Glossary

Enterprise IT Glossary

Plain-language definitions of the platforms and practices Li9 works with every day, from IBM Fusion HCI and OpenShift Virtualization to VMware migration, Ansible automation, and IBM watsonx.

IBM Fusion HCI: IBM Fusion HCI is a hyperconverged infrastructure appliance that ships with Red Hat OpenShift pre-integrated, combining compute, storage, and container orchestration in a single on-premises system for running containerized workloads, virtual machines, and AI such as IBM watsonx.
OpenShift Virtualization: OpenShift Virtualization is a capability of Red Hat OpenShift that runs traditional virtual machines alongside containers on the same Kubernetes-based platform, letting organizations move VMware virtual machines to OpenShift without re-architecting them.
VMware to OpenShift Migration: VMware to OpenShift migration is the process of moving virtual machines from VMware vSphere to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, commonly undertaken to reduce licensing cost and to unify virtual machines and containers on one platform.
Red Hat OpenShift: Red Hat OpenShift is an enterprise Kubernetes platform for building, deploying, and managing containerized applications consistently across on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid environments.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is an enterprise framework for automating IT operations such as configuration management, application deployment, and infrastructure provisioning using human-readable playbooks.
IBM watsonx: IBM watsonx is IBM's enterprise AI and data platform for training, deploying, and governing machine learning and foundation models, and can run on hybrid cloud infrastructure including IBM Fusion HCI for on-premises, data-private AI.
Hybrid Cloud: Hybrid cloud is an IT architecture that combines on-premises infrastructure with public cloud services and manages them as one environment, so workloads can run and move across both with consistent operations.
Kubernetes: Kubernetes is an open source system for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, and is the foundation that Red Hat OpenShift is built on.
ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS): ROSA is a managed Red Hat OpenShift offering that runs natively on Amazon Web Services and is jointly supported by Red Hat and AWS, giving teams OpenShift without operating the control plane themselves.