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Unlocking the Future of Hybrid Cloud with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Unlocking the Future of Hybrid Cloud with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

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In today’s rapidly evolving IT landscape, organizations are under increasing pressure to modernize infrastructure while maintaining stability and controlling costs. Disruptions in the virtualization market—driven by licensing changes and pricing shifts—are prompting enterprises to reconsider legacy VM platforms. As multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies become more prevalent, businesses must find unified platforms that support flexibility, scalability, and security across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments. To navigate this complex terrain, IT leaders are looking for solutions that enable seamless virtual machine (VM) migration, improve operational consistency, and provide a clear pathway to modernization. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization rises to meet this moment, offering a cost-effective virtualization engine and a full-featured hybrid cloud platform that supports both VMs and containers. Built with enterprise-grade security and integrated automation tools, OpenShift delivers long-term value for organizations looking to modernize without disruption. In our latest market brief, Unlocking the Future of Hybrid Cloud with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, developed in partnership with Red Hat, Futurum outlines the evolving virtualization landscape, the economic and operational drivers behind infrastructure modernization, and the technical innovations powering OpenShift’s hybrid cloud strategy. In this report, you will learn:
  • How recent disruptions in the virtualization market are accelerating platform reevaluation
  • The key benefits of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization for VM migration, hybrid cloud consistency, and modernization
  • How OpenShift supports a phased journey from legacy systems to containerized, cloud-native applications
  • Why industries such as financial services, telecom, and healthcare are turning to OpenShift to future-proof their environments
If you’re exploring ways to streamline VM management and prepare for a container-driven future, download your copy of Unlocking the Future of Hybrid Cloud with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization today.

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Author Information

Mitch Ashley

Mitch Ashley is VP and Practice Lead of Software Lifecycle Engineering for The Futurum Group. Mitch has over 30+ years of experience as an entrepreneur, industry analyst, product development, and IT leader, with expertise in software engineering, cybersecurity, DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud, and AI. As an entrepreneur, CTO, CIO, and head of engineering, Mitch led the creation of award-winning cybersecurity products utilized in the private and public sectors, including the U.S. Department of Defense and all military branches. Mitch also led managed PKI services for broadband, Wi-Fi, IoT, energy management and 5G industries, product certification test labs, an online SaaS (93m transactions annually), and the development of video-on-demand and Internet cable services, and a national broadband network.

Mitch shares his experiences as an analyst, keynote and conference speaker, panelist, host, moderator, and expert interviewer discussing CIO/CTO leadership, product and software development, DevOps, DevSecOps, containerization, container orchestration, AI/ML/GenAI, platform engineering, SRE, and cybersecurity. He publishes his research on futurumgroup.com and TechstrongResearch.com/resources. He hosts multiple award-winning video and podcast series, including DevOps Unbound, CISO Talk, and Techstrong Gang.

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