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Red Hat OpenShift Services

We help enterprises modernize their platforms with Red Hat OpenShift, offering end-to-end services from readiness assessments to production-ready deployments and team enablement.

  • OpenShift Platform Readiness Assessment
  • OpenShift Platform Health Check
  • OpenShift Platform Deployment
  • OpenShift Virtualization Deployment
  • OpenShift Platform Enablement
  • Application Portfolio Assessment
  • OpenShift Platform Readiness Assessment

    Evaluates your technical landscape and organizational readiness for OpenShift platform adoption, delivering an actionable adoption roadmap aligned with enterprise containerization objectives.

    Technical Outcomes

    • Infrastructure readiness validated against OpenShift requirements
    • Network topology confirmed for OpenShift compatibility
    • Security posture aligned with Red Hat container standards
    • Application containerization feasibility established
    • Platform automation capability baselined for target state

    Key Deliverables

    • Detailed OpenShift architecture diagrams and topology maps
    • Infrastructure requirements and gap analysis report
    • Security controls and compliance assessment matrix
    • Application containerization feasibility analysis
    • Implementation roadmap with resource allocation plan

  • OpenShift Platform Health Check

    Conducts a comprehensive evaluation of your operational OpenShift environment to identify optimization opportunities, risks, and improvement areas. Based on 75+ enterprise OpenShift deployments, this service leverages deep platform expertise to ensure your platform meets current best practices and performance standards.

    Technical Outcomes

    • Platform efficiency scored against Red Hat best practices baseline
    • Security posture evaluated against OpenShift security benchmarks
    • Operational maturity level assessed and mapped
    • Performance optimization opportunities quantified
    • Risk severity and remediation priorities established

    Key Deliverables

    • Detailed platform assessment report
    • Performance optimization recommendations
    • Security enhancement matrix
    • Operational improvement roadmap
    • Executive summary and findings presentation
    • Implementation roadmap with resource allocation plan

  • OpenShift Platform Deployment

    Implements a production-grade OpenShift platform leveraging proven patterns from 75+ enterprise deployments. This service delivers a fully configured, secure, and operational OpenShift environment with integrated security controls, monitoring, and automation to support enterprise workload requirements.

    Technical Outcomes

    • Production OpenShift platform operational with enterprise-grade availability
    • Security controls fully validated against compliance requirements
    • CI/CD pipeline delivering with optimized deployment times
    • Automated scaling handling peak load conditions
    • Cross-region failover validated for business continuity

    Deliverables

    • As-built architecture documentation
    • Platform runbooks and operational guides
    • Security compliance validation report
    • Performance test results and analysis
    • Production readiness verification matrix

  • OpenShift Virtualization Deployment

    Implements production-grade OpenShift virtualization platform and migrates targeted workloads using proven enterprise methodologies. This service establishes a comprehensive virtualization environment with validated operational capabilities and workload performance aligned with enterprise virtualization objectives.

    Technical Outcomes:

    • Virtualization platform achieving target availability metrics
    • Workload migration success rate meeting SLAs
    • Performance benchmarks validated against baselines
    • High availability failover verified
    • Automated operations enabled and validated

    Deliverables:

    • As-built platform documentation
    • Migration completion report
    • Performance validation results
    • Operational runbooks
    • Production readiness verification matrix

  • OpenShift Platform Enablement

    Delivers comprehensive knowledge transfer and operational enablement for your OpenShift platform team, based on proven practices from 75+ enterprise implementations. This service ensures your team develops the expertise needed for effective platform operations, maintenance, and support.

    Technical Outcomes

    • Team certifications achieved to Red Hat standards
    • Operational procedures fully mastered by platform team
    • Incident response times consistently meeting service targets
    • Change implementation process demonstrating consistent success
    • Support ticket resolution achieving target service levels

    Deliverables

    • Training completion records
    • Operational procedures guide
    • Knowledge validation results
    • Team certification documentation
    • Support transition checklist

  • Application Portfolio Assessment

    Delivers an analysis of your application portfolio to identify modernization opportunities, technical debt, and migration strategies. Based on many enterprise application assessments, this service provides actionable insights for application modernization, cloud adoption, and containerization initiatives aligned with business objectives.

