•OpenShift consolidates VM and container workloads across Belgian dual data centres
•Sovereign design enables unified operations, automated recovery, and local data control
The fact
Telenet Business has selected Red Hat OpenShift to rebuild its private cloud infrastructure across two Belgian data centres. The platform consolidates virtual machines and container workloads onto shared bare-metal infrastructure under a unified management layer. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management enables automated failover of virtual machines to the alternate site during outages. All workloads remain hosted within Belgium, with cross-site replication supporting high availability and data-sovereignty requirements.
The assessment
The deployment shifts telecom cloud architecture from fragmented virtualisation and container stacks to a unified OpenShift-based operating layer, reducing operational overhead and simplifying failover management. For infrastructure teams running dual-site environments, it offers a template for consolidating VM and container workloads without migrating to public cloud. The move reinforces a broader European trend: operators choosing sovereign, localised cloud control over hyperscale public-cloud abstraction.
What to watch
Whether other European telecom operators replicate OpenShift-based sovereign cloud architectures for dual-site deployments, and whether Red Hat's VM-on-OpenShift consolidation model gains traction beyond the telecom sector.
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