ACA

ACA stands for Azure Container Apps. Azure Container Apps are a flavor of a hosted Kubernetes services in the Microsoft Azure cloud. ACA is a fully Platform As A Service (PaaS) resource. In the ACA service, Microsoft manages all components of the underlying Kubernetes cluster, including the system nodes (control plane) and the user nodes ... Read more

ACI

ACI stands for Azure Container Instance. It is a lightweight container PaaS service which allows the end customer to deploy, configure and manage a simple container-based solution based on a docker or other container image, without having to manage the underlying container cluster components. ACI can work together with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) by making ... Read more

ACR

ACR stands for Azure Container Registry. It is a PaaS resource which encapsulates the management of container images, such as Docker images in the Microsoft Azure Cloud. ACR is tightly integrated to other container services in Azure, such as AKS. An AKS cluster can utilize an ACR registry to pull its container images from. An ... Read more

ACU

azure

ACU The concept of the Azure Compute Unit (ACU) encapsulates infomation about CPU performance in each Azure service which relies on CPU performance to classify its SKU plan. The basic reference for ACU is the Azure Standard_A1 (small) VM corresponding to 100 ACUs. All other Azure compute service SKUs advertise certain levels of ACU, which ... Read more

AI accelerator

AI accelerator An AI accelerator is a specialized hardware component which is mainly utilized for artificial intelligence tasks. It can perform AI computations in a more efficient manner than conventional computer processors (CPU). By using algorithms for parallelism, AI accelerators can enchance performance of computations for machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks. Some examples of ... Read more

AKS

AKS standards for Azure Kubernetes Service. It is an Azure cloud managed fully-featured Kubernetes cluster service. In AKS, there are system node pools and user node pools. System node pools host the AKS infrastructure components, i.e. the control plane components of the Kubernetes cluster, such as the API server. User node pools host the customer ... Read more

AMQP

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)

The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is an open integration and messaging standard for communication of business messages among applications. AMQP acts as an integration service protocol or middleware protocol. Review the official protocol documentation at https://www.amqp.org/about/what for more details.

Apache Kafka

apache kafka

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. Microsoft Azure has a Kafka service implementation in its HDInsight cloud service. In Azure you can also use Azure Event Hubs to stream data from Apache Kafka applications without setting up a Kafka cluster on ... Read more

Authentication

authentication

Authentication Authentication in computer systems uses application protocols to verify that the identity which is requesting access to a computing system is actually who they say they are. Common authentication protocols are OpenID, NTLM, Kerberos, PAP and CHAP. There is a long list of authentication protocols available, each one being applicable to different systems and ... Read more

Authorization

security and privacy

Authorization Authorization works right after authentication, in order to grant access and permissions to an identity requesting access to IT resources. The most common authorization protocol is OAuth, now in OAuth 2.0 version. At least one and a resource owner are involved in the authorization process. Authorization works by having an authorization server assign access ... Read more

Azure

azure

Azure is Microsoft's public cloud platform, offering a vast range of cloud computing services from its multitude of geographical regions and datacenters. Azure offers all types of cloud services, including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS and is in the top 3 list of global cloud service providers. You can read more details about Azure services and ... Read more

BaaS

BaaS means Backup As A Service and refers to any managed service which allows for remote backup and recovery of any type of on-premise or cloud workload, including but not limited to:

CPU

Central Processing Unit CPU

A central processing unit (CPU) is a complex electronic circuit which performs all numerical, logic, IO and control computations inside a computer. There are generally two types of CPUs, ie reduced instruction set computers (RISC) and Complex Instruction Set Computers (CISC). There are also other similar circuits to a CPU, with a more specialized scope ... Read more

DaaS

Desktop As A Service (VDI or Hosted Shared Desktops) or Diagnostics As A Service. For Diagnostics as a service, read the following Microsoft article for more details.https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/blog/daas/. 

DCOM

DCOM

Definition of DCOM The Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) protocol is used to expose application objects via remote procedure calls (RPCs). DCOM has extensions layered on top of the Remote Procedure Call extensions. Refer to the following Microsoft article for more details on DCOM: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-dcom/4a893f3d-bd29-48cd-9f43-d9777a4415b0.

DDOS

security and privacy

DDOS DDOS stands for distributed denial-of-service attack (DoS attack). It uses similar approach to Denial of Service (DOS) but in this case, the DOS cyber attack is distributed from numerous source networks.

DRaaS

DRaaS (Disaster Recovery As A Service) is a managed service in which disaster recovery is offered as a cloud service. Disaster recovery includes business continuity (BCDR) and backup as a service (BaaS). DRaaS management server can be either an on-premise or a cloud server. There are various DRaaS providers, most of which are already providing ... Read more

Edge computing

cloud fog edge

Edge computing refers to placing computing devices and services at the other edge of a cloud computing environment. Edge computing refers to low form factor devices, such as IoT devices, with low processing power and streaming data via network interface cards. Two examples of Edge computing services in Microsoft Azure are the following:

Firmware

firmware

Firmware Firmware is low level system software, which provides access and control to a computing device hardware and hardware abstraction layers to the computing device operating system. Depending on the complexity of a computing device, there may be devices with lower complexity, such as IoT devices and sensors, which do not need a full operating ... Read more

Git

GIT

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