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Brief: Cloud Broker Solutions Emerge But Remain Fragmented

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

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Apr 22, 2015

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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