VMware is glad to share that we have been named a Leader in the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management.
"We are delighted to have been named a Leader in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management. We feel the fact that Gartner recognizes VMware for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision is a great validation. VMware offers heterogeneous integration to help our customers become cloud smart and the lifecycle management support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters was cited as a good example of that heterogeneous integration. We are excited to offer even more options to our customers today in concert with the fact that Gartner sees the interest in hybrid and multicloud use cases growing."
—Purnima Padmanabhan, SVP and GM, Modern Applications and Management Business Group at VMware
The Gartner Magic Quadrant research methodology provides a graphical competitive positioning of four types of technology providers in fast-growing markets: Leaders, Visionaries, Niche Players, and Challengers. Leaders are considered to execute well against their current vision and are well-positioned for tomorrow.
Gartner defines container management as offerings that enable the deployment and operation of containerized workloads. Delivery methods include cloud, managed service, and software. Container management may be required for containers running on-premises, in the public cloud, at the edge, or a combination thereof. Associated technologies include service mesh, orchestration and scheduling, service discovery and registration, image registry, routing, and networking, service catalog and management user interface, and API.
Gartner sees that interest in hybrid and multicloud use cases is growing. The broader public cloud focus has evolved into a hybrid (and in some cases, distributed) and/or multicloud discussion in which most enterprises are open to using multiple cloud environments. Management solutions offer the ability to operationalize management across these different cloud environments through a multienvironment control panel. Additionally, public cloud vendors are offering container management software that can be deployed in a variety of environments. These offerings initially targeted more of a hybrid than multicloud model (that is, extending their technology from the cloud to on-premises).
As companion research, Gartner Critical Capabilities notes provide deeper insight into the capability and suitability of providers’ IT products and services based on specific or customized use cases.
The following critical capabilities were taken into consideration when evaluating vendors for the Magic Quadrant placement:
- Container Management Software Deployment Use Case
- Public Cloud Container Management Deployment Use Case
- Hybrid Deployment Use Case
- Self-Management Tooling Use Case
- Edge Container Management Deployment Use Case
- Serverless Containers Deployment Use Case
In the 2023 Gartner Critical Capabilities Report for Container Management, VMware was ranked among the four highest-scoring vendors in three use cases: Container Management Software Deployment, Hybrid Deployment, and Self-Management Tooling.
Next steps
Access the complimentary report to read the full analysis and discover why VMware Tanzu is a strong offering for enterprises looking for container management solutions for heterogeneous Kubernetes distributions.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Container Management, Dennis Smith, Wataru Katsurashima, Michael Warrilow, Tony Iams, Richard Watson, 20 September 2023.
Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Container Management, Dennis Smith, Wataru Katsurashima, Michael Warrilow, Tony Iams, Richard Watson, 20 September 2023.
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