Red Hat Summit 2025 is right around the corner, and this year is packed with valuable sessions showcasing how Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is transforming the way companies run their virtual machines (VMs) and modernize their IT environments.
More organizations than ever are adopting Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, underscoring its momentum as a trusted choice for enterprise virtualization workloads and modern infrastructure. Since the start of 2024, customer adoption has accelerated sharply, with the number of customers growing by 178%, production clusters doubling with a 121% increase, and the number of VMs managed by OpenShift Virtualization rising by more than 250%. These adoption figures make it clear that organizations are choosing OpenShift Virtualization as their reliable platform for running and scaling critical VM-based workloads while also having the flexibility to modernize applications on their terms, whenever they’re ready.
Proven success with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization: highlights of the past 12 months
Numerous organizations have shared how OpenShift Virtualization helped them solve challenges, modernize infrastructure and prepare for future growth. Here are a few standout examples:
Emirates NBD successfully migrated thousands of VMs to OpenShift Virtualization, establishing a foundation for scalable, cloud-native financial services. Learn more.
SiriusXM implemented OpenShift Virtualization to support a large-scale migration effort across thousands of VMs. Their team highlighted how the migration toolkit for virtualization simplified the process, enabling fast, reliable VM transitions with minimal downtime. Watch the Red Hat Summit 2024 keynote.
MultiChoice Group, a leader in entertainment, used OpenShift Virtualization to modernize its video-on-demand platform. Working with LSD Open, they transitioned from legacy infrastructure to a modern, unified environment that supports both traditional and cloud-native workloads. Read the case study.
Tanobel, a manufacturing company in Asia Pacific, adopted OpenShift Virtualization to support its data lake and analytics environment. The team reduced job run times from an hour to under ten minutes while preserving investment in existing VMs. Explore their story.
B2 Impact, one of Poland’s leading debt collection agencies, needed to meet increasingly complex business demands and restructure their existing infrastructure to keep up. Through the unified management of containers and VMs on OpenShift Virtualization, they were able to significantly improve operational efficiency. Read the case study.
Orange, one of the world’s leading telco operators and digital service providers, adopted OpenShift Virtualization and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to transition its services to cloud-native infrastructure. Read the press release.
TekSystems Global Services, a full-stack technology services provider, partnered with Red Hat and AWS to migrate Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to Red Hat OpenShift to achieve Red Hat migration and hybrid cloud modernization goals. Learn more here.
Reist, a Swiss IT managed services company, adopted Openshift Virtualization to facilitate the migration from legacy environments to a modern platform and build its Identity and Access Management solution. Read more here.
These real-world successes highlight how OpenShift Virtualization is helping organizations solve challenges and build stronger IT foundations. Alongside this growing adoption, Red Hat has continued to introduce important new features and capabilities that make OpenShift Virtualization an even more powerful platform for enterprise workloads.
New features and enhancements in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Over the past year, OpenShift Virtualization has strengthened its position as a modern enterprise virtualization platform, providing organizations with a solution to migrate and run their traditional virtual machine workloads.
A dedicated virtualization administrator dashboard has been added to the OpenShift web console, offering a focused, streamlined management experience tailored specifically for VM administrators. This dashboard provides clear visibility into VM health, resource usage and system performance, helping virtualization teams operate more efficiently.
OpenShift Virtualization 4.18 introduced significant networking enhancements that provide greater flexibility and control for VM networking. The general availability of User Defined Networks (UDNs) allows administrators to create custom network segments, enabling isolated networks or overlapping subnets tailored to specific workloads. This feature supports advanced use cases such as VM static IP assignment, live migration, and enhanced multi-tenancy.  
These networking capabilities enhance the flexibility and scalability of OpenShift Virtualization, allowing organizations to better align their virtual network configurations with their specific operational requirements.
The migration toolkit for virtualization (MTV) has been refined to simplify moving workloads from traditional virtualization platforms directly into OpenShift, helping reduce downtime and complexity.
To further support different customer needs, Red Hat introduced OpenShift Virtualization Engine, a new edition of OpenShift tailored for organizations that want to focus solely on virtual machine workloads, and at a very attractive price point. It offers the power and benefits of OpenShift Virtualization with the flexibility to upgrade later to broader editions like OpenShift Platform Plus, which offers comprehensive modern cloud native application development and delivery capabilities. This path ensures a smooth, non-disruptive transition for customers who may later want to modernize their applications using cloud-native technologies, with powerful tools built for both developers and IT operations teams.
