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Paravirtualization

Paravirtualization is a special technique developed to overcome some serious performance issues presented by full virtualization’s reliance on a Virtual Machine (VM) manager to constantly translate back and forth between […]

Platform-as-a-Service

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is a category of cloud computing that supplies an on-demand environment for software development over the Internet. Cloud providers (such as Amazon, Google or Microsoft) deliver the hardware […]

Point of Service

Point of Service (POS) — also known as Point of Sale (POS) or Point of Purchase (POP) — refers to the actual time and place where a customer executes a […]

Priority Software

Proprietary software, also known as closed source software, is computer software that must be purchased from the creator or owner of the copyright of the source code. Vendors who develop […]

Private Cloud

Private cloud (also known as internal cloud or corporate cloud) is a type of cloud computing that provides storage, compute and networking services to a single organization in an Infrastructure-as-a-Service […]

Production Environment

A production environment, sometimes called deployment environment, is the set of computers where finished, user-ready software is deployed and executed. When software code is moved to the production environment, it […]

Public Cloud

Public cloud is a type of cloud computing that provides storage, compute and networking services on demand to many organizations (and the general public) over the Internet. Public cloud services […]