From September through December, Red Hat brings its customers, partners, and the wider open source community together across nearly 30 cities on four continents. We’re sponsoring events in every region this year, and you’ll find us on the booth floor, on stage, and across the table. The topic that comes up in almost every conversation is the same one everywhere. How do you run virtual machines, containerized applications, and AI workloads together without piling on complexity?
Here’s where we’ll be, and what we have planned.
A Platform for VMs, Containers, and AI
Enterprise IT isn’t moving in one direction. It’s moving in several at once. Most of the organizations we talk to are running some mix of:
- Traditional virtual machines they can’t simply switch off
- Containerized applications they’re scaling fast
- AI workloads that need high-performance, scalable infrastructure
The hard part isn’t picking one. It’s getting all three to work together on a single platform.
That turns out to be as much a data decision as a compute one. The platform layer is ready. The data layer is usually where teams get stuck, and it’s the piece that’s hardest to change later. That’s the story we’re bringing to every stop. Our joint solution, Portworx by Everpure on Red Hat OpenShift, puts a shared data foundation under VMs, containers, and AI, so you get one open, Kubernetes-based platform to run all of it, with consistent operations and the resilience critical workloads need.
With Portworx + Red Hat OpenShift, organizations can:
- Run VMs and containers side by side with unified data management
- Protect critical workloads with application-aware backup and zero-RPO disaster recovery
- Support AI workloads with scalable, high-performance storage
- Operate consistently across edge, core, and cloud
- Simplify Day 2 operations, so platform teams can build instead of firefight
This isn’t a theory. We’re already helping more than 40 enterprises worldwide, across healthcare, manufacturing, government, and banking, do exactly this. A global automotive manufacturer unified VMs and containers on Portworx by Everpure and Red Hat OpenShift, and now delivers applications 3x faster while spending about 38% less on the platform. In healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama migrated its VMs to Kubernetes with Portworx and did it 10x faster than before. The Series is our chance to have those conversations in your city.
Where You’ll Find Us
We’re sponsoring Red Hat Summit Connect events around the world. Find your city below, then register through Red Hat.
North America
Washington, DC
September 9
New York, NY
September 17
San Jose, CA
September 24
Scottsdale, AZ
October 6
Toronto, ON
October 8
Jacksonville, FL
October 13
Chicago, IL
October 20
Dallas, TX
October 27
Austin, TX
November 4
Montreal, QC
November 10
Latin America
Mexico City
October 29
São Paulo
November 10
EMEA
Madrid
September 23
London
October 8
Brussels
October 15
Dubai
October 20
Paris
November 5
Stockholm
November 11
Darmstadt
November 17–18
Warsaw
November 30
Milan
December 3
Asia Pacific
Melbourne
September 1
Mumbai
September 3
Singapore
October 22
Seoul
October 27
Taipei
November 3
What to Expect at Every Stop
At each event, you’ll find our team ready to dig in:
- A featured session: The Data Foundation for Modern Infrastructure: VMs, Containers, and AI on Red Hat with Everpure
- Live booth demos, including VMware-to-OpenShift migration, data protection and disaster recovery, and AI data services running on Red Hat OpenShift
- 1:1 time with our team on virtualization transformation, running mixed workloads on OpenShift, and Day 2 operations
Evaluating a VMware alternative, planning a migration, or building a platform for AI? Bring your questions and we’ll work through them with you.
Why Red Hat Summit Connect?
These regional events are where strategy meets the people actually doing the work. And in city after city, the same questions come up:
- How do I run VMs and containers together without platform sprawl?
- How do I modernize legacy apps without rewriting them?
- How do I build a platform that’s ready for AI now, and for whatever comes next?
None of these are hypothetical. They’re the conversations happening right now inside the world’s largest enterprises, and Everpure and Red Hat are built to help answer them.
See You on the Road
Red Hat Summit Connect is where ideas meet execution, and this year we’re bringing that energy to a city near you. Find your event, stop by our booth, join a session, or grab some time with our team. We’d love to hear what you’re working on.
