Red Hat Summit 2023: The Biggest Announcements

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Ansible Lightspeed with IBM Watson Code Assistant, the Red Hat Developer Hub and Red Hat Trusted Application Pipeline and Trusted Content are some of the biggest announcements to come out of Red Hat Summit 2023 this week.

Red Hat, the Raleigh, N.C.-based IBM subsidiary and open software vendor, runs the event from Tuesday to Thursday in Boston.

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Red Hat Summit 2023 News

Summit 2023 comes soon after the vendor announced plans to lay off upwards of 800 employees, about 4 percent of its global workforce – suggesting that innovation has continued despite the lower headcount.

Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks promised no cuts in sales and engineering and said the layoffs were due to the vendor needing to “rebalance” and decide what offerings were priority. The layoffs appear to have targeted project managers and customer success professionals.

Hicks also sought a cultural change with employees “willing to engage and learn the intersections between our teams and to manage them more directly, with fewer layers of interface.”

Some of the other news to come out of Summit 2023 include:

*An Event-Driven Ansible Offering

*Updated capabilities for Red Hat Insights for RHEL

*Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service

About 80 percent of Red Hat’s overall sales come through the channel, according to CRN’s 2023 Channel Chiefs. In the 2022 edition, Red Hat disclosed that it had 7,000 worldwide channel partners, 1,500 of them in North America.

IBM has 55,000 channel partners worldwide, with 12,000 of them in North America, according to CRN’s 2023 Channel Chiefs.

These are the biggest announcements from Red Hat Summit 2023.