Gartner released its 2010 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting report
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IT research group Gartner (www.gartner.com) recently announced it released its 2010 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting report.
Published on December 23 and authored by Gartner analysts Ted Chamberlin and Lydia Leong, the report featured several cloud hosting providers such as Amazon, GoGrid, Rackspace, Savvis and Terremark.
This Magic Quadrant assessed the “completeness of vision” and “ability to execute” of 20 cloud infrastructure and Web hosting providers.
Gartner makes it clear that the report is intended to be used as a research tool and that it “does not endorse any vendor, product or service”.
As with all of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant reports, the 2010 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting report is divided into the categories of Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries and Niche Players.
Gartner listed Savvis, AT&T, Rackspace, Verizon Business and Terremark WorldWide as Leaders. Under the Challengers category, Gartner named SunGard, Datapipe, NaviSite and OpSource.
In the Visionaries category, Gartner included Amazon, IBM, GoGrid, CSC and Joyent. And finally, Hosting.com, Carpathia Hosting, SoftLayer, Layered Tech, Media Temple and NTT Communications were all named Niche Players.
Leaders have “proved they have staying power” in the market, have “frequently innovate on their existing products…, can be relied on for enterprise-class needs” and “proved their technical competence and ability to deliver services to a wide range of customers.”
Challengers “have a track record of delivering good service capabilities, but they are trailing the market’s evolution,” and typically offer “traditional Web hosting services, but have not been aggressive in pushing into cloud services.”
Visionaries have an “innovative and disruptive approach to the market, but their services are new to the market and are unproven.”
Niche Players are “typically specialists with more limited product portfolios, or emerging vendors… [that] may serve one use case particularly well, and may be more generalized vendor in their area of specialty.
The report is being issued privately to paying Garter subscribers, and is also available for sale for non subscribers. Savvis is also offering the report for free with registration on its website.
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