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Paravirtualization is a special technique developed to overcome some serious performance issues presented by full virtualization’s reliance on a Virtual Machine (VM) manager to constantly translate back and forth between […]

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is a category of cloud computing that supplies an on-demand environment for software development over the Internet. Cloud providers (such as Amazon, Google or Microsoft) deliver the hardware […]

Point of Service (POS) — also known as Point of Sale (POS) or Point of Purchase (POP) — refers to the actual time and place where a customer executes a […]

Proprietary software, also known as closed source software, is computer software that must be purchased from the creator or owner of the copyright of the source code. Vendors who develop […]

Private cloud (also known as internal cloud or corporate cloud) is a type of cloud computing that provides storage, compute and networking services to a single organization in an Infrastructure-as-a-Service […]

A production environment, sometimes called deployment environment, is the set of computers where finished, user-ready software is deployed and executed. When software code is moved to the production environment, it […]

Public cloud is a type of cloud computing that provides storage, compute and networking services on demand to many organizations (and the general public) over the Internet. Public cloud services […]