Developers plug into blockstack.js, which provides APIs for authenticating the user, grabbing application data from the user, and storing new application data with the user (encrypted and backed up to cloud storage).
The assessment model has four dimensions: user, application area, data source and methodology.
To support the assessment of the ethical impact of digital epidemiology technologies, we suggest a novel model that comprises four aspects: user, application area, data source and methodology (see Fig. 1).
Though primarily designed (as its name implies) for moving a user's software, files and settings from an old PC to a new one, it can also perform the useful trick of upgrading an existing XP computer to Windows 7 or Windows 8 without wiping out the user's applications, data and settings in the process.
"SmartParcel" allows users to share mobile application data with their spatio-temporally co-existing peers.
Onavo (onavo.com) a new Tel Aviv-based start-up, has an iPhone app that compresses users' Web, e-mail and application data.
Due to the availability of its services & scalability for computing processes individual users and organizations transfer their application, data and services to the cloud storage server.
In each of the implementations, NoSQL databases (Riak and MongoDB) act as a stable storage for the user's application (i.e. application data is stored persistently in the NoSQL database).
Average penalty: A user application is penalized when the allocated data budget is insufficient compared to its requirement.
Okta's platform allows companies to have control of their users, applications, and data both in the cloud and behind the firewall.
