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Define:
Private Cloud |
A cloud infrastructure that is provisioned for exclusive use by a single
organization. It may be owned, managed, and operated by the organization, a third party, or any combination thereof, and may exist on or off premises. |
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Public Cloud |
A cloud infrastructure that is provisioned for open use by the general public. It
may be owned, managed, and operated by a business, academic, or government organization, or any combination thereof. It exists on the premises of the cloud provider. |
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Community Cloud |
A cloud infrastructure that is provisioned for exclusive use by a specific
community of consumers from organizations that have shared concerns. It may be owned, managed, and operated by one or more of the organizations in the community, a third party, or any combination thereof and it may exist on or off premises. |
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Hybrid Cloud |
A cloud infrastructure that is a composition of two or more distinct cloud
infrastructures that remain unique entities, but are bound together by standardized or proprietary technology that enables data and application portability. |
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Define:
Hypervisor |
Software/hardware that makes visualization possible.
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What is a:
Type I Hypervisor |
A hypervisor that is independent of the operating system and boots before
the OS. Also known as bare metal. |
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What is a:
Type II Hypervisor |
A hypervisor that is dependent on the operation system and cannot boot
until the OS is up and running. It needs the OS to stay up so that it can boot. Also known as hosted. |
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What are:
Snapshots |
An image of a system at a particular point in time. Can be used for virtual machine
cloning. |
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What is the:
Industry standard for host availability |
5 9s or 99.999% uptime
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What is:
Rapid elasticity |
Capabilities can be elastically provisioned and released, in some cases
automatically, to scale rapidly outward and inward commensurate with demand. To the consumer, the capabilities available for provisioning often appear to be unlimited and can be appropriated in any quantity at any time. |
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What is:
Security Control Testing (SCT) |
Similar to PEN testing for the cloud, it often includes
interviews, examinations, and testing of systems to look for weaknesses. It should also include contract reviews of SLAs, a look at the history of prior breaches that the provider has had, a focus on shared resources as well as dedicated servers, etc. |
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What is:
Sandboxing |
Running apps in restricted memory to limit the possibility of an app's crash,
allowing a user to access another app or the data associated with it.. |
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What is:
Anything as a service (XaaS) |
A hybrid of Paas, Saas, and/or IaaS
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What is:
Cloud Bursting |
Offloading traffic to resources to a cloud provider when your servers become
too busy. |
