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Techday NZ
22-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Portworx & Red Hat help enterprises cut virtualisation costs
Portworx has introduced Portworx for KubeVirt, aiming to provide a software-defined storage solution tailored for virtual machine (VM) workloads running on Kubernetes with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine. The new offering is designed to deliver a cost-effective and lower-risk approach for enterprises transitioning their VM workloads to Kubernetes infrastructure. By integrating Portworx with the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine, companies are expected to experience optimised functionality, simplified management of VMs and containers, and reduced total cost of ownership. Customers using Portworx alongside Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization have reported cost savings ranging from 30% to 50% over the past year compared to their previous virtualisation expenses. This cost optimisation is seen as particularly significant for organisations managing extensive virtualised environments. The Portworx for KubeVirt solution is developed to address modernisation challenges faced by enterprises. It allows businesses to continue operating applications on VMs within Kubernetes while they refactor existing workloads or develop new cloud-native applications at their own pace based on available resources and transformation timelines. The offering provides application and data flexibility by supporting VM migration to Kubernetes on multiple deployment environments, including on-premises infrastructure, public cloud, edge locations, and hybrid configurations, wherever Red Hat OpenShift is supported. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine focuses on simplifying the deployment, management, and scaling of VM workloads. Its streamlined approach is combined with Portworx's enterprise-grade data management capabilities to assist customers in migrating and managing their VM applications on a unified platform. Ajay Singh, Chief Product Officer at Pure Storage, commented on the collaboration with Red Hat by stating, "Red Hat is the perfect partner for our mission as more companies are looking to go cloud-native. Many companies are leveraging Portworx with OpenShift to not only migrate and manage their workloads, but also power innovative application development. We are proud of the success from this Red Hat partnership and look forward to what the next year holds." Ashesh Badani, Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer at Red Hat, addressed the ongoing reliance of many organisations on virtualisation solutions, recalling, "While organisations are increasingly migrating to cloud-native containerised workloads, many still rely heavily on virtualisation solutions to support their public and private cloud environments. With Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine, we are able to meet organisations where they are, to modernise at a pace that best suits their business requirements, with a more cost-effective, streamlined solution." "We are pleased to collaborate with Portworx to bring their expertise and data management capabilities to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine as an optimised offering, making it even easier for organisations to deploy and manage virtualised workloads." The combined capability of Portworx for KubeVirt with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine is aimed at allowing enterprises to bridge the gap between legacy VM operation and cloud-native application development. By offering flexibility and extending support for VM migration across diverse infrastructure setups, this partnership addresses both technical and financial objectives for organisations looking to modernise their virtualisation strategies.
Techday NZ
21-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Red Hat brings OpenShift Virtualization preview to Azure users
Red Hat has launched the public preview of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift, giving organisations a new option for migrating and managing virtual machines in hybrid cloud environments. This release introduces Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as a self-managed operator included with Azure Red Hat OpenShift. The solution is designed to streamline the migration of virtual machines from existing platforms to Azure Red Hat OpenShift, which supports both VM and container-based workloads. It targets organisations seeking to move away from legacy virtualization approaches and embrace a more flexible, scalable infrastructure. Chris Wright, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Red Hat, highlighted the importance of secure and adaptable infrastructure options for organisations undergoing digital transformation. "As organizations continue to modernize and move away from legacy virtualization solutions, it is critical to choose a secure computing foundation for the future that can adapt to their current and evolving multi-infrastructure environments. Building upon our extensive history of collaboration and joint engineering efforts with Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization running on Azure Red Hat OpenShift delivers more consistent orchestration for VMs and containers alike, setting organizations on a clear path to modern application development and deployment," said Wright. Azure Red Hat OpenShift is a managed application platform jointly managed and supported by Red Hat and Microsoft. It aims to reduce the complexity associated with infrastructure management, allowing IT teams to concentrate resources on innovation and modernisation. The integration of OpenShift Virtualization supports hybrid applications by delivering a unified environment for both virtual machines and containers, facilitating cloud-native strategies and application modernisation efforts. