Gartner’s 2018 IaaS Magic Quadrant: Google joins leaders’ zone as only six vendors make cut

Google has clambered into the leaders’ section of Gartner’s latest infrastructure as a service (IaaS) Magic Quadrant, while the wheat has been separated from the chaff. The annual report concluded that the cloud IaaS market is now a three-horse race in the top right box, with the leaders’ zone not being an Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft-only area for the first time since 2013.Indeed, Gartner hacked away many of the fringe players for the latest Quadrant. Only six companies make this year’s list, down from 14 this time last year. In effect, Google moved up while the other combatants in last year’s ‘visionaries’ section – Alibaba Cloud, IBM and Oracle – all moved left.