Celebrating the 2026 SUSE Global Partner Award Winners

This week at SUSECON 2026 in Prague, our singular goal is: Shaping a Resilient Future. But as we will see on the main stage and throughout our sessions, resilience is not a solo endeavor. It is the result of an open, collaborative ecosystem that refuses to accept the status quo of vendor lock-in.

At SUSE, our partners are the architects, the integrators, and the visionaries who take our open source technology and turn it into real-world business outcomes. We are proud to announce the winners of the 2026 SUSE Global Partner Awards. These seven organizations represent the gold standard of innovation, marketplace velocity, and customer-first engineering.

“The speed of innovation in the enterprise today is dictated by the strength of the ecosystem. These winners haven’t just delivered technology; they’ve delivered digital sovereignty and choice to customers at a time when they need it most. We are honored to stand alongside them.”  — Margaret Dawson, Chief Marketing Officer, SUSE

Meet the 2026 SUSE Global Partner Award Winners:

Joint Innovator (Worldwide): Fsas Technologies 

Innovation requires a vision where the hardware and software stack move as one. Fsas Technologies has been a pioneer in accelerating the transition of mission-critical SAP environments to an open, KVM-based architecture. Their work in developing secure, open-standard “Private GPT” backends is setting the blueprint for the next era of enterprise AI.

Joint Innovator (Impact): Visual Cortex 

Innovation doesn’t always happen in the data center—it happens at the Edge. Visual Cortex has engineered a transformative computer vision platform on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and Rancher, enabling real-time AI processing in the world’s most demanding physical environments.

Market Maker of the Year: HCLTech 

A Market Maker is defined by velocity. HCLTech has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to driving SUSE solutions into the world’s largest digital transformation deals. Their ability to win net-new enterprise accounts across diverse verticals is a testament to the power of our joint GTM strategy.

Rising Star: Temenos 

The next era of open source is built by those who fill market gaps with agility. Temenos has emerged as a vital force in the financial services sector, modernizing core banking infrastructures across EMEA and providing a resilient, open-source alternative to legacy stacks.

Solution of the Year (Worldwide): HPE 

Longevity and reliability are the hallmarks of a great partnership. HPE successfully architected a national-scale modern infrastructure for the energy sector, utilizing the SUSE Rancher Suite to ensure zero-downtime and sovereign control of a critical power grid.

Solution of the Year (Impact): Tieto Caretech

Digital sovereignty is now a business requirement. Tieto Caretech has led the way in healthcare modernization, delivering the first secure, Rancher-managed MSP environment for one of the largest university hospitals in the Nordics, ensuring patient-critical uptime through SUSE Observability.

Solution Provider Partner of the Year: Kyndryl

Modernizing for the future means securing the most classified environments. Kyndryl has demonstrated unparalleled expertise in building modular, sovereign architectures for the defense sector, proving that operational resilience can be maintained even at the extreme Edge.

The Path Ahead

As we look toward the remainder of 2026, the success of these winners serves as our roadmap. We are moving from the “What” to the “How,” ensuring that every partner in our ecosystem has the tools, the access, and the transparency needed to win.

To our winners: Thank you for proving that the future is open.

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