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Azure Red Hat OpenShift offers several capabilities. It helps organisations accelerate the migration and scaling of existing VM workloads with migration and automation tools, including Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management. These features aim to simplify migration, limit disruption, and enable faster moves onto modern infrastructure. The platform provides a unified view for operations that allows for seamless management of both VMs and containers across hybrid cloud environments. Automated deployment and management of Red Hat OpenShift clusters are intended to further reduce operational complexity and risk. OpenShift Virtualization enables customers to build, modernise, and deploy applications at scale using a Kubernetes-based approach. This move is positioned to hasten cloud-native modernisation goals. With the platform, organisations can utilise modern application development tools and processes for their VM-based applications, helping to bring legacy workloads up to date with current technology standards. The solution aims to optimise resources by improving DevOps productivity, decreasing application deployment time, and right-sizing VMs based on workload requirements. These features are intended to support efficiency and adaptation as organisations' needs continue to evolve. Brendan Burns, Corporate Vice President for Azure Compute at Microsoft, commented on the collaboration between Microsoft and Red Hat and emphasised its impact on organisations moving to the cloud. "As customers modernize and move their apps from traditional virtual-machine-based fabrics that are on-premises to modern Kubernetes platforms, some components still need to run on traditional virtual machines for a while. To address this, Microsoft and Red Hat are collaborating to bring open source innovation from the KubeVirt project into Azure Red Hat OpenShift. What I'm most excited about is how this enables customers to add virtualization capabilities to Azure Red Hat OpenShift, which allows them to modernize at their own pace, and get the best return on investment as they transition to the cloud," said Burns. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is immediately available in public preview as a self-managed operator on Azure Red Hat OpenShift. The offering permits organisations to apply their Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment and participate in the Azure Migration and Modernization Program, as well as leverage the Azure Hybrid Benefit to reuse existing on-premise licences for both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows. The public preview makes Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization available to organisations looking to modernise their critical VM infrastructure while building toward future cloud-native application development.
Techday NZ
21-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Red Hat & AMD extend AI & virtualisation for hybrid cloud
Red Hat and AMD have announced a strategic collaboration aimed at expanding customer options for artificial intelligence (AI) and virtualisation across hybrid cloud environments. The partnership integrates Red Hat's open-source expertise with AMD's high-performance computing hardware. The companies state that the collaboration will allow organisations to deploy optimised, efficient, and production-ready environments for AI-enabled workloads, while also providing tools for efficiently modernising traditional virtual machines (VMs). A core component of the collaboration involves full enablement of AMD Instinct GPUs on Red Hat OpenShift AI. This means that customers deploying AI across hybrid cloud environments can take advantage of AMD's processing power without requiring extensive resources. AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs, when paired with Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI, have demonstrated success in AI inferencing for both small and large language models (SLMs and LLMs). Testing conducted with Microsoft Azure ND MI300X v5 showed that these models could be deployed across multiple GPUs within a single VM. This approach may reduce the need to deploy across multiple VMs and potentially lower performance-related costs. Red Hat and AMD are also collaborating in the upstream vLLM community, an effort aimed at delivering increased inference performance and improved support for multi-GPU applications on AMD hardware. This collaboration includes technical contributions such as upstreaming the AMD kernel library and optimisations to the Triton kernel and FP8 support, allowing for faster and more efficient execution of vLLM workloads on AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs. Enhanced collective communication and workload optimisation for multi-GPU environments are also being targeted, which could offer scalability and improved energy efficiency for AI deployments dependent on distributed computing. Collaborative efforts between Red Hat, AMD, and other industry parties such as IBM are intended to accelerate development within the vLLM project and benefit users relying on AMD hardware for AI inference and training. The companies indicate that AMD Instinct GPUs will provide out-of-the-box support for Red Hat AI Inference Server, a distribution of vLLM designed for enterprise-grade requirements. As the primary commercial contributor to the vLLM project, Red Hat emphasises its commitment to compatibility across various hardware platforms, including those from AMD. The collaboration also extends to AMD EPYC CPUs, which have been validated for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. This capability supports the running of VM workloads in an environment that aims to unify VMs and containerised applications, whether on-premises, in public clouds, or across a hybrid cloud setup. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization's validation for AMD EPYC processors allows the leveraging of these CPUs' performance and power efficiency characteristics, with support for leading server platforms including Dell PowerEdge, HPE ProLiant, and Lenovo ThinkSystem. The aim is to achieve higher infrastructure consolidation ratios, which could result in a reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) relating to hardware, software licensing, and energy. Ashesh Badani, Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer at Red Hat, said: "Fully realizing the benefits of AI means that organizations must have the choice and flexibility to optimize their IT footprint for the rigors of scaling demand. Our extended collaboration with AMD expands the spectrum of options for organizations seeking to ready their IT environments for an ever-evolving future, from modernizing existing investments on a high-performing CPU architecture and virtualization platform to preparing for production AI with next-generation hardware accelerators and open source AI technologies." Philip Guido, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer at AMD, said: "As enterprise customer workloads grow more diverse and demanding, they require solutions that can scale. By combining Red Hat's industry-leading open source platforms with world-class AMD Instinct GPUs and AMD EPYC CPUs, we're delivering the performance and efficiency customers demand to accelerate AI, virtualization and hybrid-cloud innovation." The companies are aiming to provide customers with a comprehensive platform capable of supporting both traditional workloads and demanding AI applications across the hybrid cloud.
