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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 email describes a vendor-offered, multi-tenant, Internet-delivered email service that is scalable and flexible. Some examples of cloud email services include Yahoo Mail, GMail, Hotmail and ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

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. ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

Cloud engineering is the process of designing the systems necessary to leverage the power and economics of cloud resources to solve business problems.

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

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

Cloud management platforms are integrated products that provide for the management of public, private and hybrid cloud environments. The minimum requirements to be included in this category are ...

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Cloud printing services (CPS) are hosted cloud computing offerings that enable users to print documents and other materials on any device associated with the cloud. Users create content with any ...

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Cloud security gateways are on-premises or cloud-based security policy enforcement points placed between cloud service consumers and cloud service providers to interject enterprise security policies ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Cloud computing

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