“This will impact the next generation of workers and impact everything that we’re doing, and it’s why Adam [Selipsky’s] keynote they spent 15 minutes to get to it and then spent two hours talking all AI, and I thought he had a really solid keynote,” he said. “Amazon will win a lot of that business. Microsoft is doing well in that space but also data center. The other piece, where’s the data transacting; it’s at the edge — AI, you know, my family members can play with this.”

AI is following a similar expansion path as the internet, increasingly integrating into various aspects of the consumer environment. AI’s influence will be a key factor distinguishing the experiences of current cloud users from those of future users, Miniman explained.

“We are talking with every customer about AI,” he said. “It is part of their overall strategy; there are some customers that are already training models and doing everything they have, but it is early days,” he noted. “It’s going into the Apple and Google stores, into everybody’s phone. Our kids are playing with some of this kind of stuff. It impacts everyone, but from an enterprise customer, we’re early, there’s some early returns.”

The partnership between Red Hat and Amazon Web Services Inc. is focused on leveraging AI in the same transformative way telemetry was used. This collaboration aims to achieve this and other objectives, emphasizing a customer-centric approach.

“We’ve got a phenomenal partnership with AWS,” Miniman said. “AWS has hundreds of services. We actually jointly developed the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS — three years, hundreds of customers, SaaS customers, financial customers, that’s a phenomenal thing. It’s really good to be here, work with our joint customers and be part of all the excitement around AI too.”