Boom! Despite many industry pundits taking analysts reports with a grain of salt, we all collectively wait with baited breath for Gartner’s cloud Magic Quadrant. For those unaware of the Gartner methodology, the Magic Quadrant (MQ) is a simple chart which ranks vendors on two axes< their completeness of vision and their ability to execute.
Pretty much every year we wait to see how far Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ahead of the pack, but this year’s report has some very interesting result – indeed, while the relative placings are of interest, it’s who’s not there at all which will make some vendors wince.