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Cloud Services Brokerage: A Survey and Research Roadmap (1506.00485v1)
Published 1 Jun 2015 in cs.DC and cs.SE
Abstract: A Cloud Services Brokerage (CSB) acts as an intermediary between cloud service providers (e.g., Amazon and Google) and cloud service end users, providing a number of value adding services. CSBs as a research topic are in there infancy. The goal of this paper is to provide a concise survey of existing CSB technologies in a variety of areas and highlight a roadmap, which details five future opportunities for research.