Techday NZ
20-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Portworx & Red Hat launch solution to simplify VM on Kubernetes
Portworx by Pure Storage and Red Hat have launched Portworx for KubeVirt, a software-defined storage solution designed to facilitate the deployment and management of virtual machine (VM) workloads on Kubernetes using the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine. Portworx for KubeVirt is intended to offer enterprises a more cost-effective and simplified approach to modernising their application infrastructure by enabling the migration and operation of applications within Kubernetes environments at their own pace. The combination of Portworx and the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine aims to optimise functionality for enterprises while reducing total cost of ownership. According to data from Portworx, customers using Red Hat OpenShift and the OpenShift Virtualization platform have achieved estimated cost savings of approximately 30% to 50% over the past year compared to their previous virtualization expenditure. The new offering gives organisations the flexibility to continue running applications in VMs on Kubernetes, allowing them to refactor or develop new cloud-native applications when suitable for their current resources and business timelines. This reduces the need for abrupt migrations and gives businesses the ability to modernise incrementally. Portworx for KubeVirt with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine allows customers to plan VM migrations to Kubernetes infrastructure across various deployment environments. Migration can take place on-premises, in the public cloud, at the edge, or in hybrid arrangements wherever Red Hat OpenShift is supported. The Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine is focused solely on VM workloads and is designed to offer the core virtualization capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift for simplified VM deployment, management, and scaling. Integrating Portworx aims to add enterprise data management features, simplifying VM workload migration and management on a unified platform. Ajay Singh, Chief Product Officer at Pure Storage, said: "Red Hat is the perfect partner for our mission as more companies are looking to go cloud-native. Many companies are leveraging Portworx with OpenShift to not only migrate and manage their workloads, but also power innovative application development. We are proud of the success from this Red Hat partnership and look forward to what the next year holds." Ashesh Badani, Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer at Red Hat, commented: "While organizations are increasingly migrating to cloud-native containerized workloads, many still rely heavily on virtualization solutions to support their public and private cloud environments. With Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine, we are able to meet organizations where they are, to modernize at a pace that best suits their business requirements, with a more cost-effective, streamlined solution. We are pleased to collaborate with Portworx to bring their expertise and data management capabilities to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine as an optimized offering, making it even easier for organizations to deploy and manage virtualized workloads." The announcement reflects the ongoing trend of enterprises seeking ways to modernise their infrastructure without disrupting current operations, allowing use of existing virtual machines as well as adoption of cloud-native technologies. Follow us on: Share on:
Channel Post MEA
13-03-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
Veeam Launches Kasten For Kubernetes v7.5
Veeam Software has announced Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes v7.5, designed to deliver unmatched Kubernetes-native data resilience for enterprises. This latest release improves Kubernetes data protection with significant advancements in scalability, notable improvement in backup and restore times, and features to safeguard against emerging threats and simplify compliance with the latest industry regulations. In collaboration with industry leaders Infinidat and NetApp, the new Veeam Kasten release offers top-tier solutions that offer enhanced support for Red Hat OpenShift, showcasing its commitment to empowering customers to scale and safeguard their Kubernetes workloads. 'Looking ahead in 2025, we anticipate a significant expansion in Modern Virtualization options, both in terms of the variety of vendors and the CPU architectures supported, as well as the depth of capabilities offered. An example of this broadening is the enhanced support of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as well as initial support for SUSE Virtualization, being introduced in Kasten v7.5,' said Gaurav Rishi, Vice President of Product Management at Veeam. 