Red Hat Partner Program
Grow your business with a Red Hat partnership
Team with us to extend your business’s reach
The Red Hat Partner Program is designed to amplify your ability to build, sell, and service Red Hat products as part of your broader technology solution offerings. Whatever your business goals, our partner program helps you deliver better customer outcomes, build opportunities in new markets, offer high-value services, and realize greater business value–together with Red Hat.
Our portfolio–and enablement resources designed to help you make the most of it–support your activities so you can focus on innovating, expanding your offerings, and creating multiple revenue streams.
Ways to partner with Red Hat
Our partner program is composed of modules, each of which represents a set of activities and benefits that align with how you choose to do business with Red Hat. Partners can join multiple modules, if eligible, so you can grow your partnership with us and help our joint customers address their challenges.
Resell
For partners who sell Red Hat products and services directly to customers and engage in go-to-market activities–including resellers, solution providers, or regional system integrators (RSI).
Sell With
For partners actively collaborating with Red Hat on joint solutions—independent software vendors (ISVs), global and regional system integrators (GSIs and RSIs), and others.
Build
For 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.
Distribution
For select global and regional partners who enable and support Red Hat’s reseller partners.
How the program works
The program is organized around standard partner tiers that apply consistently across all
regions and business models with Red Hat. Partners can earn points toward their tier status by completing relevant activities, which gives you access to exclusive benefits and opportunities. Points can be earned through both transactional achievements and non-transactional activities and in all modules.
For the most accurate list of benefits associated with each partner tier, refer to the Red Hat Partner Program guide1.
Partner tiers
Advance through tiers by accumulating activity points and meeting enablement requirements. As you advance to higher tiers, you will qualify for additional benefits.
Ready
For partners at the beginning of their Red Hat ecosystem journey or those with moderate engagement.
Advanced
For partners who choose to increase their focus on Red Hat revenue streams.
Premier
For partners with long-term, strategic customer relationships and go-to-market commitments.
Activities
Engage in the activities that fit your goals and unlock new levels of recognition—along with exclusive benefits, support, and additional opportunities.
Activities include:
- Earning Red Hat seller and technical seller credentials
- Running demand generation and marketing campaigns
- Registering deals
- Developing joint solutions
- Completing product bookings
- Performing proof of concepts
- Publishing whitepapers or blogs
Benefits, tools, and resources
As a Red Hat partner you gain access to tools, resources, and support to expand your services, increase profitability and grow your business.
Benefits
Partners are recognized for the value they create and receive access to a variety of benefits, including Red Hat demo platform, partner subscriptions, deal registration, marketing and sales enablement, earn access to a partner account manager, and more.
Training
Build expertise in the Red Hat technologies with access to more than 75 training courses and nearly 40 industry-recognized Red Hat certifications to help you improve customer experiences, deliver Red Hat related services, and increase your sales.
Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog
Solutions built to industry standards and flexible open source platforms allow customers to deploy with confidence. Customers can search for partners based on specific distinctions or services, and explore offerings that span ecosystem solutions and certified hardware, software, and cloud services—all from one source.
Grow your business with Red Hat
Turn challenge into opportunity by collaborating with us on joint solutions.
Red Hat reserves the right to modify modules, tiers, activities, benefits, and other aspects of the partner program at our discretion. The Red Hat Program Guide is the definitive document that outlines this information, and in the case of any discrepancies between this document and other communications, the Red Hat Program Guide will take priority. Red Hat acknowledges the dynamic nature of the business and technological landscape and, as such, retains the authority to implement periodic amendments or enhancements to this guide.
