About Red Hat
The value of the red hat
Succeeding in today’s IT landscape demands more than just technology. That’s why we provide the proven solutions, expert support, enhanced security, and strategic agility you need to navigate complex hybrid cloud realities with confidence—and stay open to whatever comes next.
Where stability meets innovation
More than 90% of Fortune 500 companies are Red Hat® customers¹. As a customer, you gain flexibility and freedom from open source innovation, reinforced with the reliability and performance enterprises require. Open source makes it possible for you to do what you need today and plan ahead for tomorrow.
¹Red Hat client data and Fortune 500 list, September 2025. (registration required)
Our impact in action
Artificial intelligence
Open source makes AI innovations happen faster. Red Hat AI helps meet your needs while you keep ownership of your data, models, and deployment decisions. As the leading corporate contributor to vLLM, Red Hat aims to make our vision of “any model, any accelerator, any cloud” a reality for unique customer use cases.
Insights and analysis
Many products in the Red Hat portfolio are integrated with Red Hat Lightspeed, formerly known as Red Hat Insights, to help you proactively identify and remediate security, compliance, and configuration risks. It also continually analyzes platforms and applications to better predict risk, recommend actions, and track costs.
Partner ecosystem
Red Hat has relationships with thousands of software and hardware partners, including the top public cloud providers. You can deploy our technologies, such as Red Hat AI, Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, Red Hat OpenShift®, and
Red Hat Ansible® Automation Platform, alongside those already in your environment, knowing they will all work together.
Expert and lifecycle support
Red Hat supports our customers and product lifecycles. Access the Knowledgebase, or engage with our training and consulting experts to keep your systems running and solve problems quickly. Additionally, Red Hat subscriptions aren't tied to a single release, offering the flexibility to choose from multiple supported versions and upgrade on your schedule.
Product roadmaps
Customers receive access to and influence over product roadmaps. Your subscription gives you access to the Red Hat Customer Portal, where you can find expert knowledge, guidance, and support—including a view into product roadmaps and lifecycles, as well as opportunities to provide feedback that helps shape our product direction.
Security resources
Red Hat solutions focus on the IT security enterprise organizations need. Each component is thoroughly tested, and our solutions are backed by a dedicated Product Security team that monitors, identifies, and addresses risks that could affect our products.
What analyst firms are saying
Learn how we measure up alongside fellow industry leaders in areas such as container management, cloud platforms, and automation.
Red Hat is a Leader for the 3rd year in a row in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management
Red Hat is a Leader for the 2nd year in a row in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms
Red Hat is a Leader in the The Forrester Wave™: Multicloud Container Platforms, Q3 2025 report
An IT leader that delivers
Consistent solutions in complex environments.
We provide the solutions you need for today's environments, giving you stability, context, and the expertise needed to make long-lasting good decisions. We invest in architectures, software, and our cloud partners in ways that deliver on the promises of open source and shared standards.
Comprehensive relationships in a complex ecosystem.
We’re established in communities where groundbreaking advances are happening. From AI/ML, to edge environments, to continuous platform innovation, we bring evolving technology to your business faster.
Expertise that evolves as our industry does.
Our history proves that challenging the status quo is essential to advancing technology. We don't just follow trends; we provide the foresight and strategic planning to prepare you for them.
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