This is a convenient status-update page for those service providers participating in the Public Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant.

Last update: Monday, November 14th

The “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting” was published on December 22nd, 2010.

We are slated to publish two Magic Quadrants in Q4 2011: the “Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud IaaS”, and the “Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting and Cloud IaaS”.

Public Cloud IaaS MQ

The “Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud IaaS” is a new MQ. It will cover a portion of the overall cloud IaaS market — specifically, the market segments that target IT organizations that want to obtain virtual data center resources and manage the operations themselves. We expect to follow it up by publishing a Critical Capabilities evaluation of service features. (The MQ covers vendor positioning in a market; the CC covers the suitability of specific vendor products for particular use cases.)

This MQ is currently out for vendor factual review. We expect it will publish shortly after the Thanksgiving holiday.

Managed Hosting and Cloud IaaS MQ

This is the update to the previous “Web Hosting and Cloud IaaS” MQ. It is now specifically focused upon managed infrastructure, whether it is managed hosting on dedicated servers, managed hosting on a utility hosting platform, managed hosting on cloud IaaS, hybrid hosting, or managed virtual data center.

The formal initiation letters have gone out to the included vendors.

This MQ has an editorial calendar date of Q4 2011.