Announcing the winners of the 2026 Red Hat Ecosystem Innovation Awards

At Red Hat, we’ve always known that "open" is a team sport. While our technology provides the foundation, our partners act as the ultimate force multipliers—building, integrating, and delivering the solutions that solve the world’s most complex business challenges. Today, we are thrilled to celebrate that spirit of collaboration by announcing the winners of the 2026 Red Hat Ecosystem Innovation Awards. 

These awards recognize partners who have demonstrated exceptional ingenuity using Red Hat’s open source portfolio to drive measurable, transformative results for our joint customers. From accelerating AI adoption in the financial sector to modernizing critical infrastructure at the edge, this year’s winners represent the very best of what happens when we win together.

AI Visionary Partner of the Year: Google Cloud

Google Cloud pioneered a scalable, cost-efficient inference solution for a global digital media and technology platform provider. By deploying vLLM on Google Cloud TPUs and leveraging Red Hat’s leadership and contributions to the vLLM project, the customer decoupled its software stack from specific hardware. This shift yielded massive financial savings, including a 92% reduction in costs for Trust & Safety workloads.

Automation Accelerator Partner of the Year: One Technology Corporation

One Technology Corporation partnered with the City and County of Denver to implement an automation program using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Originally adopted to support remote work, the initiative has since automated 500 processes. This digital transformation achieved millions in financial savings and refocused more than 148,000 staff hours toward high-value citizen services.

Container Champion Partner of the Year: Logicalis Spain

Logicalis Spain developed a resilient multi-cloud disaster recovery solution for the tourism giant Piñero using Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS. By designing a unified, stateless architecture that decouples compute from data, Logicalis enabled seamless, automated failover between cloud providers, supporting service continuity for global travelers even during major cloud outages.

Hybrid Cloud Everywhere Partner of the Year: Capgemini

Capgemini modernized legacy platforms for multiple global banks by implementing a unified, hybrid cloud-native blueprint centered on Red Hat OpenShift. By replacing monolithic systems with a co-engineered "container-as-a-service" model and establishing a dedicated Red Hat Center of Excellence, Capgemini reduced provisioning cycles from two weeks down to just two days.

Platform Modernization Partner of the Year: Microsoft

Microsoft partnered  with Banco Bradesco to build BRIDGE, a generative AI platform on Azure Red Hat OpenShift that modernizes the bank’s digital and AI foundation. BRIDGE enables Bradesco to scale AI across 500+ initiatives while maintaining strict financial governance, security and resilience. The platform delivered a 10x reduction in solution integration cycles and 10x greater agility in deploying AI-powered informational agents, accelerating time-to-market for new digital capabilities  and driving operational efficiency at scale.

Virtualization Transformation Partner of the Year: Everpure

Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) helped a global automotive manufacturer overcome vendor lock-in and rising licensing costs. Using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Portworx, they created a single control plane for both legacy virtual machines and modern containerized workloads. This transition led to a 38% reduction in total cost of ownership and slashed environment provisioning times from five days to under two hours.

Celebrating regional excellence

We also recognize our regional honorable mentions, whose work continues to push the boundaries of open source technology:

• AI Visionary: Dell (North America), Simudyne (EMEA)
• Automation Accelerator: Pellera (North America), Conclusion Xforce (EMEA), RTM (LATAM)
• Container Champion: Everpure (North America), NxtGen (APAC), Vertis (LATAM)
• Hybrid Cloud Everywhere: Microsoft (North America), NxtGen (APAC)
• Platform Modernization: Peraton (North America), Innovation Process Tech (ipt AG) (EMEA), TCS (APAC)
• Virtualization Transformation: Arctiq (North America), Copy Cat Group (EMEA)

Congratulations to all of our winners and honorable mentions! We are thrilled to celebrate Red Hat’s diverse and robust global partner ecosystem and thank you for your continued dedication to open collaboration in driving customer success.