New Gartner Magic Quadrant Out – It May Not Be A Zero-Sum Game, But AWS Is As Close As It Gets
May 29, 2014
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Ben Kepes.
The cloud computing industry awaits each new version of Gartner ’s Magic Quadrant. Gartner’s reports are a detailed look at the marketplace, and go a long way to driving buyer behavior.
No enterprise wants to be betting on a cloud provider that is deemed to be behind the eight ball. Unfortunately the tool is so valuable that Gartner protects it carefully – the report is available for $1995 and it’d be a brave publication that ignored Gartner’s copyright and published a copy of the diagram itself…
The magic quadrant assesses vendors on two axes, the first being their completeness of vision, the second being their ability to execute. It’s a simple, yet powerful model. It equally penalizes those vendors who are all talk and no action as it does those who run around delivering today’s needs without looking to what the future might bring…
Read more from the source @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/05/28/new-gartner-magic-quadrant-out-it-may-not-be-a-zero-sum-game-but-amazon-web-services-is-as-close-as-it-gets/