Introduction to the Red Hat Portfolio.pdf

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Driving successful business outcomes
in your hybrid and multi cloud world
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Introduction to the Red Hat Portfolio

Introducing Red Hat Linux was just the start
Red Hat is now the world’s leading provider of open source enterprise IT solutions
A robust ecosystem of
strategic global
partnerships that delivers
options across environments
and vendors
An open way of working that
harnesses tech complexity and
improves strategic agility
through dedicated support
A comprehensive portfolio of
technologies—from the
datacenter to the edge—with
one simplified, consistent
experience
A unique vendor approach
that aligns our trusted tech
expertise with your big picture
and best interests
What we bring to your business:

Reality of enterprise IT environments
Mixed infrastructure environments, diverse app portfolios, & limited automation
People & Processes
Applications
Cloud-native and
microservices
AI/ML Analytics Serverless
Infrastructure
Bare metal Virtualization Edge
Private cloud Public cloud Java™ .Net
ISV
Developer
tools
Pipeline and
processes
People and
policies
The right
skills
Most organizations today are in a hybrid state

Which outcomes would help you
deliver digital differentiation?
Deliver innovative
applications faster
and more efficiently
Architect a stable
and
security-focused
hybrid cloud
foundation
Manage and
automate across
hybrid cloud and
edge
Adopt new global
delivery models

Red Hat’s Approach to Hybrid Cloud
Applications, data platforms, and operating system
Management and automation systems
Private cloud
Virtual Public cloud
Bare metal Edge
Development tools
Traditional
N-tier apps
Cloud-native
microservices
Data, analytics,
and AI/ML
ISV packaged
apps

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The value of Red Hat technology
Platform simplification
Build the foundation for the
future, while managing costs to
speed progress
Application development & delivery
Accelerate application development,
innovation, and delivery
Automate to accelerate your business
Standardize and automate IT
operations - including networking,
application life cycle, security, storage,
cloud, and edge computing.
This is why more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies rely on Red Hat.*
Mitigate risk
Technology value Business value Partner ecosystem value
enabling innovative growth, revenue growth, and scalability through:
Increase operational efficiency Innovate faster
Source: Red Hat client data and Fortune Global 500 list, September 2022.
You want to:
We provide:

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The value of Red Hat
● Technology
● Security / secure software supply
chain
● Innovative product portfolio
● Adopt the version that best fits your
requirements, and upgrade on your
schedule with our supported life cycle
● Process
● 30 years in open source2
leadership
that is widely compatible
● Flexible ways to buy & use
● People
● No company can do it all so we can
connect you with an extensive partner
ecosystem to help solve your business
& technical challenges
● Award-winning support & expertise1
1. The Association of Support Professionals has honored Red Hat’s Customer Portal as one of “The Top Ten Best Support Websites” for 12
years running. 2.A top contributor to GitHub open source code projects

Red Hat harnesses the power of open source for enterprises
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Rapid iteration
Brilliant innovation
Collaboration to solve
common challenges
User interfaces
Acceptance of
changes upstream
QA and integration
Predictable, stable
life-cycle support
Community
development
Strengths of
communities
Strengths of
Red Hat
Strengths of
Red Hat

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Automation that does more
The platform for hybrid cloud
innovation
Architect a stable and
security-focused hybrid cloud
foundation
How Red Hat
can help you
drive outcomes

CONFIDENTIAL designator
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Organizational Analysis (SWOT)
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
Strengths & Weaknesses are an internal view of the organization
Opportunities & Threats are an external view of the organization
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668%
three-year return
on investment
US $8.54M
higher revenue per
organization per year
61%
reduction in
unplanned downtime
38%
more efficient
network teams
36%
development team
productivity gains
23%
faster to market for new
products and services
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Source:
IDC White Paper, sponsored by Red Hat. “The Business Value of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform,” Document #US51839824, March 2024.

