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.