Saturday, July 12, 2014

All About Cloud Broker Services

By Coleen Torres


In some aspects of business, there is a time when the transaction needs some assistance from a third party source. This third party could either be a business entity or an individual. Speaking of this, one concrete example of this engagement is that which is done by a cloud broker.

Basically, a broker is a third party in a businesses transaction. Its role is to act as an intermediary between the seller and the buyer. Generally speaking, a broker is a person who serves as an intermediary when negotiations are done. Now, if you are into business, you would surely need cloud broker services.

The aim of this service is actually to save the purchaser time. With this, he does some researching on the services which are offered by vendors. Then after that, it gives all the information to you. Other than that, they also instruct you on how to use the cloud computing software which is very relevant in fulfilling the goals of your business.

Given this scenario, the broker in this case, is to let you understand the budgeting, work processes, provisioning of needs, as well as the data management requirements. After that, when the research is accomplished fully, the information gathered will then be given to you. This way, you can already contact your selected vendor.

He may be also granted the privilege to negotiate with providers on behalf of the customer. With this, he is free to distribute services to across several vendors so as to save cost for the customer in case any issue within the negotiations. Also, he can give the customer an application program interface which is simple to use.

So given this, you can operate or use the program in handy. But actually, other than just acting as an intermediary in business negotiations, they also can perform other services like transferring the data to the could, deduplication facilitating, and encryption. Basically, this is the type of cloud which you call enabler.

Another type is the customizer or the white labeled service. The role of this is to select cloud services on behalf of the the customer. Aside from that, it also integrates the programs to work together and then they sell them as a new offering under their own brand. With this, your transaction will be dealt with accordingly.

Today, the cloud brokerage engagement is still widely used. That is why if you needed its service, for any concern you have in your business, you can very much avail them since there are practically many brokers nowadays. But then, a broker which provides a robust service may charge depending on the contract.

However, they may also partner more than one provider and then take a small percentage of their profit. And lastly, aside from all those things, there is also a software application of this which functions as a facilitator in the distribution of work among different providers. This application is called the cloud agent.




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