STAKATER STAKATER IDC Innovators Briefing · 2026
The commercial layer that turns OpenShift into a cloud product.
Infrastructure, orchestration, even AI stack — all present. The commercial layer is universally missing.
Consumers
Cloud Business Layer — Missing
AI Platform
OpenShift / Kubernetes
Infrastructure
Each one creates a category of buyer with the same unmet need.
vCloud Director end-of-life forced service providers onto OpenShift — without the operating model that replaced it.
Cost pressure is driving repatriation to on-prem OpenShift — but on-prem without self-service isn't cloud. It's a step back.
Organisations with OpenShift AI GPU clusters have no commercial layer to share, meter, or monetise them across teams.
The Technical Differentiator
KCP (Kubernetes Control Plane) gives each tenant a dedicated virtual control plane — not shared namespaces. Enterprise buyers require this before signing.
Before — Namespace isolation
Shared control plane. Tenants separated by policy. A misconfiguration exposes everything. Not acceptable for regulated or enterprise workloads.
After — KCP virtual control planes
Each tenant gets their own Kubernetes control plane. Isolated by architecture — not by policy. Enterprise and telco grade.
The cloud business layer problem manifests identically across six distinct buyer categories.
5G infra → B2B cloud product
Shared platform across agencies
Internal hyperscaler for the bank
500+ sites, one control plane
GPU monetisation as a service
Specialist cloud from scratch
Traction
We run this ourselves. Multi-tenant, self-service, metered, white-labelled — in production.
From signed agreement to live cloud platform. Consistent across telco, government, and financial deployments.
Validated across telco, government, financial, edge, AI, and neocloud use cases — same platform, same architecture.
Cloud Orchestrator is the missing layer above Red Hat OpenShift — not a replacement, not a fork. OpenShift customers add Cloud Orchestrator without changing their infrastructure investment.
The platform
Kubernetes. GPU scheduling. Enterprise support.
The commercial layer
Self-service. Tenancy. Metering. Billing. Catalog.
Red Hat Advanced Business Partner · Co-sell motion active
Why We're Here
Category: Cloud Service Delivery Platform
We believe this is an emerging category with no current IDC Innovators coverage.
30-minute briefing · Live demo available · Customer references on request
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