Microsoft and Red Hat Unite for Hybrid Cloud Era

A decade-old alliance between Microsoft and Red Hat is maturing into a deeply integrated hybrid cloud platform, driven by AI workloads, virtualization modernization and enterprise complexity. The partnership's open enterprise hybrid cloud model aims to make Azure and Red Hat environments feel like native extensions of each other. Real-world results back the strategy: Banco Bradesco scaled from 100 to 500-plus compliant AI services in production within two and a half years using the combined stack. The 2025 general availability of OpenShift Virtualization on Azure Red Hat OpenShift further enables VM migration alongside containers without full application rearchitecting.