The platform for hybrid cloud innovation
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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Hybrid cloud environments are becoming increasingly complex
▸ Navigating infrastructure complexity
▸ Innovating without friction
▸ Securing hybrid cloud infrastructure
▸ Ensuring long-term success
IT teams will face challenges:

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides
a flexible and stable foundation to
support hybrid cloud innovation
Deploy applications and critical workloads
faster with a consistent experience across
physical, virtual, private and public cloud,
and edge deployments

The platform for grand ambition
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Increase efficiency and streamline
management at scale
Operate with complete confidence
and ensure long-term success
Spend more time on innovation and
less on maintenance
Establish a consistent security
foundation to scale applications
Innovate Optimize
Protect Trust

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux use cases
Edge
computing
provides a consistent, flexible,
and security-focused platform
for your enterprise workloads at
the edge.
Learn more
Migrating from
CentOS Linux
Migrating to Red Hat Enterprise
Linux can increase efficiency and
cost-effectiveness of your IT
operations.
Learn more
Learn more
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is
certified for use with all major
cloud providers and cloud
marketplaces.
Deploying on
public cloud
SQL Server and
SAP Solutions
Adopt the newest technologies
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux as
your secure, scalable, and reliable
operating system.
Learn More: SAP
Learn More: SQL
RHEL for
Workstations
Designed for animation,
research, development and
scientific workloads with all the
capabilities and applications
workstation users need.
Learn more

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What makes Red Hat
Enterprise Linux different Streamlined management and
automation
Integrated analytics and remediation
Security resources and tools
Partnership with a diverse ecosystem
Long-term life cycle support and flexibility
Developer-friendly design and features

Support and expertise
Security resources
Partner ecosystem
Life cycle support and flexibility
Product roadmaps
Proactive analytics and remediation
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Value of a subscription
The value of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux
subscription

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Deliver innovative applications
faster and more efficiently

Across industries, organizations depend on
applications more than ever to:
▸ Help solve business problems
▸ Deliver new services and capabilities
▸ Provide competitive advantage and differentiation
▸ Engage customers, partners, and employees
▸ Achieve business goals
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The importance of applications in a modern, digital world

However, there are a number of challenges stopping organizations
from accelerating their application development and delivery:
▸ Building applications based on traditional programmatic
architectures (eg: monolithic, n-tier, ESB)
▸ “Legacy” processes and technologies are not conducive to a
modern application approach to offering cloud computing
benefits
▸ Lack of in-house time, skills and knowledge to stay on top of the
rate and pace of change, this hinders their ability to stay ahead and
innovate faster than their competition
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The challenges facing application development efforts

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Increase developer
productivity and ship quality
applications faster
Application and supply
chain security from start to
production
A modern approach to application development & delivery
Innovate your new future and optimize what you have
Automate and scale
application delivery on hybrid
cloud infrastructure
Top considerations
Speed Security & Stability Scale

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Why Red Hat for your Application Development
& Delivery Platform
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A leader and trusted
provider in the open source
space.
Expertise helping top brands
operationalize containers &
Kubernetes powered hybrid
cloud application
development & delivery
platform
Proven track record Open source advocate
Established strategic
partnerships with key
application centric ISVs.
Powerful partnerships
A streamlined end-to-end
application platform using
best-of-breed open
standards products,
engineered to work together
to provide you with the best
application development &
deployment solution.
Comprehensive solution

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Red Hat Application Services and ISV Ecosystem
Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Services
Red Hat OpenShift Portfolio
A consistent platform no matter how or where you run
Self-managed Red Hat OpenShift
Java™ .Net C,
C++
Data &
AI/ML
Integration
& APIs
Serverless
Traditional apps Cloud-native apps AI/ML, Functions
Physical Virtual Private cloud Public cloud Edge
Cloud-native and microservices

A seamless experience across public and private cloud
Automated
operations
Multi-
tenant
Network
traffic control
Over-the-air
updates
Bare metal, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, VMware vSphere, OpenStack, Nutanix, HPE, Dell, Lenovo, Cisco
Pluggable
architecture
Monitoring
& chargeback
Secure by
default

Delivering innovation that can transform your business
Source:
1 - Employers centralizes insurance apps on Red Hat OpenShift, March 2021
2 - Turkcell supports AI-powered innovation with Red Hat OpenShift, August 2021
Automated, full
stack installation
Seamless Kubernetes
deployments
One-click
life-cycle management
Auto-scaling
of resources
Increase in sales over 3 years
with new revenue streams1
40% Infrastructure cost reduction
for AI workloads2
70%

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AI Strategy & Openshift AI
InstructLab
Red Hat Lightspeed
Podman AI Lab
How we support AI & AI workloads
Ansible automated Policy as Code
Gen AI for Konveyor
Red Hat Connectivity Link
Latest Red Hat
Announcements at
Summit 2024

