Market Guide: Private Connectivity for Cloud Services, Global

“We are proud to be recognized in the Gartner®  Market Guide for Private Connectivity for Cloud Services, a recognition that, we feel,  underscores our commitment to delivering secure, scalable, and innovative cloud connectivity solutions worldwide.

This acknowledgment, in our opinion, highlights our commitment to integrating on-demand, software-defined cloud interconnects with managed services, enabling enterprises to accelerate their business growth with confidence.

Our strengths, ranging from extensive global reach and advanced multicloud capabilities – designed with native composability to seamlessly integrate with other services such as SD-WAN and NGFW – to industry-specific solutions, reflect our vision to empower businesses with reliable, flexible, and secure cloud interconnections.

We remain dedicated to driving innovation and delivering value that meets the evolving needs of our clients in a rapidly changing digital landscape “.

Francois Rall

Cloud Connectivity Manager

Being included in the Gartner® Market Guide is a significant milestone for Orange Business. Gartner is a company that delivers actionable, objective insight to executive and their teams. A Gartner Market Guide defines a market and explains what clients can expect it to do in the short term. With the focus on early, more chaotic markets, a Market Guide does not rate or position vendors within the market, but rather more commonly outlines attributes of representative vendors that are providing offerings in the market to give further insight into the market itself.  For Orange Business, this inclusion affirms our leadership and strategic positioning in the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud connectivity, highlighting our commitment to delivering secure, scalable, and innovative solutions to enterprise clients worldwide.

• With organizations increasingly migrating mission-critical workloads to cloud environments. This shift demands high-performance, secure, and reliable connectivity options that traditional internet connections cannot always guarantee. The Gartner report emphasizes the importance of private cloud interconnections—such as colocation hubs, carrier-based cloud interconnects, and software-defined cloud interconnects (SDCIs)—as essential components for modern enterprise networks.
• Orange Business’s extensive global reach, with over 29 cloud interconnection hubs across 15 countries, positions us as a trusted partner capable of supporting complex multicloud architectures. Our Evolution Platform, with its automation, APIs, and self-service portals, enables rapid provisioning and flexible bandwidth management, aligning with the dynamic needs of enterprise clients. Moreover, our security features—encryption, DDoS mitigation, firewalls, and DPI—ensure enterprise-grade security and compliance, which are critical in today’s regulatory environment.
  For our customers, we feel, this recognition from Gartner translates into confidence. We believe It affirms that Orange Business is a forward-thinking, reliable partner capable of delivering innovative solutions that meet the demands of modern cloud architectures. Whether organizations are looking to extend private WAN connectivity, simplify multicloud management, or enhance security and compliance, Orange Business’s inclusion in this report highlights our capacity to deliver.

Gartner, Market Guide: Private Connectivity for Cloud Services, Global, By Gaspar Valdivia, Lisa Pierce, Karen Brown, 6 October 2025 

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