According to Forrester: “In recent years, consolidation and innovation in the market have driven solutions formation of both net-new and newly rebuilt solutions, and these new solutions have moved management needs up the stack from infrastructure to development and platform layers. The rise of cloud-native is transforming the scope of hybrid cloud management from classic stack (e.g., virtual machine [VM] or monolithic apps) to classic plus cloud-native (e.g., container, serverless, or microservices). Edge computing plus cloud-native is now extending the boundaries of hybrid cloud management to be more distributed.”

In their 34-criteria evaluation of hybrid cloud management vendors and solutions, Forrester researcher Tracy Woo identified the nine providers whom they consider most significant in the category: BMC Software, Canonical, Flexera, IBM, Micro Focus, Morpheus Data, Nutanix, ServiceNow, and VMware – then researched, analyzed, and scored them.

Read the full review here.