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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide

Summary

The distinctions among providers are apparent in the market for cloud IaaS in terms of worldwide enterprise adoption, capabilities and service availability. Infrastructure and operations leaders should evaluate providers with broad capabilities and a positive track record for customer success.

Published: 16 July 2019

ID: G00365830

Analyst(s): Raj Bala ,  Bob Gill ,  Dennis Smith ,  David Wright

Table Of Contents

Market Definition/Description

  • Understanding the Vendor Profiles, Strengths and Cautions
    • Format of the Vendor Descriptions

Magic Quadrant

  • Vendor Strengths and Cautions
    • Alibaba Cloud
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Google
    • IBM
    • Microsoft
    • Oracle
  • Vendors Added and Dropped

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria

Evaluation Criteria

  • Ability to Execute
  • Completeness of Vision
  • Quadrant Descriptions
    • Leaders
    • Challengers
    • Visionaries
    • Niche Players

Context

Market Overview

Gartner Recommended Reading

  • Ability to Execute
  • Completeness of Vision

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