Cloud Services Brokerage (CSB) market forecast

Cloud services brokerage (CSB) is an IT role and business model in which a company or other entity adds value to one or more (public or private) cloud services on behalf of one or more consumers of that service via three primary roles including aggregation, integration and customization brokerage. A CSB enabler provides technology to implement CSB, and a CSB provider offers combined technology, people and methodologies to implement and manage CSB-related projects.

Cloud Brokerage Enablement market to grow from $225.42 million in 2013 to $2.03 billion by 2018, at a CAGR of 55.3%

By 2015, at least 20% of all cloud services will be consumed via internal or external cloud service brokerages, rather than directly, up from less than 5% today.

Cloud Services Brokerage – Big Opportunity for Service Providers. The cloud is not a single entity, but rather many disconnected islands of application and infrastructure services that each has their own unique authentication and authorization, provisioning, administration, licensing, billing and support characteristics.