Alternatives to Red Hat
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If you're comparing Red Hat with other companies in Containers & Kubernetes and Hybrid & Multicloud, start here. These are the 28 other active companies Techarda tracks in the same categories, ordered by their activity score: recent stories, follows and discussion on Techarda. It shows where attention is, not which company is better or right for you.
The score is worked out the same way as “Most active” in the company directory; how we rank sets out the maths. Vendors can't pay to move up. Back to the Red Hat profile.
Containers & Kubernetes: Red Hat's main category
18 companies sit alongside Red Hat here, busiest first.
- Amazon Web Services#3 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Red Hat
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, headquartered in Seattle and launching its core services in 2006. It offers on-demand infrastructure and…
- 190 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Hybrid & Multicloud
- Google Cloud#2 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Red Hat
Google Cloud is the cloud computing business of Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It offers Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and services including Compute Engine, Google…
- 82 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Hybrid & Multicloud
- Solo.io#17 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Red Hat
Solo.io is a cloud-native application networking company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2017 by Idit Levine. It sells Gloo Gateway, an Envoy-based API…
- 55 stories in the last 90 days
- Microsoft#4 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Red Hat
Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications…
- 20 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Hybrid & Multicloud
- SUSE#5 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Red Hat
SUSE is an enterprise open source software company founded in 1992 in Nuremberg, Germany. It develops SUSE Linux Enterprise, the Rancher Prime Kubernetes management platform…
- 16 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Hybrid & Multicloud
- Docker#9 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Red Hat
Docker, Inc. is the company behind Docker, the software that popularised Linux containers for packaging and running applications. Founded as dotCloud by Solomon Hykes and launched…
- 15 stories in the last 90 days
- Sysdig#19 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Red Hat
Sysdig is a US cloud and container security company founded in 2013 by Loris Degioanni, co-creator of Wireshark. Its Sysdig Secure platform provides cloud-native application…
- 26 stories in the last 90 days
- Tigera#18 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Red Hat
Tigera is a US Kubernetes networking and security company founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco. It is the creator and maintainer of Project Calico, a widely used open source…
- 18 stories in the last 90 days
- Canonical#8 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Red Hat
Canonical is a British software company founded in 2004 by Mark Shuttleworth and headquartered in London. It publishes Ubuntu, the open-source Linux distribution, and sells…
- 17 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Hybrid & Multicloud
- Spectro Cloud#14 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Red Hat
Spectro Cloud is a US Kubernetes management company founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Jose, California. Its Palette platform manages the full lifecycle of Kubernetes…
- 17 stories in the last 90 days
- Nutanix#10 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Red Hat
Nutanix is a hybrid multicloud software company whose Nutanix Cloud Platform combines hyperconverged compute and storage, the AHV hypervisor, unified file and object storage…
- 25 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Hybrid & Multicloud
- Mirantis#7 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Red Hat
Mirantis is a cloud-native infrastructure company offering Kubernetes and container platforms, OpenStack and open-source tooling, including Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Mirantis…
- 10 stories in the last 90 days
- Broadcom#6 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Red Hat
Broadcom is a US semiconductor and infrastructure software company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, formed when Avago Technologies acquired Broadcom Corporation in 2016. It…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Hybrid & Multicloud
- Platform9#13 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Red Hat
Platform9 is a cloud infrastructure software company that provides private cloud and Kubernetes management delivered as a SaaS-managed service. Its products include Private Cloud…
- 4 stories in the last 90 days
- Aqua Security#20 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Red Hat
Aqua Security is a cloud native security company founded in Israel in 2015. It provides a cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) covering container, Kubernetes and…
Evidence is still building for Aqua Security.
- Oracle#11 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Red Hat
Oracle is an enterprise software and cloud company known for Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, NetSuite, MySQL and Java. It…
Evidence is still building for Oracle.
Also in Hybrid & Multicloud
- Portainer#16 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Red Hat
Portainer is a container management platform from Portainer.io, a company based in Auckland, New Zealand. Its graphical and API-driven tooling lets teams deploy, operate and…
- 20 stories in the last 90 days
- Rafay#15 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Red Hat
Rafay is a US software company, formally Rafay Systems, that sells a platform for operating Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure at scale. Its platform-as-a-service offering…
Evidence is still building for Rafay.
Hybrid & Multicloud
10 companies sit alongside Red Hat here, busiest first. 8 others are listed in an earlier section.
- Cisco#11 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Red Hat
Cisco is a US networking and security company founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells enterprise, data centre and service provider networking…
- 50 stories in the last 90 days
- Dell Technologies#6 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Red Hat
Dell Technologies is an American technology company headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. It sells PCs, servers, storage, networking and data protection products and services…
- 48 stories in the last 90 days
- HPE#1 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Red Hat
HPE, the primary brand of Hewlett Packard Enterprise since June 2025, is a US enterprise technology company that sells servers, storage, networking and hybrid cloud services…
- 33 stories in the last 90 days
- Lenovo#13 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Red Hat
Lenovo is a multinational technology company that makes PCs, smartphones, servers, storage and IT services. Its Infrastructure Solutions Group sells ThinkSystem servers…
- 37 stories in the last 90 days
- Equinix#14 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Red Hat
Equinix is a global digital infrastructure company founded in 1998 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It operates International Business Exchange (IBX) colocation data…
- 20 stories in the last 90 days
- Flexera#18 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Red Hat
Flexera is a US software company that helps organisations manage and optimise technology spend across software licences, SaaS and public cloud. Its Flexera One platform covers IT…
- 18 stories in the last 90 days
- HashiCorp#15 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Red Hat
HashiCorp is a US infrastructure software company known for Terraform for infrastructure as code and Vault for secrets management, alongside Consul, Nomad, Packer, Vagrant and…
- 18 stories in the last 90 days
- Rackspace Technology#16 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Red Hat
Rackspace Technology is a US managed cloud and IT services company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1998. It designs, migrates and operates workloads on AWS…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
- Kyndryl#17 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Red Hat
Kyndryl is an IT infrastructure services company that designs, runs and modernises mission-critical systems for large enterprises, covering cloud, applications, data and AI…
Evidence is still building for Kyndryl.
- NetApp#12 leader in Hybrid & MulticloudCompare with Red Hat
NetApp is a data infrastructure company that sells unified storage systems, data management software and cloud storage services. Its ONTAP operating system powers AFF and FAS…
Evidence is still building for NetApp.
How this list is put together
Every company here shares at least one category with Red Hat. Each one appears once, under the first shared category, with Red Hat's main category first. The counts are published, moderated material anyone can read on Techarda: published solutions, stories from the last 90 days, community threads that name the company and published reviews. A count of zero is left out rather than shown.
Companies in the same group as Red Hat (IBM) aren't listed as alternatives.
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