Red Hat Summit 2025: Concrete, innovative and a look at the future of cloud-native

event 03/06/2025

Our colleagues Agostino Leoni, Stefano Marfella, and Tommaso Macchioni took part in the Red Hat Summit 2025, held in Boston—one of the most important global events for the enterprise open source ecosystem.

An event that stood out for the substance of its content and for a highly pragmatic vision of how to tackle today’s technological challenges.

Two key themes: AI and virtualization

The 2025 edition focused on two main directions: artificial intelligence and virtualization—now essential pillars for building modern, scalable IT infrastructures.

The growing attention to virtualization is also a response to the current market context, where many organizations are seeking reliable alternatives to traditional solutions to optimize costs and ensure greater flexibility.

Key announcements

Several important technological advancements were announced during the summit:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
The new major RHEL release further advances integration with cloud and containerized environments. It features native support for AI workloads, new advanced security capabilities—including post-quantum cryptography—and optimizations aimed at making RHEL a leading platform for enterprise AI processing.
Red Hat AI Inference Server
A platform designed to simplify AI model deployment, enhancing hardware efficiency and streamlining large-scale inference management. A tool created to seamlessly embed AI into business processes.
LLM-d (Large Language Model distributed inference)
An open source, Kubernetes-native project developed to enable distributed inference of large language models. It supports complex production scenarios while staying true to the cloud-native approach that defines the Red Hat ecosystem.

Virtualization more and more integrated with hybrid cloud

The area of virtualization also saw major developments. Red Hat Virtualization now includes new capabilities and natively supports major cloud providers—including Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud.
The goal is clear: to make virtualization an integral part of the OpenShift environment, enabling seamless coexistence and orchestration of virtual machines and containerized applications within a unified hybrid infrastructure.

This direction confirms Red Hat’s commitment to providing a flexible and unified platform that supports organizations in their modernization journey.

A moment for sharing, inspiration, and strategy

Attending Red Hat Summit is much more than sitting through technical sessions—it's an opportunity to share experiences, hear new perspectives, and connect with an international community of professionals, developers, and innovators.

We return from Boston with an even clearer outlook on the future of cloud-native, and with the confirmation that open source technologies are—now more than ever—a strategic driver of innovation. We will continue to invest in education, in the pursuit of sustainable solutions, and in adopting tools that can deliver real value to our clients.