Modern applications have crossed a tipping point. What once began as isolated modernization efforts—containerizing select services, experimenting with Kubernetes, or migrating workloads to the cloud—has become a full-scale transformation. Today,…
For many years, the hypervisor conversation wasn’t on top of everyone’s mind. Most organizations had a stable virtualization platform, mature operational procedures, backup and recovery tooling, monitoring, patching workflows, and…
The facts are hard to ignore. The number of virtual machines running on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization grew 417% in 2025. Red Hat has assessed more than 1.46 million VMs…
Key Takeaways: Non-human identities (service accounts, workloads, bots, pipelines, and AI agents) now outnumber human ones by more than 80 to 1, and most teams can’t say how many they…
A couple of editions ago I wrote about what I find so energizing about working with startups. Last week I got a fresh dose of it: I spent a few…
Upgrading a Kubernetes control plane has long been a one way door. Open source Kubernetes doesn’t support control plane rollback, so once you upgrade, there’s no going back. The community…
Today, we’re announcing AWS CloudFormation Express mode, a new deployment mode that accelerates deployments for developers and AI tools iterating on infrastructure. Express mode accelerates deployments by completing when CloudFormation confirms…
When you run compute-intensive workloads like real-time analytics, batch processing, video encoding, scientific modeling, or CPU-based machine learning inference, every percentage point of performance matters. You need instances that deliver…
If you manage TLS certificates for your applications, you know the challenge: certificates expire, and when they do, your customers see errors or your service goes down. As certificate validity…
Key takeaways The NIST AI RMF is voluntary guidance, not a regulation, but its four functions only hold up when mature data capabilities sit underneath them. Govern, Map, Measure, and…