Forrester Research Recognizes Mirantis Charting a New Course as an AI-centric neoPaaS Provider

Says Company “Aiming to Meet Surging Demand for Rapid AI Deployment” 

2025 has been a transformative year for Mirantis, as we realigned our company strategy to meet soaring global demand for distributed AI infrastructure. We believe Forrester Research recognized this strategic change in The Forrester Wave™: Multicloud Container Platforms, Q3 2025, listing Mirantis as a Strong Performer in the market segment for AI-focused neo-platform-as-a-service (PaaS) providers. 

For Forrester’s evaluation of Multicloud Container Platforms, Mirantis was selected as one of the nine most significant vendors. Forrester gave Mirantis the highest possible score in Roadmap, Developer Experience, and Supporting Services and Offerings. 

From our early days as a pioneer of private clouds to our current strategic focus in the AI space, Mirantis has always been at the forefront of innovation for cloud infrastructure. As AI/ML drives increasing demand for multicloud container management, we continue to shape the future of cloud infrastructure with innovative, composable solutions for neocloud and enterprise use cases. 

Doubling Down on an AI-First Strategy

AI Strategy is one of the key considerations that Forrester recommended to customers purchasing multicloud container platforms, due to the increasing importance of AI in enterprise IT roadmaps. 

This year, AI Strategy has become a key differentiator for Mirantis, as we transformed from a conventional infrastructure company to a provider of full-stack AI infrastructure, from Metal-to-Model™. Forrester stated in the report: “Long active in open-source enterprise software, Mirantis is charting a new course with an AI-centric neo-PaaS for cloud-native development, ops, and genAI — aiming to meet surging demand for rapid AI deployment.” 

Mirantis’ pivot towards AI builds upon our success as a leading cloud native infrastructure provider, our containers and Kubernetes pedigree from our acquisition of the Docker Enterprise business, and our track record with hundreds of production enterprise deployments, including many for AI/ML and HPC use cases. 

As a provider of full-stack AI infrastructure, Mirantis empowers the NVIDIA Cloud Partner ecosystem to build and scale next-generation AI services. For all partners, we accelerate time-to-market through rapid GPU operationalization, turning bare metal into revenue-ready cloud services. For specialized AI providers, or Neoclouds, our platform becomes a GPU monetization engine. We enable them to launch high-margin, enterprise-ready offerings by selling every GPU slice, delivering bank-grade multi-tenancy, and productizing their infrastructure. This same powerful, production-ready platform also enables enterprises to build their own internal AI factories, accelerating innovation and shortening time-to-value.

Mirantis AI infrastructure solutions are centered around k0rdent, a composable Kubernetes management platform that integrates GPU operators, AI inference services, and other key AI/ML components to streamline AI infrastructure and services management.

Superior Developer Experience and Supporting Services

One of the primary reasons why enterprises adopt multicloud container platforms is to accelerate software development across different infrastructures, making Developer Experience an important feature to consider. 

This year’s Forrester Wave was the first to evaluate k0rdent, which includes declarative templates to repeatably deploy clusters across diverse infrastructure providers, including AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, and vSphere. Templates can be used to create clusters and manage a diverse range of integrations from a growing partner ecosystem, curated in the k0rdent catalog.

For k0rdent, we offer 24/7 fully managed remote operations with guaranteed uptime SLAs. Additionally, we offer a range of onboarding and implementation services packages for k0rdent, ranging from rapid proof of concept (POC) deployments to fully bespoke enterprise-grade solutions.

View the full report on the Forrester website.

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