CSC: The cloud’s quiet whiz kid
October 3, 2013
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.
When most people who track the industry think of the cloud computing market, big names like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google, Rackspace, Verizon Terremark and others come to mind. HP, Joyent, IBM and Dell even. But Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)?
Each year research firm Gartner puts out its Magic Quadrant, and this year’s report caused some to do a double-take. CSC beat out all those other companies – except for Amazon – and was the only company named with AWS in the coveted "leaders" quadrant of the report…
While CSC has long-time IT industry roots in traditional outsourcing, IT consulting and services, it hasn’t been a household name in the cloud computing market. “I was completely surprised,” says Brian McCallion, an independent cloud architect with consultancy Bronze Drum. “I’ve looked at a whole bunch of providers and they’ve never really come up. They’re flying under the radar.”…
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