Trends Report

Brief: Cloud Broker Solutions Emerge But Remain Fragmented

You Know You Need To Be One, But What Does It Mean?

April 22nd, 2015
Bill Martorelli, Principal Analyst
Bill Martorelli Principal Analyst
With contributors:
Andrew Hewitt , Eveline Oehrlich , Vanessa Wegner

Summary

With infrastructure and operations' reinvigorated cloud governance approach comes the promise of cloud brokering. But cloud brokering functions range from governance, chargeback/showback, service catalogs and app stores, cloud management orchestration and integration, and an independent marketplace — which piece should infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals embrace? Is cloud brokering a role, a set of technologies, or an intermediary function? Today's practices cut across all of these functions to one degree or another. This brief helps I&O pros determine the cloud broker's role in cloud governance.

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