Red Hat Inc. has been red hot this year, with innovative product announcements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, RHEL AI and InstructLab dominating headlines.

As open-source platforms, they are transforming how businesses conduct, develop and maintain artificial intelligence, further democratizing the technology and transforming business landscapes and operations, according to .

“When I think about what we do as a company, it’s open source and we deliver platforms, and those are the two founding elements of any move that we make,” said Mike Ferris (pictured), senior vice president and chief strategy officer of Red Hat. “When we talk about the platforms aspect here, extending what we’ve been doing with customers for decades now in Enterprise Linux, OpenShift, of course, automation with Ansible, into the space of AI, really means taking them on a journey from everything they’ve already employed, all the infrastructure they’ve spent, all the skills they’ve been developing on that, and then adding to it.”

Ferris spoke with theCUBE Research’s Rebecca Knight and Rob Strechay at Red Hat Summit, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed where Red Hat is going with AI, the challenges customers are encountering and the opportunities customers are taking advantage of. (* Disclosure below.)

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Red Hat’s Mike Ferris talks with theCUBE about transforming business landscapes at Red Hat Summit 2024.

Recent announcements have directly addressed key challenges that customers are currently facing, offering innovative solutions to these widespread issues.

“Safety, security, trust, these things are all core to the questions that they’re asking, both for their existing infrastructure, but also, how do we move forward in the AI space,” Ferris said. “It’s that concept of applying what we’ve always been doing to this. Things like openness is at the core of what we do; the experience that we have in decades of building enterprise open-source products is now also applying to the AI space.”

Throughout the years, Red Hat has maintained a strong identity centered on its open-source ethos, consistently adapting and growing while keeping this core philosophy intact. The company has evolved significantly from its early days with RHEL to embracing complex modern technologies, such as AI and cloud-native platforms.

“We have stuck to our open-source commitment, our roots there,” Ferris said. “It’s always a challenge to maintain that while being fiscally responsible to stockholders and shareholders, as well as the employees and our customers. Because if we didn’t exist, then our customers and our partners wouldn’t have businesses to operate on.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of Red Hat Summit:

(* Disclosure: Red Hat Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Red Hat nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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