Appendix: Summary of key Term Definition Examples Cloud-related All business activity that involves a Cloud consulting services, business service that is part of the Amazon S3, manufacture of cloud value (e.g. cloud-based consulting, components to be used in data chain manufacturing hardware used in data centres centres) Cloud All activity consulting, Amazon cloud-related business business conducted by firms that have an internal EC2/S3, Azure cloud service capability. Cloud value The full set of businesses that are Dropbox service uses chain required to create Amazon’s S3 storage service. cloud-based services. Elements of the value chain include Amazon, on the other relies of hardware manufactures and integrators, various IT component data centre operators, IaaS/PaaS and manufacturers in its data SaaS providers, and ICT service centres. The value “Dropbox providers chain” includes (at least) these activities Cloud-based A service that has an IaaS, PaaS or SaaS service component, and possibly additional human-delivered services. Cloud service A firm with a capability” can ”cloud capability offer a cloud-based service without completely relying on other firms’ capabilities. Virtually all IT service broker A cloud broker is an entity that manages companies in Europe; the use, performance and delivery of Cloud Compare, cloud services, and negotiates ComputeNext relationships between cloud providers and cloud consumers. Cloud The action required for a cloud brokerage consumer to obtain cloud services through a cloud broker. Cloud Cloud federation is the possibility for a OnApp federation cloud consumer to send a cloud request to multiple cloud providers as if they were a single cloud provider. Ingram Micro Cloud, Cloud A cloud aggregator is a type of cloud (Younited) aggregation broker that packages and integrates multiple cloud computing services into one or more composite services.
Appendix: Summary of key Term Definition Examples Cloud-related business All business activity that involves a service that is part of the cloud value chain (e.g. cloud-based consulting, manufacturing hardware used in data centres) Cloud consulting services, Amazon S3, manufacture of components to be used in data centres Cloud business All cloud-related business activity conducted by firms that have an internal cloud service capability. consulting, Amazon EC2/S3, Azure Cloud value chain The full set of businesses that are required to create cloud-based services. Elements of the value chain include hardware manufactures and integrators, data centre operators, IaaS/PaaS and SaaS providers, and ICT service providers Dropbox service uses Amazon’s S3 storage service. Amazon, on the other relies of various IT component manufacturers in its data centres. The “Dropbox value chain” includes (at least) these activities Cloud-based service A service that has an IaaS, PaaS or SaaS component, and possibly additional human-delivered services. Cloud service capability A firm with a ”cloud capability” can offer a cloud-based service without completely relying on other firms’ capabilities. broker A cloud broker is an entity that manages the use, performance and delivery of cloud services, and negotiates relationships between cloud providers and cloud consumers. Virtually all IT service companies in Europe; Cloud Compare, ComputeNext Cloud brokerage The action required for a cloud consumer to obtain cloud services through a cloud broker. Cloud federation Cloud federation is the possibility for a cloud consumer to send a cloud request to multiple cloud providers as if they were a single cloud provider. OnApp Cloud aggregation A cloud aggregator is a type of cloud broker that packages and integrates multiple cloud computing services into one or more composite services. Ingram Micro Cloud, (Younited)
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