Infrastructure Consumption Services Reviews and Ratings

Gartner defines ICS as a hybrid, multidomain (i.e., on-premises, colocation, edge and public cloud), consumption-based as-a-service offerings for enterprise mission-critical infrastructure such as storage, compute and networking. In this case, multidomain reflects the characteristics of a multicloud hybrid environment. ICS vendors combine their unique capabilities to provide API-centric control and vendor-managed data services planes for infrastructure onboarding, provisioning and SLA-based life cycle management and support. ICS offerings include software-defined infrastructure solutions and appliances for storage as a service (STaaS), compute as a service (CaaS), networking as a service (NaaS), and other data services offerings. Data services include backup, disaster recovery (DR) and ransomware recovery, optionally managed by IT staff and/or service providers.

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