In 2010, a team of independent IT consultants commenced development of the “Clover index” benchmarking standard, with the core objective that it would ultimately fill the need for a standard mechanism by which Managed Services Providers offering Private Cloud IaaS would eventually be quantitatively compared. Today the Clover index is the UK’s #1 independent Cloud Vendor Ratings benchmarking standa
rd. To the best of our knowledge it is the only system of its type, and it has already become the ubiquitous benchmark for “like for like” comparison of Private Cloud vendors offering services to mid-tier clients the UK Finance Sector. The core value proposition of the Clover index is to provide semi-automated access to independently developed, unbiased expert analysis, and (under the terms of a strict NDA) more than 300 data points held and updated for each of the more than 70 Vendors who have been analysed to date. By doing so, we aim to very cost-effectively aid small to medium Enterprise Clients to develop a shortlist of the “Best Fit, Best Practice” IT vendors in the UK market to meet their needs.
