Cloud Services Brokerage: A Survey and Research Roadmap
It addresses the need for structured research in CSB, which is incremental as it builds on existing work to guide future studies.
This paper tackles the problem of understanding and advancing Cloud Services Brokerage (CSB) as an emerging research topic by surveying existing technologies and proposing a roadmap with five future research opportunities, without presenting specific numerical results.
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.