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Cloud and infrastructure suppliers in the Software Results portfolio

These are the cloud and infrastructure suppliers we can put in competition for your workloads: public and private cloud, managed hosting, bare metal, backup, and disaster recovery as a service. The list is the portfolio we advise across, not a ranking. The advice costs you nothing, and you sign directly with the supplier you choose.

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What cloud and infrastructure suppliers sell, and who buys it

Cloud and infrastructure covers where a company's applications and data run and who operates them: hyperscale public cloud and the managed providers built around it, private cloud and hosted virtual machines, bare metal for workloads that do not like sharing, and the backup and disaster recovery services that protect all of it. The suppliers in this category range from managed service providers who run cloud on your behalf to infrastructure operators with their own facilities, and the specialists who do only backup or only disaster recovery.

The buyers are IT directors and finance leaders facing a move: a data center lease ending, a hardware refresh that no longer makes sense, a public cloud bill that grew past the business it supports, or an audit that asked where the backups actually are. Companies with a mix of legacy and modern applications benefit most from a workload-by-workload comparison rather than one platform decision.

How we scope a cloud and infrastructure evaluation

We start with an inventory of workloads and what each one needs: performance, compliance and data residency, elasticity, and how much downtime the business can tolerate. Each workload gets a placement, and the placements become a written scope that names compute, storage, network egress, backup targets, recovery objectives, and the support model expected, so every supplier prices the same estate.

Suppliers answer in writing first: the monthly run rate on that scope, which consumption items could move it, the exit terms and data egress costs, and how disaster recovery is tested. We normalize consumption, committed, and flat managed pricing onto one three-year view. You see that comparison before any architecture sessions are scheduled, and your team works only with the finalists.

All 43 Cloud & Infrastructure suppliers in the portfolio

Listed alphabetically, not ranked. Supplier names are listed for identification only and remain the trademarks of their owners. Listing here is not an endorsement by the supplier.

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Sourcing questions

Should the shortlist mix hyperscale cloud, private cloud, and managed hosting providers?

Yes, when the workload inventory says so. Steady workloads with predictable load often price well on private cloud or dedicated hosting, while variable workloads and modern applications fit public cloud. Most companies end up with both, which is why we scope by workload and let suppliers of different types quote the parts they fit. A single-platform shortlist decides the architecture before anyone has seen the numbers.

How do we compare consumption pricing with a flat managed quote?

Convert both to the same three-year view on the same workloads. For consumption pricing, model the expected usage including storage growth, data egress, support tier, and any committed-use discount, and ask the supplier to confirm the model in writing. For flat managed pricing, confirm what is included per virtual machine or host and what triggers an increase. Then add migration and exit costs to both, because the cheapest monthly number is often the most expensive one to leave.

What should we have ready before infrastructure suppliers quote?

The workload inventory with resource sizes, the data volumes to be stored and protected, recovery time and recovery point objectives per application, the compliance frameworks that apply, current contract and lease end dates, and the internal team's operating capacity. With those written down, suppliers can price a real estate rather than a guess, and their written answers are comparable before any calls.

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