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We revolutionized the operating system with Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®. Now, we offer a broad portfolio of hybrid cloud platforms and open source technologies—including AI, virtualization, edge, app development, and automation solutions.
We deliver hybrid cloud solutions that are built to run anywhere our customers’ most important, most complex projects need to—from the datacenter to clouds to the edge. Our open ecosystem of partners and communities ensure existing investments stay protected, providing unmatched freedom and choices to change, flex, reinvent, or stay the course.
At Red Hat, we believe open source is more than a methodology. It’s an attitude.
From complex AI workloads to the operating system your IT runs on, there’s no challenge we can’t solve together.
Founded in 1993
More than 90% of U.S. Fortune 500 companies trust Red Hat1
More than 100 locations in more than 40 countries
In 2012, Red Hat became the first open source technology company to surpass more than $1 billion in revenue
In 2019, IBM acquired Red Hat for approximately US$34 billion, the largest software acquisition in history
Joining forces with IBM empowers Red Hat to strengthen its existing partnerships to give customers freedom, choice, and flexibility
We’ve worked within the open sourceKubernetes project as one of the leading contributors to develop an understanding of the best cloud-native practices, tools, and integrations to support enterprise adoption of Kubernetes.
Solving problems at the source in real time requires multiple solutions working together across a wide ecosystem. Edge computing can help.
Put open source flexibility to work for hybrid cloud. This approach empowers IT to bridge diverse environments and use each one to its fullest―without binding future resources. It enables you to respond to shifts in demand, industry changes, or your own IT priorities.
We believe in the power of open hybrid cloud. Standalone cloud deployments based on proprietary technology inhibit clouds from interacting with one another. An open hybrid cloud strategy brings the interoperability, workload portability, and flexibility of open source software to hybrid enterprise environments.
Red Hat is one of the leading contributors to the Linux kernel. Red Hat engineers help improve features, reliability, and security to make sure your infrastructure performs and remains stable—no matter your use case and workload.
Open source values like meritocracy, community building, and transparency are changing the way the world approaches business and life. Red Hat offers tooling, principles, and standards that deliver a foundation for flexibility and innovation.
From unikernels to privacy-preserving AI to usable security, Red Hat Research helps open source communities innovate and solve real industry problems.
Our open source solutions run through the stacks of the world’s most demanding datacenters and clouds.
100%
of communication service providers in the Fortune Global 5002
100%
of U.S. airlines in the Fortune 500 rely on Red Hat3
100%
of U.S. Executive Departments rely on Red Hat4
Our customers deliver innovations that affect their lines of business, organizations, industries, and the global community every day. By using open source technologies to create change, these organizations are proof that when we work in the open, extraordinary things can happen.
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[1]Red Hat client data and Fortune 500 list, September 2022
[2] [3] [4]Red Hat client data and Fortune Global 500 list, September 2024
We’re the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions—including Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes. We deliver hardened solutions that make it easier for enterprises to work across platforms and environments, from the core datacenter to the network edge.