Smart cities. Connected vehicles. Autonomous manufacturing and agriculture. Modern cloud-native technologies are redefining the capabilities of telecommunications networks from the core to the edge. Service providers are using open source advancements (particularly in AI, 5G and hybrid cloud) and a mature and growing partner ecosystem to remake themselves and the industries around them.

Telecommunications companies are adopting cloud-native strategies to turn their networks into agile platforms for delivering valuable services - despite fluctuations in IT landscapes, legacy environments, and rising vendor costs. Enterprise-grade Kubernetes application platforms like Red Hat OpenShift support a variety of use cases across environments, including VM migration, application development, AI/ML adoption, edge computing, and more.
As organizations consider the best platform to run VMs and build and deploy new applications, OpenShift Virtualization, a feature of OpenShift, provides a way to migrate VMs onto a unified and scalable platform across hybrid cloud environments.
Join Forrester Principal Analyst Lee Sustar, Forrester Principal Consultant Benjamin Brown, and Director of Global Services Ed Keen as they discuss virtualization and AI trends in 2025 and beyond.

Charting your path: Strategies for cloud-native VM migration and modernization

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is an add-on component to Red Hat OpenShift that allows you to run virtualized workloads in the same infrastructure as your existing containerized workloads. For those who are already familiar with OpenShift, the concepts and tools you already know can be applied directly to running virtual machines on your existing infrastructure, affording you the opportunity to lift-and-shift virtual machines into OpenShift and then containerize those applications without huge changes to your infrastructure.In a live demo, which is the first in a two-part series on OpenShift Virtualization and migrations, we will explain the installation and configuration of the OpenShift Virtualization operator, as well as the creation and management of virtual machines. In part two, we will discuss the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization that will allow you to migrate virtual machines at scale into your new OpenShift Virtualization environment.

Introduction to OpenShift Virtualization

The ability to efficiently manage and automate virtual infrastructure is crucial for maintaining a competitive advantage and running operations smoothly. In this webinar we will delve into the world of virtual infrastructure automation, from virtual machines to virtualization platforms, offering insights and practical guidance on three key areas: provisioning, day 2 operations, and. migration between virtual platforms.Join us to unlock the full potential of virtual infrastructure automation and transform your IT operations.

Automating your virtual infrastructure from virtual machines to virtualization platforms

In the modern IT workflow, the maintenance of infrastructure and software dedicated to supporting VM-based applications can often be at odds with modernization in the areas of containerization and hybrid cloud. IT operations professionals focused on managing VMs can stay relevant to their organizations by learning how to manage and deploy VM-based applications using OpenShiftVirtualization.“Managing Virtual Machines with OpenShift Virtualization” is a course that teaches the essential skills to create and manage virtual machines (VMs) on OpenShift by using the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization operator. In this webinar, Red Hat instructor Jesse Scott shares highlights from the course and will demonstrate the ease of deploying virtual machines on the platform.

Virtual Machines simplified: Mastering VM migration with Kubernetes

Chris Wright, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Global Engineering, shares themes and key topics from his conversations with service providers around the world.

Open Telco introduction from Red Hat CTO Chris Wright

Learn how you can build a DR (disaster recovery) solution or augment capacity on demand for mobile voice using ng-voice IMS stack, lower the overall cost footprint for redundancy solutions, and add value by introducing new capabilities or use cases leveraging the public/hybrid cloud models.

Building disaster recovery and cloud bursting for mobile voice services

Kove explores the critical role of software-defined memory (SDM) in addressing the growing demands of AI workloads. Learn how integrating Kove™ with Red Hat® OpenShift® enhances performance, reduces energy consumption, and lowers costs, all while providing the flexibility needed for scalable AI infrastructure.

Revolutionizing AI infrastructure: The power of software-defined memory in scaling AI

Avanseus examines the importance of linking AI to observability, automation, and remediation strategies to ensure high-performing and resilient 5G networks for a seamless customer experience.

Ensuring high performance and reliability for mission-critical 5G networks

Samsung Networks discusses the crucial role the partner ecosystem plays in the future of Open RAN—and how collaboration can accelerate deployments and improve operational efficiency in this dynamic landscape.

Future-proofing Open RAN: The power of partnership

Nokia, Mavenir and Dell cover how they ensure successful RAN deployments on carrier-grade application platforms while delivering the lowest latency and highest performance.  They outline how the RAN is taken to the next level with automation and zero touch provisioning and operations to accelerate service delivery and mitigate risk through consistent and compliant configuration management.

Unlocking the value of open RAN with a unified platform

STL Partners discuss their latest research findings, cover the six tenets to a successful transition, and interview COLT Technologies to learn more about their transition to techco.

Telco to Techco with STL Partners

VodafoneZiggo shares their telco transformation journey including their latest 5G SA core deployment experiences and best practices.

VodafoneZiggo’s network transformation journey

TELUS and One New Zealand share their latest 5G SA core deployment experiences and best practices, and discuss the importance of observability, automation, and lifecycle/application management strategies.

Intelligent lifecycle and application management for cloud-native 5G networks

A dive into the DarkNOC catalyst project—a network operations center that operates solely on technology without human intervention—with IBM, AT&T México and Iquall Networks that explores other successful deployments using GenAI and/or open APIs for NetOps.

Using GenAI to propel insight-driven NetOps

This panel discussion with Intracom and Tech Mahindra details some use case examples like smart scaling for telco datacenters using predictive analytics, the migration of workloads to multicloud environments, cloud bursting and redundancies, and more.

Using AI in hybrid cloud for better business outcomes

In this session, Vodafone Oman, Intel and Cisco discuss open source patterns and architectures that can be used to start the evolution toward autonomous networks while maintaining the stability required by our current services.

Telco AI: Moving toward smart, autonomous networks with open source

Chris Penrose, Global VP of Business Development - Telco, NVIDIA, discusses three ways in which AI is transforming telcos.

3 ways AI is transforming telecommunications

Customer keynote: Telenor's AI journey

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Red Hat Open Telco On Demand

Ericsson look ahead to the future of telecom networks—exploring emerging trends, challenges, and how the partner ecosystem is critical in driving success across the industry.

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