Peer to Peer IT Broker


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Creator/Artist: Annu

Category: Interaction Design

Document: P1 Project

Batch: 2017-2019

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf


Detailed Description

Organisations working in the IT sector require multiple machines (infrastructure) and IT services for their software or applications to be deployed upon. There are multiple cloud providers in the market, like Amazon Cloud AWS, Microsoft’s Cloud Azure and IBM’s Cloud provider called Softlayer. These cloud providers provide machines which are cost-optimised and are also effective in terms of their working and health. For a workload owner to differentiate between multiple cloud providers is a task, as he/she does not possess the ability to select a machine as per his/her requirements; hence, they opt for IT brokers, which also helps them with additional services on their cloud machines. The current functionalities of the IT broker are as follows: 1. Broker access to multiple clouds from a single provider 2. Automatically provision cloud resources to speed up the development. 3. Complete visibility and governance over your cloud use 4. Optimise cost; take actions to cut the costs. A traditional IT broker will give you services to manage your public and private clouds. But in a traditional IT broking system, there is a dependency on a middleman to get the provisioning done, which in turn brings the question of trust between two parties. With this project, we aimed to create a solution where there is no dependency on a middleman to get any services. Also, the system becomes transparent such that all the participants are able to trust each other with the cost and performance.