Automatic Transfer Switch, a switch that automatically transfers electrical loads to alternate or emergency standby power sources.

A building that has been pre-qualified for power and telecom access, with or without any other improvements, and amenable to data center development and use. May become a single-tenant property or colocation.

Data Centers being built considering energy efficiency, environmental impact, and sustainability.

The service of running servers on behalf of another party, allowing those organizations to focus on managing their applications, instead of hardware and operating system administration. There are various levels of service and various kinds of hosting offered (e.g. dedicated, shared, virtual, etc.).

An open source cloud platform as a service (PaaS) originally created by VMware and is now part of Pivotal Software. It is governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation and is a PaaS on which developers can build, deploy, run, and scale applications in both public and private cloud environments. The platform leverages containers to deploy applications and enables businesses to take advantage of innovation from projects like Docker and Kubernetes to increase the ease and velocity of managing production-grade applications.

Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) is the replication and hosting of physical or virtual infrastructure by a dedicated provider to enable failover in the event of a man-made or natural catastrophe. DRaaS is one of the primary drivers of cloud computing and often the primary motivation behind adopting a hybrid or multi-cloud architecture.

A storage device that stores persistent data on nonvolatile solid-state memory chips. Unlike spinning electromechanical disks (i.e., hard disk drives), Flash drives have no moving parts. Flash also typically produces no noise, stores and accesses data more quickly, has less latency and is more reliable and durable than spinning media. Since the technology is more advanced, the cost of flash is usually higher although the cost of Flash is decreasing as production methods are refined, improved, and scaled.

The use of two or more public cloud computing services providers by a single organization. Hybrid clouds can be multi-clouds if two or more public clouds are used in conjunction with a private cloud. Multi-cloud environments minimize the risk of data loss or downtime due to a failure occurring in hardware, infrastructure, or software at the public cloud provider. A multi-cloud approach can also be used as part of a pricing strategy to keep costs under control and prevent vendor lock-in to one cloud provider. This method can increase flexibility by mixing and matching best-in-class technologies, solutions, and services from different public cloud providers.

Conceived by Hedvig, the Universal Data Plane (UDP) is a single, programmable data management layer spanning workloads, clouds and tiers that capitalizes on the distributed systems approach being adopted by many organizations. It's a virtualized abstraction layer that enables any workload to store and protect its data across any location. It also dramatically simplifies operations by plugging into modern orchestration and automation frameworks.

An open-source project that automates the deployment of applications within software containers. Docker containers, like other containers, wrap a piece of software in a complete file system containing everything needed to run: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries, etc. Docker is often synonymous with containers and many use the term interchangeably. It's important to note that Docker is both an open source set of tools as well as a company, which supports the open source technology as well as selling its own proprietary software.

A next-generation type of nonvolatile memory technology (Flash) that is becoming more mainstream and prevalent among enterprises. It has the advantage of being able to pack more bits into the same dimensions as older NAND technology. Most Flash memory storage today is still planar, meaning two dimensional. However, as photolithography reaches its practical limits, squeezing more bits into each Flash NAND cell becomes more difficult. Chip makers are going vertical with 3D NAND. Think of 3D NAND as a multistory building and 2D NAND as a single-story building. Both occupy the same amount of real estate (X-Y dimension), but the multistory building is more efficient within the same space because it expands upward.

Information Technology Security, also known as IT Security, is the process of implementing measures and systems designed to securely protect and safeguard information.

A private cloud is a particular model of cloud computing that involves a distinct and secure cloud based environment in which only the specified client can operate. As with other cloud models, private clouds will provide computing power as a service within a virtualised environment using an underlying pool of physical computing resource. However, under the private cloud model, the cloud (the pool of resource) is only accessible by a single organisation providing that organisation with greater control and privacy.

In computing, virtualization refers to the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources.

Web Hosting is the service providing space and developing environments on the Internet for websites .