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\"wallpapers.ws-25081\"Everyone looks up at the sky and tries to make sense of clouds, you know- that one\u2019s an ice cream and that one\u2019s like Elvis\u2026 but FAT Elvis- and so on.\u00a0Gartner<\/a> makes sense of cloud computing in a similar way- drawing the lucky five Cool Vendors from a combination of private, public and hybrid cloud models, with features ranging from a-z as a service.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s 2016 Cool Vendors in cloud management were announced last week and are basking in the warmth of hard earned recognition for their unique, and game-changing offerings. Vendors like these are transforming the AIM landscape, giving large IT companies a run for their revenue. This week\u2019s press release<\/a> from Gartner reported that major companies such as Microsoft,<\/a> and Tibco<\/a>, hesitant to join the \u2013as a service offering, are losing revenue as a result, and 2016 cool vendors, Avni<\/a>, CloudHealth Technologies<\/a>, Platform9<\/a>, Cloudnexa<\/a>, and Embotics<\/a>\u00a0are pulling the cloud right out from beneath them.<\/p>\n

What does it take to make Cool Vendor status? Gartner’s analysis of the cloud market realizes the importance of harnessing the capabilities of both public and private cloud services to integrate their policies and processes, in an attempt to offer more proactive cloud service brokering. Infrastructure and operations leaders in charge of \u00a0application development and IT finance need cloud management tools in one manageable suite- something cloud vendors are typically struggling to harness.<\/p>\n

“The Cool Vendors that have been selected for 2016 in cloud management focus on ease of use and faster time to value. This should help I&O leaders, as well as others involved in management and governance (such as cloud service brokers and IT finance staff), enforce policies and standards over decentralized acquisitions of cloud services, and optimize the cost\/value equation.”<\/p>\n

As cloud computing changes to meet the needs of businesses large and small, vendors are struggling to strike a balance between offering operational management, and policy enforcement needs in a cloud service, while offering the dynamic selection of tools and services that consumers seek in a cloud solution. This years cool vendors set the standard for addressing multiple markets.<\/p>\n

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Everyone looks up at the sky and tries to make sense of clouds, you know- that one\u2019s an ice cream and that one\u2019s like Elvis\u2026 but FAT Elvis- and so on.\u00a0Gartner makes sense of cloud computing in a similar way- drawing the lucky five Cool Vendors from a combination of private, public and hybrid cloud […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[247,279,278,42,132],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCheckmate: Gartner's 2016 Cool Vendors Heist the Cloud - Best Enterprise Cloud Strategy Tools, Vendors, Managed Service Providers, MSP and Solutions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/checkmate-gartners-2016-cool-vendors-heist-the-cloud\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/checkmate-gartners-2016-cool-vendors-heist-the-cloud\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/checkmate-gartners-2016-cool-vendors-heist-the-cloud\/\",\"name\":\"Checkmate: Gartner's 2016 Cool Vendors Heist the Cloud - 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