Not the first time is it !!!
They get every industry wrong, in some cases so off the mark it's incredible that they are still cited as a credible source of analysis.
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Gartner analyst Frank Ridder recently opined that "the number of cloud offering[s] is not at all at a satisfactory level today." He made this assertion after canvassing a number of IT users at two Gartner summits. Unfortunately, he may have missed the message these users were sending him. It's not that we need more cloud …
The whole point of "the cloud" is to obscure things. It is a marketing ploy not a technical standard so it is always going to be clear as mud.
And all Gartner is doing is pointing out that middle level managers like to be flattered by lots of salesmen and they don't feel that the cloud sector is stroking them enough.
All the other faults aside, it's funny how all the numbers generated by the survey "unround" to fractions with divisors no greater than 9. Providing so many digits in the result that the last ones are practically random is a common way of making the numbers seem significant. Upping that to so many digits that the last ones are clearly not random does however tend to spoil the illusion.