Service Brokering in Cloud Governance

The dawn of Cloud Computing has opened new opportunities for IT-based industries, enabling them to cut costs and extend their businesses to a level which was previously hard to attain. While Cloud adoption is an ongoing process, many enterprises are still reluctant to pursue it because its downside outweighs its benefits, especially due to problems related to security and privacy. Coming from Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Governance, Cloud Governance aims to cover these issues by offering a set of complementary services to the already available Cloud Management ones. This paper covers one of the core aspects of Cloud Governance, its ability to provide service brokering. A semantic approach is proposed where related services and cloud ontologies as well as brokering mechanisms are discussed.