KEYTERMS

KEYTERMS

1. Anything (or Everything) as a Service (XaaS)

   • This is a catch-all term used to describe the continual expansion of different types of services that can be delivered by the cloud.

2. Capital Expenditure (Capex)

   • Capital expenditure is used to create future benefit to the organisation through the purchase of assets (e.g. servers, devices, software etc). This is a one-off cost that means that the organisation would own the asset outright.

3. Community cloud

   • Community clouds are for the use of a group of related organisations which is often hosted by one of the members (similar to a private cloud) but accessed remotely by the other members of the community (similar to a public cloud).

4. Compliance

   • Compliance is an adherence to the relevant legislation, policies, and standards

5. Google drive

   • This is an SaaS storage service delivered by Google.

6. Hybrid clouds

   • These are a combination of private, community or public clouds. This model requires more management than the other models but can offer greater flexibility for the organisation.

7. Incident

   • This is an event that impacts the organisation’s service where confidentiality, integrity or availability has been compromised.

8. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

   • IaaS represents cloud resources provided at its base levels i.e. storage, database, servers, networking etc. This gives the organisation the most flexibility but requires more management and technical ability.

9. Integrity

   • To have integrity, the data needs to be protected from unauthorised changes.

10. Operating expenditure (Opex)

    • Operating expenditure is the day-to-day expenses that relate to the cost of doing business. For example, utilities, consumables, and subscriptions

11. Platform as a Service (PaaS)

    • PaaS are cloud services provided at a developmental level for application development and hosting. Organisations tend not to care about the underlying infrastructure, being more concerned about having the resources available to allow them to focus on the services needed for their business.