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    CAIQ (Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire)

    The Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ) is a survey provided by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) for cloud consumers and auditors to assess the security capabilities of a cloud service provider.

  • clickwrap agreement (clickthrough agreement)

    A clickwrap agreement, also known as a click through, shrink-wrap, or sign-in-wrap, is an online agreement in which the user signifies his or her acceptance by clicking a button or checking a box that states “I agree.”

  • cloud access security broker (CASB)

    A cloud access security broker (CASB) is a software tool or service that sits between an organization's on-premises infrastructure and a cloud provider's infrastructure.

  • cloud application

    A cloud application, or cloud app, is a software program where cloud-based and local components work together.

  • cloud application performance management (cloud APM)

    Cloud application performance management (cloud APM) is the process of monitoring resources that support software application performance in public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud environments. It takes actions to resolve issues and maintain optimal performance.

  • cloud architect

    A cloud architect is an IT professional who is responsible for overseeing a company's cloud computing strategy.

  • cloud audit

    A cloud audit is an assessment of a cloud computing environment and its services, based on a specific set of controls and best practices.

  • cloud automation

    Cloud automation is a broad term that refers to the processes and tools an organization uses to reduce the manual efforts associated with provisioning and managing cloud computing workloads and services.

  • cloud browser

    A cloud browser is a cloud-based combination of a web browser application with a virtualized container that implements the concept of remote browser isolation.

  • cloud bursting

    Cloud bursting is an application deployment technique in which an application runs in a private cloud or data center and bursts into a public cloud when the demand for computing capacity spikes.

  • cloud collaboration

    Cloud collaboration is a type of enterprise collaboration that allows employees to work together on documents and other data types, which are stored off-premises and outside of the company firewall.

  • cloud computing

    Cloud computing is a general term for the delivery of hosted computing services and IT resources over the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.

  • cloud engineer

    A cloud engineer is an IT professional responsible for any technological duties associated with cloud computing, including design, planning, management, maintenance and support.

  • Cloud Foundry

    Cloud Foundry is an open source cloud platform as a service (PaaS) on which developers can build, deploy, run and scale applications.

  • cloud IDE

    A cloud IDE is a web-based integrated development platform.

  • cloud infrastructure

    Cloud infrastructure refers to the hardware and software components, such as servers, storage, networking, virtualization software, services and management tools, that support the computing requirements of a cloud computing model.

  • cloud integration

    Cloud integration is the act of combining different cloud-based systems into an integral whole. The term may also refer to joining cloud-based systems with on-premises systems.

  • cloud load balancing

    Cloud load balancing is the process of distributing workloads across computing resources in a cloud computing environment and carefully balancing the network traffic accessing those resources.

  • cloud management platform

    A cloud management platform is a suite of integrated software tools that an enterprise can use to monitor and control cloud environments.

  • cloud modernization

    Cloud modernization is a multistep process where existing on-premises applications, infrastructure and data sources are migrated, updated and transformed into a cloud-based architecture and environment.

  • cloud server

    A cloud server is a compute server that has been virtualized, making its resources accessible to users remotely over a network.

  • cloud sourcing

    Cloud sourcing is an arrangement in which a company pays a third-party cloud hosting provider to deliver and support IT services that could be provided in-house.

  • cloud sprawl

    Cloud sprawl is the uncontrolled proliferation of an organization's cloud instances, services or providers.

  • cloud-native application

    A cloud-native application is a program that is designed for a cloud computing architecture.

  • Cloudability

    Cloudability is a software vendor that provides financial management tools for monitoring and analyzing cloud computing costs.

  • CloudCheckr

    CloudCheckr is a vendor that provides a cloud management platform intended to give an organization more control over and visibility into its cloud computing costs, performance and security.

  • cloudlet

    A cloudlet is a small-scale data center or cluster of computers designed to quickly provide cloud computing services to mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablets and wearable devices, within close geographical proximity.

  • CloudOps (cloud operations)

    Cloud operations (CloudOps) is the management, delivery and consumption of software in a computing environment where there is limited visibility into an app's underlying infrastructure.

  • confidential computing

    Confidential computing is a concept in which encrypted data can be processed in memory to limit access to protect data in use.

  • consumption-based pricing model

    A consumption-based pricing model is a service provision and payment scheme in which customers pay according to the resources they use.

  • container registry

    A container registry is a collection of repositories made to store container images.

  • What is a cloud database? An in-depth cloud DBMS guide

    A cloud database is an organized and managed collection of data in an IT system that resides on a public, private or hybrid cloud computing platform.

  • What is cloud management? Definition, benefits and guide

    Cloud management refers to the exercise of control over public, private or hybrid cloud infrastructure resources and services.

  • What is cloud migration? Essential guide to moving to the cloud

    Cloud migration is the process of moving data, applications or other business elements to a cloud computing environment.

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