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Leading Brazilian carrier migrates legacy IT virtual machines to a common cloud-native platform, cutting time to scale business-critical workloads by 99%<\/p>\n
BARCELONA, Spain \u2013 MWC BARCELONA, March 02, 2026–(BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)–Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Telef\u00f3nica Brazil, the leading telecommunications company in Brazil, has migrated its business-critical service bus IT production environment from legacy virtualization to Red Hat OpenShift<\/a>. This strategic shift provides the telco with an agile, scalable foundation for its IT-specific workloads, resulting in a 99% reduction in resource scaling time and a 95% reduction in storage consumption.<\/p>\n As service providers face pressure to reduce OpEx, Telef\u00f3nica Brazil sought to eliminate the complexity and rising costs associated with its legacy virtualization stack. By standardizing on Red Hat OpenShift, the industry\u2019s leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes, Telef\u00f3nica Brazil unified the management of modern cloud-native applications alongside remaining IT virtual machine (VM) workloads on a single, more consistent platform.<\/p>\n The migration of the IT production environment, the engine powering Telefonica Brazil\u2019s CRM, order management and online store, has delivered immediate technical and business outcomes including:<\/p>\n Rapid scalability: Telef\u00f3nica Brazil now scales its IT environment in 10 minutes, down from 1,440 minutes (24 hours)\u2014a 99% improvement.<\/p>\n Improved customer interactions: The new platform decreased response times for customer data collection and billing inquiries by 42% and 61%, respectively.<\/p>\n Infrastructure efficiency: By moving to a containerized architecture on bare metal, Telef\u00f3nica Brazil reduced IT CPU consumption by 55% and memory usage by 65%.<\/p>\n Faster maintenance: The IT team reduced patch update times by 91%, dropping from four hours to just 20 minutes.<\/p>\n A foundation for AI-native operations<\/p>\n Beyond immediate efficiency, this transition propels Telef\u00f3nica Brazil toward autonomous intelligent operations. By removing the constraints of legacy virtualization within its IT stack, Telef\u00f3nica Brazil has built an environment ready for specialized AI models that can further optimize back-office performance and system efficiencies.<\/p>\n Supporting Quotes<\/p>\n Gino Grano, global vice president, Americas Communication Service Provider Segment, Red Hat Guilherme Marinasco, senior management and platform & product engineering, Telef\u00f3nica Brazil (Vivo) Additional Resources<\/p>\n Connect with Red Hat<\/p>\n About Red Hat<\/p>\n Red Hat<\/a> is the open hybrid cloud technology leader, delivering a trusted, consistent and comprehensive foundation for transformative IT innovation and AI applications. Its portfolio of cloud, developer, AI, Linux, automation and application platform technologies enables any application, anywhere\u2014from the datacenter to the edge. As the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, Red Hat invests in open ecosystems and communities to solve tomorrow’s IT challenges. Collaborating with partners and customers, Red Hat helps them build, connect, automate, secure and manage their IT environments, supported by consulting services and award-winning<\/a> training and certification offerings.<\/p>\n Forward-Looking Statements<\/p>\n Except for the historical information and discussions contained herein, statements contained in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are based on the company\u2019s current assumptions regarding future business and financial performance. These statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially. Any forward-looking statement in this press release speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Except as required by law, the company assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements.<\/p>\n Red Hat, the Red Hat logo and OpenShift are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat LLC or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries.<\/p>\n View source version on businesswire.com: https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20260301194202\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n Contacts<\/p>\n
“Telef\u00f3nica Brazil is a prime example of a forward-thinking ‘techco’ that recognizes legacy virtualization as a potential barrier to the speed and cost-efficiency required in its transformation. By migrating business-critical workloads to Red Hat OpenShift, Telef\u00f3nica Brazil has not only realized massive infrastructure savings but has also built a sovereign- and AI-ready foundation that can adapt as quickly as the market demands.”<\/p>\n
“Our goal is to provide the most reliable and innovative digital services to our 116 million customers. Modernizing our core infrastructure to an open hybrid cloud with Red Hat\u2019s common cloud-native platform allows us to be more responsive to customer needs, reduces our environmental footprint through better resource utilization, and provides the flexibility that we need to lead in the development of next-generation AI and cloud-native workloads.”<\/p>\n