Red Hat has enhanced its partner offerings centered around open hybrid cloud innovation and in support of the growing demand for cloud-native solutions within the Red Hat ecosystem.

Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and Red Hat OpenShift 4 as the foundation, Red Hat Partner Connect is expanding its certification programs and support services to better equip partners for an IT world built on hybrid and multicloud deployments.

Red Hat Partner Connect provides many partnership opportunities, including certification offerings and enablement for software, hardware, services and cloud service providers that develop products and services for Red Hat hybrid cloud platforms.

The program offers partners a set of tools and alignment opportunities to automate, accelerate and streamline modern application development for the leading enterprise Linux platform in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform, Red Hat OpenShift.

Certified partner products deliver interoperable, supported solutions to customers. Red Hat added that the company will also make available marketing and sales related benefits to partners completing certification programs.

Red Hat is also offering new promotional and go-to-market support to facilitate a faster path to customer adoption and deployments on Red Hat OpenShift.