DXC Technology named a Challenger in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Public Cloud Optimization and Transformation Services

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Why DXC believes this recognition matters

The Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Public Cloud Optimization and Transformation Services evaluates providers on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.

We believe this recognition reflects DXC’s ability to challenge traditional approaches to cloud transformation, helping enterprises move beyond one-size-fits-all models, continuously optimize their environments and modernize without compromising control, resilience or operational continuity. For DXC, being a Challenger means questioning established trade-offs and helping many of the world’s largest organizations realize greater value from cloud, AI and automation across complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Our Transformation approach helps our clients unlock business value by deploying the right technologies for the right outcomes. With the ability to support private, public, hybrid and multicloud environments through partnerships with leading hyperscalers, we can enable best-fit workload placement, specialized services and secure AI adoption. Our Precision Guided Modernization approach enables us to modernize legacy IT and migrate mission-critical workloads with minimal disruption, and execute complex transitions such as data center exits and large-scale application migrations on time and within budget. 

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Gartner assessed 17 providers in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Public Cloud Optimization and Transformation Services.  

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What’s in the report

In its Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Optimization and Transformation Services report, Gartner writes:

"Cloud optimization and transformation is proven to drive measurable business outcomes on continuous workload optimization. This research highlights 2026 key trends such as AI/GenAI/agentic AI, and sovereign and multicloud, while helping you select the best-fit providers for your organization."

The mandatory features for this market, according to Gartner, include:

 

Comprehensive transformation approach

"The services emphasize application- and infrastructure-focused optimization and transformation, encompassing the key transformational patterns of Gartner’s “five Rs” of cloud migration (rehost, revise, rearchitect, rebuild and replace). These prioritize the 'revise or 'lift and optimize' pattern to be cloud-optimized and the rearchitect/rebuild patterns to be cloud-native or part of a strategic cloud transformation, which both demand substantial software engineering expertise."

Business-outcome-driven engagement

"The service provider’s engagement model prioritizes business outcomes. It initiates discussions by understanding clients’ business needs and objectives and then translating them into future-proof integrated solutions, rather than focusing solely on technology-specific aspects."

Cloud-native and application development expertise

"The services offer a range of application development capabilities that support multiple transformation patterns, with a strong emphasis on cloud-optimized and cloud-native approaches when designing application architectures and operational models. By adhering to these principles, PCOTS providers maximize the benefits of a client’s environment, future-proofing autoscalability, resilience, elasticity and efficient resource utilization for the client’s solutions."

Multicloud expertise

"These services enable organizations to efficiently integrate and manage workloads across multiple public cloud providers by leveraging comparable IaaS and PaaS solutions, ensuring flexibility and innovation."

Environmental, social and governance (ESG)

"The services address environmental and social sustainability and governance concerns. It also focuses on the ESG impacts of the service in a client’s environment."

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workloads transitioned to public cloud platforms
99.84%
transformation success rate
35,000+
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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Optimization and Transformation Services, authored by Joe Trejo, Christopher Wiles, Jaideep Thyagarajan, DD Mishra and Vikas Bhardwaj, July 17, 2026.

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