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Coffee Talk Webinar Series: Brewing Innovation with Red Hat and Platform Modernization

Webinar

November 12, 2025

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Tags: Platform Modernization

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This Coffee Talk Webinar explores how organizations are modernizing their platforms to increase agility, reduce complexity, and better support transformation initiatives. Our experts will share insights on:

  • Why platform modernization is a critical step for future-ready IT and operationalizing AI
  • Practical approaches to modernizing applications and infrastructure
  • How Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud solutions accelerate innovation
  • What is Red Hat’s strategy to add value to an organization’s AI journey?
  • Real-world examples from organizations on their modernization journey

Whether you’re just starting your modernization journey or looking to optimize existing initiatives, this Coffee Talk will leave you with actionable ideas to bring back to your organization.

Presenters

  • Michael Downs, Chief Technology Officer, Evolving Solutions
  • Matthew Miller, Senior Principal Chief Architect, Red Hat
  • Matthew Davis, Principal Solution Architect – Ecosystem, Red Hat

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Virtualization at a Crossroads: Preparing for the Next Decade of Infrastructure After two decades of relative stability, virtualization is entering a new era. Organizations are weighing how to evolve their virtualization environments to balance cost, operational risk, and the need to prepare for the containerized AI workloads of tomorrow. Many organizations are investigating alternative hypervisors but are learning that migrating from VMware isn’t fast, easy, or risk-free. Organizations are eager to understand how to evolve virtualization without business disruption, and in the process, make virtualization less expensive without compromising resilience, reliability, or performance. While many solutions promise cost savings or simplicity, the real challenge is ensuring continuity — keeping applications stable and teams confident while modernizing for the future. The question I hear from clients every week isn’t “Which alternative should we pick?” It’s “How do we evolve without breaking what already works?” That’s the mindset behind every conversation we have about what comes next, and the topic of this blog.

About the Author

Kelly Hirner

Kelly Hirner

Director of Marketing

Kelly Hirner is Director of Marketing for Evolving Solutions. In this role, she is responsible for the marketing and communications strategies that advance the Evolving Solutions brand, engage clients and partners, and contribute to the company’s growth.