NetApp and Red Hat Deepen Collaboration to Accelerate IT Modernization with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
In a significant move to empower enterprises navigating the complexities of IT modernization, NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, and Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open-source solutions, have announced an expanded collaboration. This partnership aims to deepen joint development efforts and accelerate the adoption of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization across on-premises and public cloud environments. Together, NetApp and Red Hat are enabling organizations to modernize their IT infrastructures with greater confidence, agility, and efficiency.
A Strategic Partnership for Hybrid Cloud Success
At the heart of this collaboration is the mutual adoption of each other’s technologies to enhance operational capabilities and IT systems. NetApp is now leveraging Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization—the virtualization capability integrated into all editions of Red Hat OpenShift—to power its development and testing engineering environments. This shift enables faster provisioning, reduced complexity, and increased agility for NetApp’s internal teams. By adopting Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, NetApp’s development team can streamline workflows, scale operations to meet future demands, and deliver value to customers more efficiently.
“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.”
Similarly, Red Hat has built an intelligent data infrastructure powered by NetApp ONTAP® to support its global IT and development operations. By leveraging NetApp’s enterprise-grade storage solutions, Red Hat’s IT teams can rapidly provision storage for Red Hat OpenShift workloads, ensure robust data protection with built-in security and recovery features, and seamlessly manage workloads across hybrid cloud environments.
“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 of Hybrid Cloud Platforms at 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.”
Empowering Customer Success with Joint Solutions
Building on their longstanding partnership, NetApp and Red Hat are introducing innovative solutions designed to help customers modernize their workloads across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments. These offerings address key challenges in IT modernization, including workload migration, hybrid cloud flexibility, and enhanced virtualization capabilities.
Expanding Hybrid Cloud Flexibility
To further expand hybrid cloud flexibility, NetApp and Red Hat have introduced powerful new integrations that combine Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), as well as Google Cloud NetApp Volumes on OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud. These solutions build on existing integrations, such as FSx for NetApp ONTAP with ROSA and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes with OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud, which already enable customers to run containerized workloads with enterprise-grade storage.
The new offerings extend these capabilities to virtual machines (VMs), allowing organizations to run both VMs and containers in the cloud with simplified operations, seamless scalability, and intelligent data infrastructure. By providing consistent, enterprise-grade virtualization and storage capabilities across leading public clouds, these solutions empower customers to run workloads wherever their business demands, ensuring flexibility and operational efficiency.
Improved VM Mobility with NetApp Shift Toolkit
As organizations reassess their virtualization strategies, migrating virtual machines (VMs) can often be time-consuming, costly, and complex. To address this challenge, NetApp has expanded its Shift Toolkit to support an even broader ecosystem of hypervisors, including Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
Using NetApp’s cloning technology, the Shift Toolkit enables rapid VM conversion without copying data, significantly reducing project durations while maintaining performance. Conversions that previously took hours or days can now be completed in minutes, minimizing reliance on third-party tools and streamlining the migration process.
Enhanced Virtualization Capabilities
Following the announcement of advanced NetApp Trident and Trident Protect integration for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, NetApp and Red Hat have collaborated with joint customers to re-platform their VM-based workloads onto Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. This scalable and cost-effective solution ensures seamless transitions while maintaining enterprise-grade data protection and operational resilience.
“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.”
Showcasing Innovation at NetApp INSIGHT 2025
NetApp and Red Hat will showcase their joint solutions and demonstrate their transformative impact at NetApp INSIGHT 2025, taking place in Las Vegas from October 14–16. Attendees can expect interactive sessions and live demos highlighting how the collaboration between NetApp and Red Hat is driving innovation and transformation across industries.
To learn more about how NetApp and Red Hat are helping organizations embrace the full potential of AI, hybrid cloud, and IT modernization, tune in to the keynote sessions at: https://www.netapp.com/insight/.
About NetApp
For more than three decades, NetApp has helped the world’s leading organizations navigate change – from the rise of enterprise storage to the intelligent era defined by data and AI. Today, NetApp is the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, helping customers turn data into a catalyst for innovation, resilience, and growth.
At the heart of that infrastructure is the NetApp data platform – the unified, enterprise-grade, intelligent foundation that connects, protects, and activates data across every cloud, workload, and environment. Built on the proven power of NetApp ONTAP, our leading data management software and OS, and enhanced by automation through the AI Data Engine and AFX, it delivers observability, resilience, and intelligence at scale.
Disaggregated by design, the NetApp data platform separates storage, services, and control so enterprises can modernize faster, scale efficiently, and innovate without lock-in. As the only enterprise storage platform natively embedded in the world’s largest clouds, it gives organizations the freedom to run any workload anywhere with consistent performance, governance, and protection.
With NetApp, data is always ready – ready to defend against threats, ready to power AI, and ready to drive the next breakthrough. That’s why the world’s most forward-thinking enterprises trust NetApp to turn intelligence into advantage.
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About Red Hat
Red Hat is the open hybrid cloud technology leader, delivering a trusted, consistent and comprehensive foundation for transformative IT innovation and AI applications. Its portfolio of cloud, developer, AI, Linux, automation and application platform technologies enables any application, anywhere—from the datacenter to the edge. As the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, Red Hat invests in open ecosystems and communities to solve tomorrow’s IT challenges. Collaborating with partners and customers, Red Hat helps them build, connect, automate, secure and manage their IT environments, supported by consulting services and award-winning training and certification offerings.
