Glossary

 

Context Aware Computing

Learn more about the term in the Combionic Blog article: What does Context Aware Computing mean?

Private Cloud

Company self-hosted intranet cloud infrastructure. The access is for employees, authorized partners, customers and suppliers only.
Pro: Efficient, dedicated, and secure IT-environment with ability to adapt rapidly to changing needs

Public Cloud

External provider-hosted cloud-environment, which can be shared by different companies on a subscription basis.
Pro: standardised usage-dependent workflow, application and/or infrastructure services
Con: little impact on form and location of data storage as well as possible security aspects.

Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid type of Public Cloud, Private Cloud and traditional IT-environment. Will be applied mostly to companies in the future.