As enterprises race to modernize, accelerate innovation, and adapt to ever-evolving business demands, choosing the right technology partners is more important than ever. That’s why AHEAD is proud to announce a strategic collaboration with Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, in a move that strengthens our shared mission to help organizations build the foundations for scalable, secure, and cloud-native IT.

AHEAD has joined Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator, a specialized growth pathway for select partners with validated professional services delivery capabilities. This designation underscores our deep technical expertise and proven ability to deliver value in complex enterprise environments.

A Strategic Collaboration Built for Outcomes

This new collaboration brings together AHEAD’s hands-on engineering excellence and cloud transformation experience with Red Hat’s open source platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift – the industry’s leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes that simplifies the deployment, management, and scaling of applications.

Together, these technologies serve as the foundation for digital transformation, enabling enhanced agility and efficiency at scale.

But tools alone aren’t enough — success depends on how they’re applied. That’s where AHEAD comes in.

Why Collaborate with AHEAD & Red Hat?

Organizations working with AHEAD and Red Hat benefit from a unique combination of platform innovation and deep solution delivery expertise. Here’s what that looks like in practice:

Accelerated Time-to-Value

With proven methodologies and pre-built accelerators, AHEAD helps clients deploy Red Hat solutions faster – so teams can begin realizing value quickly.

End-to-End Delivery

From assessment and design to implementation and ongoing optimization, AHEAD supports the full lifecycle of Red Hat technology adoption. Our experts don’t just drop in software — we embed ourselves with your team to enable adoption, integration, and sustained success.

Expertise You Can Trust

As part of Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator, AHEAD has been validated to deliver services around application modernization. This validation confirms our ability to meet the highest standards of technical delivery and service quality.

Modern Architectures Built for the Enterprise

AHEAD has helped thousands of enterprises modernize their platforms with experience spanning legacy transformation, multi-cloud strategies, CI/CD enablement, and hybrid infrastructure. Through this collaboration with Red Hat, we can extend this expertise to unlock new levels of flexibility and innovation for our clients.

A Focus on Real-World Outcomes

Every engagement is centered on outcomes: shortening development cycles, improving security posture, or scaling apps seamlessly across environments. AHEAD is working with Red Hat to enable transformation efforts that aren’t just theoretical — they’re tangible and measurable.

What This Means for Our Clients

This collaboration enables us to better serve enterprises that are looking to:

• Modernize legacy applications with containerized microservices
• Build security-optimized, hybrid cloud platforms with consistent tooling
• Enable DevOps workflows and self-service developer experiences
• Reduce operational overhead while increasing IT agility

By aligning closely with Red Hat’s OpenShift sales and engineering teams, AHEAD gains additional access to roadmap insights, technical resources, and collaborative go-to-market strategies — all of which benefit our clients through faster innovation and greater alignment with Red Hat’s best practices.

Looking Ahead

Sammy Isales, the owner of this collaboration at AHEAD, commented on its significance:

“This collaboration marks a pivotal step forward in our mission to deliver unparalleled cloud solutions. By joining forces with Red Hat, we are poised to provide our clients with the industry’s leading tools and expertise.”

At AHEAD, we believe that open source technologies are essential to building flexible, future-proof enterprise IT. Our collaboration with Red Hat is a testament to that belief, and a commitment to delivering on the promise of modern cloud-native solutions – one transformation at a time.

Contact AHEAD today to learn more.