Top 10 data center network vendor list

In previous post was saw how handful the Gartner magic quadrants can be when learning and researching particular technology or industry trend:

• New 2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas)
• Rackspace and Brocade pushing ADX platform

Below is an another comparison chart, this time targeting vendor network equipment in data centers.

By the way I was investigating this because of the networks vendor selection on this cloud hardware deployment calculator (How to estimate hardware requirements for your private Openstack deployment ) : Dell, Cisco, HP, Arista, Juniper, Brocade.

Rackspace and Brocade pushing ADX platform

Brocade is Rackspace partner. The company provide load balancing as well as storage solution for the company. Since Brocade ADX load balancer became standard product Rackspace sells it got a bigger momentum and traction on the market. The Gartner magic quadrants for application delivery controllers show how the company progressed and improved.

New 2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas)

There is a new report from Gartner describing the IaaS main key player who drive the IaaS adoption and evolution as well as comparing the strengths and weakness they have.

The 2012 version of the document can be found here:

Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
18 October 2012 ID:G00237002
Analyst(s): Lydia Leong, Douglas Toombs, Bob Gill, Gregor Petri, Tiny Haynes

With a little bit of history from the old Gartner's reports we can see as well as how the market has changed: