There’s a particular kind of satisfaction in building technology solutions to solve challenges for your own company, while also realising it could help your customers too, and then having the industry recognise it. It’s humbling — and it feels pretty good.
Advent One has been named the winner of the Red Hat 2026 Container Champion Ecosystem Award. Selected from three outstanding finalists, this award recognises the container modernisation capability we’ve built with Red Hat OpenShift at its core. More importantly, it recognises the real outcomes we’re delivering for our customers.
One example called out by the vendor: a fourfold expansion of nodes within a customer’s OpenShift environment. It’s a powerful demonstration of not just the scale of transformation possible, but of the trust our customers place in us to deliver and grow these platforms with them. The award was presented at Red Hat’s Ecosystem Success Day in Sydney on the evening of 13 October 2026, with members of our Sydney team there to accept the award.
A huge thank you to Red Hat for the recognition, to our customers for their trust in us and our team who make this work possible: Talor Holloway Jacob Schreuder Ellis Johnson Ajay Paul Larry Akinnawonu Caroline Morrissey Joseph D’Agata Jeremy Bolton and Cath Gullo.
Pictured: the team representing both companies on the awards night John Nelson, Luke Macfarlane, Cath Gullo, Jeremy Bolton Luke McGoldrick and Enzo Compagnoni
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The Advent One solution
Our team often says, “Anyone can migrate virtual machines to containers and hand over the keys. Not everyone has built an operating model that makes it easy to deploy, run, manage, and protect”. By integrating containers and Kubernetes within a single platform, Advent One engineered a modern IT operating model, enabling clients to run containerised workloads without starting from scratch. It’s flexible, secure, and production-ready – and we’ve already proven it internally.
Our journey to create an automated and unified platform started in response to market shifts (think: significant price hikes in our virtual machine environment in addition to vendor mandates). When we looked for alternatives, suitable options were few and far between the team, so our team set about creating one. The wish list was for a future-ready, cost-effective and modern hosting platform, without the restrictions of proprietary systems. To support a phased, low-risk transformation, it had to offer the flexibility to run traditional VMs alongside container-based workloads. Plus, a platform built for our customers had to be heavily automated, scalable, easy to deploy, and highly repeatable – qualities we made non-negotiable.
We tested it on our own environment first before taking it to market. The new platform delivered stronger outcomes – not just in cost savings, but in productivity, automation, and long-term flexibility. Behind the scenes, the solution is supported by innovative automation which alleviates complexity, making it a streamlined accessible experience for our customers. This is what our customers tell us is an important requirement when making infrastructure decisions. You can read more about our own journey here: Container-Modernisation-Case-Study.pdf
Why adopt the path of containers?
While perceived as adding complexity, containerisation offers organisations a more efficient, flexible and robust way to deliver and manage critical workloads. With rapid deployment, consistent performance, and built-in seamless scalability, it also represents a far more agile environment, allowing simpler workload migration between private and public hybrid cloud environments as requirements change over time.
And uptake is only increasing. According to Business Research Insights (1), the global market is continuing to grow at a significant rate (the global container technology market was valued at USD$0.85 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach USD$4.48 billion by 2033).
Experience matters
As with any major technology shift, there are clear benefits to be gained, but, just as importantly, risks and challenges to consider and navigate when integrating containers into your production IT operations. Introducing new technologies like containers can create new challenges – from security, compliance and governance through to disaster recovery and data protection alongside inevitable skills gaps arising from the introduction of new architectures and platforms.
These challenges are why many organisations benefit from working with an experienced partner like Advent One. We have deep experience in helping Australian organisations implement modern container environments while supporting them ongoing through full managed service solutions, eliminating these challenges and risks
Start your modernisation journey with a solution that’s already built to scale. Get in touch today.
Further reading:
Adopting container modernisation in hybrid cloud environments – Advent One