Red Hat, Inc. introduced new capabilities and enhancements for Red Hat OpenShift, the hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes, as well as the general availability of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service. The new features, delivered with the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift 4.16, are designed to help organizations more easily develop, connect and enhance the security of diverse workloads for a more consistent experience across applications and environments. Delivering better experiences and driving customer satisfaction are at the center of most organization's IT goals.

The technology decisions made around these applications and more are often in support of setting organizations up for an AI and edge-focused future. However, it's not as simple as purely adopting the latest AI technology, as those systems and platforms also need to run in harmony with critical traditional applications and infrastructure like virtualized environments. The latest enhancements to Red Hat OpenShift are designed to help organizations connect their disparate, diverse workloads and create a more consistent management and deployment experience, wherever an application lives across the hybrid cloud and regardless of whether the application is a traditional workhorse or built to harness AI innovation.

As the virtualization landscape continues to evolve, many organizations are looking to migrate existing virtualized workloads to a platform that can run virtual machines (VMs) side-by-side with modern containerized applications and serverless functions with the ability to modernize those VM-based applications when needed. Red Hat is now offering directly and through its partners a Virtualization Migration Assessment that will take organizations through a risk assessment methodology to help determine the best path forward for migration away from a legacy virtualization solution. The latest enhancements in Red Hat OpenShift for virtualization use cases help further simplify migrating and modernizing virtualized workloads.

New features include: Metro disaster recovery provides regional disaster recovery for virtual machines (VMs) that use storage deployed on Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation in conjunction with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes for management. Multi-cluster virtualization monitoring with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management enables users to view all VMs across multiple Red Hat OpenShift clusters as well as collect and more quickly build reports for the VMs. Improving the customer experience at the edge. To enhance service quality at the edge, Red Hat Open shift 4.16, introduces a "shift left" approach with image-based updates (IBU) for single node OpenShift.

Single node OpenShift users can now shift a large portion of the update process to a pre-production environment, which reduces the time spent updating at the production site. Additionally, if an update fails or the application doesn't return to a functioning state, it can be rolled back to the pre- update state. This helps to restore service as quickly as possible, regardless of whether the update is successful or not.

Additionally, the OpenShift-based Appliance Builder is now available as a technology preview to Red Hat partners seeking to build turnkey, customized appliances with self-contained Red Hat OpenShift instances. Scaling workload security across the hybrid cloud. According to Red Hat's 2024 State of Kubernetes Security Report, security issues continue to impact business outcomes, with 67% of respondents indicating that their companies delayed or slowed application development as a result of rising concerns.

Help helping organizations take a security-forward approach to building, deploying and maintaining cloud-native applications at scale, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud service is now generally available. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security CloudService is a fully managed Kubernetes-native security cloud service that supports both Red Hat OpenShift as well as non-Red Hat Kubernetes platforms, including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Availability: Red Hat OpenShift 4. 16 is now generally available.

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RedHat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service is a fully managed Kuber net-native security cloud service that provides a fully managed Kuberneted Kubernetes- native security cloud service that provides both Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Services (EKS), Google Cloud Service (GKE) and platforms that supports both Red Hat Advanced Cluster security cloud service that supports both the latest version.