CSC Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Report

The Gartner report Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) evaluated 15 providers who provide IaaS services. Cloud compute IaaS in the context of this Magic Quadrant, is defined as a standardized, highly automated offering, where compute resources, complemented by storage and networking capabilities, are owned by a service provider and offered to the customer on demand. The resources are scalable and elastic in near-real-time, and metered by use. Self-service interfaces are exposed directly to the customer, including a Webbased UI and, optionally, an API. The resources may be single-tenant or multi-tenant, and hosted by the service provider or on-premises in the customer's data center.

Cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) parallels the infrastructure and data center initiatives of IT. Cloud compute IaaS constitutes the largest segment of this market (the broader IaaS market also includes cloud storage and cloud printing). Only cloud compute IaaS is evaluated in this Magic Quadrant; it does not cover cloud storage providers, platform as a service (PaaS) providers, software as a service (SaaS) providers, cloud services brokerages or any other type of cloud service provider, nor should it be considered to be an evaluation of the broad, generalized cloud computing strategies of the vendors.

CSC is pleased to be positioned in the Leaders Quadrant.

According to Gartner, “Leaders have distinguished themselves by offering an excellent service and having an ambitious future road map. They usually serve a broad range of use cases well, although they do not excel in all areas, and they are not necessarily the best providers for a specific need. They have a track record of successful delivery, along with many referenceable customers. The Leaders (in alphabetical order) are Amazon Web Services, CSC, Dimension Data, Savvis, and Terramark."

View the Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service report in its entirety.