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GLOSSARY; CLOUD BASED COMPUTING


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A pricing model that offers services to customers at low or no cost, with the provider being compensated by advertisers whose ads are delivered to the consumer along with the service.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web.
A project sponsored by the Apache Software Foundation. See also: hadoop
Amazon Web Services - Amazon's suite of cloud services (includes EC2, RDS, S3, SQS and VPC) that together make up their cloud computing platform.
Microsoft's cloud computing platform. See also: Windows Azure
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Business Process as a Service — A complete business process is provided as a service - such as billing, HR, payroll, advertising, etc.
Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite. Online versions of Microsoft's messaging and collaboration solutions. It includes Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Live Meeting, and Office Communications Online.
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Cloud Computing Maturity Model. Defines five stages of evolution for an enterprise data center to migrate to cloud computing. The five stages are: consolidation, virtualization, automation, utility and cloud.
Content delivery network — A system consisting of multiple computers that contain copies of data, which are located in different places on the network so clients can access the copy closest to them.
The top layer of the Cloud Computing Stack where applications interact with client web browsers. Examples: Gmail and Salesforce.com
An entity that creates and maintains relationships with multiple cloud service providers. It acts as a liaison between cloud services customers and cloud service providers, selecting the best provider for each customer and monitoring the services.
Cloud bursting is a technique used by hybrid clouds to provide additional resources to private clouds on an as-needed basis. If the private cloud has the processing power to handle its workloads, the hybrid cloud is not used. When workloads exceed…
The outsourcing of some IT operations to lower cost cloud services. Example: data backup
A cloud infrastructure that is shared by several organizations and supports a specific community.
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A term used in the business world to describe innovations that improve products or services in unexpected ways and change both the way things are done and the market. Cloud computing is often referred to as a disruptive technology because it has the…
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Elastic Compute Cloud. See also: Amazon EC2
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Federation is the act of combining data or identities across multiple systems. Federation can be done by a cloud provider or by a cloud broker.
Force.com is the Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering from Salesforce.com. See also: PaaS
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Google’s SaaS offering that includes an office productivity suite, email, and document sharing, as well as Gmail, Google Talk for instant messaging, Google Calendar and Google Docs, spreadsheets, and presentations.
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Hadoop as a Service. Provides Hadoop clusters on a private / public cloud. See also: Hadoop
Hadoop is an open-source, software framework that supports the processing of large data sets in a distributed computing environment. It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. It is written in Java and part of the…
A combination of two or more clouds (private, community, or public) that remain unique entities but are bound together by standardized or proprietary technology that enables data and application portability.
I
Infrastructure as a Service — Cloud infrastructure services, whereby a virtualized environment is delivered as a service over the Internet by the provider. The infrastructure can include servers, network equipment, and software.
A global cloud of clouds, similar in concept to the Internet being a global network of networks. See also: Intracloud
An Intercloud consisting of only private clouds.
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Acronym for a solution stack of free open-source software for web based applications consisting of Linux , Apache, MySQL and PHP. See also: open source software
An open source operating system based on Unix. It is the dominate operating system for cloud computing.
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In a measured service, aspects of the cloud service are controlled and monitored by the cloud provider. This is crucial for billing, access control, resource optimization, capacity planning and other tasks. Defined by the National Institute of…
Multitenancy is the property of multiple systems, applications or data from different enterprises hosted on the same physical hardware. Multitenancy is common to most cloud-based system
Open source SQL database software.
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National Institute of Standards and Technology
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In a measured service, aspects of the cloud service are controlled and monitored by the cloud provider. This is crucial for billing, access control, resource optimization, capacity planning and other tasks. Defined by the National Institute of…
Open source software (as an alternative to commercial software), is software whose source code is published and made available to the public, enabling anyone to copy, modify and improve the software.
An open source toolkit for building public, private and hybrid clouds.
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Platform as a Service — Cloud platform services, whereby the computing platform (operating system and associated services) is delivered as a service over the Internet by the provider.
Services offered over the Internet or over a private internal network to only select users, not available to the general public.
Services offered over the public Internet and available to anyone who wants to purchase the service.
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Elasticity is defined as the ability to scale resources both up and down as needed. To the consumer, the cloud appears to be infinite, and the consumer can purchase as much or as little computing power as they need. Defined by the National Institute…
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Software as a Service — Cloud application services, whereby applications are delivered over the Internet by the provider, so that the applications don’t have to be purchased, installed, and run on the customer’s computers. SaaS providers were…
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Service Level Agreement (SLA). An SLA is contract between a provider and a consumer that specifies consumer requirements and the provider’s commitment to them. Typically an SLA includes items such as uptime, privacy, security and backup procedures.
A pricing model that lets customers pay a fee to use the service for a particular time period, often used for SaaS services See also: Consumption based pricing model
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Online computing or storage sold as a metered commercial service in a way similar to a public utility
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Dependency on the particular cloud vendor and difficulty moving from one cloud vendor to another due to lack of standardized protocols, APIs, data structures (schema), and service models.
A cloud computing environment that is optimized for use in a particular industry, such as health care or financial services.
A file (typically called an image) that, when executed, looks to the user like an actual machine. Infrastructure as a Service is often provided as a VM image that can be started or stopped as needed. Changes made to the VM while it is running can be…
Resources grouped according to specific business objectives.
Virtual private cloud — A private cloud that exists within a shared or public cloud, e.g., the Amazon VPC that allows Amazon EC2 to connect to legacy infrastructure on an IPsec VPN.
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Microsoft cloud services that provide the platform as a service (see PaaS), allowing developers to create cloud applications and services. See also: Azure
Microsoft’s cloud-based consumer applications, which include: Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Calendar, Windows Live Events, Windows Live Skydrive, Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Writer, and…
Microsoft’s cloud-based consumer applications, which include Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Calendar, Windows Live Events, Windows Live Skydrive, Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Writer, and…
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