Cloud Key Terms - Part A Revision

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Across
  1. 2. ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC -available on a range of devices
  2. 6. Software required between the hardware and a Virtual Machine.
  3. 8. ADVANTAGE - reduces the on-premises footprint associated with power/cooling, hardware, and compute power
  4. 10. ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC - Physical resources are provisioned virtually, accessible from anywhere / anytime
  5. 12. ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC - removes the need for heavy investment
  6. 13. The acronym for Platform as a Service
  7. 14. The acronym for Software as a Service
  8. 18. Uses a combination of Public and Private Cloud architectures
  9. 19. the processing of unbounded stream of input data, with very short latency requirements for processing — measured in milliseconds or seconds”
  10. 21. Which is the missing element of Gartners 5 Rs? - Refactor, Revise, Rebuild, or Replace
  11. 22. DISADVANTAGE - unable to use another provider without substantial switching costs
Down
  1. 1. moving elements of an application stack usually the front end to the cloud and leaving data processing in the corporate data centre
  2. 3. rewriting applications for the cloud and hosting the entirety of the application and database in the cloud
  3. 4. ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC - large storage capacity
  4. 5. ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC - technical knowledge of maintenance not burden on user
  5. 7. ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC - multiple users access the same resources at the same time
  6. 9. The acronym for Infrastructure as a Service
  7. 11. Taking all web enabled applications and hosting them in the cloud
  8. 15. ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC - resources available when end user requires them
  9. 16. ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC - pay for what you use
  10. 17. What does TOM stand for?
  11. 20. First used in mainframe environments these tools are designed to transfer large volumes of data