Red Hat is named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Private and Hybrid Cloud Management with Automation

Red Hat has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Private and Hybrid Cloud Management with Automation 2026 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US54644626e, June 2026).

The IDC MarketScape noted, “Ansible Automation Platform's lightweight architecture and expansive ecosystem of certified content collections make the platform a highly versatile and accessible automation tool for private cloud environments of varying scale and complexity. Early adoption by Red Hat of Day 2 automation, such as Event-Driven Ansible, and its integrated AI tools and integrations designed with IT operations teams in mind mean the intelligent assistant helps customers push the limits of automation further.”

IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures supplier product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of supplier strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Supplier market share is represented by the size of the icons.

As modern IT organizations move from AI experimentation to production in order to unlock business value, they must also balance resilient Day 2 operations, faster incident resolution and IT staff productivity. Managing these demands across increasingly complex private clouds requires moving away from fragmented tools toward unified platform management. Establishing and sustaining the right infrastructure to make AI a driver of operational action is a mission-critical imperative for enterprises to innovate at the speed and excellence they require.

Ansible Automation Platform directly addresses these challenges by serving as an intelligent, flexible foundation built to operationalize AI agents and scale enterprise initiatives. Through embedded AI capabilities, teams can interact using natural language to quickly build, modernize and maintain automation assets, while Event-Driven Ansible automatically detects and helps resolve operational alerts in real time without requiring manual intervention, a vital component in handling the high demands of expanding AI infrastructure. 

By establishing the trusted execution layer for IT operations in an agentic era, Ansible Automation Platform equips IT decision-makers to scale automation, support next-generation workloads, and reduce operational friction. The platform’s open source architecture integrates across on-premises, private cloud and cloud-native environments, driving greater architectural choice and limiting system dead-ends. 

Evaluating 10 vendors in the space, the IDC MarketScape analyzed emerging trends and requirements in the market, including AI capabilities, support for private cloud and edge, third-party integration and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Download a copy of the excerpt here.