Red Hat Partnership
Simplify the Complexities Facing Service Providers
Partnership Overview
The NETSCOUT and Red Hat Partnership
NETSCOUT and Red Hat simplify the complexities facing service providers when moving to containers and micro services environments. Featuring tight technical alignment with the OpenShift platform and pre-certified service assurance solutions, the partnership delivers unmatched visibility into performance, availability and security risks across networks, data centers and into the cloud where 5G virtual functions reside.
Off-the-shelf Solutions for Complex Containers and Micro Services Environments
As ecosystem partners for more than 5 years, NETSCOUT and Red Hat are committed to working together to address the 5G cloud native and edge needs of network operators with tight technical alignment and ongoing product certifications. Addressing a shared customer base of mobile telco providers, NETSCOUT offers pre-certified versions of the vSTREAM virtual appliance for accelerated deployment and use within Red Hat OpenShift environments.
Outcomes That Matter
Red Hat Partnership and Ecosystem Benefits
Red Hat's partner ecosystem is an integral part of how the company develops and delivers business and technical value to customers. It provides a community to solve customer challenges, build integrated solutions, and establish and grow deep relationships, all built around Red Hat’s world-leading enterprise open-source solutions.
Pre-certified Solutions
Availability and Depth
Open Source Model
Use Cases
Support for the Cloudification of Networks
Carrier Service Providers (CSPs) are looking to utilize open, hybrid cloud architectures to accelerate business transformation. Only solutions with the power of edge and 5G can addresses their unique requirements.
With cloudification strategies moving forward with virtual machine-based micro services and containerization solutions such as OpenShift, NETSCOUT is well-suited to deliver complete visibility to micro service, pod, pod-to-pod communications, and in 5G environments where encryption is involved.
Application monitoring in OpenShift environments is made possible with NETSCOUT’s Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin. This CNI plugin ensures both scalability and security of traffic captures for Kubernetes deployments across namespace boundaries.
Visibility and Agility Across Telco IT Environments
NETSCOUT and Red Hat’s service assurance partnership reduces complexity with pre-certified solutions and visibility across hardware, software, and cloud environments. Together, they give Telco organizations, business enterprises, and government organizations the agility to transition to 5G and cloud-native combined solutions with fewer challenges along the way.
5G and Cloud Native Edge
An enhanced collaboration is addressing some of the key telco requirements in 5G and the cloud native edge: Mark Longwell, Director, Alliance, Hybrid Platforms Business Unit, at Red Hat and Rick Fulwiler, Chief Solutions Architect, CTO Office, NETSCOUT, explain how the two companies have strengthened their partnership.
Enterprise 5G
Red Hat and NETSCOUT have created a partnership to help improve telco operations and their relationships with Enterprise customers. Vikram Saksena, Chief Solutions Architect, CTO Office, with NETSCOUT, and Azhar Sayeed, Chief Architect, Telco, with Red Hat discuss the reasons and philosophies behind the formation of the partnership and explore the approach that has been taken to showcase end results that improve telco operations and their relationships with Enterprise customers.
Resources
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is deep visibility important in Red Hat OpenShift and cloud-native environments, and how does NETSCOUT deliver it?
As organizations adopt Red Hat OpenShift and cloud-native architectures, maintaining visibility across containers, microservices, pods, and hybrid cloud environments becomes critical for ensuring application performance, service availability, and operational efficiency.
NETSCOUT delivers packet-based Smart Data and deep real-time visibility across networks, data centers, and cloud-native environments through its vSTREAM virtual appliance and Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin. This enables IT and operations teams to monitor application and network activity across OpenShift environments, eliminate blind spots, and maintain service assurance in complex distributed infrastructures.
How does NETSCOUT support organizations transitioning to containerized and cloud-native environments with Red Hat OpenShift?
Modernizing applications and infrastructure through containerization and cloud-native deployments can introduce operational complexity, fragmented visibility, and new troubleshooting challenges.
NETSCOUT helps organizations maintain continuous visibility throughout their cloud-native transformation by providing real-time insight into microservices, pod-to-pod communications, and application performance within Red Hat OpenShift environments. This enables teams to proactively identify issues, reduce operational risk, minimize disruption, and accelerate the adoption of containerized architectures.
Why does NETSCOUT use an agentless monitoring approach for Red Hat OpenShift workloads?
Traditional monitoring approaches that rely heavily on software agents can consume resources, increase management complexity, and create visibility gaps in highly dynamic containerized environments.
NETSCOUT’s agentless architecture, powered by Adaptive Service Intelligence (ASI) technology, complements existing observability tools by delivering real-time network and application visibility without requiring software agents. This approach simplifies deployment, eliminates blind spots across Kubernetes and OpenShift environments, and enhances actionable intelligence for faster troubleshooting and operational efficiency.
What is NETSCOUT’s partnership and certification status with Red Hat?
NETSCOUT and Red Hat have maintained a technology partnership for more than five years, collaborating to simplify visibility and service assurance challenges across cloud-native, hybrid cloud, and 5G environments.
NETSCOUT offers pre-certified versions of the vSTREAM virtual appliance for deployment within Red Hat OpenShift environments, and vSTREAM has achieved Red Hat OpenStack certification. These integrations help organizations accelerate deployment, improve interoperability, and ensure trusted performance across Red Hat platforms.
How does NETSCOUT Smart Data complement existing observability and monitoring tools in Red Hat environments?
Many observability and monitoring platforms rely primarily on logs, metrics, or software agents, which can leave visibility gaps across network traffic, container communications, and distributed cloud-native applications.
NETSCOUT’s packet-based Smart Data complements existing observability investments by delivering high-fidelity, real-time network and application intelligence directly from network traffic within OpenShift and hybrid cloud environments. This complementary approach improves cross-domain visibility and correlation, accelerates root cause analysis, eliminates blind spots, and provides actionable insights for proactive troubleshooting and optimization. By extending the value of existing monitoring and observability platforms, NETSCOUT helps organizations achieve more comprehensive operational visibility across Red Hat environments.
