Glossary
The definitions in this glossary are intentionally not “straight from a dictionary.” Rather, they are intended to provide more clarity and relevance to cloud computing within the context of this book.
- Accreditation
- The process by which an organization evaluates the security of a computer system against one or more security standards or policies. An accredited system is one that is “certified” to have successfully completed this process.
- Agile
- A software development and delivery methodology based on iterative and incremental improvements for software releases. Agile is intended to speed time-to-market of software updates, new features, or patches on a continuous basis, usually measured in weeks or months.
- Allocated services
- The practice of selling resources such as processors, memory, storage, or network based on a fixed prepaid amount or ceiling. Customers pay a fixed price for services, even if their actual utilization is less. See also Metering.
- Application service provider
- Internet-based provider of application hosting services. A precursor to today’s more popular term, Software as a Service (SaaS), whereby applications are hosted, managed, and licensed by the provider, often charging customers on a per-user or per-month basis.
- Application transformation
- The process of adapting or rewriting an application so that it can be hosted in a cloud deployment model. Specific features of cloud-enabled software include elasticity, resiliency, and micro-application services ...
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