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10/30/25, 11:49 AM Red Hat announces support for Red Hat OpenShift on NVIDIA BlueField DPUs - Express Computer
workloads, thereby optimizing resource utilization.
Data plane and storage traffic acceleration: Red Hat OpenShift on BlueField helps speed up the

data plane and storage traffic by offloading crypto and storage processing to the DPU, with support

for NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) and an accelerated OVS data path, which enhances
performance for demanding AI workloads.

Advanced cloud networking: Red Hat OpenShift, with distributed routing capabilities powered by

BlueField, helps improve secure multi-tenancy, network scalability, performance and traffic
efficiency across clusters while streamlining network operations.

Improved security posture: Red Hat OpenShift offloads infrastructure tasks to

BlueField which helps reduce the attack surface for applications with a layered approach to security,
effectively improving security posture.

Support for NVIDIA BlueField on Red Hat OpenShift will be available as a technical preview in the

coming weeks. Red Hat will continue to collaborate with NVIDIA to integrate additional support

capabilities for the NVIDIA DOCA software framework and third party network functions
for NVIDIA BlueField on Red Hat OpenShift.

Looking ahead, NVIDIA BlueField-4 will further extend these capabilities with next-generation

acceleration, deeper DOCA integration, and enhanced performance to power the next wave of

cloud-native AI factories. Red Hat is also working with NVIDIA to support Spectrum-X Ethernet
networking, enabling seamless, high-performance connectivity for AI workloads across distributed

cloud environments.

Ryan King, vice president, AI and Infrastructure, Partner Ecosystem Success, Red Hat “As the

adoption of generative and agentic AI grows, the demand for advanced security and performance in
datacenters 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 maximize their hardware investment.”

Justin Boitano, vice president, Enterprise Products, NVIDIA “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 organizations to
achieve unprecedented scale and performance across their AI infrastructure.”

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