Cloud Services Brokerage: A Survey and Research Roadmap

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.

[1]  Gang Lu,et al.  CloudRank-D: benchmarking and ranking cloud computing systems for data processing applications , 2012, Frontiers of Computer Science.

[2]  Harald C. Gall,et al.  Cloud Work Bench -- Infrastructure-as-Code Based Cloud Benchmarking , 2014, 2014 IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science.

[3]  Xiaowei Yang,et al.  CloudCmp: comparing public cloud providers , 2010, IMC '10.

[4]  Xiaowei Yang,et al.  CloudProphet: towards application performance prediction in cloud , 2011, SIGCOMM.

[5]  Jason Lango.  Toward software-defined SLAs , 2014, CACM.

[6]  Blesson Varghese,et al.  Academic Cloud Computing Research: Five Pitfalls and Five Opportunities , 2014, HotCloud.

[7]  Benoit Hudzia,et al.  Future Generation Computer Systems Optimis: a Holistic Approach to Cloud Service Provisioning , 2022 .

[8]  Farookh Khadeer Hussain,et al.  Towards Multi-criteria Cloud Service Selection , 2011, 2011 Fifth International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing.

[9]  Blesson Varghese,et al.  Cloud Benchmarking for Performance , 2014, 2014 IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science.

[10]  H. Howie Huang,et al.  Matrix: Achieving Predictable Virtual Machine Performance in the Clouds , 2014, ICAC.

[11]  Adam Barker,et al.  Observing the clouds: a survey and taxonomy of cloud monitoring , 2014, Journal of Cloud Computing.

[12]  Bin Li,et al.  Fair Benchmarking for Cloud Computing systems , 2012, Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications.

[13]  Rajkumar Buyya,et al.  A framework for ranking of cloud computing services , 2013, Future Gener. Comput. Syst..

[14]  Adam Silberstein,et al.  Benchmarking cloud serving systems with YCSB , 2010, SoCC '10.

[15]  Shicong Meng,et al.  Enhanced Monitoring-as-a-Service for Effective Cloud Management , 2013, IEEE Transactions on Computers.

[16]  Lee Gillam,et al.  Good Performance Metrics for Cloud Service Brokers , 2014, CLOUD 2014.

[17]  Ian Sommerville,et al.  The Cloud Adoption Toolkit: supporting cloud adoption decisions in the enterprise , 2010, Softw. Pract. Exp..

[18]  Pramod Bhatotia,et al.  Orchestrating the Deployment of Computations in the Cloud with Conductor , 2012, NSDI.

[19]  Rajkumar Buyya,et al.  Inter‐Cloud architectures and application brokering: taxonomy and survey , 2014, Softw. Pract. Exp..

[20]  Alexandru Iosup,et al.  Performance Analysis of Cloud Computing Services for Many-Tasks Scientific Computing , 2011, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

[21]  Marin Litoiu,et al.  Introducing STRATOS: A Cloud Broker Service , 2012, 2012 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Cloud Computing.