” operating system, he says. AI payloads are now treated as a core workload class, not an add-on like before.

What this means is that Wall Street values a dollar that Red Hat generates 4.6X more than one that Big Blue generates. Hey, it’s a red hat . . . . The Red Hat deal is by far and away the largest ...

Should this come to pass – and there is good reason to believe that IBM and Red Hat can accomplish this mainly because Big Blue is taking a hands-off approach with Red Hat – then Red Hat would grow ...

The idea is for Red Hat to use the power of IBM’s size while maintaining its independence. When IBM paid $34 billion to acquire Red Hat in 2018, it was a big bet on a hybrid cloud future.

They wore big red hats and purple clothes, sharing laughs as they chatted and chowed down on quesadillas, seafood burritos, and guacamole dip and chips.