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September 28, 2022: 2.5 billion and counting: Red Hat OpenStack Platform continues to deliver for service providers

Red Hat is excited to announce the general availability of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17 at MWC Las Vegas this year. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17 is designed to help service providers as they build out massive, modern networks with an open hybrid cloud vision in mind. With this latest version, service providers can benefit from the delivery of new services and applications to meet changing demand, advanced networking and improved operational security features for their 4G and 5G networks. Red Hat service provider customers running Red Hat OpenStack Platform are estimated to have more than 2.5 billion mobile subscribers ➡️➡️ this is how to onboard the entire world into Stellar... by strategically aligning with companies that already have the user base and equipment, then slowly upgrading them in phased rollouts while simultaneously growing the user base 😎


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This unofficial launch means 🔤🔤🔤🔤🔤🔤🔤🔤 1️⃣7️⃣ was already commercially available last September to select clients like all the banks and companies we have been working with in the QFS and Quantum Matrix. This timing also re-confirms the fact that all "quantum compliant" banks, central banks, and payment rails in the world that are part of the QFS officially went live by October 2022 per SPIA's announcement https://t.me/QuantumStellarInitiative/16279
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https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/25-billion-and-counting-red-hat-openstack-platform-continues-deliver-service-providers

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May 18, 2023: Red Hat Software — Complete Guide: History, Products, Founding, and More

In 2018, IBM made a deal to acquire Red Hat for $34 billion, but it still functions as an independent subsidiary. The company purchase was one of IBM’s largest ever and prompted a year-long review to receive approval from the US Department of Justice

Red Hat Software created CloudForms, a software management product that helps to manage virtual machines, instances, and containers based on VMware vSphere, Red Hat Virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V, OpenStack, Amazon EC2, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and Red Hat OpenShift

In 2012, Red Hat was crowned as the first one-billion dollar open-source company. It passed the $2 billion mark in 2015. The same year, Red Hat purchased the automation startup Ansible.

In 2017, the company announced Hyperconverged Infrastructure software. In 2018, Red Hat bout CoreOS

Single Sign-On is an authentication scheme that allows users to use 1 set of login credentials to conveniently access all their apps. No more memorizing multiple credentials or reusing passwords

https://history-computer.com/red-hat-software-history/


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YES Bank Indian bank was a successful beta test for Red Hat's quantum

May 22, 2023: YES BANK Collaborates with Red Hat to Redefine Mobile Banking Experience for Its Customers


📝 In today’s digitally-driven world, agility is paramount. With Azure Red Hat OpenShift, we can promptly respond to customer demands while also having the assurance that our platform is constructed on cutting-edge cloud and cloud-native infrastructure. This provides us with a security-focused, robust, and scalable foundation that we require to lead the charge of digital-native banking in India
- Mahesh Ramamoothy, CIO, YES BANK


https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230522005233/en/YES-BANK-Collaborates-with-Red-Hat-to-Redefine-Mobile-Banking-Experience-for-Its-Customers/


17 Indian Bank Branches Open Special Vostro Accounts With Russian Banks For Rupee Trade
https://t.me/QuantumStellarInitiative/19970

All Indian banks attended live training on blockchain interoperability, data transfer, and Corda and IBM Hyperledger (using SGB)
https://t.me/QuantumStellarInitiative/15449
https://t.me/QuantumStellarInitiative/14855

Recall SGB vostro accounts:
https://t.me/QuantumStellarInitiative/20022
https://t.me/QuantumStellarInitiative/20023
SGB Thingy:
https://t.me/QuantumStellarInitiative/20026

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May 23, 2023: Red Hat turns its software supply chain practices into products

Trusted Software Supply Chain, an offering that consists of two new cloud services called Red Hat Trusted Application Pipeline and Red Hat Trusted Content

A 2022 analysis of more than 2,400 commercial code bases by Synopsys Inc. found that 97% contained open-source components and 81% had at least one vulnerability. Nearly nine in 10 applications included components that had not been updated in more than two years

Trusted Application Pipeline is based on Sigstore, an automated approach to digitally signing and checking software components to verify origins and authenticity that its developers say is nearly impossible to sabotage. Red Hat Trusted Content, which will be available as a service preview within a few weeks, will provide real-time knowledge of known vulnerabilities and security risks within open-source software dependencies. It will also suggest ways to minimize risk and provide access to Red Hat-built and curated open-source software using the company’s internal best practices

