Red Hat announced
enhancements to its partner offerings centered around open hybrid cloud
innovation and in support of the growing demand for cloud-native
solutions within the Red Hat ecosystem. Using the proven innovations of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and Red Hat OpenShift 4 as the foundation,
Red Hat Partner Connect is expanding its certification programs and
support services to better equip partners for an IT world built on
hybrid and multicloud deployments.
Red Hat Partner Connect provides
many partnership opportunities, including certification offerings and
enablement for software, hardware, services and cloud service providers
that develop products and services for Red Hat hybrid cloud platforms.
The program offers partners a set of tools and alignment opportunities
to automate, accelerate and streamline modern application development
for the world's leading enterprise Linux platform in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the industry's most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform, Red Hat OpenShift.
Certified partner products deliver interoperable, supported solutions
to customers. Marketing and sales related benefits are also available to
partners completing certification programs.
Participating Red Hat technology partners can now access:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux with certified containers based on Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI),
which now enables partners to include any Red Hat Enterprise Linux
user-space packages in UBI-based container images and redistribute them
through both official Red Hat and third-party container registries.
- Enhancements to OpenShift Operator Certification, including
increased technical assistance, tooling and workflows to accelerate the
certification process for Kubernetes Operators. Red Hat is also
offering new promotional and go-to-market support to facilitate a faster path to customer adoption and deployments on Red Hat OpenShift.
- Updated resources and tools via the new Red Hat Partner Connect website experience and unified Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog,
each designed to help technology vendors and service providers take
advantage of opportunities to partner with Red Hat, optimize
collaborative efforts and better support customers on the path to IT
modernization. As part of a new "build, sell or service" model, the
reimagined website offers an integrated platform for partners to more
easily access resources and tools to build open hybrid solutions, access
new markets and expand operational services.
- Red Hat's ‘Get Help' support desk to
guide partners through the certification process in a simple and
consistent manner for a more seamless certification experience,
accelerating time to market with hybrid cloud, cloud-native solutions.
To learn more about the latest certification and support offerings, and start building on Red Hat hybrid cloud platforms, visit connect.redhat.com.