Modernize & Transform - Red Hat Alliance Guide

Explore the Modernization Route

Modernize today. Build for what’s next.

Explore how Red Hat OpenShift combines with alliance solutions from Cisco and NetApp to support modernization, virtualization, data, and infrastructure strategies.

Connect the
Ecosystem

Create a more consistent environment for managing virtual machines, containers, and modern applications.

Bring Workloads Together

Support customers moving beyond traditional infrastructure and virtualization models with a more adaptable application platform.

Modernize Infrastructure

Help customers rethink how applications, virtual machines, and infrastructure come together as they prepare for a more flexible hybrid cloud future.

Modernize & Transform

ROUTE 02

Explore the Automation Route

Less manual work. More consistency. Greater opportunity.

Explore how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform works alongside alliance technologies from Cisco and Splunk to address real operational challenges.

Connect the Ecosystem

Create repeatable automation workflows that help standardize processes across datacenter, cloud, network, and other environments.

Improve Consistency

Automate routine infrastructure and application tasks to reduce manual effort and help teams work more efficiently.

Simplify Operations

Help customers turn repetitive, manual processes into more consistent, scalable operations across increasingly complex IT environments.

Automate & Optimize

ROUTE 01

Choose Your Route

One foundation. Multiple routes forward.

RHEL helps you modernize at your pace, supporting cloud, hybrid, and edge environments without disruption.

Move Toward Modernization

Use RHEL as a launchpad for automation, increasing efficiency, reducing complexity, and doing more with less.

Expand into
Automation

RHEL delivers a stable, secure, and consistent platform to run, connect, and scale your environment with confidence.

Build from a Common Foundation

Red Hat solutions don’t operate in isolation. Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides the underlying foundation that supports the next stage of your customer journey — toward automation, modernization, or both.

Why Begin with RHEL?

YOUR STARTING POINT

Real Results

Learn how these solution paths can help partners identify customer opportunities, connect the right technologies, and build stronger outcomes with TD SYNNEX and Red Hat.

Hybrid Cloud

See how Red Hat technologies extend into cloud environments with AWS and Microsoft Azure to help customers build more flexible, connected strategies.

Modernization

Explore how Red Hat OpenShift connects with alliance solutions to support application modernization, virtualization strategies, and infrastructure transformation.

Automation

Discover how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform works with alliance technologies to help customers reduce complexity, improve consistency, and streamline operations.

This guide is designed to help TD SYNNEX partners explore how Red Hat technologies connect with key alliance solutions to support customer opportunities across automation, modernization, and hybrid cloud.

Your guide to what's ahead

What You’ll Explore

Continue to the Foundation

Explore the Opportunity

Modernize today. Build for what’s next.

Customers are rethinking virtualization, applications, and infrastructure as they prepare for what comes next. Red Hat OpenShift brings virtual machines, containers, and modern applications together on a more consistent platform — creating new opportunities across infrastructure, storage, and data.

ROUTE 2

Unlock new possibilities. Build for what’s next.

Modernize & Transform

Separate environments for VMs, containers, and applications can increase operational complexity.

Challenge

Disconnected
Platforms

Organizations need to move forward without disrupting critical workloads or existing investments.

Challenge

Modernization
Pressure

Traditional virtualization environments can limit flexibility and make infrastructure modernization harder to plan.

Challenge

Legacy
Virtualization

Explore the Automation Route

Less manual work. More consistency. Greater opportunity.

Explore how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform works alongside alliance technologies from Cisco and Splunk to address real operational challenges.

Connect the Ecosystem

Create repeatable automation workflows that help standardize processes across datacenter, cloud, network, and other environments.

Improve Consistency

Automate routine infrastructure and application tasks to reduce manual effort and help teams work more efficiently.

Simplify Operations

Help customers turn repetitive, manual processes into more consistent, scalable operations across increasingly complex IT environments.

Automate & Optimize

ROUTE 01

Explore the Alliance Advantage

Modernization becomes even more powerful when the right technologies work together.

See how Red Hat OpenShift connects with Cisco FlexPod and NetApp to address real infrastructure, virtualization, storage, and data opportunities.

Legacy virtualization, disconnected platforms, and changing workload demands can make modernization harder to navigate. OpenShift provides a more consistent path forward.

