As enterprises increase their use of both cloud and physical infrastructures to support their digital business, they require tools that enable easy, efficient, and consistent management of all environments. As such, hybrid cloud management platforms have evolved to provide common functionality across infrastructures, architectures, and vendors. The ability to manage edge locations has emerged as a requirement for hybrid platforms. Businesses want to extend consistent security, governance, and access policies from core to edge to cloud. This is becoming important as cyber threats—particularly ransomware—escalate.

As businesses progress in their digital transformation, they seek automation of routine tasks such as infrastructure management and functions “up the stack” that include data management, cost management and optimization, security, and network management. Automation is evolving to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) to create what the industry is calling “hyper automation.” Businesses want platforms and tooling with these advanced capabilities.

Frost & Sullivan analyzes numerous companies in an industry. Those selected for further analysis based on their leadership or other distinctions are benchmarked across 10 Growth and Innovation criteria to reveal their position on the Frost Radar™. The 2023 Hybrid Cloud Management Platforms Frost Radar™ looks at companies that offer cloud management platforms that administer and orchestrate cloud infrastructure. The publication presents competitive profiles of each company on the Frost Radar™ considering their strengths and the opportunities that best fit those strengths.