NetApp and Red Hat are partnering on the adoption of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization across hybrid and multi-cloud environments to enable enterprises to modernise workloads with greater speed and flexibility.
The collaboration focuses on integrating Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud capabilities with NetApp’s intelligent data infrastructure to help enterprises transition from virtual machines (VMs) to containerised applications while maintaining high performance and data protection standards.
Under the partnership, NetApp has adopted Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization for its engineering and development operations, accelerating software delivery while reducing infrastructure complexity. In turn, Red Hat uses NetApp Ontap to provision storage for OpenShift workloads and safeguard critical data across environments.
“By bringing together the power of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with NetApp, we can deliver a consistent hybrid cloud foundation with the enterprise-grade data management capabilities needed to achieve agility and hybrid cloud flexibility while maintaining high standards of data protection,” said Mike Barrett, Vice President and General Manager of Hybrid Cloud Platforms at Red Hat.
“Just as NetApp solutions give enterprises simple, scalable and powerful tools to drive success, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization enables us to innovate and deliver value to customers more quickly,” said Dallas Olson, Chief Commercial Officer of NetApp.
Hybrid cloud integrations
Both companies are also introducing new hybrid cloud integrations that extend virtualisation and storage capabilities to Amazon and Google Cloud environments. Offerings such as Amazon FSx for NetApp Ontap with OpenShift Service on AWS and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes with OpenShift Dedicated will enable enterprises to manage both VMs and containers seamlessly in the cloud.
To simplify migration from legacy systems, the NetApp Shift Toolkit now supports OpenShift Virtualization to enable VM conversions in minutes rather than hours. Additionally, enhanced integration of NetApp Trident and Trident Protect provides scalable, cost-effective data protection for re-platformed workloads.
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