International Business Machines Corporation

Kishor Grandhe

Manish Mahesh Modh

Raghunath Sapuram

Balaji Narasimhan

Kedar Dave

Ilyas Mohamed Iyoob

Fenil Raj Kumar Santhi

Raghuram Krishnan

A cloud services brokerage platform system includes a virtual data center (VDC) and an architecture management interface. The virtual data center (VDC) includes a plurality of resource groups. Each one of the resource groups includes one or more VDC resources. Each one of the VDC resources is associated with a respective set of resource group specification parameters. The architecture management interface enables an architectural layout of the one or more VDC resources to be displayed. The architectural layout includes a visual depiction of the one or more VDC resources of each one of the resource groups. An arrangement of the visual depiction is dependent upon the respective set of resource group specification parameters.

Creating, provisioning and managing virtual data centers

Implementation of cross provider security in accordance with the disclosures made herein enables users of a system (e.g., a cloud services brokerage platform) in a cloud environment provides for system-managed provisioning and management of keys to cloud resources thereby allowing the user to manage data security and enable secured access to their cloud resources. To this end, cross provider security management functionality in accordance with the disclosures made herein can include provisioning system-generated keys across different regions in a provider, provisioning cloud brokerage system-generated keys across different providers; and associating (i.e., managing) the keys from the system to a hardware security module. The keys can be managed by/though a variety of different resources (e.g., brokering system, VDC, user group concepts, etc).

Cross provider security management functionality within a cloud service brokerage platform

A system configured to facilitate brokering hybrid cloud services selects information requests for characterizing an information technology application. The system responses to the information requests and determines a plurality of sets of the responses each used for deriving a value of a respective one of a plurality of factor functions. The system determines a plurality of assessment results each derived using values for of a respective set of the factor functions. Each one of the assessment results characterizes a respective aspect of deploying the information technology application within a cloud environment.

Assessment of best fit cloud deployment infrastructures

A fulfillment bridge orchestrates various types of fulfillment that fall generally into three categories of fulfillment: CSB platform based automated provisioning; external automated provisioning; and manual workflow provisioning. External automated provisioning is implemented through fulfillment agents. The fulfillment agents can implements self-registration for allowing the fulfillment bridge to understand the capabilities of the fulfillment agent. Examples of such capabilities include, but are not limited to, supported actions and input/output parameters. Adapters of the fulfillment bridge interface with the fulfillment agents and fulfillment scripts that are independently operated with respect to the CSB platform can be use to interface with the fulfillment adapters.

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