Red Hat and Fedora News
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Fedora Community Blog: Community Blog monthly summary: September 2022
In September, we published 15 posts. The site had 6,850 visits from 4,450 unique viewers. 2,433 visits came from search engines, while 58 came from FOSS Weekly and 35 came from Fedora Discussion.
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Fedora Magazine: Contribute at the Fedora Linux Test Week for Kernel 6.0
The kernel team is working on final integration for Linux kernel 6.0. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora. As a result, the Fedora kernel and QA teams have organized a test week now through Sunday, Oct 16, 2022. Refer to the wiki page for links to the test images you’ll need to participate. Read below for details.
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@HPCpodcast: Intel Shipping Aurora Blades; Rocky Linux vs. CentOS; Tesla’s 'Dojo' AI Supercomputer - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC
Our overall sense is that Intel made a good impression at its well-crafted and executed Innovation Day, with a whole host of announcements, broken down here by Shahin. We also discuss open source software and the big part it plays in the HPC/AI puzzle, along with the ongoing Linux operating system wars – including the emergence of Rocky Linux after Red Hat’s December 2020 announcement it would no longer support CentOS.
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Red Hat Names Carolyn Nash as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Carolyn Nash has been named the company’s senior vice president and chief operating officer, effective immediately. As part of this move, Red Hat is building out the Finance and Operations organization and has named Robert Leibrock senior vice president and chief financial officer and Jim Palermo as vice president and chief information officer. Nash will continue reporting to Red Hat’s president and chief executive officer, Matt Hicks. Leibrock and Palermo will report directly to Nash.
Nash most recently served as Red Hat’s senior vice president and chief financial officer and was responsible for leading the company’s global finance organization. Before assuming the CFO role in early 2022, Nash was vice president of Finance, overseeing the Global Finance Transformation and Operations (GTO) organization. She has played an integral part in strengthening and growing the company’s finance operation. Before Red Hat, she served in leadership positions at Cisco, Hewlett Packard and KPMG in finance and operational roles.
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Red Hat and FIWARE Foundation Collaborate to Power Eco-smart Cities with Open Source Technology
Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced collaboration with FIWARE Foundation, a non-profit association that encourages the adoption of open standards for the development of smart solutions, to build an integrated, smart city platform that can enable cities across the world to be more resilient and improve citizens' wellbeing with data. During a six week residency, Red Hat Open Innovation Labs worked jointly with FIWARE Foundation and Human Oriented Products (HOPU), a solution provider member of the FIWARE community, to create an easy-to-deploy, fully scalable, and robust open source enhanced smart city solution powered by FIWARE, running on Red Hat OpenShift.
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What to expect during AnsibleFest: Join theCUBE Oct. 18-19 [Ed: Conflict of interest in coverage]
An important tactic for organizations competing in today’s data-driven economy is automating inefficient processes to streamline cloud operations.
In one use case, global energy company Compañía Española de Petróleos S.A.U., known as Cepsa, reported 6,000 saved work hours, 35% more productivity, and 10-15% faster response times after automating processes using the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. The company also increased security levels thanks to fine-grained data access controls.
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