Red Hat receives highest possible scores across 10 criteria, including vision and innovation

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has been named the leader by Forrester Research in The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q4 2024.

Forrester Research identified the most significant infrastructure automation platform providers and researched, analyzed and scored them to show how each one measures up. Red Hat and ten other top providers were evaluated for The Forrester Wave™ against 26 criteria grouped into two categories: Current offering and strategy. In the evaluation, Red Hat received the highest possible scores in 10 criteria, including infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, integration with configuration management databases (CMDBs), intratool analytics, supported deployment options, community ecosystem, community engagement, vision, innovation and partner ecosystem.

According to Forrester’s evaluation, “Ansible Automation Platform is a comprehensive solution for various use cases, expanding into event-driven automation to reduce human intervention and reduce the burden of writing code for each scenario. Red Hat and IBM are jointly developing Lightspeed, automated code generation to enable users to write playbook code much faster with high quality. Also of note: Red Hat’s strategy for a collective and inclusive user community is spurring growth. Its vision and partner ecosystem are both strengths.”

Ansible Automation Platform is the mission-critical automation solution for operating complex hybrid clouds, from the datacenter to multiple public clouds to the edge, along with AI applications at scale. With a rapidly changing modern IT landscape, organizations can lean on the automation expertise encapsulated in Ansible Automation Platform to help maintain the resilience and efficiency needed to innovate with new technologies, including AI, while keeping day-to-day operations moving smoothly.

Supporting Quotes

Sathish Balakrishnan, vice president and general manager, Ansible, Red Hat

“We appreciate the recognition as the leader in infrastructure automation platforms from Forrester. To us, their research shows that Ansible Automation Platform holds a unique place in the market, combining broad capabilities, a deep technology ecosystem and a clear vision for how automation can transform IT management. Our strategic approach to IT automation helps our customers realize the full potential of their technology by enabling them to orchestrate complex workflows across their entire estate with a single, proven solution. By helping customers deploy enterprise-wide automation, they can free up resources from manual tasks, minimize human error and unlock cost savings that enterprises can invest in AI and other business-critical initiatives.”

The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q4 2024

Authored by Naveen Chhabra, principal analyst, Forrester

“Supported by the community, Red Hat Ansible addresses numerous automation use cases. Ansible excels in infrastructure provisioning, configuration management database (CMDB) integration, community ecosystem and engagement… Red Hat offers a good all-round automation tool for organizations that aim to enable its users to develop mature automation and integrate technology silos.”

Additional Resources

• Read the full report: The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q4 2024
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About Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.

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