RED HAT CONFIDENTIAL
All information shared in today’s GTM Power Hour: Summit Preview is CONFIDENTIAL and should not be shared OUTSIDE of Red Hat
OpenShift AI Product Announcement Relevant Summit Activities
▸ Strong AI messaging in keynote
▸ AI booth with 4 demos:
･ Chatbot
･ AI-assisted farming
･ Photo booth avatar
･ Dell APEX expansion &
NVIDIA NIMS
▸ Over 50 AI-related sessions including
20 with OpenShift AI
▸ Analyst AI demo
▸ AI breakfast ancillary event
Call To Action
● OpenShift AI RHCC page
● Learn more (Product overview
course)
● Participate in slack channels (e.g.
forum-openshift-ai)
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What we are announcing? (Why the customer should care)
1. More model serving options that support both predictive and gen AI including
out of the box model serving for LLMs.
2. Distributed workloads that enables the use multiple cluster nodes for faster,
more efficient data processing and model training
3. Model serving at the edge for sites using single node OpenShift (TP)
What to say to your customer (Business Value)
● RHOAI is a single platform that helps organizations scale their AI- enabled
application deployments for both predictive and GenAI reducing costs and
simplifying operations
● Operationalizing AI requires flexibility and choice as use cases vary
● We continue to extend AI capabilities across the hybrid cloud and now includes
model serving at the edge

Customer and Partner (OpenShift AI) News Relevant Summit Activities
▸ Intel and NVIDIA speaking with Chris
Wright in Summit Day 2 Keynote
▸ Boston Children’s Hospital speaking
with Leigh Day in Summit Day 1
Keynote
▸ Boston Children’s Hospital, NVIDIA
and Intel speaking on theCUBE
▸ AGESIC presenting in a Summit
breakout session, speaking at AI
Breakfast, participating in Analyst
Day roundtable session
(analyst-only)
Assets/Resources to use:
▸ AGESIC (Uruguay gov't) win wire
(internal-use only)
▸ More win wires to come!
What we are announcing?
Customers
1. Boston Children’s Hospital is
using OpenShift for AI
workflows in their ChRIS
project, contributing to
improved patient care. (TBC)
2. AGESIC implements Red Hat
OpenShift AI to standardize
the use of AI across national
agencies.
● Red Hat OpenShift AI is allowing customers to innovate with AI for better
customer outcomes.
Partners
ISVs
1. Run:ai brings resource allocation capabilities to
OpenShift AI to optimize GPU/hardware
resources.
2. Stability AI open source AI models are now
available for OpenShift AI users.
3. Elastic equips enterprises with RAG tools
integrated on OpenShift AI.
Hardware/OEMs
1. NVIDIA enables integration for NIM microservices
on OpenShift AI.
2. Intel announces Enterprise AI portfolio powered
by OpenShift AI.
3. AMD GPU Operators on OpenShift AI accelerate
AI workloads.

New Red Hat Generative AI Solutions
1. Red Hat launches InstructLab project to simplify GenAI model alignment tuning
and enables a community based approach to model development
2. IBM Research partners with Red Hat to open source IBM Granite LLMs &
InstructLab model alignment tools
3. Red Hat launches RHEL AI foundation model platform to help users seamlessly
develop, test and deploy GenAI models.
● Attend Red Hat Summit keynotes to learn more about these exciting GenAI
announcements and more
● Stop by the InstructLab Lounge in the expo hall to get more technical details
and hands-on experience with the InstructLab project
GTM Power Hour Summit Preview -
Relevant Summit
Activities
▸ InstructLab Lounge
● Keynote presentation
● Keynote Tech Demo
Call To Action
● Inform your customers
about the InstructLab
Lounge and invite them to
do the hands-on workshop
(<20 minutes) + Source
page

Red Hat Lightspeed Announcements Relevant Summit Activities
▸ Press release: Red Hat Infuses
Generative AI Across Hybrid
Cloud Portfolio with Red Hat
Lightspeed
▸ Keynote with demo
▸ Sessions and booth demos
Assets / Resources to Use:
▸ Internal-only FAQ: OpenShift
Lightspeed
▸ Internal FAQ: Ansible Lightspeed
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Announcing Red Hat Lightspeed - infusing enterprise-ready AI across
our portfolio.
● Updates to Ansible Lightspeed including model customization
and administrative dashboard
○ Improves the quality and accuracy of content with
recommendations that are tailored to users’ needs
○ Telemetry and monitoring for usage and insights
● A preview of OpenShift Lightspeed
○ A generative AI-based virtual assistant integrated into the
OpenShift web console. Users can use plain English
sentences and get answers to questions related to
OpenShift and our layered offerings, as well as help with
troubleshooting.
● The vision for RHEL Lightspeed
○ Aimed at demystifying building, deploying and managing
Linux

