Microsoft's IaaS and PaaS do well with "Enterprises that ... infrastructure-centric professional services partners than other vendors in this Magic Quadrant." Niche Player: Alibaba Cloud Two ...

Google, thanks to its cloud arm Google Cloud, saw the highest growth rate of the top five leading IaaS vendors. Gartner attributed this to Google Cloud’s increased investment in sovereign cloud ...

but this year's iteration combines IaaS and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings. Bala, one of the report's authors, outlined his key takeaways from the new and improved public cloud Magic Quadrant.

IaaS vendors offer enterprises on-demand access to a large pool of IT equipment installed across data centers globally. This model provides several benefits, such as better security, cost savings ...

"The IaaS platform will take a couple of the vendors we have, and a couple of others, and add them in. There will be a self-service portal that partners can self-subscribe to," he said. "Some of the ...