SoftLayer Perspective: Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud IaaS
The 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service includes an assessment of SoftLayer’s completeness of vision and ability to execute in the cloud IaaS market. But there’s more to that story than meets the eye.
The fundamental differentiators of the SoftLayer platform are discounted or completely ignored by Gartner analysts in this MQ report, and the omission of those elements is contrary to the perspectives of many other industry analysts … and all SoftLayer customers.
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Bare Metal as Cloud
Stop Sacrificing Performance for Flexibility
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The Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service uses a more limited definition of cloud infrastructure as a service than our customers and other analysts. According to Gartner, in order for resources to be considered “cloud,” they must be provisioned in minutes and billed by the hour (or more granularly than that). Customers choose SoftLayer in order to fully customize high performance bare metal servers, pay for them monthly, and deploy them in any SoftLayer data center in 2-4 hours. These monthly bare metal servers consistently deliver better price-performance than competitors’ equivalently configured virtualized cloud resources. Download Analysis |
"SoftLayer gives us the flexibility we
need for demanding workloads. The
amount of data we process is enormous,
but SoftLayer’s bare metal machines are
the best out there and we have a high
level of control over them—it’s like
owning them ourselves."
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A Truly Global Approach to Cloud
Think Outside of the Data Center
Every data center we build is connected to a unified global network backbone that streamlines and speeds up data transfer to, from, and between servers, so as our data center footprint grows, our network performance improves to and from users in that geography to SoftLayer customer servers in every other data center around the world.
Most industry reports, including Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud IaaS, fail to acknowledge the importance of network performance in their assessments of cloud resources, focusing instead on the features and functionality of a given offering on its own.
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