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Why is this compelling RIGHT NOW to customers?
● The planned expansion of the Red Hat Lightspeed portfolio infuses enterprise-ready AI
across the Red Hat hybrid cloud portfolio
● Lowers the skills barrier for enterprise-grade Linux and cloud-native application
platforms, making them easier to use for novices and more efficient for experienced
professionals.
● Red Hat Lightspeed further drives the value of a Red Hat subscription
● OpenShift Lightspeed (tentatively GA by EOY CY24) can assist with troubleshooting
and investigating cluster resources by leveraging our extensive experience in OpenShift
and mission-critical applications to enhance their efficiency and productivity, as well as
that of their teams.
Why is this compelling RIGHT NOW to you?
● By adding the capabilities of Red Hat Lightspeed, this opens the
conversations so that more customers will be able to utilize our products
regardless of skills and knowledge gaps that previously were a barrier to
adoption.
Red Hat Lightspeed Announcements Call To Action
Encourage customers to
sign up for the OpenShift
Lightspeed Alpha

Podman AI Lab Announcement Relevant Summit Activities:
▸ Press Release on May 7
▸ Summit Keynote
Assets/Resources to Use:
▸ Podman Desktop page on
developer.redhat.com
▸ What is Podman Desktop?
▸ Simplifying containers and
Kubernetes on your laptop with
Podman Desktop
Contacts:
▸ Stevan Le Meur -
Principal Product Mgr
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● Podman AI Lab is an open source extension for Podman Desktop that
gives developers the ability to build, test and run generative artificial
intelligence (gen AI)-powered applications in containers using an
intuitive, graphical interface running on their local workstation
What to say to your customer? (Business Value)
● Podman AI Lab enables developers to easily bring AI into their
applications without depending on infrastructure beyond a laptop
● Podman AI Lab builds on the strength of Podman Desktop, an open
source project founded at Red Hat which now has more than one
million downloads

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Main talking points
● Podman AI Lab enables developers to easily bring AI to their applications on their laptop
● Jumpstarts work with LLMs with recipes
● Free for developers to download and use
● Adapting AI and Large Language Models to application development requires learning
and experimentation across development teams
● Waiting for infrastructure to run models slows developer progress
● Rapid pace of evolution requires space to experiment without risk across environments
● Containers streamline portability of applications from development to production
● Extends Red Hat AI from Data Science to broader Application Developer Community
● Freely available so customers can start using right away
● Builds Developer (key influencer) affinity to Red Hat for AI
Podman AI Lab Announcement
Call to Action
● Podman Desktop on The Source
● Podman Desktop community site
● Podman Desktop download

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Technical Talking Points
● Provides the ability to build, test and run generative artificial intelligence (gen
AI)-powered applications in containers using an intuitive, graphical interface.
● Podman AI Lab features a recipe catalog with sample applications that give
developers a jump start on some of the more common use cases for LLMs
including
○ Chatbots
○ Text Summarizers
○ Code Generators
● Integration with Image Mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to more easily go
from prototyping and working with models on a laptop, to AI-infused
application into a bootable container
Podman AI Lab Announcement

How we support AI & AI workloads
(Image mode for RHEL)
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Main talking points
● Image mode is a new deployment method for RHEL
● Reduces complexity by letting development, operations, and solution
providers use the same container-native tools and techniques,to manage
everything from applications to the underlying OS.
● Give image mode a try!
● Combines the power of RHEL with the benefits of containers
● Bridges disconnects between operations teams and the AppDev lifecycle
● Is an easy entry point for AI
● OEMs and ISVs are embracing image mode as a streamlined pathway for testing
and deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux-certified applications
Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
● This is RHEL thought leadership
● RHEL continues to innovate
● Sets RHEL apart from other distros
Relevant Summit Activities
▸ Press release
▸ Keynote & booth demos
▸ Deep dive sessions
▸ Hands on labs
▸ Lightning talks
RHEL Week!
▸ April 29 - May 2
▸ Visit the Source Page
▸ Join the Slack channel
▸ Add RHEL Week Calendar

