Cloud Service Broker
Removing the Barriers to Cloud Adoption
The goal of the Cloud Service Broker (CSB) is to provide a trusted cloud management platform. The platform will simplify the way to deliver complex cloud services to enterprise customers. Read More
| Business Proposition | | Cloud services could be worth £0.25-1bn within 5 years for tier-1 service providers, the top-end of which will only be reached by CSBs removing barriers to adoption. |
| Project Value Statements | - Cloud services could be worth between £250m and £1bn within 5 years for Tier-1 service providers
- The top-end of this projection will only be reached by Cloud Service Brokers removing any barriers to adoption
- Cloud Service Brokers will provide trust by managing customer concerns, including service performance, security, governance and cost
- Cloud Service Brokers will deliver just-in-time services by federating multiple cloud service provider resources
- Enterprise customers will realise the full potential of cloud computing, including reduced energy, accommodation and administration costs
- The broker is uniquely placed to provide services to a wide variety of enterprise virtual operators (VSO's) who may require similar products, but under different commercial circumstances
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TM Forum Standards
in Use or Development | - Active Catalog for product and service assembly, and as a B2B interface with external partners
- Information Framework development for new requirements for cloud services (i.e. software, platforms and infrastructure)
- TM Forum Interface Program, Service Problem Management "world first"
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| Team Member Contributions | Champion
Project champion: providing Enterprise application cloudbursting capability
Participants
Service-layer Active Catalog design studio and run-time engine, as well as the Order Portal
Multi-tenanted billing engine
Enterprise performance monitoring
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| Demonstration Scenarios | - Using SLAs to control single-region Enterprise application cloudbursting
- Using SLAs to control multi-regional Enterprise application cloudbursting
- Agile product and service assembly
- Providing multiple VSOs with end to end control of the order to cash cycle
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| | ![[Open Quote]](/sdata/content/icons/quote_open.png) Through the CSB Catalyst, BT hopes to make complex cloud services a reality and a benefit for enterprises while providing the necessary levels of control they need over IT governance.
We hope that the Catalyst will encourage the adoption of cloud services, and open up new revenue opportunities for operators and cloud service providers alike.“ ![[Close Quote]](/sdata/content/icons/quote_closed.png) | | – Gary Bruce, Principal Researcher, BT |
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| Project Description |
| The goal of the Cloud Service Broker (CSB) is to provide a trusted cloud management platform. The platform will simplify the way to deliver complex cloud services to enterprise customers. The CSB is the first system to address complex barriers to cloud adoption and enable organisations to realise the full potential that cloud has to offer. The CSB uses knowledge of the customer's specific needs with respect to application performance, costs, security, location, ethical standards, and other criteria, and then matches these to the capabilities of cloud service providers. The CSB then creates and deploys the appropriate service within the cloud, subsequently ensuring, minute-by-minute, that the constituent cloud services continually work together to meet the customers required business level objectives. |