Survey on Important Cloud Service Provider Attributes Using the SMI Framework

Enterprises are harnessing the many benefits that Cloud Computing can give them. Yet the lack of standards, the integration with legacy systems and the numerous Cloud Service Providers available are obstacles to this adoption. Cloud Service Brokerage is a new trend in Cloud Computing. This tool plays an important role in solving these problems, by intermediating between many Providers and other Services/Systems, increasing security and privacy, and selecting which Provider meets one's objectives (cost reduction, reliability, etc.). This paper presents a survey on important attributes of Cloud Service Providers for Governments and relates those results to the SMI Framework.