IBM Infrastructure embeds Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as Red Hat is named a Gartner® Leader for Server Virtualization Platforms

Red Hat has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms, based on the evaluation of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.

IBM Infrastructure integrates Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, a feature of Red Hat OpenShift across strategic infrastructure platforms, including IBM Z, IBM LinuxONE, IBM Fusion, IBM Power and IBM Cloud, designed to help enterprises operationalize transformation initiatives across hybrid cloud environments.

Organizations are increasingly reassessing virtualization platforms due to changes in virtualization licensing and packaging, rising renewal cost, and growing pressure to streamline legacy environments without introducing operational disruption.

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization provides a Kubernetes-native virtualization capability that enables organizations to run and manage virtual machines (VMs) alongside containerized applications on a unified application platform. It enables organizations to manage current VM workloads while establishing a foundation for future container and AI adoption.

IBM Infrastructure extends these Red Hat technologies across enterprise infrastructure environments to support more consistent hybrid cloud operations, workload portability, and deployment flexibility through IBM-managed cloud services.

By integrating Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with IBM Infrastructure platforms, organizations can migrate VM estates, modernize individual applications where there’s a clear business case, and maintain alignment with broader hybrid cloud and operational objectives.

IBM Infrastructure embeds and supports Red Hat technologies across core systems and cloud platforms designed for enterprise modernization and operational resiliency.

Organizations running mission-critical enterprise workloads can leverage IBM Z to support virtualization at enterprise scale, a solution designed with high levels of security, resiliency, availability, and scalability. This can help organizations modernize VM’s environments while maintaining the operational characteristics required for business-critical applications and highly regulated industries.

For Linux-focused environments, IBM LinuxONE is designed to provides a highly secure and efficient platform optimized for cloud-native and virtualized workloads. Organizations can improve infrastructure utilization, consolidate Linux VMs, and establish a foundation for future workload modernization initiatives.

For performance-intensive business applications, IBM Power delivers the performance, scalability, and operational flexibility required to support demanding business workloads. Combined with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, IBM Power intends to help organizations manage virtualized environments while supporting applications that require consistent performance and agility.

Organizations looking to simplify data-centric hybrid cloud operations can leverage IBM Fusion, which provides integrated data services, storage, data protection, and lifecycle management for Red Hat OpenShift environments. This solution is designed to helps organizations maintain consistent access to application data across virtualized and containerized environments while simplifying data management, resilience, and mobility.

For enterprises seeking deployment flexibility through an IBM-managed service, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service on IBM Cloud helps accelerate adoption of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization while reducing operational complexity and supporting hybrid cloud deployment models.

Together, these IBM Infrastructure platforms enable organizations to adopt Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization in a manner aligned with their business priorities, whether focused on resiliency, efficiency, performance, operational simplicity, or cloud-based consumption. This integrated approach enables enterprises to standardize virtualization and infrastructure modernization initiatives through a more consistent operational model spanning VMs, containers, automation, and hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Application modernization has become a strategic business initiative tied directly to innovation agility, faster application delivery, and operational efficiency.

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, combined with IBM Infrastructure platforms, help enterprises address key workload modernization challenges, including:

• VMs-related cost and operational pressures
• Legacy application modernization across hybrid environments
• Operational fragmentation across infrastructure domains
• Automation and lifecycle management complexity
• Workload portability across on-premises and cloud deployments

By bringing VMs, containers, automation, and infrastructure together under a more consistent operating model, enterprises can help reduce operational complexity while creating greater flexibility for future technology adoption. This enables IT teams to support existing workloads more efficiently, accelerate application modernization initiatives, and establish a foundation for emerging AI and hybrid cloud use cases.

Whether organizations are focused on modernizing business-critical applications, optimizing Linux environments, supporting data-intensive workloads, simplifying data-centric operations, or expanding cloud deployment options, IBM Infrastructure and Red Hat help provide a common platform designed to support innovation and business growth over time.

IBM Infrastructure and Red Hat provide an open, AI-ready hybrid cloud foundation designed to help organizations improve operational consistency, support application modernization initiatives, and manage workloads across virtualized, containerized, and hybrid cloud environments.

By combining Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with the breadth of IBM Infrastructure platforms, organizations can adopt a more consistent operating model for applications and data while aligning infrastructure choices to business priorities ranging from resiliency and performance to operational simplicity and cloud-based consumption.

As enterprises evaluate virtualization strategies, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization across the IBM Infrastructure portfolio helps to simplify operations today while building a more flexible foundation for future hybrid cloud and AI initiatives.

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For mission-critical enterprise workloads, consider IBM Z

For Linux-focused environments learn more about LinuxONE

For performance-intensive workloads, explore IBM Power

For data-centric hybrid cloud operations, discover IBM Fusion

For deployment flexibility start now on IBM Cloud