Everpure Named Virtualization Transformation Partner of the Year

Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta was our biggest and best Summit yet. Across four days of sessions, demos, and customer conversations, one thing came through clearly: enterprises are done talking about modernization in the abstract. They’re building unified platforms for VMs, containers, and AI workloads, and they’re looking for partners who can deliver at scale.

Here’s a look at what we announced, what we celebrated, and where we’re headed.

Virtualization Transformation Partner of the Year

The week kicked off with Everpure being named Virtualization Transformation Partner of the Year in the 2026 Red Hat Ecosystem Innovation Awards. The award recognizes the joint engineering, customer success, and go-to-market work between Portworx and Red Hat to deliver a proven pathway for enterprises modernizing off legacy virtualization onto Kubernetes.

We’re proud of this recognition, and even prouder of the customer outcomes behind it.

A Global Manufacturer Delivers Apps 3x Faster

The headline proof point is a joint case study detailing how a global automotive manufacturer partnered with Portworx by Everpure and Red Hat to build a unified platform for VMs and containers on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and Portworx.

The manufacturer was managing disparate infrastructure across factory environments worldwide, inconsistent deployment, fragmented recovery models, and growing pressure from changes in the virtualization vendor landscape. They needed a single platform that could support both traditional and cloud-native workloads with strict uptime requirements, while creating a foundation for AI, edge, and advanced manufacturing initiatives.

The results:

• Provisioning times reduced from 5–10 days to under 2 hours, a 90% improvement
• Total platform costs decreased by ~38%
• Applications delivered up to 3x faster
• Near-zero data loss with sub-minute recovery for critical workloads
• Thousands of workloads migrated across multi-cluster OpenShift environments globally

This isn’t an isolated story. More than 45 enterprises, spanning healthcare, manufacturing, government, financial services, and media, are now running VMs and containers on a single Kubernetes platform with Portworx and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.

Making Data Management Native to OpenShift

Alongside the award, we announced new capabilities that bring storage and data management directly into the Red Hat OpenShift console.

The Portworx OpenShift Dynamic Plugin 2.2 introduces a Portworx Cluster Dashboard and a dedicated Portworx tab on the KubeVirt VirtualMachine page, giving storage and VM admins a familiar, GUI-driven experience for monitoring, troubleshooting, and managing storage without leaving the OpenShift console. Portworx is the first storage provider to deliver per-VM storage visibility and integrated disaster recovery orchestration with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management.

We also announced Portworx for Edge, a lightweight, production-grade data platform purpose-built for distributed Kubernetes edge deployments, extending enterprise-grade data management to two-to-five node clusters at the edge.

Conversations and Customer Energy

Beyond the announcements, what stood out most was the quality of customer engagement across the week. We delivered five breakout and lightning sessions, sat down with theCUBE for a conversation about running VMs on Kubernetes and innovation in the age of AI, and connected with customers and partners across the expo floor and executive events.

The conversations centered on a consistent set of themes: how to consolidate VMs and containers without re-architecting applications, how to maintain consistent data governance across hybrid environments, and how to build a scalable foundation for AI without creating new silos.

Looking Ahead

Red Hat Summit reinforced what we’re hearing from customers every day: the path to modern infrastructure isn’t about choosing between VMs, containers, and AI. It’s about bringing them together on a single platform with consistent operations and data management.

If you missed us in Atlanta, here are a few ways to keep the conversation going:

• Read the full case study on redhat.com
• Explore Portworx + Red Hat OpenShift
• Try a self-paced hands-on lab
• Register for our upcoming OpenShift Virtualization Lab
• Download the VM Professional’s Field Guide to Kubernetes

We’re already looking ahead to the next phase of this partnership, including Red Hat Summit Connect events across North America later this year. Stay tuned.