Global Knowledge KSA Wins Red Hat Partner of the Year — MEA 2025
- Date: 13 May, 2026
What Red Hat's Partner of the Year award means for your organization
If you are planning a Red Hat initiative — or evaluating who to trust with your organization's technology transformation — this matters to you.
Choosing the right partner for a critical technology program is one of the most consequential decisions an IT leader can make. Choose well, and your teams gain skills that accelerate the business. Choose poorly, and you may spend months recovering from a program that under-delivered.
Red Hat's Partner of the Year award for MEA is a rigorous assessment of which partners have consistently delivered exceptional outcomes — for their customers — across training quality, technical depth, customer success, and business impact. It is, in effect, Red Hat telling you: these are the people we trust to represent our technology at the highest level.
Why partner quality matters more than you might think
Red Hat technology — whether that's Enterprise Linux, OpenShift, or Ansible — is powerful. But the difference between a deployment that transforms your organization and one that stalls is almost never the technology itself. It is the quality of the people implementing it and training your team to use it.
An award-winning partner brings three things a less experienced partner cannot:
- Proven delivery - a track record that Red Hat itself has independently validated, not just marketing claims
- Deeper access - preferred partner status means earlier access to product roadmaps, escalation paths, and Red Hat engineering resources when complex issues arise
- Regional fluency - understanding the specific regulatory, cultural, and infrastructure context operating in KSA, not just generic global delivery
What this means if you are navigating Vision 2030
Saudi Arabia's digital transformation agenda is moving fast. Government entities, financial institutions, telecoms providers, and enterprises across the Kingdom are under real pressure to modernize infrastructure, adopt hybrid cloud, and build internal technology capability on ambitious timelines.
In that environment, the cost of a slow start or a missed certification is both strategic and financial in a rapidly changing, technology-driven world.
Working with an MEA Partner of the Year means your program starts with a team that has already solved the problems you are about to face — and has the credentials to prove it.
“This recognition belongs to every customer who trusted us with something that mattered to them. It is evidence of what we can deliver - and a commitment to what we will deliver next.”
-Samuel Samir, Country Leader, Saudi Arabia, Global Knowledge KSA
A glimpse of where we can help your organization right now
Whether you are just beginning your Red Hat journey or scaling an existing programme, the most common starting points our customers come to us with are:
- Building a certified Red Hat skills case across their engineering teams
- Modernizing infrastructure with RHEL and moving away from costly proprietary alternatives
- Adopting OpenShift to accelerate cloud-native application development
- Implementing Ansible to automate IT operations and reduce manual workload
- Designing a multi-year Red Hat learning ang enablement roadmap aligned to business goals
Every engagement starts with understanding your specific objectives - not with a product catalogue.
Ready to speak with a Red Hat specialist?
Our team of experts works with organisations across KSA to design Red Hat program that deliver the measurable outcomes you need. There is no obligation — just a conversation about where you are today and where you want to go tomorrow.
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