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The following table provides definitions for some of the terms that are used in this document.
Table 2. Terminology
Term | Definition |
Multicloud | Companies’ strategy to operate business workloads in different cloud providers |
APEX | Dell APEX is our end-to-end solutions portfolio offered through an as-a-Service and subscription model, where customers pay only for the services consumed. |
Monolithic applications | Monolithic means Composed all in one piece. Monolithic applications are single tiered, which means multiple components are combined into one large application. |
Cloud native | Cloud-native architecture and technologies are an approach to designing, constructing, and operating workloads that are built in the cloud and take full advantage of the cloud computing model. |
Hyperconverged | Hyper-converged 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, and virtualized networking (software-defined networking). |
PowerFlex | Software-defined storage solution from Dell Technologies that creates a server-based storage area network from local server storage using x86 servers. |
RESTful APIs | Software architectural style created to guide the design and development of the architecture of the World Wide Web. It emphasizes uniform interfaces, independent deployment of components, and the scalability of interactions between them. REST API calls can be used from almost any modern programming language through HTTP methods to communicate with the web server (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, and PATCH). |
GPU | Specialized processor originally designed to accelerate graphics rendering |
Azure Arc | Centralized Microsoft Azure console to manage and operate cloud and on-premises Azure assets |
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Kubernetes | Open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. |
IPv6 | Most recent version of the Internet Protocol designed to address the limitations of its predecessor, IPv4 |
Fleet management | Service that allows an easy way of managing and operating multiple virtual machines and or containers |
Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) | Azure Stack HCI feature that enables cluster servers’ internal storage as a shared software define storage |