Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
Vendors or products added in this year’s report may indicate a change in the market, change in evaluation criteria, or change of focus by the vendor.
No vendors were added in this report.
Vendors or products dropped from one year to the next may indicate a change in the market, change in evaluation criteria, or change of focus by the vendor.
No vendors were dropped in this report.
By 2026, 50% of enterprises will initiate proofs of concept for alternative distributed hybrid infrastructure (DHI) products to replace their VMware-based deployments and embrace hybrid cloud infrastructure delivery, up from 10% in 2024. The DHI market has emerged at the convergence of two trends: the adoption of distributed cloud solutions extending public cloud services to noncloud environments, and the deployment of full-stack software-defined platforms or hyperconverged solutions in public cloud environments. Broadcom's shift from perpetual licenses to subscriptions and product restructuring has raised costs among many existing users of VMware solutions, causing numerous Gartner clients to create longer-term plans to avoid VCF or move away from it.
A: Vendors may appear one year and not the next based on meeting inclusion criteria which include: selling DHI offerings aligned to market definition with all mandatory features generally available, evidence of 60 enterprise customers or over $50 million in ARR contract value, evidence of deployments across on-premises and at least one hyperscale strategic public cloud environment, ranking among top 15 in Customer Interest Indicator, having at least 10 production customers per region in at least four out of seven global regions, being the primary developer and IP owner of software components, having 24/7 customer support with English localization, offering 99.9% minimum DHI availability, and ability to address four out of six defined use cases. The exclusion of a vendor does not mean the vendor and its products lack viability.