Make sense of cloud service brokers

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

Don’t look now, but the U.S. cloud service broker (CSB) market will grow from $225.4 million in 2013 to $2 billion by 2018, growing 55.3 percent per year. The global CSB market will grow from $1.6 billion in 2013 to $10.5 billion by 2018, growing 46.2 percent per year, according to MarketsandMarkets.

I deal with CSBs more and more as an increasing number of enterprises move to multicloud approaches. Another factor is that IT increasingly takes on the role of providing cloud services to the rest of the enterprise, and it needs automated ways to manage those services…

In general, CSBs are intended to provide technology that ensures interoperability of public and private cloud services, as well as provide common management, governance, and security services (in some cases)…

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