Red Hat CCSP
Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider (CCSP) Program enables your company to increase revenue and profitability by delivering hosted or managed services based on Red Hat’s industry-leading Virtualisation, Kubernetes and Linux® open source technologies along with hybrid cloud professional services.
Why Red Hat CCSP?
Available in: UK , IE
The CCSP program offers partners benefits that enable you to grow your business with Red Hat technologies. The key reasons a partner should join the CCSP program include the ability to:
Support
Premium support covering all infrastructure components to help ensure operational excellence. Joint issue resolution empowers you to provide reliable, high-quality services, boosting customer satisfaction and trust.
Profit Growth
Choose from hourly, monthly, annual, or multi-year billing models to match your business’s pricing and operational needs. With Red Hat CCSP, you gain a versatile approach to subscription management, helping you scale while maintaining control over infrastructure costs.
Flexibility
Subscriptions are provider-owned, enabling you to deliver Red Hat-based services directly to end customers with full flexibility. This is not just a cloud program – it covers all service provider use cases, aligning with various service architectures and consumption models.
Skill is Key
We view our partners as essential to our growth. Through the CCSP program, you’ll have access to the broader Red Hat community and resources to accelerate your business development and skill enhancement.
RED HAT PRODUCTS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Expansion Program for Cloud Service Providers
Some of the biggest challenges of managing multiple Linux environments include high costs, inefficiency, complexity, and potential security and service quality issues. This program helps partners migrate from other Linux distributions to Red Hat Enterprise Linux with a unique pricing model, professional services tools and expertise, and technical training focused on how to manage the Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment.
Red Hat Openshift Adoption with Cloud Service Providers
Whether your customers are rewriting existing traditional applications to be cloud-native applications, developing new cloud-native applications or deploying containserised packaged applications, offering Red Hat OpenShift as-a-service expands the value of your existing managed Red Hat Enterprise Linux services.
OpenShift Virtualisation is a leading virtualisation technology based on KVM the open source hypervisor. Businesses are turning to OpenShift Virtualisation as a complying and future proof alternative to Broadcom VMware as it allows seamless transition of data from VM to container for test and development purposes.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for Cloud Service Providers
With Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, CCSP partners reduce operational cost, improve security, and meet compliance requirements for managed services. Ansible addresses key automation use cases across the enterprise such as network, security, cloud and edge automation.
Comparing the Buying Programs
To clarify, here’s a quick breakdown between the CCSP and Commercial Buying Programs, helping you select the best approach for each customer scenario:
CCSP Program
Ideal for service providers, with subscriptions owned by the provider and suitable for a wide range of service delivery architectures. Enables flexible billing and customer service models.
Commercial Buying Program
Intended for direct customer ownership, suitable for systems integration, and non-compliant for third-party services or infrastructure use.
Why Partner with CMS & Red Hat CCSP?
CMS Distribution is Europe’s longest running Red Hat Distributor, with over 20 years of experience working with Red Hat and their partners.
Our dedicated team of Red Hat specialists can provide guidance and support across all aspects of your Red Hat business including helping you to understand and explore the opportunity and offerings, Business Development, Sales Enablement, Technical Presales, and Marketing Services.
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