Dimension Data, the global ICT solutions and services provider, today announced it has
been positioned by Gartner Inc. in the Challengers quadrant of the 2015 Magic Quadrant for Cloud-
Enabled Managed Hosting (CEMH), Asia Pacific. Gartner published the report on 11 November 2015,
by analysts To Chee Eng, Kenshi Tazaki, Vincent Fu and Arup Roy.
Gartner defines CEMH as standardised, productised hosting offerings that combine a cloud-enabledsystem infrastructure (CESI) platform comprising compute, network and storage hardware withcloud management platform software to facilitate self-service and rapid provisioning with managed
services. The infrastructure platform may be located in a service provider's data centre, or optionallyat the customer's data centre.
In its 2015 report, Gartner observed that "an increasing number of enterprises are adopting CEMHs
due to easier availability of services. Adoption is led by developed markets such as Japan, Australia,
Singapore and Hong Kong, but it is also emerging in developing markets, particularly in India where
there is a choice of strong local providers. Initial adoption is led by midmarket companies, but it is
now extending to enterprises and government organizations as well."
Gartner's evaluation criteria for the Magic Quadrant are based on CEMH providers' ability to executeand completeness of vision. The report is aimed at businesses operating in Asia Pacific, includingmultinational companies with regional hosting requirements and Asia Pacific businesses with
domestic hosting requirements.
"We believe that our position in the Magic Quadrant as a Challenger indicates our strong ability to
execute. Dimension Data demonstrated that it can address multiple markets in the Asia Pacific region
with the support of a competitive cloud platform, as well as associated managed and professionalservices capabilities," said Manish Pratap, General Manager – ITaaS, Dimension Data Asia Pacific.
"With the launch of our latest Managed Cloud Platform™ data centre in Singapore last month, andestablished cloud infrastructure in Australia, New Zealand, India, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Japan,we have an extensive Asia Pacific cloud footprint that represents a very strong value proposition fororganisations operating across the region. Increasingly, our clients are deploying their productionworkloads to the cloud, and they can now do this with confidence internationally, utilising our globalnetwork of cloud data centres, which operate on a consistent, standardised architecture in multiplecountries in Asia Pacific, North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa," said Pratap.
Visit http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-2TBQHZK&ct=151203&st=sg to read the
full report. Visit http://www.dimensiondata.com/cloud to learn more about Dimension Data and its
cloud computing offerings.