The DRaaS market consists of hundreds of providers all with different approaches and capabilities to Disaster Recovery as a Service.
Gartner’s first order of business is defining the inclusion criteria and determining which vendors to include in the MQ. By applying a graphical treatment after a uniform set of evaluation criteria, the Magic Quadrant helps enterprise IT buyers quickly ascertain how well technology providers are executing their stated visions and how well they are performing against Gartner’s market view. The Gartner MQ is widely seen as the ultimate bake-off for vendors in any given technology market. This is Gartner’s third MQ for DRaaS and comes at a point of maturation in the DRaaS space when the innovators are able to better differentiate and separate themselves from the pack.īut first, let’s start with some background on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant (or MQ as it’s more commonly called), and the Critical Capabilities Report. We believe Gartner’s own scoring criteria, for example, can be very telling in terms of where the market is heading and the types of questions they’re received from their enterprise clients. While Infrascale was named a Leader in this evolving space – an accomplishment of which we’re fiercely proud – there are other notable market shifts in the report.
This week, Gartner released its annual Magic Quadrant report on Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS).
