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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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Cloud file sharing refers to a range of cloud services that allows people to store and synchronize documents, photos, videos and other files in the cloud—and share them with other people. These ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

Grid computing refers to using computers managed by more than one organization, whether internal or external, to collectively accomplish large tasks, such as derivative risk analysis, candidate drug ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

In the service provider view, cloud service elasticity is the ability to increase or decrease the amount of system capacity (for example, CPU, storage, memory and input/output bandwidth) that is ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

Capacity overdrafting or cloudbursting are interchangeable terms that refer to the ability to acquire more capacity from a different cloud infrastructure automatically when the primary cloud ...

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Cloud encryption gateways provide cloud security proxy (typically at the application level), which performs encryption, tokenization or both on an item-by-item basis as data flows through the proxy. ...

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A cloud access security broker (CASB) is an on-premises, or cloud-based security policy enforcement point, placed between cloud service consumers and cloud service providers to combine and interject ...

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Cloud-based grid computing involves using computers in a public cloud service, or a hybrid of public cloud and internally owned computers, to collectively accomplish large tasks, such as derivative ...

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