Red Hat Named a Leader in Forrester’s 2025 Multicloud Container Platforms Report

RALEIGH, N.C., July 31, 2025 — Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open-source solutions, on Wednesday announced that it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Multicloud Container Platforms, Q3 2025 report.

Red Hat scored the highest among evaluated vendors in both the current offering and strategy categories. Red Hat attributes this recognition to its strong execution in the multicloud container platform market.

According to the Forrester report, “OpenShift is a good fit for enterprises that prioritize support, reliability, and advanced engineering, particularly in regulated industries such as financial services.” The report also notes that, “customers consistently praise Red Hat’s enterprise-grade offerings and support, especially for managed services…”

What are the Key Performance Areas?

Forrester’s analysis found that “Red Hat excels in core Kubernetes areas, offering robust operator options, powerful management, GitOps automation, and flexible interfaces via a GUI or command-line interface (CLI). OpenShift’s SLAs of 99.95% for public cloud managed-service versions showcase Red Hat’s capacity to engineer capabilities beyond those of native public cloud services.” Additionally, it states that, “Developers will find just about everything they need with Red Hat’s above-par scores in developer experience, service and application catalogs, microservices, service mesh, DevOps automation, and integration.”

Mike Barrett, Vice President & General Manager, Hybrid Cloud Platforms, Red Hat said, “Red Hat continues to provide the leading platform for organizations navigating the complexities of multicloud environments. Being named a Leader in The Forrester Wave for Multicloud Container Platforms reinforces our commitment to delivering robust, enterprise-grade solutions that empower our customers to innovate with confidence across their hybrid cloud footprints. Our focus on core Kubernetes capabilities, strong developer experience and strategic AI integrations positions us well for the evolving needs of the market. Sovereign cloud, coupled with the digital independence required to get the most from AI, have made multicloud investments a leading priority for our global customers.”

Red Hat is also applying its entire hybrid cloud stack, from the critical Linux foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to optimize model serving and advanced inference, to support generative AI (gen AI) development and operations.

Enhancing Global Partner Engagement

Red Hat has announced the latest enhancements to the global partner engagement experience.

These updates signify the company’s ongoing transformation efforts to provide greater simplicity, choice, and flexibility for its valued partner ecosystem.

The epoch-making shift in the technology landscape, fueled by breakthroughs in AI and the dynamic world of virtualization, is reshaping every industry.

Red Hat’s partner ecosystem plays a vital role in helping customers navigate these seismic shifts and capitalize on emerging opportunities.

To support this, Red Hat is continuously refining its global partner engagement experience through an ecosystem-driven approach to IT modernization. This transformation is rooted in three business enablers — a globally unified partner program, streamlined partner incentives, and an enhanced digital experience.

Red Hat is launching the Red Hat Specialized Partner Program, formerly piloted as Partner Practice Accelerator, to drive enhanced industry recognition for validated partners and to provide clearer pathways for partners to develop and showcase skills in high-demand areas critical to customer success. The Red Hat Specialized Partner Program recognizes partners’ deep technical expertise and proven service capabilities to support the full customer lifecycle, aligning with strategic technologies and streamlining go-to-market efforts.

As part of this evolution, Red Hat is expanding available partner specializations beyond Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat OpenShift to include additional products such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and RHEL AI.

Additionally, the existing specialization for Red Hat OpenShift will be segmented into specific focus areas, including virtualization, containers, and application development. Qualifying partners will be recognized as Red Hat Specialized Partners, categorized by their associated technical skills, such as “Red Hat Specialized Partner - Mission Critical Automation” or “Red Hat Specialized Partner - AI Platform.”

Key Benefits of the Platform

Autonomous campaign execution: It executes campaigns from start to finish via an intuitive, self-serve platform.

Easily customizable content: The platform adds partner branding and messaging to turnkey activities to personalize campaigns.

Comprehensive activity and lead tracking: It gains insights into activities, performance, leads, and more with detailed dashboards.

Extensive content library: The campaign provides access to over 16 campaigns in nine core languages, covering all major Red Hat products.

The platform is designed to offer partners enhanced control over their marketing efforts, with support for joint branding and messaging. Partners may request access to the new platform.

Updates in global partner engagement experience underscore the company’s ongoing transformation efforts to provide greater simplicity, choice, and flexibility for its valued partner ecosystem.

Inputs from Saqib Malik

Editing by David Ryder