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3/4/25, 11:06 AM Red Hat Enhances Security and Virtualization Experience with Latest Version of Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat Enhances Security and Virtualization

Experience with Latest Version of Red Hat

OpenShift

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2025-03-03 06:44:38

(MENAFN- Orient Planet Group) 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.
VM storage migration, available as a technology preview, now includes additional
enhancements that allow for non-disruptive movement of data between storage devices and
storage classes while a VM is running, enabling users to be more agile as storage needs
change.

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