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Community-Commerce Brokering Arena for Opportunistic Cloud Services Offerings

Authors:
Ethan Hadar
Steven Greenspan

Keywords: Cloud computing; community clouds; clearinghouse services; brokering services, communitycommerce; service-oriented business ecosystems

Abstract:
Community clouds are formed when a cloud infrastructure is created to support the needs of multiple, independent service consumers that have shared concerns. Such infrastructures may allow member organizations to share resources on an opportunistic basis, i.e., one entity may provide services to the other members during off-peak times, and may in turn consume services from other members. Thus each member provides permanent or transient services according to their competencies and excess. This paper sets forth a conceptual architecture, examines the opportunities offered by such systems, and initiates a conversation on the business implications. Community-commerce brokering expands the choices for business from “where can I buy/use a service” to “whom do I want to sell my excess services to”.

Pages: 7 to 10

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: July 22, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3549

ISBN: 978-1-61208-215-8

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 22, 2012 to July 27, 2012