Red Hat Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms

Red Hat Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms

Red Hat is recognized as a Leader for its modern virtualization platform, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. This recognition is based on Red Hat’s Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.

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As enterprise IT organizations re-evaluate traditional virtualization strategies to mitigate rising hypervisor costs and avoid operational lock-in, Red Hat believes a consistent, secure and resilient platform foundation becomes critical to customers’ success. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization provides an entry point to a modern platform that enables IT operations and platform teams to run, manage and migrate virtual machines (VMs) alongside containerized workloads, delivering a consistent operational model across on-premises datacenters, public clouds and edge sites.

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