We were live from #RHSummit and spoke with Stefanie Chiras. She's a professional problem solver who is living her passion at The AI Innovation Hub.

Check out the audio from our time together and learn about her new role here:

https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/491

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Noah and Steve are at Red Hat Summit 2026! We talk to Stefanie Chiras to talk about her new role as Senior Vice President of the AI Innovation Hub. She leads Red Hat's strategy for engaging with and catalyzing regional AI ecosystems.

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Back home from Summit! What a great event this year. A ton of folks talking to us about #RHEL, and the various things we've recently released or have in the fire. Lots of great conversations with all of you! Letting my voice rest today for sure.

Thank you all for stopping by the booth for our awesome RHEL at Summit 2026 T-shirt exclusive!

I hope to see you all again before next May in Boston!

#redhat #sysadmin #rhsummit #summit2026

Check this out -- an enterprise IT news story in 2026 that does not -- repeat, does NOT -- involve or even mention AI. How about that?

If you'd told me 10 years ago I'd be writing about hypervisors in 2026, you could've knocked me over with a feather.

But that's exactly what this dispatch from #RHSummit is about -- companies including Cleveland Clinic, Emirates NBD and FedHIVE escaping skyrocketing #VMware bills from #Broadcom and finding refuge with #RedHat and its #OpenShift Virtualization platform. Also features news updates about the product this week, including a new migration utility

Read all about it here: https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/366643085/Enterprises-fleeing-Broadcom-move-to-OpenShift-Virtualization

Enterprises fleeing Broadcom move to OpenShift Virtualization

One company moved 100 VMs after its VMware bill shot up ninefold; converts also cited compliance, growing feature parity and expanding partner support.

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A case of FOMO as I browse through exciting #RHSummit posts this week. I find solace in having the opportunity to attend 7 summits previously, and following along this year with Keynotes & Recaps on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbMP1JcGBmSG1F0kPUCSFuKaQEfJd71TT

I miss the connections with people though...

Can enterprises replace costly cloud-hosted models with self-managed, open-weight #AI models to reduce #AIinference costs? What are the consequences if they don't?

As promised, my podcast interview with Stephen Watt, a distinguished engineer working on emerging technologies in #RedHat 's office of the CTO, in which we discuss a wide range of topics, including his team's quest to answer these questions and his outlook on the future of #enterpriseAI. #RHSummit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKiq9ReXJvg

IT Ops Query: Red Hat distinguished engineer unpacks ”The Agentic Paradox”

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Self-hosted #AIinference was the talk of #RHSummit this week, but specific cost savings for early adopters, including BNP Paribas and Northrop Grumman, were tough to pin down among the devilish details of migrating and managing #AI workloads in private data centers.

According to Brian Stevens, SVP and AI CTO at #RedHat, the vendor's job is to "put an easy button" on the IT automation portion of that shift, alleviating some of the costs of complexity. A market research report by Omdia shows enterprises are already exploring lighter-weight AI models and self-hosting to avoid cloud-hosted AI budget blowouts.

Still, experts say there's a lot more to account for in self-hosted AI TCO than automation and open source. Check out the full story here: https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/366642991/IT-orgs-face-tricky-cost-calculus-for-self-hosted-AI-inference

IT orgs face tricky cost calculus for self-hosted AI inference

Red Hat's twofold strategy to lower AI inference costs -- self-managed hybrid infrastructure and open-weight models -- has potential, experts say, but must be proven in practice.

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Attending #rhsummit and having a great time — but can we get a health check on the guy who numbered these session halls? Really concerned.
Spent 14 hours on my feet having conversations with #RedHat customers today. Back to my hotel, and glad to be off my feet. Sure is a nice view from my room though. #rhsummit #rhel #sysadmin

So I’ve never been especially concerned with concert swag, but this amused me greatly.

#rhsummit #RedHatSummit #lego #minifigs

Its always weird d to see how many presentations use MacBooks. Y'all know Linux runs on laptops right? #RHSummit #fedora