Red Hat Inc. is rebuilding its core systems to meet the demands of an AI-first enterprise. At this week’s Red Hat Summit, the company outlined a three-part tech strategy: data readiness, AI enablement and enterprise-wide transformation — all anchored in its hybrid cloud and open-source foundations.

AI is embedded, not experimental. Through “Red Hat on Red Hat,” the company is applying AI to real workflows — from RFP automation to support operations — while ensuring compliance, security and flexibility at scale, according to Marco Bill (pictured), senior vice president and chief information officer of Red Hat.

Red Hat’s Marco Bill talks to theCUBE about AI-first enterprises taking the driver’s seat.

“You can’t do AI well if your data is not good,” Bill said. “How do we redo data? How do we look at it digitally? We started a big business transformation for sales like two or three years ago. We’re finishing that to make the whole flow more efficient, and in there we will augment it with certain AI capabilities. There’s other transformations we do, but those are the priorities that I’m looking at.”

Bill spoke with theCUBE’s Rebecca Knight and Rob Strechay at Red Hat Summit, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed why AI prioritization should be one of the primary concerns as AI-first enterprise strategies gain steam. (* Disclosure below.)

How ‘Red Hat on Red Hat’ leads to AI prioritization in an AI-first enterprise

Since Red Hat on Red Hat entails the company using its own products and solutions internally, this philosophy significantly influences AI prioritization within the AI-first enterprise framework.  This is because Red Hat leverages AI to improve internal documentation and support processes, Bill pointed out. 

“Basically, we have so much information collected over … the last two decades,” he said. “Before we had a knowledge base … with a chatbot — basically you can ask the knowledge base, you can ask the documentation. I think that’s a big change, and be it internal or external, you can ask, ‘Hey, how does this work?’ And for a support tech to actually get a bit smarter immediately.”

Red Hat’s open-source philosophy is central to its identity, business model and influence on the global tech community. This stems from the belief that open collaboration is one of the most powerful drivers of software innovation, according to Bill.

“In an open world, we let innovation happen everywhere,” he said. “In certain areas, it’s definitely more the open approach: ‘Bring your feedback; we can try it this way.’ That’s why also opening Gemini and try it and see what works for you — let us know what use case works well. I think that’s the beauty of Red Hat: It’s an open culture.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Red Hat Summit: 

(* Disclosure: Red Hat Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Red Hat nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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