SYDNEY, Australia – May 13, 2026 – NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced new NetApp data management capabilities optimised for Red Hat OpenShift that enable advanced levels of resilience and scale for virtualised environments, on-premises and in the cloud. The updates improve the speed and predictability of backup, recovery, and day-to-day operations so customers can migrate, scale, and manage virtual machine (VM) and container environments to enable innovation and agility with greater confidence.
According toThe state of virtualizationreport from Red Hat, 90 percent of organisations agree that virtualisation supports innovation. Combined with the report’s finding that 71 percent of organisations have over half of their IT infrastructure virtualised, enterprises are expanding their virtualised environments to help them manage the increasing volumes of data that fuel the AI-era. As Red Hat OpenShift virtualised environments grow, backup methods that rely on scanning full VM disks can lead to longer backup windows, unpredictable recovery timelines, and increased operational risk. When migrating to and scaling Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation, enterprises need predictable and efficient backup and recovery with block-level change tracking to help them meet backup and recovery windows and avoid overspending on storage as environments scale. Furthermore, many IT organisations are seeking simplified disaster recovery at scale and flexible deployment options.
“When IT teams are faced with slow scanning and backup processes, they’re unable to meet recovery point and recovery time objectives,” said Dallas Olson, Chief Commercial Officer at NetApp. “NetApp’s latest innovations with Red Hat enable predictable backup and recovery behaviour even as the VM environment grows. Customers can now migrate, operate, and protect large‑scale VM and container environments on Red Hat OpenShift with greater speed, predictability, and operational confidence.”
The NetApp and Red Hat collaboration provides enhanced hybrid and multicloud consistency, enabling customers to run and move applications and data across on‑premises and public cloud environments. Together, NetApp and Red Hat seek to deliver a mature, enterprise-ready Kubernetes stack. This collaboration continues with new capabilities that help customers build more resilient and scalable virtualised environments, including:
- NetApp Backup and Recovery for Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualisation: NetApp Backup and Recovery is a simple, secure, and cost-effective data protection service for OpenShift applications on NetApp ONTAP® storage. It accelerates backups and restores with incremental-forever backups providing Change Block Tracking (CBT), storage efficiency preservation, and compute offload. These features avoid data rehydration during backups and reduce compute overhead for backup operations. With this update, NetApp Backup and Recovery now enhances support for protecting VMs on OpenShift with comprehensive automation enabling VM-granular protection and recovery workflows along with resource transformations to accelerate recovery times.
- NetApp Disaster Recovery support for Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualisation: Customers can now use NetApp Disaster Recovery in public preview for their Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation environments, expanding from backup into orchestrated disaster recovery for Kubernetes‑based VMs. This DR-as-a-service offering delivers simple, low-cost disaster protection for virtualised workloads on NetApp ONTAP storage with intuitive, guided disaster recovery failover and fallback workflows.
- Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation with Red Hat OpenShift on Google Cloud: Google Cloud NetApp Volumes and Trident CSI driver for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation are now generally available on Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud environments with certified support. This solution enables organisations to run both VMs and containers in the cloud with simplified operations and seamless scalability.
- NetApp Trident Parallelism: NetApp Trident now supports improved scalability through parallel execution of operations in the Trident controller forAmazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes environments. The Trident Parallelism feature removes storage bottlenecks by enabling Trident to execute storage operations concurrently rather than serially.
“Legacy disaster recovery models were not built for the scale and pace of today’s virtualised environments,” said Steve Gordon, Senior Director, Product Management, Hybrid Cloud Platforms at Red Hat. “Our collaboration with NetApp directly addresses the most pressing challenges customers face as enterprise virtualised environments continue to grow in scale and complexity. Together with NetApp, we’re helping customers modernise data protection and disaster recovery for Red Hat OpenShift delivering more predictable outcomes and a stronger foundation for hybrid cloud.”
To learn more about NetApp’s collaboration with Red Hat, visit the NetApp booth #538 atRed Hat Summit 2026, May 11-14 in Atlanta, GA.
Additional Resources
- Red Hat Innovates at the Speed of AI and Scale of the Hybrid Cloud with NetApp
- NetApp and Red Hat Strengthen Collaboration to Drive IT Modernization with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
- NetApp Trident: Provision and Protect Stateful Kubernetes Applications
About NetApp
For more than three decades, NetApp has helped the world’s leading organisations navigate change – from the rise of enterprise storage to the intelligent era defined by data and AI. Today, NetApp is the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, helping customers turn data into a catalyst for innovation, resilience, and growth.
At the heart of that infrastructure is the NetApp data platform – the unified, enterprise-grade, intelligent foundation that connects, protects, and activates data across every cloud, workload, and environment. Built on the proven power of NetApp ONTAP, our leading data management software and OS, and enhanced by automation through the AI Data Engine and AFX, it delivers observability, resilience, and intelligence at scale.
Disaggregated by design, the NetApp data platform separates storage, services, and control so enterprises can modernise faster, scale efficiently, and innovate without lock-in. As the only enterprise storage platform natively embedded in the world’s largest clouds, it gives organisations the freedom to run any workload anywhere with consistent performance, governance, and protection.
With NetApp, data is always ready – ready to defend against threats, ready to power AI, and ready to drive the next breakthrough. That’s why the world’s most forward-thinking enterprises trust NetApp to turn intelligence into advantage.
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