Noting that supply chain attacks have skyrocketed by more than 740% annually over the past three years, Red Hat said it will provide a catalog of more than 10,000 trusted packages that run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux alone as well as a catalog of critical application runtimes across Java, Node and Python ecosystems ➡️➡️ Red Hat will become the new global standard in supply chain software (I would also bet that Red Hat has been indirectly working with KillNet, Sudan, and other hackers to provide the impetus for this)


Red Hat is also launching Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service that delivers security capabilities native to the Kubernetes software container orchestrator as a managed cloud service. Kubernetes are platforms that can manage SBOMs to protect against supply chain attacks. It supports Red Hat OpenShift on private and public clouds as well as Kubernetes services across major cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Elastic Kubernetes Service, Google LLC’s Kubernetes Engine and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Kubernetes Service

https://siliconangle.com/2023/05/23/red-hat-productizes-software-supply-chain-practices/


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What is an SBOM? Software bill of materials explained

SBOMs are increasingly being used to protect against supply chain attacks and were cited in the Biden Administration’s May 2021 Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity as critical to securing software supply chains

Software bill of materials help vendors and buyers alike keep track of software components for better software supply chain security. Modern applications are often built on top of extensive code reuse, often using open source libraries. These applications are also increasingly broken into smaller, self-contained components of functionality known as containers, managed by container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and running locally or in the cloud

The 2020s so far have been marked by a string of headline-making software supply chain attacks. In late 2020, hackers affiliated with Russian intelligence managed to plant backdoors into a network monitoring platform from SolarWinds—a platform that is used in turn by other security products, all of which ended up compromised. And late in 2021, a severe vulnerability was discovered in a Apache Log4j, a Java library used for logging system events, which sounds boring until you realize that almost every Java application uses Log4j in some capacity, rendering them all targets

These security crises illustrate the role that an SBOM can serve in the security landscape

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3667309/what-is-an-sbom-software-bill-of-materials-explained.html


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May 23, 2023: Red Hat unveils Ansible Lightspeed to empower AI-driven IT automation


Open-source solutions firm Red Hat today unveiled Ansible Lightspeed, a generative AI service integrated with IBM Watson Code Assistant

Red Hat utilizes natural language processing (NLP) to integrate the service with Watson Code Assistant, which is set to be available in the near future. Ansible Lightspeed allows users to rapidly construct automation code by harnessing IBM’s foundation models. According to the company, this integration offers a valuable solution for enterprises, as it addresses the skills gap and enhances efficiency, thereby expediting the time-to-value of automation

The foundation model optimized for NLP is the cornerstone of the collaboration between Red Hat and IBM, distinguishing Ansible Lightspeed from other tools

Furthermore, users can actively contribute to the model’s training by providing valuable feedback and ensuring continuous enhancements


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Ansible automation within organizations will streamline task automation for beginners while freeing experienced automators from the arduous task of creating low-level tasks. It caters to users who have a deep understanding of what needs to be accomplished but lack the YAML proficiency to craft compliant and efficient playbooks independently ➡️➡️ therefore this removes iterative tasks and previously-required technical skills from the job requirement and frees up people to focus on creative solutions instead
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📝 This uses generative AI from IBM’s foundation model trained on a specific domain (Ansible), to help people create automation faster. Existing subject matter experts will be much more efficient by filling out a lot of the repetitive pieces of code as they’re creating an automation playbook, which is ultimately YAML code. This accelerates their ability to generate that a lot faster. Ansible Lightspeed makes existing subject matter experts far more efficient by doing a lot of the work for them
- Tom Anderson, VP and GM of Ansible told VentureBeat

https://venturebeat.com/ai/red-hat-unveils-ansible-lightspeed-to-empower-ai-driven-it-automation/

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May 23, 2023: Red Hat Summit 2023: The Biggest Announcements

Ansible Lightspeed with IBM Watson Code Assistant, the Red Hat Developer Hub and Red Hat Trusted Application Pipeline and Trusted Content are some of the biggest announcements to come out of Red Hat Summit 2023

