• Information Systems Review
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.1-18
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• 2015

Recently, the number of available cloud services are increasing dramatically because many IT companies have entered into cloud service market. Due to the reason, cloud service brokers are emerging as agents to solve cloud service selection problems and to support cloud service initialization and maintenance of unskilled cloud service users. In this study, NCloud24 case in South Korea and Right Scale case in the USA are analyzed as representative examples of the collaboration between original cloud service providers and cloud service brokers. The business models of two companies are analyzed using Business Model Canvas. The emergence of cloud service brokers are interpreted as unbundling process of IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-service) cloud service companies. Based on the comparison with the two companies, we prospect future directions of cloud service brokerage.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.664-669
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• 2014

As the prevalence of cloud computing increases, various cloud service types have emerged, such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. The growth and diversification of these cloud services has also resulted in the development of technology for cloud service brokers (CSBs), which serve as intermediate cloud services that can assist cloud tenants (users) in deploying services that fit their requirements. In order to broker cloud services, CSBs require the specification of structural models in order to facilitate the analysis and search for cloud services. In this study, we propose a variability-based service analysis model (SAM) that can be used to describe various cloud services. This model is based on the concept of variability in the software product line and represents the commonality and variability of cloud services by binding variants to each variation point that exists in the specification, quality, and pricing of the services. We also propose a virtual cloud bank architecture as a CSB that serves as an intermediate to provides tenants with appropriate cloud services based on the SAM.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.621-624
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• 2014

클라우드 서비스가 다양해지고 그 수가 급격히 증가하면서 클라우드 서비스 사용자에게 적합한 서비스를 제공하기가 어려워지고 있다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 서비스 사용자와 제공자 사이에서 클라우드 서비스를 중개해주는 클라우드 서비스 브로커라는 개념이 제시되었다. 클라우드 서비스 브로커의 핵심적인 역할은 사용자의 요구사항에 적합한 서비스를 찾아주는 것이다. 그러나 현재 제시된 클라우드 서비스 브로커 대부분은 클라우드 서비스 전문가의 도움으로 사용자의 요구사항을 분석하는 수동적인 과정이 수행되고 있으며, 체계적으로 기능적 요구사항을 분석하는 과정이 미흡하다. 따라서 유사한 기능을 가지고 있는 클라우드 서비스들 중 사용자의 요구사항의 중요도를 분석해서 가장 근접한 서비스의 선택을 지원해 줄 수 있는 요구사항 분석 기법이 필요하다. 본 논문은 AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process)의 쌍대비교법을 응용하여 클라우드 서비스에 대한 사용자의 기능적 요구사항을 분석하고 그 결과에 따라 클라우드 서비스를 선택하는 방법을 제시한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.143-150
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• 2014

Cloud computing is fast becoming the wave of the future for both home and business computing. Because of this growing acceptance, we can expect an explosion of diverse cloud service providers in the coming years. However, the cloud is not a single entity, rather it is a set of many disconnected islands of application (SaaS), infrastructure (IaaS), and different platform (PaaS) services. Cloud brokering mechanisms are essential to transform the heterogeneous cloud market into a commodity-like service. Cloud service brokers (CSBs) are the new form of business entities to help to aggregate the scattered set of cloud services and make conveniently available to their diverse users. CSBs can reserve a certain percentage of their clients' (users') demand and satisfy the remaining portion in an on-demand basis. In doing so, they need to minimize cost of both reserved and on-demand instances as well as the distance of a link between the cloud service provider (CSP) and the user. The study proposes a reservation approach with a mixed integer model to optimizes the cloud service cost and quality.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.9
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• pp.1090-1099
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• 2015

The concept of Cloud Service Brokerage (CSB) has been introduced as a result of the expansion of the cloud-computing paradigm. Cloud services that provide similar functionality are registered with a CSB. A CSB intermediates cloud services between cloud users and providers. However, there are differences in the price and performance offered by each of the cloud providers. Thus, cloud users have difficulty in finding suitable services to use. Therefore, a CSB is required in order to provide an approach for cloud services to fulfill the requirements of cloud users. In this paper, we propose a virtual cloud bank architecture that includes both a Service Analysis Model (SAM) that can be used to specify and analyze various cloud services and a requirement analysis method that can be used to collect and analyze the cloud user requirements. The VCB architecture that is herein proposed can be used as a reference architecture to provide user-centric cloud services.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.1-11
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• 2015

