- ZDNet has the new Gartner Magic Quadrant for cloud-based infrastructure as a service or IaaS companies. The research firm's famous Quadrants offer a visual guide to ranking the best companies in a particular field.
- The IaaS field is unsurprisingly led by Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Web Services and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Azure with Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) trailing slightly behind in third.
- Towards the middle of the pack but coming towards the front are Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) and IBM (NYSE:IBM), though Gartner had markedly different opinions on those products.
- "The IBM Cloud experience is currently disjointed," Gartner writes, noting that the company hasn't updated its SoftLayer infrastructure since its purchase two years ago.
- Gartner was favorable on Alibaba Cloud's potential in China but said the service was unproven outside of the Chinese market.
- Previously: Alibaba making green data center tech open source (June 14)
- Now read: Alibaba Positioned To Benefit From China's Cross-Border E-Commerce Growth
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