Visionary: IBM

IBM crossed the vertical axis from Niche Players to Visionaries in the 2017 IaaS Magic Quadrant.

The global technology giant is currently rolling the SoftLayer branding, comprised of assets it acquired in 2013 and then later expanded, into a broadened Bluemix offering. Bluemix initially was only Big Blue's PaaS product.

IBM is also engaged in revamping its hyper-scale infrastructure through the "Next-Generation Infrastructure" (NGI) engineering project, with aggressive design goals for price and performance. No release date has been announced, however.