Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure
Bare Metal Cloud
Bare Metal Cloud is a service that provisions dedicated physical servers on demand, billed like cloud but without…
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Cloud Adjacency
Cloud Adjacency is the practice of placing IT infrastructure in a data center that is physically and network-proximate…
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Cloud Availability Zone
A Cloud Availability Zone (AZ) is one or more discrete data centers within a cloud region that has…
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Cloud Exchange
A Cloud Exchange is a software-defined interconnection platform, usually operated within carrier-neutral data centers, that lets customers establish…
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Cloud Landing Zone
A Cloud Landing Zone is a pre-configured, secure and governed cloud environment — with account structure, networking, identity,…
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Cloud On-Ramp
A Cloud On-Ramp is a point of presence where a data center or interconnection platform provides direct, private…
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Cloud Region
A Cloud Region is a distinct geographic area in which a cloud provider operates a cluster of data…
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Cloud Repatriation
Cloud Repatriation is the migration of workloads and data from public cloud back to on-premises, colocation or private-cloud…
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Data Center as a Service
Data Center as a Service (DCaaS) is a model in which a provider delivers data-center facilities and infrastructure…
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Direct Cloud Connect
Direct Cloud Connect is a private, dedicated network link between a customer's environment, often in a colocation facility,…
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Distributed Cloud
Distributed Cloud is a model in which a public-cloud provider's services run in multiple physical locations — the…
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Edge Cloud
Edge Cloud is a distributed computing model that places cloud resources in smaller facilities close to end users…
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GPU-as-a-Service
GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) is a cloud model that rents access to graphics-processing-unit compute on demand for AI training and…
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Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid Cloud is an operating model that integrates private cloud or on-premises infrastructure with public cloud, allowing workloads…
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Hyperscaler
A Hyperscaler is one of the very large cloud and internet companies — such as Amazon Web Services,…
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Infrastructure as a Service
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a cloud model in which a provider delivers virtualized computing, storage and…
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Managed Hosting
Managed Hosting is a service in which a provider owns, operates and administers the servers and infrastructure running…
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Multicloud
Multicloud is the deliberate use of cloud services from two or more public cloud providers within one strategy,…
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Neocloud
A Neocloud is a new class of cloud provider that specializes in renting GPU compute for AI workloads…
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Platform as a Service
Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a cloud model that provides a managed environment — operating system, runtime,…
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Private Cloud
Private Cloud is a cloud environment dedicated to a single organization, delivering self-service, elastic and virtualized resources on…
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Public Cloud
Public Cloud is a computing model in which a provider such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud…
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Sovereign Cloud
Sovereign Cloud is a cloud offering engineered to keep data, metadata and operations within a specific jurisdiction and…
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Virtual Private Cloud
A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a logically isolated section of a public cloud in which a customer…