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Red Hat Positioned as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management

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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 Container Management for its hybrid cloud platform, Red Hat OpenShift. This recognition marks the fourth consecutive year that Red Hat has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant, based on the company’s Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.

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As enterprise IT organizations scale modern container infrastructure across diverse cloud environments while rapidly adopting artificial intelligence (AI), Red Hat believes establishing a consistent, secure and resilient platform foundation becomes critical. In Red Hat’s opinion, Red Hat OpenShift provides an enterprise-grade container management platform that enables platform engineers and operations teams to manage containers, virtual machines (VMs) and AI workloads with unified operational control across any footprint, from on-premises datacenters to major public clouds and edge sites.

Gartner evaluates vendors in the report based on their container management capabilities, overall strategy and cloud-native execution. In our opinion, Red Hat OpenShift delivers a comprehensive container management ecosystem built on Kubernetes flexibility, providing consistency across self-managed and fully managed cloud offerings, 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.

To support evolving enterprise demands, Red Hat continues to introduce platform-native innovations to streamline operations and accelerate production AI deployments. Furthermore, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, a native feature of Red Hat OpenShift, empowers organizations to run and migrate virtualized workloads alongside containerized applications, enabling IT teams to manage VMs and containers through a single operational pipeline from their datacenters to public clouds such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Oracle Cloud.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management evaluated 16 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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Mike Barrett, vice president and general manager, Hybrid Cloud Platforms, Red Hat

“Every year brings new features and functionality to pursue in container management and the cloud native patterns containers drive. From preparing the platform’s networking and device management to scaling AI investments to creating force multipliers via agentic processes that help operators or application service owners do more, Red Hat OpenShift has accelerated its delivery through the innovation of its open source communities and customers. This year and into next, the original reasons the industry created containers will be among the most important topics requiring our attention. I am confident that the IT industry will use AI to fix software exploits as fast as AI can find them. However, without light weight containers coupled with cloud-native application patterns driven by agile and DevSecOps principles, the IT industry will not be able to deploy those code changes to production at the pace required. Red Hat OpenShift is a trusted foundation across any infrastructure investment you have, offering the proper mix of container functionality and platform engineering to help you keep up with the coming rate of change.”

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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Container Management, Dennis Smith, Tony Iams, Wataru Katsurashima, Lucas Albuquerque, Carolin Zhou, Bhuvie Chhabra, 2 September 2026

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