Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtualization eases migration for VM workloads [Video]

Open-source powerhouse Red Hat Inc. is offering OpenShift Virtualization on its artificial intelligence development platform to help customers with their virtual machine workloads.

The company has released a series of enhancements to its AI services, but according to Mike Barrett (pictured left), vice president and general manager of hybrid cloud platforms at Red Hat, customers are most eager to find hybrid solutions for their traditional VMs.

“March of 2024, the customer base just wanted to migrate,” he said. “They didn’t want to talk about modernization. They wanted to talk about getting off their legacy virtualization platform as quickly as possible. And it changed everything we were doing at the beginning of the year. It really made us focus on putting features into the product.”

Barrett and Ju Lim (right), senior manager of OpenShift product management and distinguished engineer at Red Hat, spoke with theCUBE Research’s Savannah Peterson and Rob Strechay at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, during an exclusive broadcast …