Couchbase's strategic partnership with Red Hat at the 2018 Red Hat Summit in San Francisco resulted in several key updates and announcements, including demonstrations of Couchbase on Red Hat OpenShift, a hybrid cloud strategy for companies like Amadeus, and the launch of the Couchbase Autonomous Operator, which enables stateful business critical applications to run on Couchbase with OpenShift. The partnership was recognized with an award for "Land and Expand" growth ISV partner of the year, highlighting the growing collaboration between the two companies in integrating their technologies to deliver amazing customer experiences. The announcement also marked a significant step forward for Couchbase's adoption in enterprises and its growing presence in the open source community.