IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures vendor product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of vendor strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Vendor market share is represented by the size of the icons..
More options as IaaS multicloud vendors proliferate
The first IDC MarketScape report on public cloud IaaS in two years was recently released and finds that the IaaS market is the fastest growing, which means "customers have a better, richer array of options, thanks to strategic decisions taken by vendors to gain competitive advantage." The IDC MarketScape named Akamai a Contender.
Akamai's cloud computing services are cost-effective, reliable, and trusted, allowing developers to build, deploy, and secure applications and workloads everywhere businesses connect online. They put your workloads and applications closer to your end users and devices thanks to our massively distributed cloud and edge platform. This will delight your customers with low latency and high availability, and give your developers endless opportunities to innovate, using any set of tools on an open platform, while giving you the best performance per dollar. The services enable you to achieve your business goals by increasing performance and speed to market while reining in spiraling and unpredictable cloud costs.
The IDC MarketScape report emphasizes the importance of provider and location options. We believe Akamai's cloud computing services are one of those options, especially considering we own a cloud platform that runs on the largest distributed network in the world.
For more insights on the state of cloud computing, download the excerpt.