Infrastructure Configuration

Last updated: December 17, 2025

The classification of a company's IT infrastructure.

Infrastructure Configuration is one of 5 values representing the configuration of a company’s IT infrastructure.

Infrastructure Configuration Description
Cloud Leader At least one of the leading Cloud providers are deployed: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, AliCloud.
Cloud Laggard A Cloud provider is being used but no Leading Cloud providers are deployed and no Data Center solutions are deployed.
Data Center A Data Center solution is deployed exclusively. There are no Cloud providers deployed.
Hybrid There is a combination of Data Center and Cloud providers deployed.
None There are no infrastructure hosting providers in place, meaning the company is using entirely SaaS products to run their IT (e.g. GSuite, Dropbox, Slack, etc.).