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The Morpheus cloud management platform (CMP) has moved beyond its original focus on DevOps automation and self-service. Morpheus provides a management control plane to enable users to deploy workloads anywhere. Such a control plane is the way of the future for managing complex enterprise technology stacks.
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Cloud Management (CM) Platforms Data Quadrant
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What Is the Data Quadrant Buyer's Guide?
The Data Quadrant Buyer's Guide provides a comprehensive evaluation of the top software in the Cloud Management market. Data is collected from real users, meticulously verified and visualized in easy-to-understand charts and graphs. Each product is compared against the best Cloud Management to create a holistic, unbiased view of the product landscape.
The Data Quadrant Buyer's Guide is a summation of hundreds of data points that gives you a quick snapshot of the market. Use this detailed report to quickly validate your top features and shortlist your top contenders.
For even more detailed reports on individual products, see the Product Reports.
What Do We Measure?
The Data Quadrant measures the complete software experience, comparing both the experience with the software and the relationship with the vendor.
Product Feature & Satisfaction: Satisfaction with the software is measured by combining users’ satisfaction with the top features with the likelihood of users to recommend the software.
Vendor Experience & Capabilities: The vendor experience is calculated using a weighted average of the satisfaction scores tied to vendor capabilities (e.g. software implementation, training, customer support, product roadmap) and the working relationship with the vendor (e.g. whether the vendor is trustworthy, respectful, fair).
Cloud Management (CM) Platforms Emotional Footprint
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What Is the Emotional Footprint Buyer's Guide?
The Emotional Footprint Buyer’s Guide captures the overall experience of working with a software vendor and their platform. Organizations increasingly rely on software vendors to be true partners to help improve their operations. The Emotional Footprint helps you understand how you can trust and rely on the vendor to support you through your relationship.
We collect 25 data points outlining that experience, from the initial contracting and negotiation phase, though how they will support you during conflicts, to how their overall product strategy and direction will help you improve. Use this report to understand which vendors focus on building relationships to create a loyal customer base.
What Do We Measure?
The Emotional Diamond helps identify which vendors provide the best overall experience when compared against the perceived value of the software.
Value Index: Software pricing can be complicated and confusing, but knowing if you’re getting business value for the price you're paying is not. The Value Index metric captures users’ satisfaction with their software given the costs.
Net Emotional Footprint: The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment. It aggregates emotional response ratings across 25 provocative questions, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
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The Morpheus cloud management platform (CMP) has moved beyond its original focus on DevOps automation and self-service. Morpheus provides a management control plane to enable users to deploy workloads anywhere. Such a control plane is the way of the future for managing complex enterprise technology stacks.
ServiceNow’s Orlando release introduced Now Intelligence, a set of features that strengthen ServiceNow’s lead in the AI-powered IT service management (ITSM) and digital transformation space.
Microsoft has announced self-service purchasing, the ability for any O365 user to buy Power Platform products directly through their corporate O365 tenant. This raises numerous concerns with IT leaders and O365 administrators.
ServiceNow version New York has entered General Availability. These features should delight high-maturity IT departments but are mostly worthless for low-maturity groups.
Quest On Demand has added two new features to help organizations further streamline Office 365 management and potentially reduce costs.
Analysts make their bones on prognostication and prediction, and the imminent demise of any given technology is a mainstay of their subject matter. San Francisco-based VMware has made its sacrificial offerings but for two different auguries. First the place and dominance of public cloud as the center of the enterprise IT activity and work. Secondly, and more importantly, the enduring importance of self-service, elasticity, measure service, broad network access, and pooled resources.
VMware challenges IT to be more than it may be comfortable with: technologists as members of an elite caste charged with the moral use of technology and guarding the uninitiated against negative consequences.
VMware acquires Carbon Black, a cloud-based endpoint protection solution, at $26 per share, representing an enterprise value of $2.1 billion.
AWS is previewing Anomaly Detection, a CloudWatch component that allows for greater visibility into containerized applications using microservice architectures.
AWS is previewing Container Insights, a CloudWatch component that allows for greater visibility into containerized applications using microservice architectures.
AWS is previewing new services that aim to make it easier for customers to monitor containerized applications built using microservice architectures. This should help simplify container operations in the cloud for AWS users.
Microsoft has just announced that effective July 1, 2020, Microsoft Partners will lose their Internal Use Rights (IUR) to use Microsoft products at no charge. The IUR benefit is easily the most valuable partner benefit and is currently received as a component of the Microsoft Action Pack.
Capital One’s Cloud Custodian is an open source governance, security, and compliance engine for cloud services that will give users the tools necessary to enforce cloud governance – a necessity in highly regulated industries like finance.
ServiceNow and Microsoft are furthering their partnership by hosting the Now platform in the Azure-trusted cloud. These features and integrations are powerful, but comes at the price of vendor lock-in.
VMware’s end-user computing team unveiled the latest reference architecture (RA) for Workspace ONE and Horizon. Use it to kick-start a continual improvement program.
At the RSA Conference earlier this month, Spirion announced it had won the Gold Cybersecurity Excellence Product Award in the Data Classification category.
Google touts the avoidance of vendor lock-in as a key benefit of its new Anthos platform.
The US Intelligence Community (IC), including the CIA and NSA, has an obvious need for the latest analytical technology. That exists in the public cloud. The IC recognizes this and will procure “tens of billions” of dollars in public cloud services by 2021.