As we head into the final weeks leading up to Red Hat Summit 2025, we want to reflect on some of our users’ successes and momentum with virtualization over the past year. Take a look back at these success story snapshots to see how your peers have benefited from Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization across their organizations.
B2 Impact Poland is one of Poland’s leading debt collection agencies. To meet increasingly complex business demands, the IT department needed to deliver new systems and services rapidly, and its existing infrastructures struggled to keep up.
The company needed to modernize its IT to increase agility and scalability in line with business demands and adoption of a hybrid cloud model. B2 Impact embarked on a major transformation program, which included adopting Red Hat OpenShift and the included feature, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. With the unified Red Hat platform, B2 Impact can manage its applications pre- and post-modernization using the same tools and processes. The new IT environment has also allowed B2 Impact to increase efficiency with fewer servers to manage and improve application quality.
“We selected Red Hat to support our virtualization and containerization efforts because they optimize our IT spending, and we realized the advantages of using a single platform to support all our applications—before, during and after modernization,” said Bartlomiej Godzieszka, CIO. “The transformation has significantly streamlined our IT infrastructure, consolidating 400 virtual machines to just 150 and reducing physical servers from 46 to 18.”
By managing all virtual machines (VMs) and containerized applications through a single platform, the company has significantly improved operational efficiency. Additionally, with fewer physical and virtual servers, B2 Impact has lowered its power consumption and maintenance needs.
Orange, one of the world’s leading telecommunications (telco) operators and digital service providers, needed to accelerate its cloud transformation and services softwarization by transitioning its services to cloud-native infrastructure.
The deployment takes advantage of Red Hat OpenShift as a foundation for cloud-native network functions, using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization to maintain existing VM workloads. Additionally, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform will enable a fully automated deployment and scaling across its infrastructure.
“We have recently selected Red Hat OpenShift for our next generation of telco cloud, and our move to containerization. We are very happy with the first deployments and are moving forward to cover the globe with this new technology. We are ready to host advanced telco services, such as SD-WAN, IoT, voice and mobile core within 10 milliseconds of any customer,” says Jean Louis Le Roux, Executive Vice President, International Networks, Orange and Chief Technology and Information Officer, Orange Wholesale.
With Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, Orange can host both virtualized and containerized workloads in a consistent way in any environment. Additionally, Orange benefits from improved security capabilities, making use of built-in features including network and container isolation and controlled access to applications.
Swiss IT-managed services company, Reist Telecom AG (Reist), wanted to adopt an enterprise-level Kubernetes platform to build its Identity and Access Management solution.
To do so, the company needed to migrate from its outdated virtualization environment to a modern infrastructure platform that would satisfy immediate and future needs. Reist adopted Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization to unify both container and VM worlds, as customers were looking to become more cloud-ready.
“We initially built MAYI ID© on a virtualized infrastructure but quickly realized containerized microservices were the future, so we set up a vanilla Kubernetes environment,” says Patric Siegrist, Chief Architect, Reist Telecom AG. “Extending our virtualization infrastructure to include containers made perfect sense, but licensing discussions became complicated, so we looked for other options.”
From a virtualization perspective, migrating from the legacy VM environment to Red Hat OpenShift has halved Reist’s licensing costs. With this migration, Reist extended the value of previous hardware investments by freeing up space to reuse as worker nodes in the OpenShift cluster.
TEKsystems Global Services, a full-stack technology services provider, established a 3-way partnership with Red Hat and AWS to migrate Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to Red Hat OpenShift and take advantage of its Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization feature.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, an included feature of Red Hat OpenShift, is the foundation of Red Hat’s comprehensive virtualization solution. Migrating to Red Hat OpenShift would provide customers with a trusted, consistent and comprehensive modern, hybrid cloud application platform for deploying and running critical virtualized and container-based workloads side-by-side within a single platform.
“In tandem with AWS Professional Services, Red Hat and TEKsystems Global Services outlined a journey map that would address not only Red Hat’s migration needs but also its hybrid cloud modernization goals,” says Mike Robinson, Red Hat Partner Sales Manager, TEKsystems Global Services.
The partnership between Red Hat, TGS and AWS allowed Red Hat to modernize its IT infrastructure. It also unlocks important external cloud-based opportunities with customers seeking to modernize their outdated virtualized infrastructure.
South Africa’s leading entertainment platform, MultiChoice Group, needed to modernize and standardize its existing environment when its hyperconverged infrastructure-hosting VMs running Linux CentOS7 were reaching end of support.
The company was looking to become more efficient and cloud-native in the future, and they knew they needed to replace manual processes with automation, adopt microservices and introduce a container orchestration platform. They evaluated Red Hat Openshift Virtualization against traditional virtualization solutions to explore modernization opportunities.
“Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization met our technical requirements and complemented the other technologies in our stack. We’re 99% Linux-based and have been working with Red Hat technologies for a while,” says Hitesh Govind, Video-on-Demand Engineering Manager, MultiChoice Group.
The company recognizes that modernization can be difficult and complex, but through strong relationships with Red Hat and LSD Open, alongside training and enablement, the team picked up new skills and adapted quickly.
With its drinking water manufacturing and distribution business growing quickly, Indonesia’s Tanobel needed to ensure its IT systems were resilient and performing optimally.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization provides a unified platform where Tanobel can take advantage of the simplicity and speed of cloud-native application development while preserving existing VM workload investments.
“We wanted to implement a data lake to support our business’ reporting and analytics requirements,” says Tanaka Murinata, IT Director, Tanobel. “But performance dropped when we installed the object storage it needed on the traditional storage solution. The data lake systems ground to a halt.”
To address the issue, Tanaka decided to replace Tanobel’s virtualized environment with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. The new environment has increased resilience, helped achieve zero downtime and propelled their application modernization journey.
OpenShift Virtualization: Next steps
Check out Red Hat success stories to learn more about how organizations approach their virtualization and modernization journeys with Red Hat, and save your seat at this year’s Red Hat Summit to hear about who else is building with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
