StarHub has built Cloud Infinity, its hybrid multi-cloud platform, using Red Hat OpenShift to enhance its digital services. The platform leverages cloud-native and AI-driven technologies to deliver a vast array of digital platforms and services for both the telco and its customers.
Since Red Hat OpenShift provides a scalable, flexible and reliable platform, it allows StarHub to use a common foundation across different cloud environments. As such, StarHub can more seamlessly run consumption-heavy workloads with sensitive data in its private cloud while focusing on innovative applications and services for better market differentiation in its public cloud offering.
By running Cloud Infinity on Red Hat OpenShift, StarHub can:
- Embrace continuous integration, delivery and testing (CI/CD/CT)
- Improve security throughout the entire stack
- Have better control over cloud usage, with the flexibility to choose private clouds for network; optimisation, traffic management, etc., or public clouds for advanced connectivity, application programming interfaces (APIs) and customer-facing solutions
- Integrate new DevSecOps processes with machine learning operations (MLOps) for fine-tuning, deployment, and lifecycle management of AI models
- Deliver new services with optimised costs for a better user and customer experience.
"We are proud and privileged to have the opportunity to successfully transform StarHub's infrastructure by porting our mobile, high-speed broadband connectivity, content, cyber, enterprise, IT, data and AI workloads onto the 'Cloud Infinity' infrastructure,” says Ayush Sharma, chief technology officer of StarHub.
He continues: “Red Hat OpenShift has been crucial to our strategy, enabling us to apply a standard operating framework and toolset across multiple cloud environments. It is incredible to witness the speed and agility with which we can launch various digital services through our modern digital infrastructure that autonomously manages the complexity of multiple cloud and connectivity environments."
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Partnerships
Beyond leveraging Red Hat OpenShift, StarHub plans to expand its partnership with Red Hat as a managed services provider, aiming to roll out new regional offerings, including private 5G and more.
The telco has also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with F5 at the Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona earlier this week.
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Through this five-year agreement, F5 Distributed Cloud Services will be integrated into StarHub’s Cloud Infinity programme, enabling the telco to deliver a seamless, high-performance, and secure cloud experience for its customers.
Key areas of partnership include:
- Strengthening multicloud networking – Expanding secure and seamless connectivity across different public clouds while optimising application and network performance.
- Enhancing security and observability – Improving visibility across digital infrastructure and strengthening cybersecurity measures to safeguard businesses from emerging threats.
- Simplifying cloud operations – Helping enterprises manage workloads efficiently across hybrid and multicloud environments by streamlining security, application delivery, and traffic management.
- Supporting digital transformation – Addressing the increasing complexity of modern IT environments by providing integrated application delivery and security across clouds that accelerate enterprise innovation.
"As enterprises accelerate their digital transformation, managing multi-cloud complexity while ensuring robust security has become a top priority. Our partnership with F5 strengthens StarHub’s Cloud Infinity programme by integrating advanced security, networking, and application delivery capabilities. By combining our expertise, we are empowering businesses with seamless, secure, and high-performance cloud solutions that drive innovation and operational excellence across Singapore and the Asean region,” says Sharma.
Ahmed Guetari, general manager of the Service Provider Business at F5, adds: “Our Distributed Cloud Services portfolio is designed to solve precisely the challenges businesses face today—managing disparate environments securely and efficiently. This partnership will deliver integrated security solutions that address the growing need for secure, multi-environment connectivity while significantly reducing operational complexity.”
