Hardening the Digital Core: Accenture and Red Hat's Partnership in Cloud and AI

In this in-depth conversation, Colleen Hoagland, Global Private Cloud Platforms Lead, discusses the critical need for enterprises to harden their digital core and the massive market opportunity around Virtual Machine (VM) modernization using Red Hat OpenShift and Ansible. She also provides a clear roadmap for organizations looking to scale and implement secure, enterprise-ready GenAI workloads without getting bogged down in complexity. Key Discussion Points: - The urgency of VM Modernization: How OpenShift Virtualization is preparing organizations for a future where AI requires containers. - GenAI Implementation Roadmap: How the Red Hat and Accenture partnership prioritizes use cases to ensure POCs make it to production. - The 'AI + Human' Approach: Reducing complexity and fear by focusing on how AI creates automation and allows people to do their jobs better and faster. - Shared Vision: Expanding innovation labs and investing in talent to drive the next revolution of technology.