For the third consecutive year, Red Hat is named a Leader for its hybrid cloud application platform, Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms for Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s comprehensive hybrid application platform powered by Kubernetes. This recognition marks the third consecutive year that Red Hat has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant, based on the company’s Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.
As organizations prioritize modernizing complex legacy environments while adopting artificial intelligence (AI), Red Hat believes that having an agile, secure and unified application foundation becomes critical. Gartner evaluates vendors in the report based on their offering strategy, innovation, overall viability, business model, and more. This research helps software engineering leaders evaluate cloud-native application platform vendors and find the best fit for their organization. In our opinion, Red Hat OpenShift delivers a consistent, enterprise-grade hybrid cloud experience built on Kubernetes flexibility, allowing organizations to manage containers, virtual machines (VMs) and AI workloads with the same operational and security rigor across any infrastructure footprint. The platform is natively integrated and available as a managed service including Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud, while also supporting flexible, self-managed deployments on-premises or in private clouds.
To support evolving enterprise demands, Red Hat recently expanded capabilities to optimize compute costs, resource scheduling and production-ready AI application development. Additionally, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, a native feature of Red Hat OpenShift, helps organizations migrate traditional VMs to a modern, unified application platform on their infrastructure of choice, whether on-premises or across major cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Oracle Cloud, allowing IT teams to manage containers, VMs and AI workloads through a single operational workflow.
The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms evaluated 12 vendor solutions and was based on specific criteria that analyzed the company’s overall Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. According to Gartner, Leaders execute well against their current vision and are well positioned for tomorrow. View a complimentary copy of the Magic Quadrant report to learn more about Red Hat’s strengths and cautions, among other provider offerings, here.
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