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3/4/25, 11:06 AM Red Hat Enhances Security and Virtualisation Experience

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Red Hat Enhances Security and Virtualisation Experience

04 Mar 2025 3 Min Read CW Team
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, 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 virtualised 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

organisations 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.

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. Tree-view navigation, available as a technology
preview, enables users to logically group VMs into folders which allows for a more granular grouping. Additionally, with logical

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