SUSE a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management

SUSE a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management We’re proud to share that SUSE has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management. To us, this recognition reflects a strategy built entirely around you: giving enterprises open choice, total control, and a clear path to run heterogeneous, AI, edge, and sovereign workloads without forced bundles or vendor lock-in. Enterprises Want to Own What They Run The old way of managing infrastructure is breaking down. Teams are trapped by forced bundles, rising renewal costs, and platform complexity that slows time to market. SUSE Rancher Prime takes a different approach—an intelligent, open platform designed to streamline day-two operations, govern VMs alongside containers, and unify heterogeneous Kubernetes environments from cloud to edge. Real Customer Impact: Efficiency, Scale, and Sovereignty Our core philosophy is simple: you take what you need and leave the rest. By eliminating software taxes and prioritizing true composability, our customers are achieving massive operational gains: - Korea Coast Guard: Built its full Kubernetes and AI infrastructure in one week, cutting deployment time by 75% and costs by 30%, while enabling vessels to process data offline at sea. - Switch: Accelerated exascale AI workload deployments on NVIDIA GB200 racks by up to 98% (from days to minutes) at 100% uptime, expanding capacity without increasing energy consumption. - ABA Bank: Cut container management costs by 15% and reduced microservice deployment times by 50% while maintaining 99.999% availability for Cambodia’s largest private bank. - VisualCortex: Runs computer vision models with >95% accuracy across distributed edge sites using lightweight K3s, pushing new AI models anywhere in minutes. - Swiss Super Computing Centre: Runs global high-performance computing infrastructure with an ultra-lean team of just two engineers. Platform Intelligence Built for Choice Whether you are running local AI models in air-gapped environments, modernizing legacy virtual machines with SUSE Virtualization, or managing edge sites with K3s, SUSE puts you in control: - AI-Driven Simplicity: Our safe AI Agent ecosystem, featuring Liz, lets teams automate complex infrastructure, security, and observability tasks using plain language. - Developer-First Security: The SUSE Application Collection delivers verified, CVE-scanned applications and Helm charts directly to developers through tools they already use. - True Digital Sovereignty: Run fully air-gapped with local AI execution, predictable pricing, and zero external cloud dependencies. We feel being recognized as a Leader is a milestone, but our job is to keep engineering fair, open, and flexible solutions for your actual needs. Next Steps: - Read the full 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Report - Explore the SUSE Rancher Prime Portfolio - Get in touch with our team Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Container Management, Dennis Smith, Tony Iams, Wataru Katsurashima, Lucas Albuquerque, Carolin Zhou, 2 September 2026. Gartner does not endorse any company, vendor, product or service depicted in its publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s business and technology insights organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this publication, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Gartner and Magic Quadrant are trademarks of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from SUSE.