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This week’s Red Hat Summit saw numerous AI-related announcements from Red Hat and its partners. Some of the key Red Hat announcements include:
- Significant advancements across the Red Hat AI portfolio to help bridge the gap between AI experimentation and production-grade operational control. By delivering a unified, metal-to-agent platform, Red Hat AI 3.4 simplifies the development and deployment of agentic workflows, allowing organizations to move beyond pilots to scalable AI across their entire infrastructure.
- Red Hat AI Inference now runs on any managed Kubernetes service. This expansion enables organizations to leverage a consistent, open inference stack and Kubernetes-native operations wherever they already run their workloads. At launch, Red Hat delivers validated deployment blueprints on 2 platforms: CoreWeave Kubernetes Service (CKS) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Significant partner announcements include:
Boomi and Red Hat announced a strategic collaboration to deliver a single, integrated stack for deploying agentic AI at scale. Specifically, the two companies are working to simplify AI innovation for customers by bringing together Boomi’s Agentstudio with the enterprise-grade power of Red Hat AI. This makes it easier for organizations to build agents that solve real business problems while supporting corporate standards for sovereignty, infrastructure flexibility, and performance reliability.
Core42 and Red Hat collaborated on Sovereign AI solutions, announcing that Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud technologies support Core42’s sovereign-by-design infrastructure. This enables organizations to move experimental AI pilots into production-scale environments while maintaining jurisdictional control, compliance, and operational resilience.
Everpure announced new capabilities for Red Hat OpenShift users designed to deliver a native Kubernetes experience for managing storage and data across AI workloads, containers, and virtual machines (VMs). By bringing Portworx’s comprehensive data management directly into the Red Hat OpenShift console, the companies provide a unified experience for customers to accelerate their infrastructure modernization and confidently run AI, containers, and VMs at scale.
IBM announced two new managed services – Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service on IBM Cloud – to help enterprises accelerate AI adoption and run security-forward, scalable, and predictable virtualization environments. Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud is designed to help clients reliably integrate real-time AI inferencing directly into their production workflows across hybrid cloud environments. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service on IBM Cloud provides a managed path to help clients migrate and run virtual machines (VMs) securely and at scale.
NetApp announced new NetApp data management capabilities optimized for Red Hat OpenShift that enable advanced levels of resilience and scale for virtualized environments, on-premises, and in the cloud. The updates improve the speed and predictability of backup, recovery, and day-to-day operations so customers can migrate, scale, and manage virtual machine (VM) and container environments.
NVIDIA announced new milestones in its co-engineered Red Hat AI Factory with the NVIDIA software platform. The latest updates introduce enhanced security capabilities for continuously operating agents and deliver ready-to-deploy solutions that help organizations move from experimentation to production faster and with confidence.
Voyager Technologies, working with Red Hat, announced the deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 and Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI) to Voyager’s LEOcloud Space Edge IaaS Micro Datacenter aboard the International Space Station (ISS). This collaboration extends a container-optimized, enterprise Linux platform into orbit, providing a more consistent and hardened operating foundation for AI-ready workloads to run in space.
Real-time analytics news in brief
Alation introduced Alation AI Governance, a new offering that gives enterprises the system of record they are missing for AI compliance. The solution registers every AI model, agent, and tool into a single inventory, maps each to applicable regulations, generates evidence-backed model cards, routes approvals through regulation-aware workflows, and produces a live compliance posture for the executive team on demand, not on deadline.
Boomi announced a major expansion of the Boomi Enterprise Platform, introducing new capabilities across orchestrated agentic workflows, agentic engineering, governed agent connectivity, grounded agent context, and localized agent infrastructure. Together, these innovations are designed to power the agentic enterprise — where agents and humans work together to drive action and operationalize AI at scale.
Cognite announced Cognite Flows, a new offering for industrial experiences that redefines how teams engage with AI, apps, and data. Designed to optimize the daily workflows of frontline teams, Cognite Flows puts everything they need–AI-driven insights and real-time data from multiple apps across every corner of the company–into an easily customized, single-screen workspace. Because Flows is natively integrated with Cognite’s Industrial Knowledge Graph, it offers accuracy and scalability, ensuring that insights and new applications are always grounded in real-time operational context.
Empromptu AI announced Alchemy Models, a new capability that allows companies to create, train, and deploy their own production AI models by building the internal and external AI applications they are already creating without any model training expertise. Alchemy simplifies what historically required a full machine learning team. Users define a task in natural language or through the Empromptu builder interface, and the platform handles the rest automatically.
MinIO announced MemKV, a context memory store that delivers microsecond context retrieval at petabyte scale for agentic AI inference workloads. MemKV joins AIStor as the second pillar of MinIO’s product portfolio, extending the company’s data foundation, which began with AIStor, into the memory tier where inference runs. The new MinIO MemKV product delivers persistent, shared context across GPU clusters at a scale that existing memory and storage tiers cannot.
Mirantis announced additional capabilities for k0rdent AI, further expanding the platform beyond infrastructure management to help enterprises, neoclouds, and GPU cloud operators monetize AI infrastructure investments. The new k0rdent AI Model Registry and k0rdent AI Inference Mesh enable organizations to securely host, govern, route, and meter AI models and inference services across federated computing resources. Together, the two new products help organizations transform raw GPU infrastructure into governed, revenue-generating AI platforms. Mirantis also introduced k0rdent AI Inference Runtime, designed to maximize tokens per GPU-second for improved infrastructure efficiency and utilization.
