The world’s most successful businesses know and trust Red Hat for their market-leading enterprise operating system and application platform solutions. Many also rely on what they bring to the table with best-in-class automation or AI capabilities. As enterprise IT environments become more complex, strategic leaders are actively seeking solutions that provide efficiency, growth, and cost reduction without compromising on performance.
At Pellera, we are experts at taking a client’s specific enterprise needs, understanding how Red Hat technology will help, and delivering a tailored service to enhance ROI, drive technology adoption, and ensure a seamless user experience.
So when they’re looking for a new home for their VM estates, savvy leaders start with us.
The Strategic Advantage of Hybrid IT and Pellera
Why do savvy IT leaders and decision-makers choose to partner with us for their virtualization needs? It comes down to a proven track record, seamless integration, and comprehensive support.
- We have deep experience in virtualization technology. We understand legacy systems and know how to bridge them with modern innovations.
- Virtualization with Red Hat is proven and performant. It matches and frequently exceeds the capabilities and features of other traditional solutions on the market.
- We help organizations optimize costs and scale. We prepare your enterprise for future growth by aligning technology with your business momentum.
Let’s explore how we bring these benefits to life.
A Legacy of Expertise for Your Virtualization Migration
Since 2008, Red Hat has driven forward advances in open source virtualization technology. As a Red Hat Specialized Partner, Pellera brings together Mainline Information Systems’ decades of rich virtualization experience with Converge Technology Solutions’ deep expertise in modern hybrid IT, cloud architectures, and scalable virtualization solutions. This creates a combined legacy of strategic vision and trusted guidance tailored specifically to your enterprise.
What does that mean for you? When you choose virtualization with Pellera and Red Hat, you benefit from our long history leading and adapting technologies to evolving challenges, deep understanding of the virtualization landscape, and open source approach, which puts the best of all possible partners to work for your particular environment and goals.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization: Proven, Performant, and Unrestrictive
You have a multitude of considerations to navigate when leading the technology decisions at your company. Chief among them: picking a scalable solution that integrates seamlessly with your existing systems.
It might be tempting to rely on your current traditional virtualization technology simply because it is a known quantity. However, many enterprise leaders are finding that their legacy virtualization stacks have become increasingly expensive, restrictive, and unpredictable.
But what if you could migrate to a solution that offers the flexibility and predictability you need, without sacrificing the performance, security, or features you expect?
With virtualization from Pellera and Red Hat, you can. Here’s a (simplified) look at how Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization compares with the other solutions on the market.
| Capability / Consideration | OpenShift Virtualization | Traditional Competitors |
| Runs Linux and Windows VMs | Native | Generally |
| Virtualization included in subscription | Yes | Not always |
| Separate hypervisor license required | No | In many cases |
| Proprietary stack / vendor lock-in | Never | Potentially |
| Open standard, enterprise-grade ecosystem | More than 25k partners | Varies |
| Multi-cloud / hybrid cloud deployment | Supported on all major public and private cloud providers | Generally |
| Hardware vendor certifications | Cisco, Dell, HPE, IBM, and more | Probably |
| ISV application certification / support | Yes | Varies |
| Kubernetes integration | Native | Probably not |
| Scaling / operational efficiency | High | Likely moderate |
Optimize Costs and Prepare for Future Growth and Scale
As a business leader, you need to keep an eye on your company’s bottom line and equip your team to compete now and in the future. Here’s where Pellera and Red Hat really shine.
- No vendor lock in. Ever. Red Hat puts the philosophy of open source into practice. This gives you the flexibility to choose the technologies and partners that work for your specific needs and goals, without being locked into proprietary solutions that limit your options.
- You can start small. We get it – choosing a new vendor, learning a new system, and migrating (potentially tens of thousands of) VMs can be daunting. With Pellera and Red Hat, you can start small. Move some of your VMs, test the interface and our capabilities, see the possibilities for yourself. Then, when you’re ready to migrate your full estate, we’re here to help with the training and technology your team needs to succeed.
- You’ll set your team up for future innovation and scale. Forward-looking businesses are adopting containers for developer agility, application portability, and operational efficiency; in fact, 45% of organizations surveyed expect to deploy containers in the next 3 years. As a feature of Red Hat’s market-leading OpenShift platform, OpenShift Virtualization opens the doors of container adoption and streamlined VM and container management when your team is ready.
If you’re looking for proven, flexible, and performant virtualization delivered with expert guidance and vision, it’s time to shift your thinking to Pellera and Red Hat.
Interested in learning how OpenShift Virtualization can address your unique environment, challenges, and goals? We’d love to talk to you! Email RedHat@pellera.com for more information or to schedule a meeting.
