About Red Hat
Freedom to thrive. Agility to pivot. Partnership to last.
Building stronger technology the open source way
We work alongside a global community of contributors, customers, and partners to bring the best ideas to life. This process delivers flexible hybrid cloud solutions—like Linux®, AI, virtualization, and automation—giving critical organizations the consistency, choice, and control to innovate with confidence.
AI
AI
Build and run AI solutions that fit your needs and operate on your terms. Red Hat AI helps you run any model on any cloud or accelerator with the consistency, choice, and trust you need.
Linux
Linux
Stay agile with an open source operating system (OS) that unifies operations. Red Hat® Enterprise Linux provides the stability and flexibility of a standardized platform, allowing you to deploy anywhere and adapt to anything.
Application development
Application development
Develop new cloud-native applications, modernize existing applications, and deliver applications at scale with Red Hat Openshift®, a hybrid cloud platform that allows you to run any workload in or across any environment.
Virtualization
Virtualization
Migrate and modernize your virtual machines (VM) without disruption. Red Hat OpenShift® Virtualization helps you run and deploy new and existing VM workloads, with the goal of preserving existing investments while embracing modern management principles.
Automation
Automation
Adapt to any challenge and scale to meet new demands and opportunities. Red Hat Ansible® Automation Platform helps your teams automate more tasks in more places, optimizing your operational foundation for whatever comes next.
How we got here
We began by transforming the operating system with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and now offer a broad portfolio of software that’s open to anything.
Founded in 1993
We've always believed that open collaboration is the best way to create software.
Trusted by 90% of Fortune 500 companies [1]
Innovation, trust, and security are at the core of everything we do.
With Red Hat OpenShift, we've supported application development with a hybrid cloud app platform, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform helps increase efficiency through automation.
Joined with IBM since 2019
Together, we’re strengthening partnerships and moving forward with open source AI. By offering a next-generation hybrid multicloud platform, we are driving innovation forward.
Where we're going
Through open source practices, we've kept up with the rapid cycles of innovation to bring it to market as it's happening. And that continues into today with the ascent of AI, on any model, any accelerator, and on any cloud with Red Hat AI.
No one innovates alone
We tap into the collective talent and innovation of open source communities to produce stable and innovative software with a focus on security. Our technology gives you the tools to build for yourself, while our collaborative approach ensures you never innovate alone.
“If you need help, look for the person in the red hat”
At Red Hat, good ideas can come from anywhere. We are experts, problem-solvers, and collaborators all empowered to share our skills and passion, so we are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where the best ideas thrive.
- Red Hat client data and Fortune 500, September 2025. (Registration required.)