Gartner defines managed hybrid cloud hosting as a standardized, productized hosting offering that combines a cloud-enabled system infrastructure (CESI) platform — consisting of a pool of compute, network and storage hardware — and cloud infrastructure framework software to facilitate self-service and rapid provisioning. It also includes documented and standardized management for either a hyperscale public IaaS platform or a European-country-specific, large-scale IaaS platform in a local language with managed services. The infrastructure platform should be located both in a service provider's data center for the CESI platform as well as in a European country for the public IaaS platform. The geographic focus of this market is Europe.