Forrester on Private Clouds: Platform Looks the Best … For Now
GigaOM
Analyst firm Forrester published an assessment report on private cloud software this week, and Platform Computing, with its ISF software, appears to have the most-complete offering based on Forrester’s criteria. For now.
The report’s authors, James Staten and Laura E. Nelson, ranked 16 private-cloud products across 10 criteria, giving each vendor a score ranging from zero to four in each category. By my count, Platform ISF scored a total of 26 points, with VMware, HP and IBM close on its heels with 25 points apiece. Abiquo also scored surprisingly well, while the other vendors — CA, Cloud.com, Dell, Enomaly, Eucalyptus, Hexagrid, Microsoft, newScale and Tibco — all scored from the teens into the low twenties.
