NetApp, a leader in Intelligent Data Infrastructure, and Red Hat, the global provider of open-source solutions, have announced an expanded collaboration aimed at accelerating the adoption of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization across both on-premises and public cloud environments. By deepening their joint development efforts, the two companies are helping organizations modernize IT infrastructure while simplifying the migration of cloud-native workloads.
As part of this enhanced collaboration, both companies are integrating each other’s technologies to optimize operational and IT systems. NetApp now runs its development and testing environments on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, which is included in all Red Hat OpenShift editions. This integration enables faster provisioning, reduces operational complexity, and enhances overall agility. By leveraging OpenShift Virtualization, NetApp’s development teams can scale workflows efficiently while meeting future demands.
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“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 at NetApp. “As a longtime partner with Red Hat, we’ve seen first-hand the outcomes their platform drives for mutual customers, and we’re eager for it to serve as a future-ready foundation for our own operations.”
Simultaneously, Red Hat uses NetApp technology to power its global IT and development infrastructure, enabling faster software delivery and enhanced operational efficiency. With NetApp ONTAP, Red Hat teams can provision storage for OpenShift workloads more rapidly, safeguard critical data with integrated security and recovery features, and manage workloads seamlessly across on-premises and cloud platforms.
“In order to effectively develop, modernize and deploy applications at scale, organizations need a foundation of cloud-native infrastructure with secure, powerful and efficient storage,” said Mike Barrett, vice president and general manager, Hybrid Cloud Platforms, Red Hat. “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. Our collaboration with NetApp is a model for how technology leaders can drive mutual value and customer success.”
The partnership is delivering concrete benefits for customers. NetApp and Red Hat now offer hybrid cloud solutions that integrate Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes on OpenShift Dedicated. These integrations allow organizations to run both virtual machines (VMs) and containers in the cloud, simplifying operations while ensuring scalability and enterprise-grade data protection.
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Furthermore, NetApp has expanded the Shift Toolkit to support a broader range of hypervisors, including OpenShift Virtualization, which reduces VM migration time from days to minutes. Advanced integrations with NetApp Trident and Trident Protect provide scalable, cost-effective solutions for re-platforming VM-based workloads.
“The integration between NetApp ONTAP and Red Hat OpenShift enabled us to move quickly from our previous virtualization platform to Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization,” said Talor Holloway, Chief Technology Officer at Advent One. “By adopting NetApp’s all-flash infrastructure and leveraging Trident and Trident Protect, we gained enterprise-grade data protection, dramatically improved recovery and failover times. This wasn’t just a migration it was a modernization journey that made our Managed Services platform more agile, resilient, and cost-effective. This project led to significant infrastructure and licensing savings for us.”
Through this strengthened collaboration, NetApp and Red Hat are empowering organizations to modernize IT environments, accelerate cloud adoption, and unlock operational agility with enterprise-grade security and performance.
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