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10/30/25, 11:49 AM Red Hat & NVIDIA boost AI security with BlueField integration
Red Hat OpenShift on NVIDIA BlueField offers several enhancements. It provides optimised resource
utilisation by offloading networking services from the central processing unit to the data processing unit.
This frees up CPU resources for dedicated AI workloads, supporting more efficient use of computational
power.
Acceleration of data plane and storage traffic is enabled by shifting cryptography and storage processing
to the DPU. This is supported by technologies such as NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) and an accelerated
Open vSwitch (OVS) data path, which together improve performance for high-demand AI workloads.

Advanced cloud networking capabilities are also included. Red Hat OpenShift, with distributed routing
powered by BlueField, aims to improve secure multi-tenancy, network scalability, and traffic efficiency
across multiple clusters. This approach is designed to simplify and enhance network operations in large
data centre environments.

Red Hat reports that isolating infrastructure workloads on BlueField, including networking and security
tasks, can reduce the attack surface for applications. By offloading infrastructure tasks to the BlueField
DPU, the company claims that this approach contributes to a better overall security posture for
organisations relying on AI-driven applications.

Ongoing collaboration

Support for NVIDIA BlueField on Red Hat OpenShift will initially be available as a technical preview. Red
Hat has indicated that it will continue to collaborate with NVIDIA, aiming to integrate further support for
the NVIDIA DOCA software framework and compatible third-party network functions for use with Red
Hat OpenShift on BlueField.

Future developments are planned, with the upcoming NVIDIA BlueField-4 expected to deliver increased
acceleration, deeper DOCA integration, and greater performance for cloud-native AI factories. Red Hat is
also working with NVIDIA to support Spectrum-X Ethernet networking to enable high-performance
connectivity for AI workloads across distributed cloud environments.

Industry perspectives

Ryan King, vice president, AI and Infrastructure, Partner Ecosystem Success, Red Hat,
commented, "As the adoption of generative and agentic AI grows, the demand for
advanced security and performance in data centres has never been higher,
particularly with the proliferation of AI workloads. Our collaboration with NVIDIA to
enable Red Hat OpenShift support for NVIDIA BlueField DPUs provides customers
with a more reliable, secure and high-performance platform to address this challenge
and maximise their hardware investment."

Justin Boitano, vice president, Enterprise Products, NVIDIA, said, "Data-intensive AI
reasoning workloads demand a new era of secure and efficient infrastructure. The Red Hat

OpenShift integration of NVIDIA BlueField builds on our longstanding work to empower

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