According to a recent press release, “Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16, the latest version of its highly scalable and agile Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution. More than 1,000 enhancements and new features will lay the foundation for enterprise and telco workloads from programmable IaaS for hybrid clouds, developer clouds and production clouds and cloud-native applications like network functions virtualization (NFV), edge computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).”

The release continues, “Built on the backbone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16 is designed to help organizations deliver more innovation, more quickly and with fewer disruptions. The latest version of the platform adds a refined long-life support lifecycle, comprehensive feature consolidation and a new commitment to delivering continuous community innovation as enterprise-ready features via stream releases. The platform combines the OpenStack community releases of ‘Rocky’, ‘Stein’ and ‘Train’ along with the best of Red Hat OpenStack Platform versions 14 and 15.”

It adds, “With Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16, enterprises and telcos can more effectively transform their IT infrastructure into a more agile, efficient and innovative environment ready for the opportunities of a digital economy. Modular by design, the platform optimizes IT operations for existing traditional applications while serving as the foundation for cloud-native application development and deployment.”

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