Modern Virtualization: SiriusXM’s Journey with OpenShift and Portworx

SiriusXM modernized its infrastructure by migrating from legacy virtualization to OpenShift Virtualization, powered by Portworx and Pure Storage. Starting with dev workloads, they scaled to production, improving agility, reducing TCO, and laying the foundation for a hybrid cloud and container-first future.

The Challenge

SiriusXM knew they needed to modernize and diversify their infrastructure stack to keep up with industry changes. They wanted to build a common platform for their VMs and containers that could also handle critical workloads that power their business. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization began as the kick off point for their modernization journey, but they knew they needed a flexible solution that could meet their virtualization needs while helping them build for a future-ready platform.

Business Transformation

In partnership with Red Hat and Portworx, SiriusXM built a unified platform for their VMs and containers across environments. Portworx Enterprise, running on Pure FlashArray and FlashBlade, not only provided the high performance and low latency required for their critical virtualized workloads, but helped simplify their operations through automated capacity management that resized their available storage based on workload size and proactive telemetry to act on any workloads running sub-optimally. Now, SiriusXM can pave the path towards a container-first future platform.

Enabling a future-proof platform for VMs and containers

SiriusXM now has a stack that preps them for a cloud-native future. Portworx has helped them:

• Move their thousands of VMs to containers
• Simplify storage operations via automation and proactive telemetry
• Achieve high performance and resilience for their mission critical applications
• Enables storage deployments anywhere—on-prem or at the edge