Global spending on public cloud services is projected to exceed $725 billion this year, reflecting a dramatic rise in demand for scalable, cloud-native solutions. At the same time, investments in energy efficiency have surged nearly 50% since 2019, reaching $660 billion. Driven by the widespread adoption of Arm64 instances among leading cloud providers, analysts predict that Arm-based processors could power up to 22% of data center servers by the end of 2025. This growing momentum highlights the need for architectures that combine performance, scalability, and sustainability — a challenge where Arm64 has proven to excel.

Known for its high performance and exceptional energy efficiency, Arm64 has emerged as a critical technology architecture for enterprises striving to reduce operational costs and meet environmental expectations. ​Providing enterprise-level support for Arm64 often requires scaling up product teams, expanding testing infrastructure, and optimizing software performance all of which demanded significant investment. With the recent large-scale adoption of Arm64 in the cloud — supported by OEM product lines from HPE and SuperMicro powered by Ampere® — industry-wide investments in Arm64 have proven increasingly justified.

To further equip organizations with tested infrastructure, Ampere is collaborating with Red Hat among other partners to provide Arm64-based hardware to help validate architectures in Red Hat labs. Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source solutions and its engineers contribute extensively to open source projects like the Linux kernel.

With its cloud-native, energy-efficient CPUs, Ampere provide​s Arm64-based hardware​ solutions that can be used to optimize Arm64 infrastructure. Through innovative hardware like the Ampere Altra® and Altra Max processors, Ampere is participating in Red Hat labs to help drive kernel enhancements in a trusted testing environment.

Driving Technical Enablement
Ampere’s collaboration with Red Hat has focused on addressing key technical challenges to optimize Arm64 capabilities on industry leading platforms like Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift.

At the technical level, Ampere ​worked​ with Red Hat’s teams to enable critical Arm64 features. These included implementing 64K kernel page sizes to optimize memory management and enabling memory tagging for improved debugging and security.

Ampere’s Arm64-based hardware also facilitated rigorous testing of enterprise software ecosystems. The high performance capabilities of Ampere Altra processors support optimized Arm64 tuning, enabling robust performance for enterprise applications. These contributions can lay the foundation for compatibility, security, and scalability.

Increasing Scalability for Robust Enterprise Workloads
Scalability is central to modern enterprise IT, requiring robust hardware solutions to meet evolving demands. Ampere’s platforms can be used with servers, leveraging their high-core-density architecture, to handle resource-intensive workloads and support Red Hat platforms.

Additionally, Ampere’s processors’ very high core density can support scalable software development pipelines more efficiently. By managing parallel workloads, testing shows that these processors can help meet the growing demands of modern IT without proportional increases in infrastructure costs.

Improving Energy Efficiency
Ampere’s Altra, Altra Max, and AmpereOne® processors are designed to maximize performance per watt, consuming significantly less power than traditional systems. Testing in Red Hat’s lab environment demonstrated how these energy-efficient processors can help scale infrastructure for resource-intensive workloads while managing energy consumption.

Customers have also benefited from these efficiencies. For example, Amadeus, a global leader in travel technology, transitioned key workloads to Arm64-powered infrastructure with Ampere processors. This move improved performance per dollar by 47%, reflecting better utilization of energy and compute resources while delivering the power required to support real-time travel searches and bookings. Amadeus’s success demonstrates how enterprises leveraging Arm64 can achieve impactful performance gains with sustainability benefits.

Exploring the Future
As demand for Arm64 solutions surges, Ampere and Red Hat are expanding their collaboration to advance Red Hat platforms with Ampere’s next-gen processors, accelerating the global adoption of Arm64-powered Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift across industries and edge applications.

Additionally, Ampere and Red Hat’s collaboration is helping to advance scalable, sustainable, and high-performance enterprise computing through their combined expertise.

The collaboration between Ampere and Red Hat exemplifies how technical innovation, scalability, and sustainability can go hand in hand. By combining Ampere’s cloud-native, energy-efficient platforms with Red Hat’s open source expertise and industry leading hybrid cloud platforms, the companies deliver solutions that address real-world challenges in enterprise IT.

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