NxtGen, India’s largest sovereign Cloud & AI infrastructure provider, today announced that it has earned honorable mentions in APAC in the categories for Container Champion and Hybrid Cloud Everywhereas part of the 2026 Red Hat Ecosystem Innovation Awards. NxtGen was recognized for its achievements in not only driving cloud-native transformation using Red Hat OpenShift, but also helping customers achieve a consistent operational experience across the hybrid cloud.
NxtGen collaborated with a national electoral authority to modernize one of the world’s largest digital infrastructures. This container-first platform achieved 99.9%+ availability during peak operations and improved infrastructure utilization from 35% to 80%. In another use case, for a large, diversified manufacturing enterprise, NxtGen built a sovereign cloud powered by Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. This unified fabric for VMs, and containers reduced virtualization total cost of ownership by up to 70% and enabled zero-disruption migration from legacy platforms.
As a Red Hat partner, NxtGen leverages Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift to provide a robust, hybrid cloud environment. We offer a comprehensive suite of services including Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Industry Cloud Solutions, Cyber resiliency services, GPU-as-a-service & AI services. Our infrastructure is engineered to handle mission-critical workloads with high availability, helping to ensure that businesses can scale their compute and storage requirements seamlessly while maintaining strict compliance and security standards.
The Red Hat Ecosystem Innovation Awards recognize partners globally for demonstrating exceptional ingenuity in using Red Hat’s opensource portfolio to drive measurable, transformative results for joint customers. These awards spotlight Red Hat partners who deliver breakthrough results for customers in key technology areas, including artificial intelligence, virtualization, and automation.
“To receive not one but two honorable mentions in the 2026 Red Hat Ecosystem Innovation Awards, for Container Champion and Hybrid Cloud Everywhere, is a validation of the full-stack conviction NxtGen has brought to cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure. The Container Champion recognition reflects our commitment to helping Indian enterprises modernise on Red Hat OpenShift, building cloud-native workloads that are agile, portable, and sovereign by design. The Hybrid Cloud Everywhere recognition speaks to something equally important: the operational consistency we deliver to customers who cannot afford fragmentation across their environments. For a bank running core workloads on-premises while scaling analytics on the cloud, or a government department managing classified and public data in parallel, seamless hybrid operations are not a feature; they are a necessity. NxtGen is proud to be recognised as an APAC partner that delivers on both fronts. ” A S Rajgopal, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, NxtGen Cloud Technologies
“We are pleased to recognize NxtGen in APAC with honorable mentions in the Container Champion and Hybrid Cloud Everywhere categories,” said Kevin Kennedy, vice president, Global Partner Ecosystem, Red Hat. “The Red Hat Ecosystem Innovation Awards recognize partners for unlocking real business value for customers using Red Hat technologies, whether it’s accelerating AI adoption, modernizing critical infrastructure, or migrating to the cloud. Together with partners like NxtGen, we are powering the future of open-source innovation and modern enterprises worldwide.”