Reduce dependence on legacy virtualization platforms
During its multiyear transition to Linux® containers, the Department of Defense (DoD) will continue to host and manage virtual machines (VMs). Today, hundreds of thousands of VMs contribute to DoD IT operations across all agencies, many supporting mission-critical applications and systems.
Dependence on the existing VM hosting platform causes operational risk, limits paths to modernization, and inhibits innovation. To maintain dominance in modern warfare and improve the nation’s cyber posture, the department needs a modern, cloud-native virtualization infrastructure.
An included feature of all Red Hat® OpenShift® subscriptions, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is a modern application platform for running and deploying new and existing VM workloads alongside containers on the same OpenShift nodes. OpenShift is available as a fully managed public cloud service edition or as a self-managed edition that can be deployed across the DoD’s hybrid cloud, including the tactical edge.
With Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, DoD software teams can preserve their existing investment in VMs while benefiting from the simplicity and speed of a modern hybrid cloud application platform.