{"id":37004,"date":"2024-10-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/?p=37004"},"modified":"2024-11-13T11:22:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T19:22:43","slug":"microsoft-recognized-once-again-as-a-leader-for-its-ability-to-execute-and-completeness-of-vision-in-2024-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-distributed-hybrid-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/microsoft-recognized-once-again-as-a-leader-for-its-ability-to-execute-and-completeness-of-vision-in-2024-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-distributed-hybrid-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft recognized once again as a Leader for its Ability to execute and Completeness of vision in 2024 Gartner\u00ae Magic Quadrant\u2122 for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Organizations of all sizes are accelerating their digital transformation to leverage cloud-connected experiences and capabilities across diverse use cases. Whether processing data at the source, running mission-critical applications, or ensuring regulatory compliance, extending these capabilities across cloud and edge is essential.\u202fHowever, a significant challenge they face is in maintaining centralized control while reliably deploying these capabilities across a globally distributed footprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/free\/search\/?ef_id=_k_373c534d52cd13b8a401345b2baa54c9_k_&amp;OCID=AIDcmm5edswduu_SEM__k_373c534d52cd13b8a401345b2baa54c9_k_&amp;msclkid=373c534d52cd13b8a401345b2baa54c9\">Microsoft Azure<\/a>\u2019s adaptive cloud approach addresses this challenge by unifying siloed teams, distributed sites, and sprawling systems into a single operations, security, application, and data model. This model enables organizations to leverage cloud-native and AI technologies to work simultaneously across hybrid, multi-cloud, and cloud-to-local environments. Enabled by <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/products\/azure-arc\/?msockid=36d156f74ff96d723016422b4e966cdb\">Azure Arc<\/a>, our adaptive cloud approach delivers simple, secure, and observable solutions for various environments and is supported by a trusted infrastructure services portfolio spanning over 60 public cloud regions, Azure Stack portfolio, and other third-party infrastructure.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are honored to be recognized again as a Leader in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/doc\/reprints?id=1-2J0K7ZG4&amp;ct=241007&amp;st=sb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure<\/a> (DHI) for the second consecutive year.\u202fIn this recently published report, Gartner placed Microsoft Furthest in Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"cta-block cta-block--align-left cta-block--has-image wp-block-msx-cta\" data-bi-an=\"CTA Block\">\n\t<div class=\"cta-block__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cta-block__image-container\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Azure_Hero_Wave_LightGreen_GreenGrad-1024x575.webp\" class=\"cta-block__image\" alt=\"background pattern\" srcset=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Azure_Hero_Wave_LightGreen_GreenGrad-1024x575.webp 1024w, https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Azure_Hero_Wave_LightGreen_GreenGrad-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Azure_Hero_Wave_LightGreen_GreenGrad-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Azure_Hero_Wave_LightGreen_GreenGrad.webp 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"cta-block__body\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"cta-block__headline\">2024 Gartner\u00ae Magic Quadrant\u2122 for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure\u202f<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cta-block__text\">Learn more about why Microsoft was named a Leader.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cta-block__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/doc\/reprints?id=1-2J0K7ZG4&#038;ct=241007&#038;st=sb\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn cta-block__link btn-link\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRead the full report\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image.webp\" alt=\"Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure\u202f\u202f\" class=\"wp-image-37005\" style=\"border-radius:0px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Figure 1:<\/strong> Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure\u202f<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"customers-take-advantage-of-employing-an-adaptive-cloud-approach\">Customers take advantage of employing an adaptive cloud approach<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Azure, with its adaptive cloud approach and infrastructure portfolio spanning cloud and edge, streamlines operations, management, and security for a wide range of customer use cases driven by digital transformation efforts in all industries. For instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/en-au\/features\/coles-deepens-its-relationship-with-shoppers-using-ai-to-understand-the-customer-experience-and-improve-efficiency-in-store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Coles<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/customers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/story\/1777264680029793974-ega-azure-arc-discrete-manufacturing-en-united-arab-emirates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Emirates Global Aluminum<\/a> (EGA) illustrate the use of AI and machine learning workloads in retail environments and smelting factories, highlighting the demand in both retail and manufacturing industries. Coles uses AI-optimized infrastructure provided by GPU-enabled <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/Ignite24\/blog\/azurelocalintroblog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Azure Stack HCI<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/products\/kubernetes-service\/?msockid=36d156f74ff96d723016422b4e966cdb\">Azure Kubernetes Service<\/a> (AKS)-enabled by Azure Arc to offer a superior in-store experience for their customers, which requires local AI inferencing for video. EGA&#8217;s need for extremely low latency led them to implement local AI modeling, enhancing the real-time positioning of their smart crane, which is crucial for aluminum casting and boosting manufacturing efficiency.