Platform Engineering Labs launched a significant update to its open-source Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) platform, formae, to streamline the management of complex ecosystems operating on top of Kubernetes and multi-cloud. By adding native Helm integration and a Public Hub for plugins to the release, the company completes its unified “system of record” that automatically codifies infrastructure changes, allowing platform teams to scale their cloud-native footprints with complete safety and minimal manual effort.
SAP SE introduced the Autonomous Enterprise to help enhance the world’s most critical business workflows, so that humans and AI work together to meet the accelerating demands of global businesses. The solution includes a unified AI platform for building, contextualizing, and governing agents, an autonomous suite that executes core business operations, and a new user experience that redefines how people work with enterprise software.
Scality announced Scality ADI (Autonomous Data Infrastructure), a sustainable data infrastructure platform designed for organizations that must simultaneously power diverse AI workloads, defend against escalating cyber threats, and maintain sovereign control over their data. The solution combines Scality’s distributed object storage foundation with Guardian, an AI-powered autonomous operations engine that reduces administrative burden while keeping humans in the loop for every decision.
UiPath announced UiPath for Coding Agents, a platform-wide integration enabling every coding agent to become enterprise deployable. By combining coding agents with the visual orchestration of the UiPath platform, builders of any technical level can create, test, deploy, operate, and govern enterprise automations through a natural language conversation with their coding agent of choice.
Xurrent launched autonomous AI Agents and an open Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The agents handle triage, knowledge work, ticket closure, and more for IT teams. The new agents fill a different role. They are not assistants, but digital team members who complete tickets end-to-end while humans set the guardrails and sign off if needed. The MCP server connects Xurrent to external AI models from any provider.
Partnerships, collaborations, and more
Bedrock Data announced an expansion of Bedrock Data Free for Snowflake. The expansion extends the same free tier to Snowflake Cortex, adding Cortex agent discovery, agent cards that map each Cortex agent to the data it can access, and expanding data classification by business domain. Bedrock Data Free for Snowflake helps Snowflake customers produce evidence aligned with regulatory framework controls and corporate policies.
Boomi and Couchbase announced a partnership through which the two companies are collaborating closely to accelerate AI pilots to production. The companies will co-engineer solutions that give customers a production-ready foundation for agentic AI, combining Boomi’s connectivity, runtime, and governance for AI agents with Couchbase’s scalable recollection and vector capabilities.
Cockroach Labs announced that CockroachDB will be available in the IBM Cloud catalog and supported on IBM Power processor-based server systems. This gives enterprises a direct path to adopt a distributed SQL database within IBM’s ecosystem and enables them to modernize mission-critical workloads while preserving existing investments in IBM Power infrastructure and IBM Cloud.
Concentric AI announced its new integration with the Anthropic Compliance API for Claude. With this new Claude Platform Compliance API integration, Semantic DLP logs details of every prompt, response, and attachment for both the browser and app versions of Claude, including historical activity. As a result, organizations can leverage Concentric AI Semantic DLP to audit Claude Platform activity and strengthen their data security governance.
Dataiku announced the launch of Cobuild on Snowflake. The solution is a new way for joint customers to turn natural-language intent into governed AI agents and workflows on Snowflake. The integration pairs Snowflake Cortex AI’s secure, native access to leading LLMs with Dataiku’s enterprise AI orchestration layer, helping companies expand who can build and operationalize AI with the governance, transparency, and cost controls required at enterprise scale.
DE-CIX announced its membership in Mplify, a global alliance shaping the evolution of Network as a Service (NaaS). DE-CIX will contribute its expertise to the advancement of standardized and automated connectivity solutions for peering, cloud connectivity, and AI connectivity, while collaborating on the use of Mplify’s Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) APIs as a framework for interconnection automation.
NVIDIA and Ineffable Intelligence, the London-based AI lab founded by AlphaGo architect David Silver that emerged from stealth last week, announced a partnership related to reinforcement learning infrastructure. To that end, NVIDIA and Ineffable will build a pipeline that can feed reinforcement learning systems at scale. Engineers from both companies have teamed up to explore the best way to create this training pipeline.
SAP and NVIDIA announced an expanded collaboration to help enterprises run specialized agents with security and governance controls. To accomplish this, SAP embeds NVIDIA OpenShell, an open source runtime for securely developing and deploying autonomous AI agents, into the SAP Business AI Platform. In addition, SAP engineers are codesigning OpenShell alongside NVIDIA, contributing back to the open-source project.
In other SAP news, the company and Snowflake announced the general availability of new joint offerings designed to help enterprises unify SAP and enterprise data for AI and analytics workloads. The new offerings include SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Snowflake, which enables organizations to access and analyze semantically modeled SAP data in Snowflake environments without duplicating it; and SAP Snowflake, which provides a SAP-supported path for new Snowflake customers to unify SAP and enterprise data on a single platform for AI and analytics.
SIOS Technology announced a new partnership with Vaske (Vaske Computer, Inc). Through this agreement, Vaske will resell SIOS high availability and disaster recovery solutions, along with related professional services, to customers nationwide across the United States. Together, the solutions from the two companies enable organizations to maintain uptime, protect data integrity, and ensure seamless business continuity.
Virtana announced AI Factory Observability for Dell AI Factory environments. The integration spans Dell PowerEdge compute, PowerScale and ObjectScale storage, high-performance networking fabrics, including InfiniBand, Ethernet, and NVLink, and Dell’s Smart Fabric Manager (SFM) orchestration layer.
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