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Red Hat and NetApp Strengthen their Partnership for Hybrid Cloud Virtualization

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Business Honor
15 October, 2025

Red Hat and NetApp partner to simplify the migration of cloud-native applications while improving VM support and hybrid cloud flexibility.

Red Hat and NetApp strengthen their partnership to quicken the launch of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization in public cloud and on-premises settings. With the aim to support businesses with IT modernization, simplify the migration of cloud-native applications, and increase flexibility in hybrid cloud settings. The reciprocal use of technology is an important part of this larger partnership. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is currently used by NetApp to run its development and testing environments, resulting in quicker resource setup, fewer complexities, and greater flexibility. Red Hat supports its worldwide IT operations using NetApp ONTAP®, allowing for greater data security, faster storage installation, and faster workload management in the cloud as well as on-premises.

By combining OpenShift Virtualization with services like Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), Google Cloud NetApp Volumes on OpenShift Dedicated, and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, both businesses have together introduced stronger hybrid cloud services. These interfaces provide high-quality storage and virtualization across various clouds with easier management, expanding support for containers to virtual machines (VMs). By transforming virtual machines (VMs) without losing data, the NetApp Shift Toolkit, that has been updated to support OpenShift Virtualization, makes VM migrations easier and faster. This reduces the need for third-party tools and reduces the transfer time from days to minutes.

In addition, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization now has greater connectivity with NetApp's Trident and Trident Protect, offering users a flexible and affordable option to move from traditional virtual servers to a more recent platform. In the future, this collaboration will provide the door to a single cloud environment where virtual machines and containers coexist. Red Hat and NetApp aim to keep businesses safe, flexible, and ready for a cloud-agnostic, virtualization-first future as AI and hybrid workloads rise.