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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.

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Company: Gartner

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Integration brokerage (IB) is a category of discrete IT outsourcing for integration projects, such as those involving cloud services integration and supply chain integration. IB is one of three ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

Cloudbursting is the use of an alternative set of public or private cloud-based services as a way to augment and handle peaks in IT system requirements at startup or during runtime. Cloudbursting can ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

Multitenancy is a reference to the mode of operation of software where multiple independent instances of one or multiple applications operate in a shared environment. The instances (tenants) are ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

A versatile authentication server or service (VAS) is a single authentication product or service supporting user authentication in multiplatform environments (on-premises and in the cloud). It may be ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

A platform as a service (PaaS) offering, usually depicted in all-cloud diagrams between the SaaS layer above it and the IaaS layer below, is a broad collection of application infrastructure ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

Gartner defines business process as a service (BPaaS) as the delivery of business process outsourcing (BPO) services that are sourced from the cloud and constructed for multitenancy. Services are ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

Bandwidth as currency initially involved customers purchasing a prepaid phone card that allowed subscribers to transfer surplus telecommunication minutes to other subscribers using text messages. ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

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