Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization for public sector organizations

Virtualization remains an important technology for public sector agencies and institutions

Virtualization tools and technologies are essential to datacenter operations. By deploying workloads on virtual machines, agencies and educational institutions can lower costs, reduce downtime, increase resiliency, boost efficiency, and meet sustainability goals. Even so, technologies like Kubernetes provide additional ways to optimize resource use, increase application portability, and expand scalability. As a result, many public sector organizations now use both virtual machines and containers to deploy critical workloads in datacenter, cloud, and edge environments.

Red Hat offers technologies that help you gain more value from your virtualization investments by consolidating virtual machines and containers on a trusted, consistent, and comprehensive application platform. You can migrate your virtual machines from traditional virtualization platforms to a modern, robust application platform for both cost savings and innovative opportunities. We also offer tools to simplify your move between platforms and improve migration speed and success.

Migrate virtual machines to a consistent application platform

A cohesive management experience for virtual machines and containers can help you streamline operations, reduce complexity, and improve overall efficiency. With effective resource allocation, simplified monitoring, and consistent scaling, an integrated platform can increase the performance and reliability of your critical applications while reducing infrastructure costs. However, migrating virtual machines to a modern application platform can be challenging without the right tools and technologies. Advanced migration tools and expert support can simplify transition processes, minimize downtime, and ensure that both traditional virtual machine workloads and cloud-native, container-based applications operate consistently and correctly in the same environment.

Included with Red Hat® OpenShift® and based on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) and Kubevirt open source projects, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization lets you create, migrate, and manage virtual machines on a consistent, comprehensive, and trusted platform for application modernization and cloud-native innovation. Powered by containers, Kubernetes, and DevSecOps capabilities, Red Hat OpenShift provides a foundation for rapidly building, deploying, and running both traditional and cloud-native applications at scale and with security across hybrid, multicloud, and edge environments. Included in all Red Hat OpenShift self-managed and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS cluster subscriptions, OpenShift Virtualization simplifies migration of virtual machines with comprehensive tools and automation capabilities. And, for those interested in a virtualization-specific solution, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine delivers the virtualization functionality of Red Hat OpenShift for deploying, managing, and scaling virtual machines, without container capabilities.

By migrating virtual machines from traditional virtualization platforms and running them on Red Hat OpenShift, you can get the most from your existing virtualization investments while taking advantage of cloud-native architectures, streamlined operations and management, new development approaches, and reduced platform costs. Plus, to ensure your migration goes smoothly, the migration toolkit for virtualization simplifies and speeds the process of moving existing virtual machines to OpenShift Virtualization, saving you time and minimizing potential errors.

Preserve your existing investments

Over the past decades, public sector organizations have made substantial investments in virtual machine technologies and virtualized workloads. As agencies and educational institutions now move towards more modern solutions for new applications, many aim to preserve these existing investments while integrating new management principles and technologies into their hybrid and multicloud environments.

OpenShift Virtualization helps you maximize your current technology investments by simplifying and speeding migration of traditional virtual machines to a scalable modern application platform. With a comprehensive, intuitive toolset, it lets you migrate your existing virtual machine workloads to an enterprise-grade platform efficiently and in less time.

Reduce cost with a consolidated platform

Maintaining multiple platforms for virtual machines and containers can lead to increased operational costs and lower availability for critical workloads. By standardizing on a single platform, you can improve consistency across key applications and services while reducing infrastructure and administration costs.

OpenShift Virtualization lets you efficiently deploy and manage both migrated and new virtual machines—along with containers and serverless functions—from a unified interface. Because OpenShift Virtualization delivers a consistent experience across on-site resources, public cloud instances, and edge devices, you can manage applications in complex hybrid and multicloud environments using a single administration framework and simplify the workday for your entire team. With Red Hat OpenShift, operations teams can optimize critical infrastructure and use up to 22% fewer virtual machines,¹ reducing both platform costs and administrative work.

Increase revenue with modern applications

Cloud-native applications are critical for delivering innovative products, scaling efficiently, and enhancing customer experiences. By adopting and deploying modern tools and technologies, you can gain new opportunities to increase revenue, capitalize on emerging markets, and foster long-term growth.

With Red Hat OpenShift, you can develop new cloud-native services and incorporate emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) while modernizing your virtualized workloads and infrastructure on your own schedule to support your mission as needs evolve. Modern development processes, principles, and tools—integrated into Red Hat OpenShift—help you build innovative products using a cloud-native approach to boost revenue across your agency or institution. In fact, organizations that adopt Red Hat OpenShift to support application modernization experience US21ドル.6 million in higher annual revenue.1 And by integrating containerized, microservices-based applications with traditional virtualized workloads, you can deliver flexible, agile digital solutions that adapt to meet changing user demands.

Speed time to value with improved operational efficiency

Delivering virtualized applications and infrastructure using modern, cloud-native practices can increase operational efficiency and flexibility. This approach not only reduces overhead costs but also lets you adapt to changing demands and efficiently scale your operations.

Self-service capabilities and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline integrations in Red Hat OpenShift streamline virtual machine migration, deployment, and management across hybrid and multicloud environments. By integrating virtual machines and advanced, automated pipelines on Red Hat OpenShift, you can speed development of virtualized and container-based applications with a consistent set of tools and processes. Red Hat OpenShift also simplifies administration and troubleshooting tasks with a single console to improve operational efficiency across your organization. And with advanced virtual machine backup and restore capabilities, it increases the availability and reliability of your critical workloads.

You can also take advantage of OpenShift Service on AWS—a fully managed cloud service—to offload ongoing platform management and get started in less time. Jointly engineered, operated, and supported by Red Hat and Amazon Web Services (AWS), OpenShift Service on AWS is a singe-step application platform that helps you boost operational efficiency and refocus on innovation. Our site reliability engineering (SRE) team automates the deployment and management of your clusters so your staff can concentrate on application development and strategic initiatives. Migration planning assistance and managed cluster installation and verification speed deployment. Additionally, you can access Kubernetes experience without retraining or moving existing staff or hiring new members, so your teams can begin using the platform right away

Lower risk and operate confidently

Successfully planning, deploying, and maintaining a virtualized environment requires specialized skills and knowledge. Expert support and guidance, backed by extensive virtualization experience and indepth platform knowledge, can lower risk and increase confidence as you migrate, deploy, and manage virtual machines. With multiple tiers of support to meet the needs of your mission, Red Hat can help you keep your virtualized environments up and running—and if an issue arises, swiftly restore services—with OpenShift Virtualization.

Plus, with OpenShift Virtualization on OpenShift Service on AWS, managed upgrades, patching, and threat monitoring and remediation reduce costly downtime and maintain reliability and security. A single path to support through Red Hat or AWS helps you resolve issues with less hassle. Although your teams are responsible for managing OpenShift Virtualization on top of OpenShift Service on AWS, our SRE and support staff are still available to answer questions and provide expertise about migrating, running, and managing virtual machines on the platform.

Learn more

Try Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization for free with a 60-day trial. You can access a self-supported subscription to Red Hat OpenShift, as well as certified operators like OpenShift Virtualization and Developer Hub and Red Hat Customer Portal for documentation and information. Start your trial today.

For current Red Hat OpenShift customers, the Red Hat Level Up Program provides no-cost access to Red Hat OpenShift with OpenShift Virtualization for your team, department, or organization initiatives. Designed for pilot projects and production workloads, this program comes with expert guidance and a fully supported, 1-year subscription. Get started with the Red Hat Level Up Program.

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