    Technical Outcomes

    • Application modernization scores established across portfolio
    • Technical debt quantified by application
    • Cloud/container readiness scores established
    • Performance improvement potential identified
    • Cost optimization opportunities quantified

    Deliverables

    • Application Portfolio Analysis Report
    • Modernization Strategy Document
    • Technical Debt Assessment Matrix
    • Migration Planning Spreadsheet
    • Modernization Roadmap

  • Expert Team
  • Enterprise Experience
  • End-to-End Solutions
  • Expert Team

    Red Hat certified specialists with deep platform expertise: Red Hat OpenShift Certified, RHCA, RHCE, Container Platform Specialist

    • Solution architects
    • Platform engineers
    • Security specialists

  • Enterprise Experience

    Proven track record of OpenShift implementations across diverse industries, from financial services to manufacturing:

    • Enterprise-scale deployments
    • Multi-region implementations
    • Regulated industry expertise

  • End-to-End Solutions

    Comprehensive approach covering your full modernization journey:

    • Platform readiness assessment
    • Enterprise-grade deployment
    • Team enablement

Large Enterprise with Hundreds of Locations Modernizes Infrastructure and Applications with Red Hat OpenShift

Large enterprise modernizes infrastructure and applications with Red Hat OpenShift, improving scalability, efficiency, and development speed for better performance and profitability.

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$5B Financial Institution Validates OpenShift Production Readiness Through Comprehensive Assessment

Financial institution validates OpenShift production readiness with Shadow-Soft's thorough assessment, ensuring security, scalability, and reliability for mission-critical applications.

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Modernize with OpenShift Virtualization: A Journey Beyond Cost Savings

Learn why migrating to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is more than just a cost-saving measure – it's an opportunity to embark on a modernization journey.

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Achieving Intelligent Observability with Dynatrace and Red Hat OpenShift: Shadow-Soft's 4-Week Pilot

Shadow-Soft, a trusted partner of Red Hat® and Dynatrace®, is excited to announce a new 4-week pilot engagement that combines the power of Red Hat® OpenShift® with Dynatrace's advanced observability and AI-driven monitoring capabilities.

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Shadow-Soft Joins Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator Program

Shadow-Soft announces its participation in Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator, a specialized growth pathway for select partners with validated professional services delivery capabilities.

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"Shadow-Soft's inclusion in the Partner Practice Accelerator program is exciting. Their expertise in automation and application modernization will be invaluable to enterprises leveraging Red Hat technologies. This collaboration enables us to provide commercial customers with the solutions and support they need to successfully adopt Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform."

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Richard Simeone
East Commercial Sales Leader at Red Hat
How long does a typical OpenShift implementation take?

A standard implementation takes 12 weeks, divided into infrastructure setup, platform services integration, and validation phases. Timeline may vary based on environment complexity.

What level of support do you provide after deployment?

We offer comprehensive enablement services and optional embedded platform engineering support to ensure your team's success in operating and maintaining the platform.

What are the prerequisites for starting an OpenShift deployment?

Key prerequisites include completed readiness assessment, provisioned infrastructure, approved network/security policies, and dedicated platform team availability.

How do you ensure successful knowledge transfer to our team?

Our 8-week enablement program covers core platform operations, advanced operations, and operational validation with hands-on scenarios, achieving 90% operational autonomy for teams.

What security and compliance measures are included?

We implement comprehensive security controls, compliance frameworks, and automated policies, achieving compliance coverage and full audit readiness validation.

What metrics and success criteria do you use?

We track key metrics including platform availability, deployment success rate, operational autonomy, and comprehensive security compliance validation.

Can you help with application modernization and migration?

Yes, our assessment includes application portfolio evaluation and containerization feasibility analysis.

We Work With These Flavors of Kubernetes

Amazon EKS

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO)

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Red Hat OpenShift

Rancher

Canonical

Vanilla Kubernetes

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Learn More Before Working With Us

Read our guide that details the 5-Step Roadmap for Upgrading Legacy Systems and Apps.