Cloud Service Brokerage Platform for Hybrid Infrastructure Assessment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional cloud management models face challenges such as disparate billing, payment, and service-level-agreement compliance across cloud service providers, leading to inefficient management of cloud services and potential vendor lock-in for consumers.
Innovation Solution
A Cloud Service Brokerage (CSB) platform that acts as a centralized resource for cloud service consumers, enabling effective management of transactions, data movement, customization, and enrichment across multiple cloud providers through a unified portal, providing operations modeling, cost management, and SLA management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a centralized Cloud Service Brokerage platform is implemented to unify management across multiple cloud providers, then ease of operation and management efficiency are improved, but device complexity and system architecture complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a Cloud Service Brokerage platform that acts as an intermediary layer between cloud service consumers and multiple cloud service providers. This broker platform consolidates management functions including billing, service-level agreement compliance, and resource provisioning into a single interface, thereby improving ease of operation while managing the inherent system complexity through modular architecture and standardized protocols.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple cloud service providers are integrated into a single management portal, then adaptability and service variety are improved, but device complexity and integration challenges worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The broker platform is designed with universal functionality to support multiple cloud service providers and various cloud deployment models (public, private, hybrid clouds). It provides standardized interfaces for billing, service management, and resource provisioning that work across different providers, thereby enhancing adaptability and service variety while managing integration complexity through common protocols and modular design.
3Adaptability or versatility
If cloud service consumers can freely choose and switch between providers, then adaptability is improved, but loss of time and management overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The broker platform implements feedback mechanisms that provide consumers with information about service performance, billing accuracy, and SLA compliance across different cloud providers. This enables informed decision-making for provider selection and switching, thereby maintaining adaptability and flexibility while reducing the time and effort required for service management through automated monitoring and reporting.
Data Source
AI summary
A system configured to facilitate brokering hybrid cloud services selects information requests for characterizing an information technology application. The system responses to the information requests and determines a plurality of sets of the responses each used for deriving a value of a respective one of a plurality of factor functions. The system determines a plurality of assessment results each derived using values for of a respective set of the factor functions. Each one of the assessment results characterizes a respective aspect of deploying the information technology application within a cloud environment.