NetApp has announced a strategic collaboration with Red Hat to improve data protection, disaster recovery and scalability for enterprises using Red Hat OpenShift virtualised environments across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
The partnership introduces new NetApp data management capabilities optimised for Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization, designed to help enterprises manage growing virtual machine (VM) and container workloads more efficiently in the AI era.
According to Red Hat’s State of Virtualization report, 90% of organisations believe virtualisation supports innovation, while 71% have more than half of their IT infrastructure virtualised. As businesses increasingly handle larger volumes of AI-driven data, companies said enterprises require faster, more predictable backup and recovery systems.
Dallas Olson, Chief Commercial Officer at NetApp, said traditional backup systems often struggle to meet recovery and operational requirements as virtualised environments scale.
“NetApp’s latest innovations with Red Hat enable predictable backup and recovery behaviour even as the VM environment grows. Customers can now migrate, operate, and protect large-scale VM and container environments on Red Hat OpenShift with greater speed, predictability and operational confidence,” he added.
As part of the collaboration, NetApp introduced enhanced backup and recovery services for Red Hat OpenShift environments. The company noted that the updated system uses Change Block Tracking (CBT) technology, allowing incremental backups instead of scanning entire virtual machine disks, helping reduce backup time, storage costs, and compute overhead.
The companies also announced public preview support for NetApp Disaster Recovery on Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization environments. The Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) platform is designed to provide guided failover and recovery workflows for Kubernetes-based virtual machines.
Moreover, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes and the Trident CSI driver are now generally available for Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud, enabling enterprises to run both containers and virtual machines with simplified operations and scalability.
Steve Gordon, Senior Director of Product Management for Hybrid Cloud Platforms at Red Hat, said the collaboration aims to help enterprises modernise disaster recovery systems and improve operational efficiency for hybrid cloud environments.
The partnership will further strengthen enterprise virtualisation infrastructure by offering more scalable, resilient and AI-ready data management solutions for businesses operating across hybrid and multicloud ecosystems.
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