Context-Aware Cloud Service Brokerage
Touraj Laleh, Serguei A. Mokhov, Joey Paquet, Yuhong Yan · 2008
In today's world of cloud computing, cloud providers such as Google, Amazon, Red Hat and Microsoft compete to offer context-aware software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions as building blocks for the development of many cloud applications. These services use contextual information to provide more customized services for clients. However, SaaS is abstract by definition and as a result there is always a gap between clients' needs to get more customized services and the capability of SaaS providers to respond according to a variety of clients' and providers' contexts. In order to manage the variety of SaaS offering, we propose a framework for context-aware SaaS provisioning to help clients to find the most near-matching service provider based on their required specifications. This framework also employs contextual elements in data integration among SaaS providers to bring added-value to the provided services.