Interesting and challenging article. One thing I'm noticing is that there's a lot of re-invention of concepts going in the cloud space. Work that's been done in the ITSM community is very applicable.
These two quote allude to the need of service catalog manager.
The concept of governance and its relationship to cloud computing has been discussed but those conversations tend to revolve around the need for more generalized governance. That is, a service catalog of all cloud provider offered services as well as a cloud-application service catalog for consumers.
Maybe this is a job for “Cloud Coordinator”, or whatever you might want to call such a group or individual. SOA eventually came up with a similar notion, often called the “Registrar” or the “Librarian”, depending on what governance solution was being implemented. Someone or some team that is responsible for (a) understanding what services are available in the apposite cloud computing environments and (b) managing those services with an eye toward sharing or at least ensuring consistency of solutions across applications deployed in a public cloud computing environment.
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