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Main talking points
● Image mode is a new deployment method for Red Hat Enterprise Linux that
delivers the platform as a container image.
● The same container-native tools and techniques can be used to manage the entire
IT landscape, from applications to the underlying operating system.
● Image mode for RHEL + Podman Desktop + Podman AI Lab extension helps
developers build intelligent AI apps on their laptop - all running on the proven,
trusted Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform
● Podman Desktop now supports Red Hat Developer subscription
● Nearly every company is planning for a future structured around AI
● Red Hat now offers an easy way to build, deploy and manage AI applications
Have an AI conversation!
● Communicate RHEL innovation and thought leadership
● Position RHEL as the trusted foundation for AI workloads
● Identify and change developer Linux preferences
Relevant Summit Activities
▸ Press release
▸ Keynote & booth demos
▸ Deep dive sessions
▸ Hands on labs
▸ Lightning talks

Ansible automated
Policy as Code
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Ansible automated Policy as Code Announcement Relevant Summit Activities:
▸ Summit Keynote Day 2, Ashesh
▸ Ansiblefest Day 2 (demo)
● redhat.com/PaC (live May 7th)
● READ “What is Policy as
Code?” thought leadership
lead-up blog
● Internal FAQ
● Press release and
announcement blog to come
(both live May 7th)
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1. Automated Policy as Code vision with thought leadership discussions building
through beta release, then into GA.
2. Customers should care because:
a. They have to manage risk despite complexity and growing security threats
b. AI is being infused into operations at scale and it needs to operate within policy
guardrails; difficult to manage manually and now it’s automated
c. As policies change customers need to feel confident that they are operating
to current standards.
● Respond to customer questions when asked with this short elevator pitch:
○ Automated Policy as Code helps you operate with less risk and more
consistency to ensure AI can do its best work. Policies provide needed
controls to use AI reliably and at scale, even as policies change.
○ It is an automation vision designed to help you operate complex and
AI-infused environments according to your compliance needs. It automates
otherwise manual compliance management and can provide the guardrails
you need so both IT teams and AI operate as you expect.
● Direct the customer to redhat.com/PaC (live May 7th) where they can learn more,
sign up for a webinar, and join the thought leadership advocacy forum.
Elevator
Pitch

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Main talking points
● Answer customer questions with the elevator pitch above.
● Include in roadmap discussions as the next innovation
● Ask how they manage risk across complexity and how AI changes this.
● Environments are complex to manage today and they are now sprawling
with AI. Manual management will not keep pace.
● Security, compliance and internal operating preferences are growing and
need to be consistently enforced.
● AI needs guardrails to provide the best outcomes.
● In discussions with customers, it shows thought leadership and gives
customers a sense of what is to come.
● It will complement Event-Driven Ansible and Ansible Lightspeed when ready.
● Focus on what is here today, but use as part of a roadmap or renewal
discussion to showcase our vision.
Ansible automated Policy as Code Announcement
Other great resources to reach out
to!
Steve Fulmer - Product Manager, customers
Phil Griffiths, - Product Manager, AAP and
Automated Policy as Code internal sales Slack

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● This is a vision announcement. The CTA for customers is to visit redhat.com/PaC and join the
advocacy forum. They can learn and begin thinking about how they will automate policy
enforcement.
● Through the forum and also through customer meetings, we will discuss use cases, and gather
feedback when beta preview becomes available. The beta release to come is especially good for
high touch, interested customers. If you need assistance, contact your SSP and/or Steve Fulmer or
Phil Griffiths.
● We will use a model of create, manage and scale for Automated Policy as Code:
○ Create - apply policies as new automation is created.
○ Manage - ensure consistent and compliant operations even as policies change, plus as AI
sprawls provide operational guidelines so AI apps deliver the best outcomes.
(Summit keynote will demo this)
○ Scale - Operate these policies at scale across your environment
● We would like customers to start small, think big and a great start is internal policies or
granular elements of external compliance mandates.
Ansible automated Policy as Code Announcement

Gen AI for Konveyor Announcement Relevant Summit Activities
▸ Blog Post - May 7
Additional information:
● https://www.konveyor.io/
● 78% of organizations use or plan
to use artificial intelligence (AI)
to support their application
modernization efforts →
2024 Application Modernization
Report
● Migration Toolkit for
Applications
Contacts:
▸ Ramon Roman Nissef
Principal Product Mgr
▸ Syed M Shaaf -
Senior Principal Product
Marketing Mgr
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● Red Hat is pleased to announce the introduction of generative AI to the Red
Hat-led open source community project, Konveyor, aimed at helping
organizations modernize their applications using cloud-native and AI-enabled
technologies for better scalability, flexibility and efficiency.
● Red Hat is working to integrate LLMs into Konveyor to improve the economics
of re-platforming and refactoring applications to Kubernetes and cloud-native
technologies
● This plays a significant role in application modernization by offering innovative
solutions to enhance productivity, creativity and efficiency throughout the
development process.
● Red Hat plans to deliver these capabilities in future releases of our Migration
Toolkit for Applications to enhance gen AI models like IBM watsonx™ Code
Assistant

