Companies planning a shift to cloud infrastructure should be extremely cautious in their vendor selection process, due to a shifting marketplace, according to Gartner.

Lynda Leong, Gartner VP and cloud services analyst, said the market for cloud-infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is in a state of upheaval, as service providers are forced to rethink current offerings and strategies due to “brutal competitive dynamics”.

Speaking at the Gartner Infrastructure, Operations & Data Centre Summit in Sydney this week, Leong said the competitive landscape for cloud IaaS is shifting, with few providers that have the financial resources to invest in being broadly competitive in the market.

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