ACU The concept of the Azure Compute Unit (ACU) provides a way of comparing compute (CPU) performance across Azure SKUs. This will help you easily identify which SKU is most likely to satisfy your performance needs. ACU is currently standardized on a Small (Standard_A1) VM being 100 and all other SKUs then represent approximately how … Read more
AI accelerator An AI accelerator is a specialized hardware component designed to perform artificial intelligence tasks more efficiently than traditional processors. It can speed up the execution of machine learning algorithms and neural networks, which are commonly used in AI applications such as image recognition, natural language processing, and autonomous driving. AI accelerators typically have … Read more
The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is an open standard for passing business messages between applications or organizations. It connects systems, feeds business processes with the information they need and reliably transmits onward the instructions that achieve their goals. AMQP can be thought of as an integration service protocol or middleware protocol. AMQP connects across: Reference: … Read more
Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies 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 … Read more
Authentication Authentication (from Greek: αὐθεντικός authentikos, “real, genuine”, from αὐθέντης authentes, “author”) is the act of proving an assertion, such as the identity of a computer system user. In contrast with identification, the act of indicating a person or thing’s identity, authentication is the process of verifying that identity. It might involve validating personal identity … Read more
Authorization Authorization is the function of specifying access rights/privileges to resources, which is related to general information security and computer security, and to access control in particular. More formally, “to authorize” is to define an access policy. For example, human resources staff are normally authorized to access employee records and this policy is often formalized … Read more
The Azure cloud platform is more than 200 products and cloud services designed to help you bring new solutions to life—to solve today’s challenges and create the future. Build, run, and manage applications across multiple clouds, on-premises, and at the edge, with the tools and frameworks of your choice. Microsoft Azure, often referred to as … Read more
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:
A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, and input/output (I/O) operations specified by the instructions in the program. This contrasts with external components such as main memory and I/O … Read more
Desktop As A Service (VDI vs Hosted Shared Desktops) or Diagnostics As A Service (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/blog/daas/).
Definition of DCOM The Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) Remote Protocol exposes application objects via remote procedure calls (RPCs) and consists of a set of extensions layered on the Microsoft Remote Procedure Call Extensions. Reference https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-dcom/4a893f3d-bd29-48cd-9f43-d9777a4415b0
DDOS In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network. Denial of service is typically accomplished by flooding the targeted machine or resource with … Read more
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 allows devices in remote locations to process data at the “edge” of the network, either by the device or a local server. And when data needs to be processed in the central datacenter, only the most important data is transmitted, thereby minimizing latency. Businesses use edge computing to improve the response times of … Read more
Firmware In computing, firmware is a specific class of computer software that provides the low-level control for a device’s specific hardware. Firmware, such as the BIOS of a personal computer, may contain basic functions of a device, and may provide hardware abstraction services to higher-level software such as operating systems. For less complex devices, firmware … Read more
Definition of gRPC RPC is a modern, high-performance framework that evolves the age-old remote procedure call (RPC)protocol. At the application level, gRPC streamlines messaging between clients and back-end services.Originating from Google, gRPC is open source and part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) ecosystem of cloud-native offerings. CNCF considers gRPC an incubating project. Incubatingmeans end … Read more
HCI Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a software-defined IT infrastructure that virtualizes all of the elements of conventional “hardware-defined” systems. HCI includes, at a minimum, virtualized computing (a hypervisor), software-defined storage or SDS, and virtualized networking (software-defined networking or SDN). HCI typically runs on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) servers. The primary difference between converged infrastructure and hyperconverged … Read more
IaaS stands for Infrastructure As A Service. This term covers a wide range of cloud services related to compute power, including but not limited to virtual machines, containers and services for compute intensive workloads.
Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS)
