San Francisco, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) January 11, 2011

GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure provider, today announced it has been positioned in the "Visionaries" quadrant of the December 2010 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting by Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT), the world's leading information technology research and advisory company. In this report, Gartner analysts, Lydia Leong and Ted Chamberlin, analyze new opportunities for cost savings and business agility from cloud infrastructure deployments.

"We believe GoGrid's positioning within the Visionaries quadrant is recognition of our success in making cloud computing a reality for enterprises around the world," said John Keagy, co-founder and chief executive officer at GoGrid. "GoGrid was founded as a cloud computing company. We have built the industry's most advanced cloud software and services that address the infrastructure requirements of companies of all sizes from small businesses to the Fortune 1000. GoGrid will continue to aggressively invest in technology innovations that provide customers with the most cost-effective, on-demand cloud service and the highest quality experience available in the industry."

GoGrid's services make complex infrastructure easy by enabling businesses to revolutionize their IT environments in the Cloud. With GoGrid, customers can deploy and scale virtual and physical servers (hybrid hosting), storage, networking, load balancing, and security in real-time and in multiple data centers leveraging a powerful management platform that includes a web interface, iPhone application and API. GoGrid offers a utility-based billing model that enables customers to only pay for the resources provisioned. GoGrid is backed by the industry's strongest and most detailed SLA and includes a rich partner ecosystem of pre-configured, ready-to-go business applications.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2010, by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About GoGrid

GoGrid is the #1 pure-play Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider specializing in Public Cloud and Private Cloud Infrastructure solutions. Currently powering thousands of customers globally, GoGrid makes complex infrastructure easy by enabling businesses to revolutionize their IT environments with the cloud. In just minutes, GoGrid customers can deploy and begin managing applications and workloads on our proven, secure and reliable public cloud platform. With GoGrid's Public Cloud and Private Cloud offerings, sysadmins, developers, and IT professionals create, deploy, and control cloud environments and complex virtual and physical server networks with full administrative control; with GoGrid's Private Cloud customers utilize a private, hosted and managed server, single-tenant environment with zero capital expenditure. To further leverage the GoGrid cloud, the Partner Exchange provides users with an evolving ecosystem of cloud solutions from GoGrid's partner community. GoGrid is proud to have been recognized as a "Visionary" two years in a row by Gartner and as a "Champion" by Info-Tech Research Group in 2011. For more information, please visit: www.GoGrid.com.