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The Next Evolution of Virtualization Infrastructure

Virtualization is entering a new age, a fourth evolutionary epoch in which the benefits of data center consolidation and workload standardization are accelerating the move to cloud native environments. The first age of virtualization was the great data center leap into the concept.

We believe we have entered a fourth age of virtualization: the age of evolution and convergence on cloud native platforms.

While the third age of virtualization was all about moving containers into VMs, this new age is about bringing the benefits of Kubernetes and cloud native platforms to all applications, regardless of where they live.

Once brought forward into cloud native infrastructure, these virtual machines can be linked into existing Kubernetes and OpenShift capabilities, such as cloud native platform services, https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/advanced-cluster-management, https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift-data-foundation and more.