Unisys Positioned as a "Challenger" in Latest Gartner Magic Quadrant Report for Data Center Outsourcing and Infrastructure Utility Services, North America
Unisys is positioned furthest among Challengers for ability to execute and completeness of vision
BLUE BELL, Pa., October 19, 2015 – Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS), a leading provider of IT managed services, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned Unisys in the "Challengers" quadrant in the 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing and Infrastructure Utility Services, North America.
Among the nine providers in the Challengers quadrant, Unisys is positioned highest for ability to execute and completeness of vision and furthest toward the "Leaders" quadrant for completeness of vision.
The report states, "This Magic Quadrant focuses on management services for mainframe and centralized server environments. It evaluates the abilities of 21 top service providers to deliver data-center-managed services across North America — including data center outsourcing (DCO) and infrastructure utility services (IUS), which are often enabled by remote infrastructure management (RIM) services and increasingly based on managed virtual private cloud services."*
"We believe that Unisys' positioning in this highly regarded report is a testament to our dedication to providing clients with cloud and data center solutions that accommodate the full range of workloads critical to their business," said Neil Gissler, senior vice president, Services, Unisys. "Our goal is to make it easier for CIOs to adopt and manage advanced IT delivery models across their enterprise within a single, integrated management framework, with maximum flexibility and cost-efficiency."
Unisys can provide hybrid cloud services that give clients the cloud architecture best suited to their specific needs, as well as deliver traditional data center services in Unisys or client data centers. The architecture can integrate on-premises data center and private cloud resources, as well as commodity infrastructure from providers such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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*Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing and Infrastructure Utility Services, North America, William Maurer, David Edward Ackerman, Christine Tenneson, 28 July 2015.
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