'Additionally, we foresee advancements in Cyber Resilience, including proactive threat detection and secure self-service restore features, which will enhance overall data protection strategies for Kubernetes environments.' New Veeam Kasten v 7.5 Veeam Kasten v7.5 reinforces the industry's leading Kubernetes resilience, recovery and mobility platform. Significant advancements in scale, performance, security, and ecosystem coverage empower organizations with unmatched resilience for cloud-native apps and Virtual Machines (VMs) on Kubernetes. Key advancements include: Modern Virtualization: Kasten v7.5 addresses the evolving needs of virtualization by providing seamless protection for both VMs and containerized applications under a unified solution. Support extends to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and SUSE Virtualization, simplifying VM management and offering more efficient backup and recovery workflows. Kasten v7.5 addresses the evolving needs of virtualization by providing seamless protection for both VMs and containerized applications under a unified solution. Support extends to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and SUSE Virtualization, simplifying VM management and offering more efficient backup and recovery workflows. Enhanced Security and Compliance: This release introduces features that enhance security against emerging threats while simplifying compliance with industry regulations. Notably, it offers multi-cluster FIPS support to adhere to strict government benchmarks, immutable restore point visibility and expands support for object lock capabilities in Google Cloud Storage to strengthen ransomware protection. This release introduces features that enhance security against emerging threats while simplifying compliance with industry regulations. Notably, it offers multi-cluster FIPS support to adhere to strict government benchmarks, immutable restore point visibility and expands support for object lock capabilities in Google Cloud Storage to strengthen ransomware protection. Enterprise-Scale Resilience: Kasten v7.5 delivers the performance, control, and ease of use required for demanding Kubernetes environments, enabling protection of large application volumes and improving backup and restore times. For instance, users can experience a threefold improvement in backup time for volumes containing 10 million small files. Veeam is committed to meeting customers where they are with robust Modern Virtualization solutions. In an era where organizations seek unified, seamless management of VMs and containerized applications, Veeam Kasten emerges as a trusted partner, offering mature solutions that cater to diverse needs. Simultaneously, there is a growing demand from enterprises for Modern Virtualization built on Kubernetes, leveraging secure DevOps practices through platforms like Red Hat OpenShift. New Strategic Alliances In collaboration with industry leaders, including Infinidat and NetApp, Veeam Kasten brings best-of-breed solutions supported on Red Hat OpenShift, demonstrating dedication to enabling customers to scale and protect their Kubernetes workloads. The Veeam Kasten data management platform now integrates with Infinidat's high-performance InfiniBox® enterprise storage, facilitating seamless backup and recovery, disaster recovery, cyber resilience, and application mobility alongside Infinidat's well-established primary storage capabilities. The InfiniBox Storage Platform supports various storage protocols, such as NFS, iSCSI, and FC, as well as through the CSI abstraction layer with Kubernetes persistent disks/volumes. By leveraging Veeam Ready InfiniBox storage (both all-flash and hybrid) through the InfiniBox CSI driver, Kasten enables performant, secure and immutable backup solutions for stateful application workloads using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, and Relational and NoSQL databases. Veeam has joined forces with NetApp to pioneer innovative data protection and storage solutions for the ever-expanding universe of Kubernetes data services, modern virtualization, AI, and cloud-native applications. By uniting expertise and technologies, the collaboration aims to provide customers with the most advanced and comprehensive solutions available. This collaboration will deliver exceptional value and enable organizations to protect their critical data and applications with unparalleled reliability and efficiency. GigaOm Radar for Kubernetes Protection In addition, Veeam Kasten was recently named a clear Leader and Outperformer for the fifth time in the GigaOm Radar for Kubernetes Protection. Veeam was classified as an Outperformer, given its 'incredible pace of innovation across enterprise resilience, security and compliance, and modern virtualization.' Veeam Kasten was recognized for excelling in SaaS database-aware backups thanks to its application and database auto-discovery powered by the Kanister framework. Additionally, Veeam Kasten offers strong data integrity with advanced ransomware protection and deep integrations with various SIEM solutions. Recoverability verification allows Veeam Kasten to confirm recoverability in an isolated environment and enables instant recovery for workloads from that recovery environment. 0 0
