HP Private Cloud Service Leads the Pack, Forrester Says
November 26, 2013
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.
HP came out on top because of its breadth and depth of services for private clouds, while Cisco and Microsoft were also named leaders. Enterprises are expected to significantly ramp up their pursuit of internal private clouds within the next year and HP, Cisco and Microsoft have the strongest product offerings for those deployments, according to a new Wave report by research firm Forrester. According to a Forrester survey of more than 2,300 IT hardware buyers, about 55% of them said they plan to build an internal private cloud within the next 12 months; another 33% have already started.
The momentum represents the "next step along (the) virtualization journey," says Lauren Nelson, author of the report. "Over the past two years private cloud has shifted from concept to reality," she says. As organizations realize the benefits of private clouds, the market for products serving these deployments has intensified. Forrester evaluated almost 30 providers offering private cloud platforms, but took a deep dive into 10 of them. HP came out on top because of its breadth and depth of services for private clouds, while Cisco and Microsoft were also named leaders.
IBM, VMware and BMC represent a middle class in the market, Forrester says, because their offerings each focus heavily on their existing portfolios and less on tying together heterogeneous platforms, Nelson says. Another class that includes Eucalyptus Systems, Citrix, CA Technologies and ASG focus on niche core competencies and lack the variety of features compared to the other platforms. Nelson does note that if customers are looking to use their existing investments or if one of those features that a vendor focuses on is important to a customer then the platforms in the lower tiers of the Wave report can be a good fit for some customers…
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