The growing company that provides high quality service to every customer by introducing a cloud-system organization. However, the information needs of diverse and different, so every cloud system, and acts as a barrier to entry for cloud services provide appropriate. Cloud services are becoming complicated and diversified depending on concerns about cloud security continues, the growing need of professionalism held by the cloud service(Cloud Service Brokerage) CSB companies. Thus, to analyze the various services, find my support legislation, security and compatibility issues, the services of the best new business through service offerings tailored to the environment, and will implement the necessary management services which brokerage (CSB) is. This study presents a brokerage(CSB) development model, and suggested policy measures that apply to the co-op that I am having difficulties in cloud services business models.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.480-481
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• 2013

클라우드 서비스를 위한 가격결정은 서비스 제공자 중심의 정책으로 수립되어 가장 큰 이익을 줄 수 있는 모델로 제안되고 있다. 하지만, 클라우드 서비스 브로커 개념의 등장으로 서비스 중개 방식을 이용하여 서비스 제공자와 소비자 모두에게 이익을 줄 수 있는 모델을 제공하고자 노력하고 있다. 이와 같은 노력에 있어 가격결정 정책에 대한 분석을 수행하고 그를 만족할 수 있는 모델을 제안한다. 클라우드 브로커가 사용자의 서비스 미사용량과 SLA를 기반한 서비스 품질을 기준으로 환불 등의 서비스를 제공하는 모델이다. 이와 같은 모델은 클라우드 서비스 활성화에 큰 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.5
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• pp.591-600
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• 2015

SLA (Service Level Agreement) is an essential factor that must be guaranteed to provide a reliable and consistent service to user in cloud computing environment. Especially, a contract between user and service provider with SLA is important in an environment using a cloud service brokerage. The cloud computing is classified into IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS according to IT resources of the various cloud service. The existing SLA is difficult to reflect the quality factors of service, because it only considers factors about the physical Network environment and have no methodological approach. In this paper, we suggested a method to specify the quality characteristics of software and proposed a mechanism and structure that can exchange SLA specification between the service provider and consumer. We defined a meta-model for the SLA specification in the SaaS level, and quality requirements of the SaaS were described by the proposed specification language. Through case studies, we verified proposed specification language that can present a variety of software quality factors. By using the UDDI-based mediation process and architecture to interchange this specification, it is stored in the repository of quality specifications and exchanged during service binding time.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.112-114
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• 2014

본 고에서는 클라우드 서비스 브로커 기술에 대한 전반적인 이해를 돕고자 클라우드 서비스 브로커의 개념, 개발방향, 주요 특징을 포함하는 구조 및 기능 내용을 기술하였다. 이종 클라우드 환경에서 서비스를 통합, 중개, 조정하기 위해서는 이질적인 특성을 갖는 다양한 형태의 자원을 효과적으로 연동, 통합, 관리하여 사용 환경의 복잡도를 최소화하는 클라우드 서비스 브로커 시스템의 개발이 필수적이며, 이를 통해 새로운 비즈니스 창출 및 다양한 분야에 활용하기 위한 클라우드 서비스의 활용 편의성을 확대할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.103-106
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• 2023

4차 산업혁명과 함께 HPC(High Performance Compuiting) 환경이 보편화되면서 다양한 연구분야와 서비스에서 고성능컴퓨팅 수요가 증가하고 있다. 고성능 컴퓨팅 수요가 증가함에 따라 컴퓨팅 구성에 대한 복잡도 또한 증가하고 있다. 최근 클라우드 환경이 여러 분야에 적용되면서 R&D 연구자들을 위해 시뮬레이션 및 모델링, 가상 실험 등의 환경을 쉽게 제공하는 HPC 클라우드에 대한 새로운 수요와 서비스 요구사항들이 생겨나고 있으며 여러 과학 분야에 HPC 환경을 보다 쉽게 제공하기 위해 중개자가 필요해졌다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 HPC 클라우드 서비스를 설명하고 계산과학 연구자들이 필요한 HPC 클라우드 서비스 요구사항들을 분석하였으며, 이를 기반으로 HPC 클라우드 기반의 연구환경을 쉽게 개발할 수 있는 HPC 클라우드 브로커 고려사항 및 구조도를 제안한다.