At Red Hat Summit 2026, Microsoft and Red Hat showcased Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) as a unified platform for enterprise modernization and production AI workloads. Microsoft received the 2026 Red Hat Ecosystem Innovation Award for Platform Modernization. Key announcements include: OpenShift Virtualization GA for running VMs and containers side-by-side, Confidential Containers GA for hardware-backed workload isolation, Managed and Workload Identities GA for credential-free access via OIDC federation, expanded NVIDIA GPU support for large-scale inference, and new regional availability in Mexico, New Zealand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Austria. Customer case studies from Banco Bradesco (200+ AI initiatives unified on ARO) and Topicus (regulated lending platform with data sovereignty) illustrate production-scale deployments.
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Red Hat Ecosystem Innovation Award for Platform ModernizationPlatform advancements across modernization, security, and AIMigrate and modernization with Red Hat OpenShift VirtualizationSecuring workloads on Azure Red Hat OpenShiftAI innovation on Azure Red Hat OpenShiftExpanded regional availabilityThe bigger pictureJoin Microsoft at Red Hat Summit 2026Sort: