Glossary

What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes, or k8s for short, is open-source orchestration software for deploying, managing, and scaling containers. Why use Kubernetes? Implement container-based environments in a portable, scalable, and extensible way. Atmosera’s managed Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) allows development teams...

What is the Atmosera Methodology™? We have 20+ years of experience in enterprise—grade managed infrastructure—including Microsoft Azure and private cloud. We follow a proven approach to assess, migrate, re-platform, and operate the optimal IT infrastructure solution for our customers. Moving...

What is Release Management? Release Management is the process responsible for planning, scheduling, and controlling the build, in addition to testing and deploying Releases. Release Management ensures that IS&T delivers new and enhanced IT services required by the business, while...

What is Monitoring? Monitoring refers to observing and checking the progress or quality of (something) over a period of time. In a cloud computing context, we are mostly referring to data monitoring. Data monitoring refers to the practice of verifying...

What is Disaster Recovery? Disaster recovery (DR) refers to the tools and procedures that enable the recovery and continuity of vital technology infrastructure and systems following a disaster. What are Atmosera’s Backup Capabilities? Atmoersa has comprehensive backup capabilities. We give...

What is a Infrastructure as a Service? Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) refers to online services that provide high-level APIs used to dereference various low-level details of underlying network infrastructure like physical computing resources, location, data partitioning, scaling, security, backup...

What is Platform as a Service? Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a group of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure associated...

What is Azure regulatory compliance? In a general context, compliance refers to following the specifications of a rule. More specifically, compliance often is used as it relates to legal and regulatory frameworks. Regulatory compliance is when an organization is aware...

What is Data Protection? The challenge of data protection is at the intersection of data collection and dissemination regimes, privacy expectations, and legal frameworks. The framework of information security (InfoSec) was developed to meet those challenges around preventing the unauthorized...

What is Information Security? Information security (InfoSec) refers to the practices for preventing unauthorized access, destruction, disclosure, disruption, inspection, modification, recording, or use of information. InfoSec can describe information in physical or digital form. What do I need to know...

What is a Hybrid cloud? Hybrid cloud is combines two or more clouds that are unique systems, but found together to take advantage of multiple deployment models. Hybrid clouds are any combination of private and public clouds. By hybridizing different...

What is a Public cloud? Public cloud is cloud architecture that is offered over a public use network. Generally, public cloud service providers like Microsoft own and operate the infrastructure at their data center and access is generally via the...