Red Hat: 7,000 channel partners worldwide, 1,500 of them in North America
IBM: 55,000 channel partners worldwide, 12,000 of them in North America
(A channel partner is a company that partners with a manufacturer or producer to market and sell the manufacturer’s products, services, or technologies. This is usually done through a co-branding relationship)

June 2023, Red Hat will make an open beta available for Ansible Lightspeed with IBM Watson Code Assistant, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) service for Red Hat’s Ansible automation offering. Lightspeed promises more consistent, more accurate and faster automation adoption across organizations. It uses natural language processing and integrates with Watson Code Assistant to access IBM Foundation Models built on Red Hat OpenShift. Ansible users gain the ability to input prompts in plain English and more easily translate domain expertise into Yaml code for making and editing playbooks, according to Red Hat ➡️➡️ this sounds just like SEP11 which is one of the most significant developments in Stellar because SEP11 makes Stellar a truly Open Source DEX since anyone can use it to create and interpret transactions (like mint a token, send/receive/trade, audit the ledger, troubleshoot scripts, eventually even built smart contracts). This helps facilitate mass adoption but especially for businesses, education, non-profits, humanitarian projects, etc https://t.me/QuantumStellarInitiative/22642 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥


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June 2023, Red Hat will roll out Event-Driven Ansible as part of Ansible Automation Platform 2.4. When it receives third-party tool events, it automatically determines next steps and acts. IT workers can pre-determine and define rules for unresponsive system processes, unauthorized access requests and other situations. Users can chain multiple events together. Users can manage dynamic cloud-native conditions for remediating system outages, security alerts and other service disruptions, according to the vendor. Password resets, compute and storage adjustments, service ticket augmentation, configuration drift addressing and backing up are some of the manual, error-prone tasks that Event-Driven Ansible seeks to reduce ➡️➡️ ML creates smart contracts for cybersecurity and IT teams, thereby automating their work

Cisco ThousandEyes, CyberArk, Dynatrace, F5, IBM Instana, IBM Turbonomic, Palo Alto Networks and Zabbix are some of the third-party tool integrations available for Event-Driven Ansible, and it also supports custom integrations. Kyndryl, World Wide Technology and other system integrators are already trained


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Service Interconnect is a way to connect apps and microservices across open hybrid cloud ➡️➡️ connects to Project Overledger + Quant which oversees governance on dApps

Trusted Application Pipeline and Trusted Content are two new services for the Trusted Software Supply Chain suite


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Limited availability for Advanced Cluster Security (ACS) Cloud Service supports Red Hat OpenShift on private and public clouds as well as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and other container platforms


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The upgrades include development pipelines for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) experiment tracking and automated ML workflows. OpenShift AI has optional offerings including Anaconda, IBM Watson Studio, Intel OpenVino and AI Analytics Toolkit, Nvidia AI Enterprise and Starburst


https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/red-hat-summit-2023-the-biggest-announcements?itc=refresh

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May 25, 2023: The future of open source: Red Hat CTO weighs in on acceleration, innovation and integrity


📝 Innovation just keeps speeding up across the industry,” he said. “We have so much collaboration happening in open-source communities, and more and more people come into those communities, and that just speeds up the pace of development
- Chris Wright, chief technology officer and senior vice president of global engineering at Red Hat Inc


Red Hat’s partnership with organizations such as IBM Corp. and the integration of artificial intelligence is a testament to the fast-paced innovation in the industry. The importance of this collaboration and the resulting product acceleration for customers is critical

As AI is set to accelerate development at an unprecedented pace, open source is an organic model that can grow and adapt naturally

https://youtu.be/PAymmkcthK4
https://siliconangle.com/2023/05/25/future-open-source-red-hat-cto-weighs-acceleration-innovation-integrity/


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May 25, 2023: CEO Matt Hicks On Red Hat Layoffs, IBM’s Open Source Vision


📝 [Layoffs are] a healthy thing that you have to do every once in awhile to make sure you’re putting investment in the right areas that are going to help you keep being successful with customers

📝 Being really thoughtful about making sure you can invest in that opportunity is critical. So for us, it was a rebalancing move

📝 We’re in this moment of AI. We have this impact on developer and operations efficiency and security. We need to be able to put enough in engineering and in sales to be able to take advantage of that to help customers move forward and adopt that

