Home > Blossary: Cloud Computing
A computing practice whereby scalable and elastic IT-enabled capabilities are provided as a service to external customers using Internet technologies—i.e., public cloud computing uses cloud computing technologies to support customers that are external to the provider’s organization.

Category: Technology

Company: Gartner

31 Terms

Created by: consultant

Number of Blossarys: 2

My Terms
Collected Terms
English (EN)
Compare Language

Cloud management platforms are integrated products that provide for the management of public, private and hybrid cloud environments. The minimum requirements to be included in this category are ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

Cloud services brokerage (CSB) is an IT role and business model in which a company or other entity adds value to one or more (public or private) cloud services on behalf of one or more consumers of ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

Cloud synchronization allows mobile devices to automatically and transparently synchronize local information and applications with a Web-based, in-the-cloud service to the user in real time. ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

Personal cloud is the individual's collection of digital content, services and apps which are seamlessly accessible across any device. The personal cloud is not a tangible entity, but rather the ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

Hybrid cloud computing refers to policy-based and coordinated service provisioning, use and management across a mixture of internal and external cloud services.

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

Cloud engineering is the process of designing the systems necessary to leverage the power and economics of cloud resources to solve business problems.

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

Cloud email describes a vendor-offered, multi-tenant, Internet-delivered email service that is scalable and flexible. Some examples of cloud email services include Yahoo Mail, GMail, Hotmail and ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

Member comments


( You can type up to 200 characters )

Post  
My other Blossarys

The entire spectrum of technologies for ...

Category: Technology

By: consultant