What is an independent software vendor (ISV)?

The Red Hat® ISV partner ecosystem, searchable in the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog, is an integral part of how Red Hat develops and delivers business and technical value to our customers. The ecosystem provides a community to solve business and technical challenges, build integrated solutions, and establish and grow deep relationships—all built around Red Hat’s world-leading open source solutions. Red Hat ISV partners and their solutions are carefully selected and certified to provide trusted, interoperable, and supported software. 

Hybrid cloud infrastructure is increasingly common within organizations across industries and cloud-native apps are commonly built in containers. With multiple cloud platforms in use, the need for a consistent hybrid cloud platform is critical because supporting each cloud service individually requires vendor-specific skills that might not be available in-house. In addition, custom solutions can result in vendor lock-in.

Many organizations rely on platforms like Red Hat Enterprise Linux® and Red Hat OpenShift® to avoid dependence on any one cloud provider—and to gain portability across cloud platforms. To support organizations looking to extend their IT landscapes across hybrid and multicloud environments, Red Hat cultivates a comprehensive ecosystem of software partners. These ISV partners work collaboratively with Red Hat to provide organizations with the specialized tools and expertise they need to operate more efficiently with greater flexibility and increased velocity. This collaboration involves the partner supporting Red Hat platforms using Red Hat recommended practices and going through a Red Hat certification process. Red Hat certified software solutions for hybrid cloud environments built on Red Hat OpenShift from the ISV partner ecosystem offer:

Flexibility to deploy applications across any environment.

Confidence that your containerized workloads are supported and optimized for standardized automation and management using Kubernetes technologies.

Enough automation at scale to meet your IT efficiency and performance KPIs and help support your targeted business growth.