Re: Application front-end processing

[Andrew Yeomans]

A related use case is the common authentication, authorization and audit processing to front up an application.

Andrew Yeomans

On 18 August 2010 01:00, <cloudsecuritya...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

 Topic: Cloud Computing Use Cases White Paper : "Moving to the Cloud" proposed Table of Contents for V5.

Vikas Deolaliker <vikas.de...@gmail.com> Aug 16 01:53PM -0700 ^

 
Not sure where you can capture this use case.
 
One of the often overlooked sources of workload is the user traffic
(coming into cloud) itself. Lots of compute cycles are expended on a
user even before she/he fires off an application. These compute cycles
run a workload that has lot of similarities with traditional
datamining. Only that in this new datamining, the data is real time
and has expiry date on it. The workload involves evolving a user's
profile based on real-time/near-time usage characteristics. In other
words, the cloud itself is a datawarehouse even though it may host
stateless applications and no user uploaded data. The cloud has
extensive built-in mining tools that organize and extract information
from this data and affect the very applications that brought the user
to the cloud.
 
So from a cloud customer's perspective having an application in the
cloud gives them far more information about the usage of the
application than they could ever get from having that application on a
server farm. Information that they can use in development, monitoring,
marketing and metering of the application. This information is more
valuable in than the application itself.
 
Of course, it brings out mainly privacy issues (not necessarily
security). How security practice will evolve to handle those issues is
a potential avenue for research in the cloud computing space.
 
Thanks,
Vikas
 
 


 

Drussell4881 <drusse...@gmail.com> Aug 17 05:12AM -0700 ^

 
Vikas,
 
Good comment.
 
Can I repost this to the Cloud Computing Use Cases discussion group -
http://groups.google.com/group/cloud-computing-use-cases
 
Thanks very much
 
Dave
 
 
 
On Aug 16, 4:53 pm, Vikas Deolaliker <vikas.deolali...@gmail.com>
wrote: