Red Hat OpenShift and Portworx by Everpure
Build your next managed services platform
Market pressure and a need for change
Recent changes to VMware renewals have disrupted things lately1, and many
businesses are now weighing their options when it comes to migrating their
current platforms.
They need your guidance and expertise, as their service provider, to offer
an alternative. Not just a simple replacement for their current VM (virtual
machine) and container stack needs, but also as a long-term service platform
for future growth.
Which is where Red Hat® OpenShift® and Portworx® by Everpure™ can help.
Red Hat and Portworx together
Red Hat OpenShift and Portworx offer a combined response, not just for
easy migration but also more modernized customer applications.
Red Hat OpenShift provides a common platform for VM and container
workloads, giving them a credible landing zone through Red Hat
OpenShift Virtualization. Portworx adds the data services layer that lets you
package Red Hat OpenShift as high-margin managed services.
Together, Red Hat OpenShift and Portworx help your customers deploy
applications with elastic scalability, high availability through replicated
storage, and self-service access. You can build resilient, high-margin
managed services that go beyond migration to modernize customer
applications and expand your portfolio.
How Red Hat and Portworx help you
Protect your margins
Reduce licensing exposure and create
differentiated managed service offers.
Migrate with less disruption
Support VM workloads while creating a path
to modern containerized applications.
Expand your portfolio
Add resilient private cloud, backup, disaster
recovery, and application-platform services.
Challenges, opportunities, and solutions
Red Hat and Portworx offer you the chance to help customers make the move to better supported, more adaptable platforms.
Protect your margins and minimize contract renewal risk
Challenge: The renewal reality
Changes in the market have led to many disruptions and service provider
margins are being squeezed.
But switching without considering your long-term modernization strategy
could mean you risk locking yourself into another rigid platform.
Your customers need more choices, longer uptimes and clearer costs
without feeling they re being forced into making quick decisions.
Solution: Red Hat OpenShift and Portworx
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization runs VMs on a proven KubeVirt
foundation, alongside modern containers on a single platform.
Portworx provides high-performance storage, ReadWriteMany (RWX)
block volumes, thin provisioning, and disaster recovery with a zero
recovery point objective (RPO). These capabilities help service providers
migrate customer workloads while minimizing disruption to day-to-day
operations.
With virtual machines and containers managed on one platform,
customers can reduce licensing costs, technical debt, and total cost of
ownership (TCO).
Expanding your portfolio for recurring revenue
Opportunity: Go beyond basic infrastructure
Customers want to consolidate their vendor relationships while
standardizing cloud-native management platforms.
Running containers and databases side by side requires enterprise-class
data persistence, backup and lifecycle management.
Portworx enables service providers to deliver self-service, Kubernetes-
native database services with consistent operations, resilience, and portability.
Solution: Unified operations
Manage traditional VMs and modern container workloads using familiar
ClickOps consoles, GitOps, and Ansible automation.
Provide automated capacity management, self-service storage
provisioning, and granular container-level backup.
Host high-velocity AI inference and training workloads securely within
dedicated provider environments without exposing sensitive data to
public clouds.
Access flexible consumption models, monthly usage reporting, and billing
based on actual running capacity.
Align infrastructure storage costs with monthly recurring revenue via
usage-based invoicing in arrears.
Ready to stand out with your upgraded managed service portfolio?
Partner with Red Hat and Portworx to build, package, and market highmargin platform services. Request a consultation today to discover more
about our technical capabilities and how they can support your
commercial models.
Once we receive your details, one of our managed service provider
specialists will be in touch within two business days to discuss your
next steps.
1Gartner: 2026 Strategic Roadmap for VMware Modernization; IDC: Worldwide Server Virtualization Market & Competitive Landscape (2025)
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