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\"cloudglossary\"<\/a>Cloud computing is one of the hottest, fastest-growing segments in information technology today. Gartner<\/a> predicts that IT spending on the cloud will increase 32.8 percent in the next year alone, and many of the world\u2019s largest<\/a> tech<\/a> companies<\/a>\u00a0are fighting for their share of that growth.<\/p>\n

But with new technology comes new terminology and, in an industry that isn\u2019t exactly known for clarity and plain English, that can mean a lot of jargon.<\/p>\n

There is a seemingly endless torrent of new terminology surrounding the cloud, and the acronyms just keep piling up\u2014PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, AWS,\u00a0 APIs, VMs, CDNs\u2014it can all get a little dizzying, and you can rarely find an explanation that doesn\u2019t reference another half dozen ciphered terms.<\/p>\n

Here at Solutions Review, we do our best to provide IT professionals with the top cloud platforms best practices<\/a>, news<\/a> and buyer\u2019s guides<\/a>, and in keeping with that mission, we now bring you a quick and easy way to decipher the growing collection of cloud terminology: The Solutions Review Cloud Glossary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From APIs to VMs, Solutions Review’s A to Z cloud computing IT glossary<\/a> has definitions for 50 of the most popular cloud computing terms and acronyms that you\u2019re likely to come across.<\/p>\n
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Cloud computing is one of the hottest, fastest-growing segments in information technology today. Gartner predicts that IT spending on the cloud will increase 32.8 percent in the next year alone, and many of the world\u2019s largest tech companies\u00a0are fighting for their share of that growth. 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