Cloud Megavendors: CIOs Must Understand Vendor Cloud Strategies

Discussion Topics:

• The effects of cloud computing on the vendor landscape
• The strategies of the major cloud computing vendors
• How to best leverage evolving offerings from vendors in the cloud computing space

Price wars, partnerships, acquisitions and co-opetition, along with rampant confusion and cloud washing, are setting the stage for battle for the cloud. The resulting impacts will have profound effects on the vendors as they continue to mature, disrupt and guide enterprise IT strategies. In this webinar, we describe how cloud computing offerings exist on a spectrum. We outline the major cloud strategies of the megavendors (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM) and use that spectrum to assess the applicability of their approaches to your cloud strategies.

Hosted by:

David Mitchell Smith

VP & Gartner Fellow