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6/4/25, 3:07 PM Red Hat Powers Modern Virtualization on Microsoft Azure | Web Release
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Chris Wright, senior vice president and chief technology officer, Red Hat

“As organizations continue to modernize and move away from legacy virtualization solutions, it is critical to choose a secure computing foundation for
the future that can adapt to their current and evolving multi-infrastructure environments. Building upon our extensive history of collaboration and joint
engineering efforts with Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization running on Azure Red Hat OpenShift delivers more consistent
orchestration for VMs and containers alike, setting organizations on a clear path to modern application development and deployment.”

Brendan Burns, corporate vice president, Azure Compute, Microsoft

“As customers modernize and move their apps from traditional virtual-machine-based fabrics that are on-premises to modern Kubernetes platforms,
some components still need to run on traditional virtual machines for a while. To address this, Microsoft and Red Hat are collaborating to bring open-
source innovation from the KubeVirt project into Azure Red Hat OpenShift. What I’m most excited about is how this enables customers to add
virtualization capabilities to Azure Red Hat OpenShift, which allows them to modernize at their own pace, and get the best return on investment as
they transition to the cloud.”

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