Published: 16 October 2023
Summary
Organizations are increasingly looking for modern IT infrastructure capabilities that can be deployed wherever required. Here, we evaluate cloud-defined and cloud-inspired infrastructure offerings against 10 critical capabilities in five use cases important to infrastructure and operations leaders.
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Key Findings
Vendors use two common technology approaches to address enterprises’ need for distributed hybrid infrastructure that delivers a cloud-integrated experience across a range of edge, on-premises and cloud locations. One is driven by the public cloud vendors delivering their services on-premises; the other is driven by on-premises infrastructure vendors extending their services into the public cloud.
The solutions provided by vendors, even those using the same technology approach, vary significantly in capability and complexity and, frequently, do not address all use cases well.
Many vendors do not deliver a consistent set of services and APIs across their on-premises and public
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- Alibaba
- AWS
- Huawei
- IBM
- Microsoft
- Nutanix
- Oracle
- Tencent
- VMware
- Hybrid Management
- Solution Delivery
- Security and Governance
- Resilience
- Ecosystem Support
- Cloud Architecture
- Networking
- Data Services
- Container Support
- Edge Architecture
- Cloud-Native Apps
- Hybrid Infrastructure
- Edge
- Assured Workloads
- Multicloud
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Note 1: Assured Workloads
Critical Capabilities Methodology