Red Hat’s ongoing commitment to listening to its virtualization customers is clear, with a steady rollout of compelling features and functionality that directly address real-world needs. These enhancements reinforce why enterprises choose OpenShift Virtualization as their trusted platform for both traditional and modern workloads.
To learn more about these new features and how they align with your goals, read the blog post covering what we released in OpenShift Virtualization 4.18. Also, get a preview of what’s coming by joining the OpenShift Virtualization roadmap session at Red Hat Summit 2025.
See impact in action at Red Hat Summit 2025
Whether you’re exploring options for migrating your traditional virtualization workloads, improving operational efficiency, or modernizing applications through containerization, these sessions at Red Hat Summit offer real-world insights, best practices, and innovative approaches you can directly apply to your projects.
With customer stories from global leaders, expert-led technical deep dives, and interactive panel discussions, there’s something beneficial for everyone involved in IT infrastructure, virtualization, or cloud strategy.
The following sections outline the various sessions categorized by industry vertical, making it easy for you to jump straight to information on the Red Hat Summit sessions that are most relevant for you.
Industry-focused virtualization sessions
Financial services and banking
Our financial services and banking sessions will explore how leading financial institutions are tackling top virtualization initiatives—from migration at scale to evolving their IT infrastructure through modernization. Attendees will gain insights into how the banking world is approaching traditional and modern virtualization to improve agility, operational efficiency, and innovation speed.
Technology and innovation
There will be virtualization sessions this year focused on how leading technology organizations are transforming enterprise IT through migration, modernization and automation. Learn how forward-thinking organizations are pushing the boundaries of enterprise IT through Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and automation tools.
Retail and enterprise
Explore how major enterprises across retail and manufacturing are modernizing infrastructure and streamlining operations by adopting unified platforms and processes for their virtualization workloads across various environments.
Telecommunications and managed services
Learn how leading telecommunications and managed services providers are modernizing their infrastructure to meet evolving market demands, leveraging OpenShift Virtualization, automation and advanced data protection strategies to boost agility and resilience.
Industrial and manufacturing
Find out how leaders in the industrial and manufacturing spaces are using OpenShift Virtualization to improve system performance and modernize complex environments. Attendees will learn from users themselves on how to improve operational effectiveness with OpenShift Virtualization across diverse environments.
Sign up for industrial and manufacturing sessions here
Technical deep dives and hands-on solutions
In addition to our cross-industry sessions, gain valuable technical insights and learn practical solutions to help optimize your VM environments. Through hands-on labs, breakout sessions and lightning talks, we have you covered to learn the ins and outs of OpenShift Virtualization.
Explore technical sessions
Partner ecosystem and future roadmap
Hear directly from the Red Hat partner ecosystem about their experiences validating workloads and building strong, collaborative ecosystems around OpenShift Virtualization. Also learn how to extend the benefits of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization through key areas like disaster and recovery.
Join us at Red Hat Summit 2025!
Red Hat Summit 2025 brings together the people, platforms, and practical insights to help organizations rethink what’s possible with virtualization. The sessions on OpenShift Virtualization are more than just presentations — they’re proof points from peers and industry leaders who are solving real challenges in financial services, retail, government, telco, and beyond.
If you’re navigating the shift away from your existing virtualization platform, managing a growing mix of virtual machines and containers, or planning your path to application modernization, these sessions are designed with you in mind.
You’ll walk away with ideas you can use, backed by customer examples, technical deep dives, and clear next steps.
Check out the full session catalog, build your agenda, and join us in Boston:
We can’t wait to see you there!
Hub
Red Hat Summit 2025 Homepage
About the author
Simon is a passionate technologist, with over 25 years of experience working in the enterprise IT and cloud technologies space. Simon’s career trajectory has seen him working with a multitude of transformative technologies within the cloud and enterprise computing space, allowing him to stay at the forefront of industry trends.
Beyond his professional achievements, Simon is an advocate for technology's role in driving business innovation and efficiency. Simon's contribution to the field of enterprise IT and cloud technologies is not just through his work at Red Hat OpenShift but also through his active participation in various IT community forums, publications, and events.
More like this
Browse by channel
Automation
The latest on IT automation for tech, teams, and environments
Artificial intelligence
Updates on the platforms that free customers to run AI workloads anywhere
Open hybrid cloud
Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud
Security
The latest on how we reduce risks across environments and technologies
Edge computing
Updates on the platforms that simplify operations at the edge
Infrastructure
The latest on the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform
Applications
Inside our solutions to the toughest application challenges
Original shows
Entertaining stories from the makers and leaders in enterprise tech
