Build

For partners who adopt Red Hat platforms and use them to build and bring solutions to market

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Build, develop, and create

Our Build module recognizes partners who certify or validate their products on Red Hat technologies, co-create solutions with Red Hat or each other, and develop content and go-to-market activities for those solutions. With the Build module, you can earn exclusive benefits, support, and additional opportunities.

As we continue to grow our partnership together, take advantage of other ways to offer solutions for customers through our Resell and Sell With modules.

What makes a successful build partner

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Creating solutions

Create solutions with Red Hat technologies, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux庐, Red Hat OpenShift庐, Red Hat AI, and Red Hat Ansible庐 Automation Platform

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Validation and certification

Verify that your products and solutions are compatible, reliable, and supportable with one or more Red Hat platforms

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Go-to-market activities

Improve customer awareness, generate demand, and demonstrate thought leadership through marketing campaigns and proof of concepts

Build, validate, and certify with Red Hat platforms

Red Hat鈥檚 portfolio provides you with a reliable, enterprise-ready foundation for your hardware and software products and services. And with emerging technologies like AI, you need a partner that understands where you and your customers are trying to go鈥揳nd can support you along the way. 

Standardize your applications and infrastructure on our platform for consistent performance and deploy across bare metal, virtual machine, container, and hybrid cloud environments.

Technology validation and certification

As partners adopt Red Hat technologies for their products, the build module offers two options to be published as part of the . Partner validation is the initial step, acknowledging partners鈥� own verification of compatibility and decision to support a Red Hat platform. Red Hat certification increases the level of trust, ensuring products and solutions meet Red Hat's requirements for interoperability, security, and lifecycle management.

Why validate or certify

  • Provide assurance to our joint customers that your offering in combination with Red Hat鈥檚 will be reliable and supportable
  • Generate market awareness and customer demand through placement and promotion on the
  • Get access to the Red Hat certification operations team that can support partners with certification

Tools and resources

Expand our partnership

欧博体育平台 Build module offers a solid foundation to start your partnership with Red Hat. You can continue to grow your business and our relationship by participating in additional modules that support your goals. Partners can join multiple modules, if eligible, that align with your business.

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Sell With

Once you鈥檙e involved with collaborative development and go-to-market activities with us, we can build a stronger partnership by providing solutions for customers together.

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Certified cloud and service providers

Increase revenue and profitability by delivering hosted or managed cloud services. Partners need to certify their cloud infrastructure to work with Red Hat products before we can go-to-market together.

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Resell

Provide implementation, customization, or consulting services while offering Red Hat products and solutions directly to customers by reselling software and services.

FAQs

What types of companies participate in the Build module?

As an independent software vendor (ISV), global system integrator (GSI), regional system integrator (RSI), original equipment manufacturer (OEM), independent hardware vendor (IHV), or other type of solution builder, you will likely be eligible to participate in the Build module.

How do I get started with the Build module?

If you are not yet a Red Hat partner and want to engage in the activities that are part of the Build module, you can join by registering as a technology partner.

What are the benefits?

欧博体育平台 Red Hat Partner Program provides you with a range of benefits designed to help further your success and uncover new opportunities. Benefits include: access to a variety of training, workshops, and further enablement support; eligibility for Partner Account Management; deal registration discounts; market development funds (MDF); marketing management; marketing plan assistance; featured partner success stories; access to customer portal and knowledge base; Ecosystem Solution Architects, and more.

What activities can I do?

Partners earn activity points by engaging in and completing tasks within each module. Partners participating in this module earn activity points for: onboarding activities, go-to-market activities (including proofs of concept, marketing campaigns, publication of blog posts, whitepapers, and solution briefs, and hosting events, among others), creating solutions with Red Hat for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat AI, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and validating or certifying their products on Red Hat platforms.

Grow your business with Red Hat

Turn challenge into opportunity by collaborating with us on joint solutions.

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