Red Hat Announces Ansible Lightspeed AI Service

Red Hat has introduced Ansible Lightspeed (https://www.redhat.com/en/engage/project-wisdom), a new generative AI service aimed at Ansible automation.

"Using natural language processing, the service will integrate with Watson Code Assistant, expected to be generally available later this year, to access IBM foundation models and quickly build automation code," the announcement says (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-introduces-ansible-lightspeed-ai-driven-it-automation).

Ansible Lightspeed, which is designed for both developers and operators, "reads plain English entered by a user, and then accesses IBM watsonx foundation models (https://www.ibm.com/watsonx) to generate automation code recommendations in Ansible syntax that are ready to quickly deploy as an Ansible Playbook." The technology preview will be available later in 2023.

Global Tech Adoption Trends from the World Economic Forum

The 2023 Future of Jobs Report from the World Economic Forum (https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-future-of-jobs-report-2023) cites technology adoption and green transition as key drivers of job creation.

The report, based on data from 803 companies – collectively employing more than 11.3 million workers around the world – explores how jobs and skills will evolve over the next five years and offers "insights on how socio-economic and technology trends will shape the workplace of the future."

According to the report, more than 75 percent of companies surveyed are likely or highly likely to adopt the following technologies in the next five years:

• Digital platforms and apps (86.5%)
• Education and workforce development technologies (80.9%)
• Big data analytics (80.0%)
• IoT and connected devices (76.8%)
• Cloud computing (76.6%)
• Encryption and cybersecurity (75.6%)

"Among the macrotrends listed, businesses predict the strongest net job-creation effect to be driven by investments that facilitate the green transition of businesses," the report says, noting that climate change adaptation also rates high as a net job creator.

CIQ Announces New Infrastructure Management Platform

CIQ, the organization behind Rocky Linux, has announced CIQ Mountain (https://ciq.com/blog/ciq-mountain-enables-rocky-linux-users-to-reduce-complexity-enhance-agility-and-optimize-roi/), a hybrid data center management and security platform for "securely deploying operating systems, applications, containers, and complete turnkey solutions."

CIQ Mountain offers integrated features to reduce complexity and improve security, such as:

• Curated and certified assets
• Unified security and access control
• Global support

"CIQ Mountain launches with a substantial set of certified and supported assets and turnkey solutions, such as Rocky Linux images (https://ciq.com/products/rocky-linux/), verifiable packages, containers, individual applications, and microservices with their associated configurations. It also supports private mirroring of these curated assets," the announcement says.