Re:Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster managem...
by Spooky23 on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @04:29PM
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I don't have a horse in the race, but I work with Gartner alot, and would encourage you to actually read their guidance carefully and read about the Magic Quadrant methodology carefully. Gartner analysts go through the features and functions very closely, but the magic quadrant ratings are heavily weighted by Gartner customer and other peer feedback.
The magic quadrant isn't a good housekeeping seal of approval. It's a screener for an architect in Fortune 500 or .Gov to show social proof that their product selection isn't insane.
The "cautions" for GCP are about the nascent state of their field sales and solution architects, enterprise relationship management, and limited partner community.
The "cautions" for Azure are poor reliability, poor support, and sticker shock.
My takeaway was very different from yours. When you read the analysis, it was reflective of a mature, dominant player (AWS) and two highly capable challengers with different issues.
Google is a newer business that is missing some services (ie. anything user facing) and is transitioning from a weird sales model to a more conventional enterprise one. Microsoft has an established business process and best in class sales org, but they tend to use sticks of various types to force adoption and are organizationally poorly equipped to support customers.
The magic quadrant isn't a good housekeeping seal of approval. It's a screener for an architect in Fortune 500 or .Gov to show social proof that their product selection isn't insane.
The "cautions" for GCP are about the nascent state of their field sales and solution architects, enterprise relationship management, and limited partner community.
The "cautions" for Azure are poor reliability, poor support, and sticker shock.
My takeaway was very different from yours. When you read the analysis, it was reflective of a mature, dominant player (AWS) and two highly capable challengers with different issues.
Google is a newer business that is missing some services (ie. anything user facing) and is transitioning from a weird sales model to a more conventional enterprise one. Microsoft has an established business process and best in class sales org, but they tend to use sticks of various types to force adoption and are organizationally poorly equipped to support customers.