Jeff Burt from eWeek covers the Vordel Cloud Service Broker announcement

Jeff Burt has posted an article on eWeek covering the Vordel Cloud Service Broker announcement last week at the vordelworld conference:

The tool—which can be bought in an appliance, as software or as a virtualized service in the cloud—essentially is an “on-ramp to the cloud,” [Vordel CEO Vic Morris] said.

The product, which will be available in the first quarter 2010, registers services from all domains into a single repository, enabling businesses to more easily monitor and manage them, and apply policies to them.

The Vordel Service Broker not only offers the Multi-Domain Registry Repository, but also analytics capabilities that gives businesses an audit trail on the cloud services they use. In addition, the product includes content analysis capabilities to guard against data loss, caching to reduce cloud costs by servicing some requests itself, traffic throttling, event alerts and SLA monitoring.

Developers also will be able to use the Cloud Service Broker to link local applications with cloud-hosted apps.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Vordel-Offers-On-Ramp-to-the-Cloud-808435/