As enterprises increase their use of both cloud and physical infrastructures to support a digital business, they require tools that enable easy, efficient, and consistent management of all infrastructures. Hybrid cloud management platforms have become a necessary tool for efficiently and effectively managing the enterprise IT environment. Operating in a growth market, hybrid cloud management providers help ensure that customers’ cloud infrastructure delivers sufficient capacity regardless of changes or spikes in usage, and that any type of application or service that is deployed performs as expected. 

Table stakes functionality includes infrastructure provisioning, inventory, and management; service orchestration, optimization and management; cost visibility and management (including showbacks and chargebacks); and identity access management.

The Frost Radar™ reveals the market positioning of companies in an industry using their Growth and Innovation scores as highlighted in the Frost Radar™ methodology. The document presents competitive profiles on each of the companies in the Frost Radar™ based on their strengths, opportunities, and a small discussion on their positioning. We analyze hundreds of companies in the industry and benchmarks them across 10 criteria on the Frost Radar™, where the leading companies in the industry are then positioned. Industry leaders on both the Growth and Innovation indices are recognized as best practice recipients.