Extra Red, part of the Engineering Group and a Red Hat Certified Cloud Service Provider, has officially joined the Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator, a specialized growth pathway dedicated to partners with proven professional services delivery capabilities. Through this participation, Extra Red strengthens its position as one of the leading Italian and global partners in enterprise open source solutions, demonstrating a strong commitment to delivering successful customer outcomes using Red Hat technologies and services within the commercial sector.

Extra Red, one of the few selected partners worldwide to have received this recognition, offers customers the assurance of relying on a specialized partner, recognized for its distinctive expertise and advanced service offerings, ensuring maximum support in delivering strategic projects.

Being part of the Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator confirms Extra Red’s status as a highly qualified partner in designing and implementing high-value-added services and solutions based on Red Hat platforms, including Red Hat Automation Platform and Red Hat OpenShift. Thanks to this collaboration, Extra Red will continue to consolidate its approach, methodology, and transformational outcomes, supporting an increasing number of digital transformation projects at both national and international levels.

Alessandro Spigaroli, Executive Director Eng Cloud & CEO Extra Red, stated: “Achieving this Red Hat certification as one of the first partners in Italy for the PPA program confirms our role as a point of reference for organizations undertaking complex and mission-critical innovation journeys. This result reflects our technical expertise, design capabilities, and strategic vision focused on customer value. Furthermore, it fully aligns with Engineering Group’s strategy of building an ecosystem of leading partners and technologies to enable end-to-end digital transformation, strengthening Extra Red as an excellent technology service provider for all Red Hat solutions.”

Red Hat assesses participating partners’ readiness to provide critical services and solutions related to automation and application modernization, validating their ability to successfully architect, implement, and configure tailored solutions for commercial customers.

“We are excited to see Extra Red, part of the Engineering Group, join our Partner Practice Accelerator. This milestone not only highlights Extra Red’s outstanding expertise and commitment to delivering open source solutions based on Red Hat technologies, but also strengthens our joint ability to support companies in their digital transformation. Their deep knowledge of our platforms and proven ability to deliver complex and strategic projects make them a fundamental partner for customers seeking innovation and stability.” Giampiero Cannavò, MED Ecosystem Leader, Red Hat

Joining the PPA program represents a significant step for Extra Red and the Engineering Group towards further consolidating their capabilities on Red Hat technologies, with the goal of presenting co-branded offerings to the market, increasing collaboration with Red Hat teams, and generating new opportunities to support customers in modernization, cloud, and automation projects with the highest level of technical and design support.

This recognition further consolidates Extra Red’s position as a strategic interlocutor for both Red Hat and customers seeking to deliver successful, innovative, and sustainable projects over time.