Red Hat
Open source software company whose Advanced Cluster Security product protects Kubernetes and container workloads, alongside Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift.
- Categories
- Cloud workload and container security, Vulnerability management, Security consulting and vCISO
- Based in
- Raleigh, United States
- Ownership
- Private
About Red Hat
Red Hat is an enterprise software vendor that builds open source products. It sells hybrid cloud infrastructure, application services, cloud-native development tools, automation and AI solutions. Its customers are large organisations, and the text says more than 90% of U.S. Fortune 500 companies rely on it. It was founded in 1993 and has been joined with IBM since 2019. The company works through open collaboration with a global community of contributors, customers and partners. Its products are designed to run across on-premise, cloud and edge environments, giving organisations choice over where workloads run. It also offers consulting, training, certification and technical account management to help customers adopt its technology. Security is one area it covers. It sells software for coding, building, deploying and monitoring security-focused applications, and its Lightwell offering helps organisations move from finding vulnerabilities to fixing them with signed, backported patches.
Products
- LightwellA subscription offering from IBM and Red Hat that helps organisations move from vulnerability discovery to safer remediation using signed, backported fixes.
- Red Hat Enterprise LinuxAn open source operating system for running application deployments from on-premise to cloud and edge.
- Red Hat OpenShiftA hybrid cloud platform for building and deploying applications at scale and modernising existing ones.
- Red Hat Ansible Automation PlatformA tool for creating, managing and scaling automation across an enterprise.
- Red Hat AI EnterpriseAn integrated platform for building and running models, agents and applications on any infrastructure.
- Red Hat AI InferenceA stack that provides fast and consistent inference at scale.
Ownership and deals
- Red Hat acquired Chatterbox LabsReport on Red Hat buying Chatterbox Labs (opens in a new tab)
Acquisitions come from SecurityWeek's monthly M&A round-ups from 2021 onwards, from Cybersecurity Ventures' quarterly M&A reports for 2020, and a few from Wikipedia lists. Funding rounds from 2022 onwards come from Return on Security's weekly Security, Funded newsletter. These are dated to the month. A few deals added from the news are dated to the day. Smaller deals may be missing. Amounts are in US dollars.