| Term | Description |
| AWS | Amazon Web Services. |
| Azure | Microsoft Cloud service offering. |
| Cloud Service Provider (Public) | Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform. |
| Cloud Service Provider (Private) | HPE, VMware, Dell EMC, IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft, Open Stack. |
| CMaaS | Cloud monitoring as a Service oversee interdependent Cloud suppliers. |
| COTS | Commercial off the shelf. |
| Container | Enables software applications to move independently of computer agnostic of operating system. |
| DR | Disaster recovery. |
| Edge Computing | Applications, computations and storage are pushed away from center out to the logical frontier of a network. Deviceor entry point into enterprise or service provider core networks. A new complement to application architectures and network design. See also Snowball below. |
| Endpoint | The user device is an Endpoint. Endpoint management provides protection, backup, fault tolerance, restoration and compliance across all user devices and encrypted data storage. |
| HA | High availability. |
| Hybrid Cloud | A mix of On-Premise, private Cloud and 3rd party public Cloud with orchestration between public and private. |
| IaaS | Infrastructure as a service. Also known as utility computing or Cloud hosting. |
| NAS | Network attached storage. |
| Machine Learning | Handles large datasets to generate new insights about customers, products, plants, prices, supply chain, etc. |
| PaaS | Platform as a Service. |
| Partition | Subset of a computer’s resources, virtualized as a separate computer. VMware is a pioneer and leader in innovative virtualization and collaboration. |
| Red Hat | Example of a technology company that markets software for handling Cloud, containers and open software applications and systems. A range of Cloud providers use open source for their services and offer tools for hosting, integrating and managing services. |
| SAN | Storage area network. |
| SIAM | Service Integration and Management. |
| Snowball | Large-scale data transport solution by Amazon to securely and cost effectively transfer large amounts of data into and out of the Amazon Web Services Cloud. |
| VM | Virtual machine. |
| VPC | Virtual Public Cloud. |