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Red Hat Simplifies Workload Diversity Across the Hybrid Cloud with Latest Version of
Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat OpenShift 4.16 adds new capabilities in support of virtualized workloads and edge
deployments to further extend consistency across applications, from AI-enabled to traditional

July 22, 2024 — Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today
introduced new capabilities and enhancements for Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading
hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes, as well as the general availability of
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service. The new features, delivered with the general
availability of Red Hat OpenShift 4.16, are designed to help organizations more easily develop,
connect and enhance the security of diverse workloads for a more consistent experience across
applications and environments.

Delivering better experiences and driving customer satisfaction are at the center of most
organization's IT goals. To do so, they frequently look to intelligent apps, including both AI-
enabled applications and edge applications, that allow for insights to be delivered more quickly
wherever they are needed. The technology decisions made today around these applications
and more are often in support of setting organizations up for an AI and edge-focused future.
However, it’s not as simple as purely adopting the latest AI technology, as those systems and
platforms also need to run in harmony with critical traditional applications and infrastructure like
virtualized environments.

The latest enhancements to Red Hat OpenShift are designed to help organizations connect
their disparate, diverse workloads and create a more consistent management and deployment
experience, wherever an application lives across the hybrid cloud and regardless of whether the
application is a traditional workhorse or built to harness AI innovation.

A modern option for virtualization
As the virtualization landscape continues to evolve, many organizations are looking to migrate
existing virtualized workloads to a platform that can run virtual machines (VMs) side-by-side with
modern containerized applications and serverless functions with the ability to modernize those
VM-based applications when needed. Red Hat is now offering directly and through its partners a
Virtualization Migration Assessment that will take organizations through a risk assessment
methodology to help determine the best path forward for migration away from a legacy
virtualization solution.

The latest enhancements in Red Hat OpenShift for virtualization use cases help further simplify
migrating and modernizing virtualized workloads. New features include:

 Metro disaster recovery provides regional disaster recovery for virtual machines (VMs)
that use storage deployed on Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation in conjunction with