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Red Hat Enhances Security and Virtualization

Experience with Latest Version of Red Hat

OpenShift

04/03/2025

New features increase security, flexibility and simplify operations across both virtual

machines and containers

March 3, 2025 — Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the
general availability of Red Hat OpenShift 4.18, the latest version of the industry’s leading hybrid cloud

application platform powered by Kubernetes. Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 introduces new features and
capabilities designed to streamline operations and security across IT environments and deliver greater

consistency to all applications, from cloud-native and AI-enabled to virtualized and traditional.

According to the Gartner® press release Top Trends Impacting Infrastructure and Operations for 2025,
revirtualization/devirtualization is one of the top trends facing organizations for 2025. As shifts in the
virtualization market require organizations to reevaluate their virtualized infrastructure and strategies, for

many it is an opportunity to implement technologies that will both deliver on their current IT requirements as
well as help them meet the needs of tomorrow. The latest enhancements to Red Hat OpenShift are designed

to simplify the management of virtual machines and containers while providing organizations with a common
infrastructure to bring their generative AI (gen AI) plans to life.

Enhanced virtualization experience

Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 introduces new virtualization enhancements that improve networking, simplify
storage migration, and streamline VM management. These updates reduce operational complexity, enhance

flexibility and improve resource efficiency -- making it easier to manage and adapt virtualized environments
as needs evolve.

? VM-friendly networking provides support for common VM networking use cases with the general availability
of user-defined networks, making it easier for users to get their virtualization platform up and running. Also

available with OpenShift on AWS and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, this allows users to have similar
networking capabilities for secondary networks on AWS as they do on-premises, allowing for more hybrid

cloud flexibility.

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