Frost Radar™: Global Hybrid Cloud Management Platform Market, 2022

Frost Radar™: Global Hybrid Cloud Management Platform Market, 2022

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 environments. As such, hybrid cloud management platforms have evolved to provide common functionality across infrastructures, architectures, and vendors. For platform providers, table-stakes functionality includes provisioning, orchestration, inventory classification, service enablement, monitoring and trouble alerts, workload migration, backup and recovery, identity, security and compliance, and cost and resource optimization.As businesses move further down the path of digital transformation, they seek increased automation of routine tasks, in terms of infrastructure management and also for functions “up the stack”— tasks like data management, cost management and optimization, security, and network management. Increasingly, businesses look for advanced intelligence capabilities to be embedded within the platforms to drive effective automation processes. This Frost & Sullivan Radar looks at popular providers in the market and offers information about their platform capabilities as well as about their level of potential for future growth and innovation.