Re: Business Intelligence solution in Cloud Computing

Hi All

I am *very* new to this group. But i am really excited by the quality
of postings in the group. I am learning a lot, quickly.

I have a couple of questions. May be someone has some answers.

1. I think "data in the cloud" is so far a big block to widespread
adoption and using cloud for large, sensitive and mission critical
applications (espicially for Financial organization). Is someone
thinking of a way to leave the data within the user-premises and do
just the computing in the cloud? Kind of a reverse connection back to
the user datacenter.

That way the conventional data respositories can still be used. The
users will not have to worry about the reliability, availability and
(to a large part) security of the data. We still have to worry about
the security of the data travelling back and forth to and from the
cloud to the user data center.

This probably is more relevant for medium to large scale users with
"sensitive" data.

Comments? tips?

2. Considering the "cloud computing" is at the beginning of its
adoption curve, the user data center will, for a long time, have a
mixture of their own Physical, Virtual devices within their datacenter
along with their "virtual" datacenters in one or more clouds (may be
from different vendors).

The user will obviously look for a management portal that seamlessly
crosses the boundaries of Physical, Virtual and Cloud devices (for
discovery, monitoring at the very least).

Are there some talk/thought on standardizing the "cloud managemnet
actions" and "cloud management data" interfaces?

Comments? tips?

Thanks

--utpal