All About Cloud Broker Services

By Coleen Torres


In the field of business, there is really a time when there is something that needed to be accomplished with the help of a third party. Speaking of this, this third party could be a person or a business. Speaking of the best examples of this is the service of the cloud broker.

A broker is basically a third party that acts as an intermediary between the purchaser and the seller. In general, a broker is an individual who acts as an intermediary during negotiations may it be between two people or more parties. If you have a business engagement, then you would surely be needing 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.

In this usual scenario, he works with the customer in order for him to understand the work processes, budgeting, provisioning of needs, and data management requirements. Then after the research has been done, he then gives the customer the list of providers. With this, you can contact the selected vendor to arrange a service.

Aside from that, you may also trust them to negotiate terms with providers on your behalf. Also, they are free to distribute services to different vendors to save you from high cost especially in cases when there are incompatibilities within certain negotiations. They can also give you an easy to use application program interface.

But most of all they can give you an interface which is easy to use. However, aside from its duty of acting as an intermediary, it also serves a number of other services such as the following. These services are the data transferring, deduplication facilitating, and encryption. So to speak, this kind is called 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.

Actually, the idea of brokerage is present still in the the field today. Now, if you need this kind of service to do your business any good, you can get them easily. There are actually many brokers which you can find. But then speaking of their charge, everything depends according to your contract agreement.

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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