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith its seamless hybrid cloud architecture, our new digital manufacturing platform outperforms our previous approach by orders of magnitude in terms of cost efficiency, AI response time, and business agility, allowing us to push the frontiers of our digital ambition.\u201d\u2014Director of Digital Platforms and Infrastructure at EGA.\u202f<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Energy producer <a href=\"https:\/\/customers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/story\/1757492569659341735-uniper-it-gmbh-azure-monitor-energy-en-germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Uniper<\/a> runs many power plants in a highly regulated industry where sensitive data, such as operation procedures or maintenance of power plants, cannot be hosted in the public cloud. Access and permissions are also strictly confidential. By adopting Azure Stack HCI enabled by Azure Arc, they can adhere to all their data restrictions and easily manage all the individual deployments in their plan centrally and efficiently through the Azure portal, when integrated with Azure Monitor. Uniper now manages its IT resources uniformly in an integrated overall system, regardless of whether the resources are hosted centrally in the public cloud or locally on-premises.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many businesses also need to connect their public cloud operations with local workloads. In the retail industry, <a href=\"https:\/\/customers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/story\/1703439817447066120-dicks-sporting-goods-azure-arc-aks-retailers-usa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DICK\u2019S Sporting Goods<\/a> deployed Azure Kubernetes Service on Azure Stack HCI to run all their in-store apps with local data processing and centralized DevOps. The company envisioned and developed a \u201cone store\u201d strategy. This allows them to write, deploy, manage, and monitor software across all locations and online.\u202fDICK\u2019S Sporting Goods was able to greatly simplify their IT process by using this \u201cbuild once and deploy anywhere to all stores\u201d strategy.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As demonstrated by these customer examples, the advantages of employing an adaptive cloud approach are varied and numerous, highlighting:\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/securehybridcloudwhitepaper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Strengthened security posture<\/a> across all environments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Simplification of overall management.\u202f<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Performance improvement.\u202f<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">A reduction in <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/hybridsustainabilitywp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">carbon footprint<\/a>\u202f(see also <a href=\"https:\/\/customers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/story\/1629545297570680960-Co-Op_Azure_Infra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">power reduction with Azure Stack HCI<\/a>).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By partnering with Microsoft, organizations can achieve reliable, secure, and efficient digital transformation. The distributed, hybrid infrastructure portfolio makes it easy for you to virtualize your workloads and run cloud native apps on-premises. Every solution comes enabled with Azure Arc to seamlessly extend the ecosystem of Azure applications and services to your distributed locations.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"explore-additional-microsoft-resources\">Explore additional Microsoft resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/doc\/reprints?id=1-2J0K7ZG4&amp;ct=241007&amp;st=sb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gartner Reprint<\/a>.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/azurestackhcisolutions.azure.microsoft.com\/#\/catalog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft-validated distributed infrastructure solutions<\/a> and join us at <a href=\"https:\/\/ignite.microsoft.com\/en-US\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Ignite<\/a> to learn more about all the new investments we are making in this space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/doc\/reprints?id=1-2J0K7ZG4&amp;ct=241007&amp;st=sb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, Julia Palmer,\u202fJeffrey Hewitt,\u202fTony Harvey,\u202fDennis Smith,\u202fStephanie Bauman,\u202fKevin Ji, 7 October 2024<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and\/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, Magic Quadrant is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and\/or its affiliates and is used herein with permission. 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