Cisco and Red Hat are powering intelligent core to edge: Red Hat Summit insights

Cisco and Red Hat are powering intelligent core to edge: Red Hat Summit insights

By Ramya Korada,
Publication Date: 2026-05-12 15:00:00

Many AI conversations today center on how AI should be deployed, secured, and managed in the real world. At Red Hat Summit 2026, held at the Georgia World Congress Center, the message is clear: the future of AI is hybrid, it is distributed, and it is built on a foundation of deep, collaborative engineering.

To help organizations thrive in this reality, Cisco has developed not only powerful hardware, but also a deep integration between Cisco infrastructure and Red Hat’s open-source ecosystem that’s designed to solve some of the most pressing challenges for modern enterprises from the data center core to the furthest edge.

Read on to learn more about Cisco and Red Hat’s collaboration, as well as additional insights from Red Hat Summit.

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