By Carolyn May and Simon Seagrave
Publication Date: 2025-07-04 02:30:00
Today Red Hat released a new report on the state of virtualization, revealing critical insights into how forward-thinking organizations are leveraging modern virtualization and containers to drive innovation and achieve unprecedented agility. This report, which surveyed 1,010 IT decision makers and virtualization practitioners in the United States, United Kingdom and the Asia-Pacific region, underscores the desire for shifting virtualization needs and strategies of many forward looking organizations.
Enterprise IT is cloud-powered and virtualized
Today, many companies are combining virtualization with hybrid and multicloud environments to gain more flexibility, scalability, and control over their IT systems. Red Hat’s state of virtualization report confirms this reality, revealing that a significant 72 percent of surveyed organizations are running workloads in multiple clouds, and a commanding 85 percent are embracing the hybrid cloud model. Virtualization plays a central role in this strategy. About 71 percent of organizations say more than half of their IT infrastructure is virtualized—including servers, storage, networking, desktops, and GPUs—creating more flexible and resilient systems.
Recognizing that mission-critical workloads often exist, and can move between different environments, from AWS and Google Cloud to Microsoft Azure and on-premise datacenters, leading businesses are actively seeking hybrid solutions that enable consistent operations…