Suitable Applications

Hive Computing can be used to perform a wide variety of operations, including...

• Processing credit card transactions
• Handling health care authorizations
• Authenticating users
• Hosting trading system

Hive Computing's promise of affordable reliability is currently being evaluated by organizations in a number of industries...

• Homeland Security, Government, & Defense
  - Signal Processing and Analysis
  - Cryptography
• Telecommunications
  - Billing
  - Authentication
  - Provisioning
• Financial Services & Insurance
  - Financial Modeling
  - Credit Card Processing
• Biotechnology & Life Sciences
  - Bioinformatics
  - In-Silico Drug Discovery
• Energy
  - Processing Seismic Data

In general, a Hive can be used wherever a business or other organization needs to perform large numbers of transaction-oriented operations in an extremely reliable manner. Transaction-oriented operations...

• Are Request-Operation-Response Based
• Perform some number of steps on or using some piece of data

To date, transaction-oriented operations have been implemented using technologies like...

• Application Servers
• TP Monitors
• J2EE (e.g. Stateless Session Beans)
• Servlet Pipelines

Future approaches to performing transaction-oriented operations include…

• Grid Computing
• .NET
• Service-Oriented Architectures
• Web Services