Explore CIQ Videos: Demos, Tutorials, and Talks by Product
Every video from the CIQ YouTube channel, organized by product and searchable by topic. Each one comes with a summary, key takeaways, and a full transcript.

GPU-ready in minutes: AI development on Azure with RLC Pro AI
Host Eric Hendricks brings together CIQ's Brian Dawson and Damon Knight and a member of the Azure core engineering team to show how RLC Pro AI on Microsoft Azure shortens the path from local AI…

Migrating from RHEL to Rocky Linux (RLC Pro) from CIQ
Eric "the IT Guy" Hendricks walks through converting a running Red Hat Enterprise Linux server to Rocky Linux from CIQ Pro (RLC Pro) with a single script, without touching the application stack. He…

What Enterprise Linux Should Have Always Been | RLC Pro
Eric "the IT Guy" Hendricks makes the case that running community or traditional commercial Linux in production shifts risk onto your own team: forced upgrade cycles, compliance gaps, and bugs that…

CIQ Portal Walkthrough: From Registration to First Download in Under a Minute
Eric Hendricks introduces the CIQ Portal, the new home for CIQ product downloads, license keys and documentation, and shows how to go from first visit to first download in under a minute. The…

Rocky Linux Just Entered AI... But Not How You Think
Linux educator KeepItTechie takes an outsider's look at RLC Pro AI and clears up the most common confusion first: it is not a new distribution, and community Rocky Linux is not changing. The video…

First Boot - First Inference | The IT Guy Show 020
In this sponsored episode of The IT Guy Show, host Eric Hendricks talks with Damon Knight, senior principal automation engineer and in-house AI specialist at CIQ, about why standing up Linux for GPU…

How Fuzzball Unifies HPC and AI Workloads on One Infrastructure
David Godlove shows how Fuzzball runs traditional HPC jobs, AI and ML workloads and interactive sessions on one unified infrastructure. The demo starts in the ready-to-run workflow catalog, which…

How Fuzzball Integrates with Your Existing HPC Infrastructure with No Rip and Replace
David Godlove explains how Fuzzball fits into hardware and tooling an organization already runs. Provisioner keywords decide where workflows execute: static for nodes Fuzzball manages itself, AWS for…

What is Fuzzball? Container Orchestration Built for HPC and AI Workloads
This short explainer from David Godlove sets out the problem Fuzzball exists to solve. Teams now need to run traditional HPC applications such as molecular dynamics, fluid dynamics and weather…

The Enterprise Linux Tax Is Costing You More Than You Think | Brady Dibble, CIQ
In this TFiR interview, Brady Dibble, Director of Product for Enterprise Linux at CIQ, traces how commercial Linux evolved from free distributions with paid support into per-node and per-core products…

Why Your Encrypted Data Is Already Being Stolen | Jeremy Allison, CIQ (Samba Co-Creator)
In this Secure by Design conversation from TFiR, Jeremy Allison, Distinguished Engineer at CIQ and co-creator of Samba, explains the threat behind post-quantum cryptography: adversaries are already…

Techstrong TV - February 16, 2026
This Techstrong TV episode opens with host Alan Shimel welcoming Brian Dawson, director of product management for Linux at CIQ. Dawson traces CIQ's roots from founder Greg Kurtzer's work on CentOS and…