http://spiresecurity.com/?p=70 Risk and Cybersecurity Analysis Wed, 21 Aug 2013 23:28:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://spiresecurity.com/?p=70&cpage=1#comment-64 greg davoll Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:59:18 +0000 http://spiresecurity.com/blog/?p=70#comment-64 Personally, I don’t see “cloud computing” as being limited to just the endpoints. I typically think in terms of on-premises (behind the firewall/in your own datacenter/etc) versus hosted (cloud/SaaS/PaaS). So in the hosted or cloud world, I would propose extending the definition to the stack of services that enable the cloud application. For example, the “cloud application” may be a hybrid of a hosted website where the application UI/business logic lives and a hosted “cloud” database where the data is persisted (e.g. Amazon EC2/S3 or Microsoft SDS). There *may* be Cloud middleware and Cloud monitoring involved, again hosted sw services, that are being used to monitor, manage, and backup the data involved in the transactions. All that should fall under the umbrella of “cloud computing” (IMO).

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