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Virgin Media O2 pivots telco cloud to Red Hat and Wind River

and 2026-06-23T07:27:00

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Source: Red Hat

Virgin Media O2 is overhauling its telco cloud strategy, pivoting away from VMware to adopt a Kubernetes-based horizontal infrastructure with Red Hat and Wind River. With managing a multi-vendor telco cloud like “herding wildcats”, discover how the operator plans to manage its complex vendor ecosystem and drive true cloud-native transformation.

This article includes:

  • Themes: 5G standalone core; Artificial intelligence (AI); Automation; Cloud-native network function (CNF); Containerisation; Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD); DevOps; Horizontal telco cloud (HTC); Network function virtualisation (NFV); Open Gateway APIs; Virtual network functions (VNF).
  • Events: FutureNet World; Mobile World Congress (MWC).
  • People: Cayetano Carbajo Martín; Chris Buggie; Franz Seiser; Ignacio Gonzalez; Mritunjay Singh.
  • Geographic: Brazil; Europe; Germany; Spain; United Kingdom (UK).
  • Organisations: Amazon Web Services (AWS); Ciena; Deutsche Telekom (DT); Ericsson; Google Cloud; Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE; Juniper Networks); IBM; Mavenir; Microsoft Azure; Nokia; Oracle; Red Hat; Sky; Telefónica Group; Virgin Media O2 (VM O2); VMware; Wind River.

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