Cloud service recommendation and selection for enterprises

The standardization of cloud services makes it possible to have one cloud service management platform for customers to take advantage of their subscriptions from various cloud providers. One immediate benefit lies in the way that enterprise customers may have plenty of choices of available providers, when seeking cloud services to fulfill their criteria, such as price or Service Level Agreement (SLA). However, how to select appropriate cloud offerings in terms of business requirements and company policies becomes challenging and non-trivial, especially when a composition of multiple services are to be chosen for achieving business goals. In this paper, a systematic framework on top of a hybrid cloud management platform is proposed for enterprises to automatically recommend and select cloud services according to business requirements, company policies and standards, and the specifications of cloud offerings.