Introduction:

Gartner has officially released the "Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure" on September, 2023. Alibaba Cloud has been recognized in the Niche Players Quadrant basis its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.

A Gartner Magic Quadrant is a culmination of research in a specific market, giving you a wide-angle view of the relative positions of the market’s competitors. By applying a graphical treatment and a uniform set of evaluation criteria, a Magic Quadrant helps you quickly ascertain how well technology providers are executing their stated visions and how well they are performing against Gartner market view.

Gartner defines distributed hybrid infrastructure as offerings that deliver cloud-native attributes, which can be deployed and operated where the customer prefers. This is a key distinction to public cloud IaaS, which is based on a centralized approach. Offerings are software and/or integrated hardware with a unified control plane. Distributed hybrid infrastructure provides the foundation for the deployment of applications in a distributed manner that retains a cloud or cloud-inspired approach. In doing so, it improves agility and flexibility for the workloads outside of public cloud infrastructure.

Alibaba Cloud Apsara Stack is an enterprise-level resource-exclusive cloud platform based on the public cloud architecture, which employs the same technical architecture as the public cloud, providing customers with a consistent experience. Through on-premises deployment, Alibaba Cloud Apsara Stack offers cloud services such as computing, storage, and networking to meet customer requirements for self-sustaining, security compliance, and independent O&M. Its elastic, flexible, and on-demand cloud platform capabilities also meet customer needs for efficient resource utilization and rapid deployment of cloud services.

Source: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, Julia Palmer, Tony Harvey, Michael Warrilow, David Wright, Jeffrey Hewitt, 27 September 2023

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