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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

API Tools

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Active Archive

B

Backend as a Service

Backup as a Service

Big Data

Bottomless Cloud

C

Cloud Architect

Cloud Backup

Cloud Bursting

Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing Elasticity

Cloud Data Center

Cloud Engineer

Cloud Lock-In

Cloud Management Platform (CMP)

Cloud Migration

Cloud NAS

CloudOps (Cloud Operations)

Cloud Portability

Cloud Provisioning

Cloud Storage 2.0

Cold Storage

Content Delivery Network (CDN)

D

Data Archiving

Data Lake

Data Portability

DevOps

Digital Transformation

Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)

E

Edge Computing

Egress Charges

Exabyte

G

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

H

Hot Storage

Hybrid Cloud

I

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Internet of Things (IoT)

L

Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Storage

M

Machine Learning

Managed Service Providers

Multi-Cloud Strategy

O

On-Premises (on-prem)

P

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Petabyte

Private Cloud

Public Cloud

S

Scalability

Software as a Service (SaaS)

T

Tape-to-Cloud Storage

Tiered Storage System

V

Vertical Cloud

Virtualization

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