NEC Corporation and Red Hat, a global leader in open source solutions, announced the expansion of their worldwide partnership to accelerate IT modernization and digital transformation using Red Hat OpenShift. NEC now designates Red Hat OpenShift, the industry-leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, as its preferred container platform for mission-critical applications. This collaboration will further strengthen technical cooperation, including the establishment of a Center of Excellence and joint technology development initiatives.
NEC was recently named a Red Hat Premier Business Partner and was the first certified partner to support Red Hat OpenShift in Japan. Since then, the company has prioritized assisting customers in deploying and managing container-based applications, leveraging Red Hat OpenShift.
Building on this longstanding relationship, NEC and Red Hat aim to deliver enhanced solutions across NEC offerings such as core DX, global 5G, digital finance, and digital government. Red Hat OpenShift provides a consistent, powerful container platform that allows organizations to build, deploy, and run applications across diverse IT environments on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. Combined with NEC’s extensive solutions portfolio, this collaboration enables enterprises to efficiently manage hybrid cloud, multicloud, and edge deployments, supporting scalable business growth.’
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Key Areas of Collaboration:
Collaborative Center of Excellence – NEC and Red Hat will establish a joint technical support system, a collaborative Center of Excellence staffed by over 100 specialists from both companies. Primarily composed of architects with deep expertise in container technology and Red Hat products, this team will ensure customers can confidently integrate NEC solutions with Red Hat OpenShift. The Center will provide best practices in system design, technical support, and evaluation environments, enhancing the reliability and quality of IT systems and applications. This will be the first Center of Excellence jointly offered by Red Hat and a Premier Business Partner in Japan and among the largest in Asia.
Joint Technology Development – NEC and Red Hat will reinforce joint engineering initiatives, including collaboration within the Kubernetes community and co-located global engineering resources, to expand NEC solutions with Red Hat OpenShift. The partnership focuses on delivering end-to-end solutions for mission-critical applications, improving operational continuity, availability, and customer support to rapidly address technical challenges.
Through these initiatives, NEC and Red Hat will develop a global market strategy to accelerate the adoption of core DX, global 5G, and solutions for key sectors including digital finance and digital government. Both companies anticipate that this strengthened collaboration will drive success for domestic and international customers alike.
Supporting Quotes
Matt Hicks, President and CEO, Red Hat: “As global enterprises use increasingly more complex systems and workloads to meet dynamic market demands, the need for abstraction and simplicity across their IT footprints becomes clear. Our expanded collaboration with NEC focuses on simplifying a broad range of transformative enterprise initiatives by delivering solutions built on a single, standardized, innovation platform in Red Hat OpenShift. With Red Hat’s hybrid cloud expertise and NEC’s skill in delivering industry-specific solutions, we’re providing our joint customers with the capabilities they need to fully evolve into digital enterprises, without miring them in complexity.”
Takayuki Morita, President and CEO, NEC: “We are very pleased to announce the strengthening of our strategic collaboration with Red Hat globally. Through this collaboration, NEC will adopt Red Hat OpenShift as our container platform of choice to provide solutions to government and enterprise customers who are making the digital shift by linking them with NEC‘s solutions for core DX, 5G, digital finance, and digital government, which are NEC’s business areas of focus. Together with Red Hat, we are confident that we can lead the expansion and success of a wide range of customers’ businesses.”