At Piros, we’re committed to learning about every new Red Hat feature as they’re added. That way, we can quickly share our feedback directly with Red Hat. That’s how we help shape the solutions that elevate your IT even further. So we couldn’t miss the Red Hat Summit Boston this year. Here’s what stood out, in case you weren’t lucky enough to attend in person.

The Red Hat Summit is an annual highlight that showcases everything new and upcoming from the Red Hat stable. Last year, a staggering 6,000 Red Hat enthusiasts took part. For this edition, that figure reached almost 10,000, many of them Real fanboys and girls, proudly sporting their Red Hat merchandise. In attendance from Piros this year were sales engineer Dennis Grigaliunas and business development manager Angelo Jacobs.

AI is everywhere

The term AI was probably mentioned more than any other during the summit keynotes. “Red Hat is pushing the use of AI even further, in absolutely every product,” says Dennis. “Including in the newly released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, which allows you to ask the AI assistant RHEL Lightspeed all kinds of things about your Linux system.”

The official release of RHEL 10 was the highlight of the summit, together with the launch of the llm-d community. “This is a new open source project that aims to provide the ultimate solution to the ultimate challenge of generative AI. Distributed, high-quality AI inference on a large scale, regardless of which LLM and which accelerator you’re using, or in which cloud environment you’re working and how demanding the service level objectives are,” adds Dennis.

“Although this wasn’t my first summit,” says Angelo, “I was genuinely impressed by the enthusiasm of the participants and the American flair with which the C-level of Red Hat announced the new features. Red Hat keeps expanding its horizons.”

Hands-on learning

“There were so many workshops, lectures, and breakout sessions on all kinds of Red Hat topics,” Angelo continues. “For example, I took part in a capture-the-flag workshop. There, you work through a simulated security breach at an e-commerce company. In a race against the clock, you have to use OpenShift to discover how the hacker got in.”

As a Red Hat partner, Piros got to share detailed feedback. Dennis says: “Red Hat asks its partners for this so that they can support us better — and so we can always provide the best support to our customers. During the more informal dinners, we also got to discuss new features and cases in detail with Red Hat experts. That’s one of the things that makes the summit such a valuable experience. You can raise all kinds of issues with the specialists who developed the solutions.”

Networking that matters

“For me, those networking moments were the real highlights of the event,” Angelo says. “At Piros, for example, we are fully committed to cloud migration. During the summit, we were able to talk in depth with the Red Hat guys and hyperscalers themselves about how they use partners like Piros in their business models. And we also had a ton of interesting conversations with other Red Hat partners and vendors, such as Spacelift, which combines Terraform and Ansible in a single GUI. In short, the Red Hat Summit was more than worth it, and we can’t wait for next year!”

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