Engineering Cloud Applications for the Workplace

Abstract

This paper will cover the planning and development of cloud applications that are used in the workplace. In addition to researching the feature needs of these applications, we will examine the risks and rewards of using these cloud applications for businesses. For instance, we go into how cloud software could be used in education as well as for small business and dive into the benefits that can be obtained from both. On the other hand, when conducting business on the cloud, there is always a risk that your data can be intercepted by an unwanted party through scripting or injection attacks. With the cloud becoming larger every year, we also dive into the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) privacy regulators and how they act in favor of the consumer, so that their data and rights are protected. Finally, we examine the many different scaling techniques and infrastructure providers can elect to deploy a combination of them, so that service quality does not degrade with an increase of traffic.