IBM & Red Hat: Project Lightwell, Protecting Open Source Software
IBM and Red Hat announced Project Lightwell, a $5 billion initiative to establish a trusted enterprise clearinghouse for open-source software security. The project deploys more than 20,000 engineers, augmented by AI, to identify, triage, validate, and remediate vulnerabilities across open-source supply chains at a scale that exceeds what most enterprises can achieve independently.
SUSECON 2026: SUSE Shows Off Platform Strategy and Agentic Infrastructure
SUSECON 2026, recently held in Prague, saw SUSE lay out a coherent platform direction, shifting from being primarily a Linux and Kubernetes distribution vendor to a provider of an integrated open infrastructure stack spanning virtualization, edge, and AI-augmented operations.
SUSE Acquires Losant: Extending the Open Edge Stack into Industrial IoT
SUSE announced the acquisition of Losant, a Cincinnati-based industrial IoT (IIoT) platform. The acquisition marks a material expansion for SUSE, moving the company from being primarily an edge infrastructure provider (built around SUSE Linux Micro and K3s) to the application and orchestration layer, where operational data from industrial devices is aggregated, visualized, and acted on.
The Ecosystem Takes Center Stage at AWS re:Invent 2025
AWS re:Invent 2025 has become an industry show, with this year’s event showcasing a partner ecosystem focused on agentic AI integration and unified observability. The conference featured major announcements from enterprise ISVs, security platforms, and enterprise software providers, all positioning their technologies to work seamlessly with AWS’s new AI capabilities.