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Wasabi Fuels Continued Growth with $27.5 Million Funding Round

Glossary of Terms

Don't get lost with your head in the cloud. Use this A to Z cloud computing glossary to understand many of the most common cloud computing terms, acronyms, and phrases.

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

Anything-as-a-Service

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

B

Backend as a Service

Backup as a Service

Bottomless Cloud

C

Cloud Architect

Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing Elasticity

Cloud Data Center

Cloud Management Platform (CMP)

Cloud Migration

Cloud Operating System (Cloud OS)

CloudOps (Cloud Operations)

Cloud Portability

Cloud Provisioning

Cloud Storage 2.0

Content Delivery Network (CDN)

D

Data Portability

Digital Transformation

Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)

E

G

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

H

I

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Internet of Things (IoT)

L

Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Storage

M

Machine Learning

Managed Service Providers

Multi-Cloud Strategy

O

On-Premises (on-prem)

Open-Source Cloud Computing

P

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

R

Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

S

Software as a Service (SaaS)

T

Tape-to-Cloud Storage

Tiered Storage System

U

User Interface (UI)

V