In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, complexity is the enemy of efficiency. IT professionals face the daunting challenge of managing intricate systems, diverse workloads and the pressure to innovate while ensuring seamless operations. Dell Technologies and Red Hat are helping organizations simplify their IT environments with powerful new features for Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift.
Simplify and Optimize with Integrated Virtualization
As container and AI adoption accelerates, coupled with disruptions in the virtualization space, many organizations are reassessing their virtualization strategies. APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift now includes Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization by default, which provides a modern platform for organizations to run, deploy, and manage new and existing virtual machine workloads, alongside containers and AI/ML workloads. By managing everything on a single platform, operations are simplified.
Flexible Infrastructure for Every Workload
A successful virtualization strategy hinges on having the right infrastructure to meet your workload demands. APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift now offers an expanded range of storage options to meet any performance requirements and desired footprint. The APEX Cloud Platform Foundation Software that provides all the integration with Red Hat OpenShift requires block storage. We have expanded the block storage options from PowerFlex to include PowerStore and Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation, which gives customers additional options who want a smaller footprint. Customers can also use existing PowerStore and PowerFlex appliances, so they don’t need to duplicate existing investments.
For supplemental storage, customers can seamlessly connect to any of our enterprise storage offerings to support their block, file, and object needs. This is especially important for the growing number of AI workloads that need the file and object support provided by PowerScale and ObjectScale.
This flexibility is further enhanced with support for Intel 5th Generation Xeon Processors and a variety of NVIDIA GPUs, delivering enhanced performance for your most demanding applications.
Consistency Across Your Red Hat OpenShift Estate
The inclusion of support for Red Hat OpenShift 4.14 and 4.16 in the APEX Cloud Platform brings a new level of consistency across your Red Hat OpenShift estate and include benefits like CPU hot plug and the ability to pick a specific node for live migration to enhance OpenShift Virtualization. This helps streamline IT operations for improved efficiency, reducing the complexities often associated with managing multiple versions of software.
Proven Technology You Can Trust
Dell and Red Hat are leaders in their fields, offering proven technologies that organizations can rely on. Before every release Dell conducts over 13,000 hours of infrastructure interoperability testing,1 ensuring customers receive the most reliable and effective solutions. The APEX Cloud Foundation Software furthers this peace of mind, keeping the infrastructure in a continuously validated state to ensure workloads are consistently up and running.
The demand for simplicity in IT operations cannot be overstated. Complex systems lead to inefficiencies, increased downtime and higher operational costs. IT teams need solutions that are not only powerful, but also easier to implement and manage. This is why Dell and Red Hat have prioritized simplicity.
Discover more about APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift on our website, and tune into theCUBE Broadcast to learn about the latest enhancements. Embrace the simplicity, performance and reliability that Dell and Red Hat bring to your IT operations.
1 Based on Dell internal testing, July 2024.
