Verizon leads cloud service and web hosting: report

BANGALORE, INDIA: Gartner Inc. has positioned Verizon in the 'Leaders quadrant' of the industry analyst firm’s 2010 report, “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting.”

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The report (Gartner Research: “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting,” L. Leung and T. Chamberlin, Dec. 22, 2010) examines 20 global providers of infrastructure-as-a-service and Web-hosting solutions and cites Verizon for its completeness of vision and ability to execute.

Joseph S. Crawford, chief cloud strategist, Verizon Business said in a release that “We believe our placement in this report confirms Verizon’s focus on delivering secure, high-performance cloud-based computing solutions to help enable better business outcomes for our enterprise clients.” “Whether we are enabling businesses to be more agile or to find new ways of serving customers through the cloud, Verizon’s ‘everything-as-a-service’ strategy continues to provide new benefits for companies moving beyond traditional IT-delivery models.”

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The relese added that during 2010, Verizon accelerated its investment in cloud capabilities, including an expansion of its global cloud computing footprint.  In August, the company announced field trials of Verizon Computing as a Service enabled by VMware vCloudâ„¢ Datacenter and is one of five cloud providers chosen by VMware worldwide to offer its new hybrid cloud technology.  In September, the company introduced Verizon Computing as a Service, SMB, an online cloud service for small and medium businesses. The pay-as-you-go service is billed via a credit card.   In November, the company announced Verizon UC&C with Microsoft Online Services, a cloud-based collaboration solution.

In addition, in July, the company announced the Verizon Health Information Exchange, a cloud-based service that enables the sharing of patient data.