Red Hat has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Multicloud Container Platforms, Q3 2025 report. The company received the highest scores among evaluated vendors in both the current offering and strategy categories. Red Hat attributes this recognition to its performance in the multicloud container platform market.
Mike Barrett, vice president and general manager of Hybrid Cloud Platforms at Red Hat, stated, “Being named a Leader in The Forrester Wave for Multicloud Container Platforms reinforces our commitment to delivering robust, enterprise-grade solutions that empower our customers to innovate with confidence across their hybrid cloud footprints. Our focus on core Kubernetes capabilities, strong developer experience and strategic AI integrations positions us well for the evolving needs of the market.”
The Forrester report describes OpenShift as suitable for enterprises that value support, reliability, and advanced engineering. This is particularly relevant for regulated industries such as financial services. According to the report, “customers consistently praise Red Hat’s enterprise-grade offerings and support, especially for managed services…”
Forrester’s analysis highlights that “Red Hat excels in core Kubernetes areas, offering robust operator options, powerful management, GitOps automation, and flexible interfaces via a GUI or command-line interface (CLI). OpenShift’s SLAs of 99.95% for public cloud managed-service versions showcase Red Hat’s capacity to engineer capabilities beyond those of native public cloud services.” The report also states that developers benefit from above-average scores in developer experience due to service and application catalogs, microservices support, service mesh features, DevOps automation tools, and integration options.
Red Hat is using its hybrid cloud stack—including Red Hat Enterprise Linux—to optimize model serving and advanced inference processes that support generative AI development and operations.
Barrett added: “Red Hat continues to provide the leading platform for organizations navigating the complexities of multicloud environments. Being named a Leader in The Forrester Wave for Multicloud Container Platforms reinforces our commitment to delivering robust, enterprise-grade solutions that empower our customers to innovate with confidence across their hybrid cloud footprints. Our focus on core Kubernetes capabilities, strong developer experience and strategic AI integrations positions us well for the evolving needs of the market. Sovereign cloud, coupled with the digital independence required to get the most from AI, have made multicloud investments a leading priority for our global customers.”
Further information about Red Hat OpenShift can be found on their website.
