AT&T, Verizon retain dominant spots in cloud market according to Gartner Magic Qaudrant
April 16, 2013
Grazed from FierceTelecom. Author: Sean Buckley.
AT&T and Verizon, according to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant report on managed hosting providers in North America, have established themselves as key players in the segment. Having built a broad presence in the U.S. and international markets with its set of private IaaS and colocation services, AT&T provides cloud and managed services out of 23 data centers in North America in addition to facilities in Europe and Asia.
The telco’s depth and experience in providing managed hosting services continues to be a selling point for its large multinational corporation (MNC) customers that have complex enterprise application and hosting needs. "AT&T is able to use its network as a differentiator for use cases where network access is a heavily weighted criterion, or where end-to-end service management with SLAs is required," Gartner wrote…
While AT&T won’t release its Q1 earnings until next Tuesday, in Q4 2012 business services rose 0.6 sequentially from Q3 2012 to $9.1 billion with strong Ethernet, IP/VPN and hosting sales. However, AT&T’s one drawback, Gartner says, is that its operations processes "are heavyweight in nature." "This level of operational rigor can be beneficial from the perspective of the long-term stability of environments and the management of the complexities of change and risk, but it quickly becomes burdensome when customers want to be more agile and to move more quickly," Gartner wrote…
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