Infinidat strengthens relationship with Red Hat over cloud-native applications

Infinidat and Red Hat collaborate to help businesses navigate the changing virtualization landscape.

Infinidat’s InfiniBox solution has been successfully tested to work with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.

This technical validation opens new possibilities for enterprise customers and channel partners to deploy, migrate and manage new and existing virtual machine (VM) workloads and virtualized applications using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.

The milestone builds on the success Infinidat has had with the certified InfiniBox Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver for petabyte-scale Kubernetes deployments of Red Hat OpenShift in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Infinidat is expanding its strong, long-term relationship with Red Hat by leveraging the Infinidat team’s extensive experience in virtualization to modernize data infrastructures. Infinidat has demonstrated that it delivers a scalable, supported and consistent solution for VM-based applications and workloads, designed for enterprise hybrid multi-cloud deployments. The certified CSI driver is the key underlying enabler for Infinidat’s enterprise storage solution to deliver enterprise storage and data protection on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.

 “We value our close relationship with Red Hat, and we see our InfiniBox and InfiniBox SSA enabled on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as a key step forward for enterprises and service providers interested in deploying OpenShift Virtualization and our industry-leading enterprise storage capabilities to achieve real-world application performance, cyber storage resilience, reduced storage CAPEX and OPEX and greater simplicity,” said Erik Kaulberg, VP of Strategy and Alliances, Infinidat.

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization represents a unified approach to enable IT organizations to bring standard VM-based workloads to Kubernetes and container deployments, helping eliminate the workflow and development silos that typically exist between traditional and cloud-native application stacks. Red Hat OpenShift offers a more consistent foundation to deliver Kubernetes applications, especially benefiting hybrid cloud management models.

Kevin Kennedy, Vice President, North America Partner Ecosystem, Red Hat, said: “By working closely with our trusted partners, such as Infinidat, we are empowering customers with greater confidence and more flexibility to use our modern application platform to meet their organization’s virtualization needs today and in the future.”

By bringing new and existing applications to the same architecture, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization provides a consistent development experience and improves an enterprise’s ability to deliver quickly on innovation. Once VMs are migrated to and managed by Red Hat OpenShift, they can be containerized over time or be maintained as virtual machines. This allows users to develop and deliver hybrid applications built on containers and VMs to run side-by-side on the same platform. Scott Sinclair, Practice Director, Enterprise Strategy Group, said: “Cloud-native applications are the future of business innovation and new application development, but a large number of enterprises still have significant investments in mission and business-critical applications that run as traditional virtual machines. As organizations increasingly prioritize flexibility, more businesses are building a roadmap to migration and manage virtual machines using technologies like Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.”