Stuart Corner Wednesday, 14 December 2011 12:05
Gartner Group has sharpened its research focus on cloud computing by splitting its previous Magic Quadrant for ‘Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting’ into one for ‘Managed Hosting and Cloud IaaS’ and Magic Quadrant for ‘Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service.’
the Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting was last published in December 2010.l the new Public Cloud IaaS has just been published (but is presently available to clients only) and the Managed Hosting Quadrant is due out shortly.
Explaining the changes on Gartner’s blog, research VP Lydia Leong, said: “Last year’s MQ mixed both managed hosting (whether on physical servers, multi-tenant virtualised ‘utility hosting’ platforms, or cloud IaaS) as well as the various self-service cloud IaaS use cases. while it presented an overall market view, the diversity of the represented use cases meant that it was difficult to use the MQ for vendor selection.
“Consequently, we added the Public Cloud IaaS MQ (covering self-service cloud IaaS), and retitled the old MQ to ‘Managed Hosting and Cloud IaaS’ (covering managed hosting and managed cloud IaaS). They are going to be two dramatically different-looking MQs, with a very different vendor population.”
Of the just released Public Cloud IaaS MQ Leong blogged: “This is a Magic Quadrant unlike the ones we have historically done in our services research; it is focused upon capabilities and features, in a manner that is much more comparable to the way that we compare software companies, than it is to things like network services or managed hosting or data centre outsourcing. This reflects that public cloud IaaS goes far beyond just self-service VMs, creating significant disparities in provider capabilities.
“In fact, for this Magic Quadrant, we tried just about every provider hands-on, which is highly unusual for Gartner’s evaluation approach. however, because Gartner’s general philosophy isn’t to do the kind of lab evaluations that we consider to be the domain of journalists, the hands-on stuff was primarily to confirm that providers had particular features and the specifics of what they had, without having to constantly pepper them with questions.”
She added: “Service features, sales, and marketing are all impacted by the need to serve two different buying constituencies, IT Operations and developers. Because we believe that developers are the face of business buyers, though, we believe that addressing this audience is just as important as it is addressing the traditional IT Operations audience…Nowhere are those dichotomies better illustrated than two of the Leaders in this MQ – Amazon Web Services and CSC.
“Amazon excels at addressing a developer audience and new applications; CSC excels at addressing a mid-market IT operations audience on the path towards data centre transformation and automation of IT operations management, by migrating to cloud IaaS. Both companies address audiences and use cases beyond that expertise, of course, but they have enormously different visions of their fundamental value proposition, that are both valid.”
Of CSC she said: “For those of you who are going, ‘CSC? Really?’ – yes, really. and they’ve been quietly growing far faster than any other VMware-based provider, so for all you vendors out there, if they’re not on your competitive radar screen, they should be.”
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