IT leaders today must balance core operations to run smoothly while rapidly transforming infrastructure to drive new business value. From navigating budget constraints and complex multicloud environments to accelerating developer productivity and integrating AI, the pressure to modernize without risk has never been higher.

Trusted by the world’s biggest enterprises

To meet these demands, organizations across every major industry turn to Red Hat OpenShift as their unified application platform of choice across the hybrid cloud:

58% of the top 50 companies on the Fortune Global 500 list rely on Red Hat OpenShift.
76% of the top 25 companies on the US Fortune 500 list build their operations on Red Hat OpenShift.

Across key global industries, the numbers reflect widespread trust:

89% of Fortune Global 500 Aerospace and Defense companies
80% of Fortune Global 500 Telecom companies
62% of Fortune Global 500 Financial companies
60% of US Fortune 500 Technology companies

Fortune Global 500 subscription data as of 11 September 2026Fortune 500 subscription data as of 20 July 2026

Let’s take a closer look at how specific companies are using Red Hat OpenShift to tackle complex challenges today while preparing for tomorrow.

Emirates NBD: Unifying virtual machines, containers, and AI

Serving over 20 million customers in the financial services industry, Emirates NBD needed a centralized platform capable of supporting 24x7 banking services while modernizing its core architecture. Grounded in open source standards and hybrid cloud flexibility, the bank turned to Red Hat OpenShift.

Using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, Emirates NBD removed the boundary between legacy virtualization and containerized applications, scaling up to migrate up to 140 virtual machines per night. Today, they run approximately 9,000 VMs directly alongside containerized and AI-native workloads on the exact same platform. Furthermore, by adding Red Hat OpenShift AI, the bank optimized its GPU resources to accelerate AI deployment.

"Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization removes the false choice between traditional and modern infrastructure. We can run business-critical virtual machines and AI-native container workloads on the same platform, which gives us faster innovation, lower operational complexity, and a foundation that is ready for AI at scale."

— Miguel Rio-Tinto, Group Chief Digital and Information Officer, Emirates NBD

Aramco: Powering upstream efficiency and AI scaling

In the energy sector, Aramco needed a platform that could simplify access to generative AI and accelerate critical tasks like reservoir simulation, drilling optimization, and geological modeling.

To achieve this, Aramco built the Aramco GenAI Foundation powered by Red Hat OpenShift. OpenShift’s microservices architecture and built-in observability gave Aramco the enterprise-grade security and resource visibility required to onboard GenAI models in under an hour. Combined with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, VM deployment times plummeted from weeks down to hours.

The business impact was immediate: drill and plant engineers now complete data analysis tasks up to 10 times faster, saving engineers and data scientists an average of 2 hours per day.

CAE: Standardizing hybrid cloud and developer efficiency

As a global leader in flight training and simulation supporting 15,000 daily flights, CAE set out to standardize application development across its cloud, hybrid, and on-premise systems for its 2,000 developers and engineers.

By implementing Red Hat OpenShift alongside Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), CAE established a consistent, cloud-agnostic developer experience across 12 clusters in 7 regions.

With automated CI/CD pipelines, reusable templates, and integrated security monitoring via Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security, CAE significantly reduced infrastructure overhead. Developers can now focus on creating real-world solutions rather than managing underlying infrastructure.

Red Hat OpenShift for today and tomorrow

Whether it’s unifying virtualized and containerized environments, streamlining developer workflows across multicloud setups, or unlocking the next frontier of enterprise generative AI, Red Hat OpenShift provides a single, security-focused foundation for modern IT.

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