Red Hat - Data Center Partner

Cisco and Red Hat have been collaborating for more than a decade to solve our customers' challenges in the data center and at the edge. We share a commitment to open-source innovation, enterprise-class IT solutions, and collaboration that drives innovation in cloud computing, containerization, virtualization, automation, and security. 

Today, Cisco and Red Hat are helping IT leaders reduce costs, deliver applications faster—anywhere—more securely, and support new AI initiatives. We do this by delivering a validated, full-stack, private cloud platform for deploying applications in containers and virtual machines, running AI workloads, and automating infrastructure from Cisco. 

Cisco and Red Hat solutions may be right for you if you are:  

• Reassessing your virtualization strategy and reliance on a single hypervisor vendor
• Needing to reduce virtualization and/or public cloud costs by moving some workloads to bare metal 
• Considering containers to support modern applications and new AI workloads
• Looking to lower risk by using predesigned, validated data center architectures

Securely deploy applications faster—anywhere

Deploy and manage containerized applications at scale

Eighty percent of IT leaders say all or most new applications will be built on cloud-native platforms over the next five years.* 

You can deploy and manage containerized applications at scale by adopting Red Hat OpenShift—a leading cloud-native container platform used by more than 90% of the Fortune 500—to run containers on bare metal with Cisco UCS. 

Customers choose Red Hat OpenShift for its leadership in the Kubernetes market, fully managed cloud services, and consistency across all public cloud, data center, and edge environments. Customers choose Cisco UCS for its flexibility, performance, and operational simplicity. 

Benefits of running containers on bare metal from Red Hat and Cisco include: 

• Scalability and performance
• Simplified management 
• Enhanced security 
• Optimized resource utilization 
• Flexibility and integration 
• Reliability and availability 
• Cost efficiency

Try Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform or purchase it directly from Cisco to simplify your journey to application modernization. Ask your Cisco account manager for details.

*Source: Techzine, June 2024

Reassess your virtualization strategy

Consolidate your containers and virtualization on a single platform

If changing market dynamics have caused you to rethink your virtualization strategy, Cisco and Red Hat have a proposal for you. Traditional virtualization platforms present challenges, including increasing costs, slow evolution, difficulties supporting growth, financial risk, and obstacles to developer productivity. Modern platforms, like Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, offer a way to reduce operational infrastructure costs, innovate at speed, and provide greater scalability, more security, and integrated development tools. Included with OpenShift, OpenShift Virtualization enables you to move, refactor, and modernize applications currently based on virtual machines to a cloud-native environment that can support both containers and virtual machines.

OpenShift Virtualization also allows you to:

• Accelerate application delivery with a single platform that manages applications using the same tools and teams 
• Maintain traditional virtual machine behavior in a modern Kubernetes platform (e.g., live migration) 
• Keep existing roles and responsibilities intact, so you can modernize skill sets over time 
• Simplify migration of virtual machines at scale with the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV)

Explore our resources below to learn more. Start a free trial today or ask your Cisco representative about purchasing Red Hat OpenShift with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.

Support AI initiatives

Deliver AI solutions that delight your customers

One of the biggest opportunities today—across all industries—is to harness the power of AI to deliver greater customer value.

Most organizations focus their initiatives on generative AI inferencing. To simplify on-premises infrastructure, Cisco offers AI PODs: purpose-built solutions designed for any organization to harness the power of artificial intelligence.

AI PODs are ideal for organizations beginning their AI deployment journey. They include:

• Predesigned architecture bundles, using technology from industry-leading partners—including OpenShift for containers 
• Framework for rapid deployment 
• Cloud-based management with Cisco Intersight 
• Validated use cases 
• Adoption services 
• Full-stack support

Whether you're starting out with AI or scaling complex, high-performance workloads beyond legacy architecture, Cisco AI PODs deliver the performance, efficiency, and control you need to drive innovation.

Create and deploy GenAI and predictive modes at scale

Red Hat also provides Red Hat OpenShift AI, an integrated platform for building, training, tuning, deploying, and monitoring AI-enabled applications, as well as predictive and foundation models—securely and at scale across hybrid-cloud environments. Red Hat OpenShift AI can be purchased directly from Cisco.

See our resources to learn more about Red Hat OpenShift AI, or start a free trial today.

For performant and predictable deployments

Together, Cisco and Red Hat bring our technology to customers through Cisco Validated Designs, or CVDs. CVDs provide tested architectures for standardized, repeatable deployments. Our ready-to-go solutions include:

• More than 20 CVDs with Red Hat technology 
• Faster time to market with lower risk 
• Strong total cost of ownership (TCO) and faster time to value 
• Cisco Solution Support 

See Red Hat CVDs, or view all CVDs.