Open Source in Finance Forum London 2026

Financial institutions are modernizing data platforms to support real-time analytics, AI workloads, and increasingly strict security and compliance requirements. Open technologies such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenShift, and automation frameworks enable organizations to run mission-critical database workloads with greater performance, flexibility, and operational consistency.

In this session, we demonstrate how Microsoft SQL Server 2025 running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift provides a modern, secure, and scalable platform for financial services workloads.

We will showcase automated deployments using the latest Ansible enhancements for SQL Server 2025 on RHEL 10 We will also explore containerized SQL Server deployments on Kubernetes with OpenShift, improvements in SELinux integration and password policy controls, and new AI capabilities in SQL Server 2025 including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) scenarios.

Finally, we will highlight how Validated Patterns on OpenShift AI simplify GPU management, vector database integration, and GitOps workflows for building enterprise AI platforms with SQL Server as a secure backend for embeddings and analytics.