Landscape Analysis Reports

This report assesses market participants and offerings of leading SDS & HCI platforms.The SDS & HCI evaluation assesses solution capabilities in seven areas. These areas reflect typical IT challenges that organizations concentrate on when considering SDS & HCI platforms. These include: Design & Deploy, Workload Support, Server Support, Storage Support, Data Availability, Data Services and Management. 

A discussion of the top vendors in each of these areas is included in the Focus Areas section of this report. The report includes: Scope of Report,  SDS & HCI Landscape Overview 2018, Key Trends, Market Dynamics, Platform Comparison, Customer Base, Industry Timeline and Vendor and Platform Profiles.

This report is an analysis of the leading Cloud Management Platforms as evaluated by the WhatMatrix Community – an independent community of consultants and analysts. Vendors were selected based on relevance, there were not monetary or other “pay-to-play” requirements for an agnostic view of the landscape.
The concept of a ‘Cloud Management Platform’, often abbreviated as CMP, has not yet been standardized although the CMP market has been in existence for over a dozen years now. It has increasingly gained attention over the past 3 to 4 years, reflecting the rapid growth of overall cloud adoption. There are now many CMP providers, each with different specializations and approaches to multi-cloud management. The report considers various use cases in its evaluations.