A public cloud is a set of computing services offered by a third party through the internet. From a deployment standpoint, there are three types of cloud computing. There’s the public cloud, the private cloud, and the hybrid cloud. Of these three types, the...
End-user computing (EUC) refers to technologies that enable end users to become more productive and perform their work more efficiently regardless of geographical location. EUC was delivered through monolithic information centers...
Enterprise data backup refers to a relatively new class of solutions designed to meet highly complex backup and recovery needs. Typically, enterprise data backup supports on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments; disaster recovery initiatives;...
Application cloud hosting is the process of making websites and applications accessible to users through cloud computing resources. Unlike traditional application hosting, which uses a single server to host workloads, application...
Load balancing and failover are two methods of achieving high availability. Load balancing does it by distributing workloads to prevent a single system from getting overloaded, while failover does it by redirecting workload to a backup system when...
Virtualization enables you to create a software analogue for computer hardware. Usually, it’s implemented on servers and networks but can also be used on personal computers (PCs). In this article, we’re going...
Virtualization and virtual machines (VMs) have become mainstream in the past decade as organizations realize the technology’s many benefits, including better cost efficiencies, improved application performance, and a more...
Innovations such as virtual machines saw the more efficient use of computer hardware. But exactly what is a virtual machine (VM)? It is a virtual computer hosted on a server that uses the server’s resources, e.g., memory,...
