Red Hat, Inc. announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5, the latest version of the world?s leading enterprise Linux platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers a common, open operating system that extends across clouds, traditional datacenter operations and out to the edge. The platform enables IT teams to lean on existing skills while they use new and expanded capabilities to build the transformative applications and services required by their business, regardless of where these workloads may ultimately live. Recent studies indicate that organizations are realizing that using public cloud exclusively may not be economically feasible for long-term scale. At the same time, Gartner predicts that by 2026, ?public cloud spending will exceed 45% of all enterprise IT spending, up from less than 17% in 2021.?1 Red Hat has long championed a hybrid multicloud world, where customers can make the vision of any application, anywhere, a reality by choosing the right environment and technologies that build on a flexible, more consistent foundation. This makes a common Linux foundation, tailored for the rigors of traditional datacenters as well as the complexities of multicloud and edge computing deployments, a necessity for digital transformation. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.5 is designed to offer this backbone, building on Red Hat?s 20+ years of Linux expertise for an innovative platform that spans public cloud providers, multiple hardware architectures, virtualized environments and edge computing models. The updated platform extends Red Hat Insights services, builds on existing container management capabilities and makes it easier for IT teams to set up workload-specific systems wherever they may exist across a multicloud world.