What lies ahead for service providers?

As a service provider, your organization is essential to your customers’ success. They rely on your expertise to advance their business with security-focused, cost-effective technologies aimed at achieving winning outcomes. However, when a critical virtualization vendor suddenly becomes increasingly expensive or shifts its delivery model, your entire operation becomes at risk. With the required shifts toward automated compliance coming in spring 2027, the time to protect your path forward is now.

To move forward with confidence, service providers are looking for a solution that:

• Keeps pace with current needs
• Prepares for future growth and scale
• Streamlines solutions
• Consolidates vendors

That is where Red Hat can help service providers navigate the path to modernization. Using Red Hat® open source technology, your business can streamline further with powerful virtualization that provides the performance, flexibility, and predictability you need without sacrificing the performance and features you expect. It is the smart way to unify and modernize your entire environment.

Service providers can adopt Red Hat OpenShift® Virtualization to provide a modern bare-metal hypervisor that powers private and sovereign cloud environments. As a feature of Red Hat’s market-leading Red Hat OpenShift platform, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization has the capabilities you need to confidently migrate, deploy, and operate virtual machines (VMs), backup as a service, and virtual desktops. With this powerful technology, you can reduce infrastructure complexity, reduce licensing costs, manage multitenant environments, and simplify site reliability engineering (SRE) operations.

Despite the urgency of a looming early 2027 deadline, you still need to keep an eye on the bottom line when evaluating a new vendor. With OpenShift Virtualization, your organization will get the flexibility and financial savings that come with a large and varied partner ecosystem with enhanced capabilities in data protection, network management, and system optimization. That means that your organization will not be locked into proprietary solutions and will not have to make a large monetary commitment for costly new hardware.

Red Hat also offers commercial incentives for our service provider partners, including:

• Physical node pricing for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine, allowing organizations to take advantage of high-core-density CPUs without the penalty of per-core counting.
• Red Hat enablement subscriptions.

With 3 levels of pricing tailored for service providers’ needs, Red Hat provides options that can fit your organization’s specific budget and goals.

• Use only what you need: Report what you sold each month—both metered consumption and yearly or upfront committed deals closed that month. A monthly bill is rendered based on that report.
• Multiyear contract: Commit to 3-5 years of OpenShift Virtualization and find out about getting a discount to help offset the costs of migration from existing vendors during the first year.
• Upfront payment: Pay in full at the beginning of a multiyear contract and get additional financial incentives like further savings, increased capacity, or both.

Service providers can trust Red Hat OpenShift. If your organization is looking for well-performing virtualization technology delivered with proven flexibility, security, and support, consider OpenShift Virtualization. It is the future-ready solution your service organization needs to confidently meet and exceed your customers’ expectations.

To see what your organization’s move to OpenShift Virtualization might look like: 

• Check out our no-cost OpenShift migration advisor.²
• Watch the OpenShift Migration Advisor Demo.³