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Main talking points
● Assistive AI to accelerate modernization of applications
● Reduced Developer time and effort in migration of legacy applications
● Learns customer specific modernization preferences and patterns via Retrieval
Augmented Generation
● Developers will be provided with recommended source code changes right in their IDE,
saving time when refactoring applications;
● Expedited development cycles with less human error by utilizing gen AI for better
productivity, creativity and efficiency throughout the modernization process
● Accelerate customer application modernization and migration of cloud native
applications to OpenShift
● Customers can start right away with Konveyor community
Gen AI for Konveyor Announcement
● https://www.konveyor.io/
● https://developers.redhat
.com/products/mta/over
view
● https://developers.redhat
.com/products/mta/use-
cases
● Migration Toolkit on
RHCC

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● Enhancing the developer experience and pipelines with IDE plugins and
repository-level automation to enable DevOps pipelines by integrating
large-language models (LLMs) into the workflow.
● Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for leveraging the structured
migration data from Konveyor to enable automated source code changes that
learn from how your organization tackles modernization, even with your own
custom technologies.
● Integration capabilities with other Red Hat application services including Red
Hat OpenShift
Gen AI for Konveyor Announcement

Red Hat Connectivity Link
Developer Preview
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Red Hat Connectivity Link Dev Preview
Announcement
Relevant Summit Activities:
▸ Public Blog Post on May 7
▸ Breakout: Introducing Red Hat
Connectivity Link: Unifying
cross-cluster application connectivity -
May 7 @ 10AM
▸ Developer Preview Page on
developer.redhat.com (available
May 7)
▸ https://kuadrant.io/
▸ Overview recording (TBD)
Contacts:
▸ Christopher Ferreira
Senior Principal Product Mgr
▸ Joe O’Reilly
Director, Product Management
▸ Greg Pack -
Senior Product Marketing Mgr
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● Developer preview of Red Hat Connectivity Link, solution for hybrid and
multi cloud environments that provides a cohesive set of application
connectivity capabilities for enhanced application performance, global
scalability and robust security through simplified deployment and
management processes
● Red Hat Connectivity Link allows platform engineers and application teams to
configure, manage and secure connections across multiple Kubernetes
clusters running in multiple data centers, cloud providers and at the edge
● Red Hat Connectivity Link provides a central control plane and policy
management to more easily connect, protect and manage services and
infrastructure

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Main talking points
● Manage and secure connections across multiple Kubernetes clusters running in multiple
data centers, cloud providers or at the edge
● Enhanced application performance, global scalability and robust security capabilities through
simplified deployment and management processes
● Based on the open source Kuadrant project and builds on the capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift
● Platform teams face increasing complexity of setting up and running environments across multiple
clusters and multiple environments
● Need to focus on delivering value through integrated, unified solutions that more easily connect,
protect and manage their services and infrastructure
● NOTE: Developer Preview only at this time; GA is planned for late 2024
● As customers expand into increasingly distributed deployments with OpenShift, Red Hat
Connectivity Link provides them with a central solution to manage different tools for API
management, service mesh and application networking across them
Red Hat Connectivity Link Dev Preview
Announcement

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● Red Hat Connectivity Link brings all of this together under a central control plane. Notable
features include:
○ Multi-cluster ingress management provides unified management of ingress gateways
across multiple clusters, leading to efficient and more seamless connectivity for applications
across clusters, regardless of their deployment model or geographical location.
○ Global load balancing automatically configures DNS for domains associated with
multi-cluster ingress gateways, optimizing performance and availability for a global user base.
○ Programmatic application and workload movement provides an automated mechanism to
shift applications or workloads between clusters programmatically for better resource
utilization, application scalability, and disaster recovery.
○ Rate limiting and API protection regulates the volume of API calls an individual user or
system can make within a certain period. This protects the back end from being overwhelmed
by too many requests, and allows for more balanced use across all API consumers.
○ Authentication and authorization capabilities verify the identity of users and provide access
to APIs accordingly.
Red Hat Connectivity Link Dev Preview Announcement

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