I am a partner of a company which develops an advanced dashboard to manage virtual machines in internet clouds/grids. Virtualization leads to near mainframe performance. The main concern is that the cloud cannot be used for financial applications. My company, CloudBolt, is developing a protocol and plug in that will allow a central and localized master ETL server to run a cluster via a cloud. Each job will require a special plug in that, in turn, will interface with the cloud management software. Security will be handled via authentication in the master jobs and transformations and all data that is stored on the cloud will use compression and password authentication.
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