The continuous delivery software that's been doing the heavy lifting on IBM's global Kubernetes platform is now open source.

The state with the third largest data center market in the U.S. will soon exempt data centers from paying sales taxes on equipment used in the facilities.

It emerged as a force in the silicon market last year, and its been gaining momentum ever since.

At Red Hat Summit, ITPro Today sat down with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst and talked about life after the IBM merger, hybrid cloud and the competition.

The latest and greatest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ships with new features that will make routine administration tasks easier for DevOps teams, while clearing a path for hybrid cloud deployments.

Red Hat and IBM executive leadership used Tuesday's keynote to reassure customers that Red Hat would remain Red Hat.

The unveiling of RHEL 8 would normally steal the show at Red Hat Summit, but this year the deal with IBM may overshadow that announcement.

The new offering includes option for Kubernetes, OpenStack, and other open-source infrastructure support in a single contract.