TODAY’S REALITY

Modernization brings new possibilities — and new challenges.

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Partner Opportunity: Modernize applications and virtualization without compromising enterprise data.

Protect critical application data
Strengthen recovery and resilience
Support application mobility
Maintain consistent data services as environments evolve

NetApp extends OpenShift with snapshots, application-aware backup, replication, disaster recovery, and application mobility.

Customer Value:

Protect + Move
Application Data

Dynamic storage provisioning
Snapshots and cloning
Automated storage lifecycle management
Enterprise storage for production workloads

NetApp Trident dynamically provisions persistent storage for OpenShift applications that need their data to remain available beyond the life of an individual container.

Customer Value:

Power Stateful
Applications

Reduce dependence on legacy hypervisors
Run VMs and containers together
Simplify storage management
Protect VM data

Combine OpenShift Virtualization with NetApp ONTAP to run virtual machines and containers on a common platform while maintaining enterprise storage capabilities.

Customer Value:

Modernize
Virtualization

Red Hat OpenShift provides the application and virtualization platform. NetApp adds the persistent storage, protection, and data services needed to support production workloads.

Together, they help customers modernize virtualized environments while keeping critical application data available, protected, and manageable.

Modernize VMs and Data Together

NETAPP + RED HAT

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Partner Opportunity: Help customers modernize OpenShift on proven, scalable infrastructure.

Simplified infrastructure management
Automated lifecycle capabilities
Flexible scaling
Highly available, hybrid-ready architecture

Cisco Intersight provides cloud-based infrastructure management while the modular FlexPod architecture can scale compute and storage as application requirements grow.

Customer Value:

Simplify Operations
+ Scale

Support existing and modern workloads together
Reduce infrastructure silos
Create a gradual virtualization modernization path
Use one scalable infrastructure foundation

OpenShift Virtualization is validated on FlexPod, allowing traditional VMs to run alongside container workloads on the same OpenShift environment.

Customer Value:

Run VMs +
Containers Together

More predictable deployments
Reduced design and implementation risk
Standardized infrastructure
Architecture aligned to Cisco, NetApp, and Red Hat best practices

FlexPod provides a tested architecture for running OpenShift across integrated Cisco compute and networking with enterprise storage.

Customer Value:

Deploy OpenShift on
Validated Infrastructure

FlexPod brings together Cisco UCS compute, Cisco Nexus networking, NetApp storage, and Red Hat OpenShift in a validated architecture designed to simplify deployment and reduce infrastructure risk.

Cisco Intersight adds centralized, policy-based infrastructure management while the FlexPod design provides a scalable foundation for modern applications and virtualized workloads.

Build OpenShift on a Proven Infrastructure Foundation

CISCO + RED HAT | FLEXPOD

VM Modernization • Persistent Storage • Data Protection

Combine OpenShift Virtualization with NetApp ONTAP and Trident to modernize workloads while maintaining enterprise storage and data protection.

NETAPP + RED HAT

Modernize VMs and
Data Together

Explore the NetApp Alliance Story

Combine Red Hat OpenShift with Cisco compute, networking, and infrastructure management in a validated FlexPod architecture built for modern workloads.

CISCO + RED HAT | FLEXPOD

Validated Infrastructure • VM Modernization • Scalable Operations

Modernize on Validated
FlexPod Infrastructure

Explore the Cisco FlexPod Alliance Story

Explore the Automation Route

Less manual work. More consistency. Greater opportunity.

Explore how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform works alongside alliance technologies from Cisco and Splunk to address real operational challenges.

Connect the Ecosystem

Create repeatable automation workflows that help standardize processes across datacenter, cloud, network, and other environments.

Improve Consistency

Automate routine infrastructure and application tasks to reduce manual effort and help teams work more efficiently.

Simplify Operations

Help customers turn repetitive, manual processes into more consistent, scalable operations across increasingly complex IT environments.

Automate & Optimize

ROUTE 01

Another route explored. More possibilities ahead.

Return to Route Selection

Explore Hybrid Cloud

Red Hat OpenShift provides the modernization platform. Cisco FlexPod and NetApp extend that platform with validated infrastructure, enterprise storage, data protection, and operational capabilities for production environments.

ALLIANCE ADVANTAGE

Stronger Together: Cisco FlexPod + NetApp