Has there ever been a Gartner Magic Quadrant as lopsided as the one issued this week for cloud infrastructure providers?

Amazon Web Services towers above other global infrastructure providers in terms of the quality and breadth of its offerings, according to the research firm’s latest calculations.

Only Microsoft’s Azure nears the AWS juggernaut status in the boxy Gartner universe. Other established players, such as Google, IBM, VMware, Verizon and CSC, are all huddled far further down within the lower quarters. A few enterprise providers, HP and Oracle notably, aren’t in the box at all.

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