📝 So I can’t speak to other companies of whether that was their stance, but that was our intent with it


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This interview confirms that the intent of integrating Red Hat automation at these cabal banks and companies is to transition to zero-employees and have all operations fully executing on blockchain governed by hybrid-cloud computing being monitored by IBM Hyperledger, Red Hat next gen apps, and white hat military alliance
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https://www.crn.com/news/software/ceo-matt-hicks-on-red-hat-layoffs-ibm-s-open-source-vision/2

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DBS Singaporean bank was a successful beta for Red Hat's quantum scalability and interoperability

June 1, 2023: Transforming the Future of Banking Through Cloud and Open-Source Technologies


The banking sector has undergone a significant transformation thanks to the introduction of cloud and open-source technologies. Previously, banks relied on legacy systems and proprietary software, resulting in operations being siloed, scalability being limited, and high costs. However, with the advent of cloud and open-source technologies, banks can adopt a more agile and collaborative approach to innovation

Two significant aspects characterize DBS’s journey toward digital transformation:
- building an open ecosystem, which has helped create synergy between business processes and services
- DBS has become “digital to the core” by leveraging digital technology like multi-hybrid cloud adoption
➡️➡️ this is confirmation that DBS is using generative AI for automation and will be winding down the need for employees due to machine learning 🔥🔥🔥

DBS has set the foundation for growth and scalability by adopting a cloud-first strategy. The move to a hybrid, multi-cloud infrastructure has resulted in greater resiliency, scalability, and reduced infrastructure costs. DBS uses Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes to handle burst loads in the public cloud, enabling the bank to access native services provided by public cloud platforms unavailable on-premises

As DBS evolves into a different kind of bank, the organisation recognizes the need to do things differently in the operations area. By leveraging technology, DBS has enabled its operations staff to access systems from anywhere, performing their functions seamlessly as if they were in the office ➡️➡️ this is setting up the public narrative for a fully automated transition where staff is no longer needed 😬😊

DBS is currently in the experimentation phase with blockchain, tokenization, NFTs, and the metaverse ➡️➡️ think DBS Betterworld NFTs on Stellar (DBW https://t.me/QuantumStellarInitiative/15987)


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The partnership between DBS and Red Hat exemplifies the potential of cloud and open-source technologies in revolutionizing the banking landscape and shaping the industry’s future
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June 2, 2023: Building a high performance 5G network architecture with an open hybrid cloud


Latency, the enemy of speed, can be greatly reduced by moving the applications out of the data center and as close to the device or customer as possible—this is the edge (https://t.me/RedHatDecode/39 & https://t.me/RedHatDecode/40)

In addition to an evolving architecture, service provider networks are moving from virtual network function (VNF) deployments—typically software, virtual machine (VM)-based versions of proprietary hardware-based approaches—to cloud-native network functions (CNFs) that utilize container-based architectures and microservices ➡️➡️ this is Red Hat 🫶



Red Hat provides all the products and services necessary for a service provider to deploy a 5G core and RAN cloud platform in support of their 5G network transformation. Products, services and an enhanced support offering are aligned to a pre-integrated reference architecture that allows service providers to deploy a fully tested and interoperable solution. Additionally, Red Hat works closely with ecosystem partners to test and certify their network service workloads on this reference architecture ➡️➡️ by setting themselves up as the industry's gold standard, Red Hat becomes the default service every company uses for their migration to 5G 🔥🆒🔥


Red Hat services:
- Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes for cluster management and control
- Ansible Automation Platform for the implementation of automation
- Identity Management (part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux) for centralized identity and access control
- AMQ for application integration
- Satellite for system management and operations
- Quay for the registry and content repository and the service telemetry framework for the collection of monitoring data
- OpenShift Data Foundation for software-defined storage can also be included

OpenShift can be deployed in different footprints to meet demanding requirements in space and power-constrained environments. Regardless of which deployment option is chosen, the same consistent experience is maintained with the same set of tools ➡️➡️ covers all tech from outdated industrial equipment to retail mobile/home use devices to high tech and space equipment


https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/building-high-performance-5g-network-architecture-open-hybrid-cloud?channel=/en/blog/channel/telecommunications

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