by Lydia Leong | April 5, 2013 | Comments Off
If you’re a service provider interested in participating in the Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant process (see the call for vendors), I’d like to recommend a number of my previous blog posts. Foundational Gartner research notes on cloud IaaS. Recommended reading to understand our thinking on the market. Having cloud-enabled technology != Having a cloud. Critical [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, Gartner, IaaS, MQ, research
by Lydia Leong | March 27, 2013 | 1 Comment
It’s that time of the year again, a little bit early — we’re trying to refresh the Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant on a nine-month cycle rather than a yearly cycle, reflecting the faster pace of the market. A pre-qualification survey, intended to gather quantitative metrics and information about each provider’s service, will be going out [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, Gartner, IaaS, MQ, research
by Lydia Leong | December 7, 2012 | Comments Off
Gartner will soon be starting the process of updating our Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting, currently targeted for publication in Q1 of 2013. This is the update to the Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting that was published in March 2012 of this year; a free reprint is available. If you consider yourself to be an [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Gartner, hosting, MQ, research
by Lydia Leong | November 30, 2012 | Comments Off
Many people confuse “using a hardware and software stack that potentially enables a cloud” with “cloud infrastructure as a service”. Analyst firms haven’t necessarily done a good job with drawing the distinction, either — there are plenty of (hopefully non-Gartner) analysts who use “IaaS” interchangeably to describe the technology stack and the service itself. The [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Gartner, hosting, IaaS, research
by Lydia Leong | October 1, 2012 | 1 Comment
I’ve been reading the social media reactions to my recent note on OpenStack, “Don’t Let OpenStack Hype Distort Your Selection of a Cloud Management Platform in 2012” (that’s a client link; a free public reprint without the executive summary is also available), and wanted to respond to some comments that are more centered on the [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Cloud, Gartner, research
by Lydia Leong | August 22, 2012 | 2 Comments
I’m writing this blog post for vendors who are in Magic Quadrants or who are hoping to be in Magic Quadrants, as well as the Gartner account executives (AEs) who have such vendors as clients and prospects. It’s in lieu of having to send an email blast to a lot of people; since it’s more [...]
by Lydia Leong | August 10, 2012 | Comments Off
This is part 2 of a two-part post. The first part contains general tips for Magic Quadrant briefings, applicable to any vendor regardless of how much contact they’ve had with the analyst. This second part divides the tips by that level of contact. Richard Stiennon’s UP and to the RIGHT, which provides advice about the [...]
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by Lydia Leong | August 10, 2012 | Comments Off
Three years ago, I wrote a blog post called “What Makes for an Effective MQ Briefing?” This is a follow-up, with my thoughts somewhat more organized. This is part 1 of a two-part post contains the general tips. The next post contains tips that are applicable specifically to each of the three types of vendors. [...]
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by Lydia Leong | August 7, 2012 | 1 Comment
Something for analyst relations folks and the PR firms that help them, to take note of when participating in a Magic Quadrant: Read every communication that you’re sent, in its entirety. One might think this would be a simple thing, but multiple years of experience have shown that this is not the case. Granted, sometimes [...]
by Lydia Leong | August 6, 2012 | 3 Comments
In the course of my career at Gartner, and my pre-Gartner life as an engineering director who spent giant piles of money on purchasing technology that was often very early-stage, I have spoken to an awful lot of customer references. I’m about to soon dive into the reference-a-thon that a Magic Quadrant represents (we call [...]
