Posts by Jared Matkin

These days, it’s not enough to say an application is protected. Security, risk, and compliance teams want to know where a backup lives, who can access it, whether it can be changed or deleted, how consistently policy is applied, and when recovery was last tested. Read more

Getting VMs and containers running on Red Hat OpenShift is a milestone. But for platform engineering and operations teams, the real work starts after the migration is complete. Workloads grow. New applications land. VMs multiply. And somewhere in that growth, the data protection strategy that once felt manageable starts showing cracks across a mixed environment. Read more

The facts are hard to ignore. The number of virtual machines running on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization grew 417% in 2025. Red Hat has assessed more than 1.46 million VMs through its migration engagements. Global banks, government agencies, telcos, and manufacturers are now running production workloads on the platform. Read more

Virtualization used to be straightforward: Partition the hardware, run more workloads, and watch the savings roll in. Unfortunately, that world is behind us. Read more

Traditional type-one hypervisor customers are at a crossroads. According to a 2024 survey by Rimini Street, 98% of organizations that currently use VMware are either actively exploring or have already adopted alternative platforms in response to evolving pricing, support models, and long-term uncertainty. Read more

Hybrid and cloud-native approaches are no longer experimental; they’re foundational. In fact, 73% of organizations already run a hybrid cloud strategy, and that number keeps climbing as businesses look for the flexibility to optimize cost, performance, and resilience. Read more

Red Hat is modernizing virtualization across every environment. Veeam Kasten ensures your data is protected every step of the way. Read more