Cloud application services, whereby applications are delivered over the Internet by the provider, so that the applications don't have to be purchased, installed, and run on the customer's computers.

Delivers computer infrastructure, typically a platform virtualization environment, as a service. Rather than purchasing servers, software, data center space or network equipment, clients instead buy those resources as a fully outsourced service.

Represents a characteristic of a system, network or process which indicates the ability to easily handle the increase of data management.

A property of a product or system, whose interfaces are completely understood, to work with other products or systems, present or future, without any restricted access or implementation.

An architecture in which a single instance of a software application serves multiple customers. Each customer is called a tenant. Tenants may be given the ability to customize some parts of the application, such as color of the user interface (UI) or business rules, but they cannot customize the application's code.

A cloud computing model in which a third-party provider delivers hardware and software tools -- usually those needed for application development -- to users over the internet.

Services offered over the public Internet and available to anyone who wants to purchase the service.

A type of cloud computing that delivers similar advantages to public cloud, including scalability and self-service, but through a proprietary architecture.

A networking environment that includes multiple integrated internal and/or external providers. It combines aspects of both public and private clouds.