Introduction

The capability gap between hyperscale cloud providers has begun to narrow, but fierce competition for enterprise workloads extends to secondary markets worldwide. Infrastructure and operations leaders should evaluate cloud providers with a broad range of use cases and a wide market presence. In this report, discover why Gartner positioned Alibaba Cloud as a Niche Player, learn how a Niche Player in this category is defined, and deep-dive into the benefits that the public cloud can bring to your organization.

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