End-to-End Introduction
A high level overview of the topic and the briefing.
Application Overview
Pat works is a registered nurse and does field work for a medical services company which provides home dialysis for patients who have suffered kidney failure. Pat is required to be present for initial set-up of the in-home machine and to provide training and support for each new client in their home for a period of one to two weeks. Pat works four ten-hour days and is on-call 24 hours per day on her scheduled days. Pat is partnered with Lee and their schedules overlap slightly allowing full coverage seven days per week. Pat’s company has implemented a Unified Communications system using off-the-shelf applications which run on iPads and other tablet devices and allow Pat and Lee to locate each other as well as critical resources such as technicians, spare parts, and any needed medical supplies. They also have access to a variety of databases including patient medical information which is protected by HIPAA regulations.
The following six modules show, step-by-step, how the application is implemented on each of these delivery mechanisms. It is noteworthy that this application clearly meets or exceeds four of the five desirability criteria for cloud computing applications and the fifth is a matter of interpretation and implementation as will be seen in the following segments.
- Applications, processes and data largely independent
- Points of integration well defined
- Stable or new applications
- Web is desired delivery platform
- Lower level of security acceptable
Web/ISP
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Data/Storage as a Service (DaaS)
End-to-End Review and Summary
A review of the briefing topics and summary of the program.