{"id":800,"date":"2020-06-29T13:15:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T18:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/it.rutgers.edu\/itlc\/?page_id=800"},"modified":"2026-06-11T07:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:56:18","slug":"glossary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/it.rutgers.edu\/itlc\/committees-and-working-groups\/enterprise-cloud-strategy-committee\/glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Cloud Strategy Committee glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"    <section class=\"cc--component-container cc--hero-basic  hero-basic color-light-gray\">\n\n<div class=\"c--component c--hero-basic\">\n        \n<div class=\"outer-wrapper\">\n    <div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n        <div class=\"text-container\">\n            <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"f--field f--page-title \"><h1>Enterprise Cloud Strategy Committee Glossary<\/h1>\n\n<\/div><!-- f--field f--page-title -->\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"f--field f--text \"><\/div><!-- f--field f--text -->\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div><!-- c--component c--hero-basic -->\n\n    <\/section><!-- cc--component-container cc--section -->\n\n\n    <section class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text  rich-text\">\n\n<div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\">\n        \n    <div class=\"f--field f--rich-text \"><p><em>NOTE: The committee issued its recommendations on\u00a0<a href=\"\/itlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2020\/06\/CloudRecommendations.pdf\">Enterprise Cloud Strategy [PDF]<\/a>\u00a0in December 2017 and reported back to the ITLC and the CIO. The Cloud Infrastructure Group was formed under Enterprise Infrastructure in order to start implementing these recommendations. Their work can be found on the\u00a0<a href=\"\/cloud-services\">Cloud computing webpage<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>AWS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amazon Web Services is Amazon\u2019s Cloud Computing offering:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Great translation of service catalog:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expeditedssl.com\/aws-in-plain-english\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AWS in plain English<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Azure<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure<\/a>\u00a0is Microsoft\u2019s Cloud Computing offering.<\/li>\n<li>Great translation of service catalog:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expeditedssl.com\/azure-in-plain-english\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure in plain English<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>GCS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Cloud Services<\/a>\u00a0is Google\u2019s Cloud Computing offering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>IaaS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Infrastructure as a Service is a form of cloud computing that provides virtualized computing resources over the Internet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PaaS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Platform as a Service is a category 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 typically associated with developing and launching an app<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SaaS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Software as a Service is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. SaaS is typically accessed by users using a thin client via a web browser<\/li>\n<li>For the purpose of this committee, we will not be covering SaaS offerings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><!-- f--field f--rich-text -->\n\n    <\/div><!-- c--component c--rich-text -->\n\n    <\/section><!-- cc--component-container cc--section -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":910,"featured_media":0,"parent":674,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"page-category":[],"class_list":["post-800","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Enterprise Cloud Strategy Committee glossary - IT Leadership Council<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/it.rutgers.edu\/itlc\/committees-and-working-groups\/enterprise-cloud-strategy-committee\/glossary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Enterprise Cloud Strategy Committee glossary - 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