Cloud from A to Z

Backup in the cloud

Cloud backup are online backup, web backup or online data backup - many words that all describe the same thing: A method of data backup where data is stored in off-site data centers rather than on internal devices. Cloud backups are often the best solution, especially for SMBs, when it comes to data protection.

Big Data explained

In the IT industry, the term Big Data now actually refers to two different things: First, the ever-increasing volume of data that companies collect every day. Secondly, it also refers to new technologies and models that allow this increasing volume to be used sensibly and to the benefit of the company.

What is CI/CD?

Ongoing digitization is leading to an ever-increasing pace of consumption. This presents software developers with ever-increasing challenges as users gain immediate fixes to bugs in applications and a higher frequency of updates than ever before. In response, new forms of organization or operations such as DevOps have emerged. One of the most important of these is CI/CD

What ist DevOps?

Products have to be marketable faster and continuously improved, and they also have to meet the highest security standards. One answer to these new challenges is DevOps. We explain what this new approach entails in detail and how your team can also benefit from it.

Gaia X simply explained

Gaia X is the name of a European joint project that is intended to serve as a template for the creation of a common data infrastructure and is currently still in the development phase. The project involves representatives from politics, business and science, among others.

What are peak loads in e-commerce?

As the owner of an online shop, you depend on website visitors, i.e. potential customers. However, problems can also arise here, namely too high peak loads. Cloud solutions offer the possibility of automatic scaling, so that additional computing and storage power can be accessed within seconds and peak loads can be balanced.

Virtualization explained

Cloud computing is increasingly shaping both the business world and our everyday professional lives. After all, it allows companies to operate more efficiently, profitably and securely than ever before.

What are cloudnative applications?

The constant and unbelievably rapid change and development of modern software markets is forcing companies to completely realign their organizational, operational and technological structures. Cloudnative applications have proven to be one of the most effective tools for deploying concepts such as microservices and DevOps.

What are Microservices?

Microservices are both an approach to software architecture in which a large, complex application is built from multiple small components that each perform a single function, e.g., authentication, notification, or payment processing, and the term for the small components themselves.

What does API mean?

As is often the case in the IT sector, API also stands for an abbreviation. The abbreviation API means Application Programming Interface. Nowadays, the abbreviation API almost always means a modern web API, although there are also other types of API.

What does CDN mean?

CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. The term refers to a regionally arranged group of servers that are interconnected via the Internet. The servers are used to deliver content to the user. The basic goal of a CDN is to shorten the loading times of websites by having the servers in regional proximity to the user. 

What does CLI mean?

CLI stands for Command Line Interface (CLI). In German, the CLI is often referred to as the command line or command line. It is a user interface that accepts text-based commands from a user. CLI is therefore used for applying, displaying and managing computer programs.

What does IoT mean?

IoT stands for "Internet of Things", or in German, the Internet of Things. This term refers to the networking of all kinds of devices and sensors through the Internet. The IoT is used for simple household applications such as the smartwatch, as well as for highly complex applications in the industrial and healthcare sectors.

What does On-Premise mean?

The term on-premise or on-premise software refers to the usage model for software that has been the standard for all end users for decades: You buy software or a license for software and then download it to your own servers. In other words, the software runs in-house (on-premise) and not at an external hardware provider.

What does open source mean?

Progressive digitization has ensured that virtually every company now uses countless different software products. Often, licenses have to be paid to the software manufacturer. However, there are also software applications that are referred to as open source - in other words, the software codes are freely available to every user. What this means and whether open source is really free of charge is revealed in the following guide.

What does VPN mean?

VPN is an abbreviation and stands for Virtual Private Network. This refers to the creation of a secure and private network connection that cannot be viewed or traced even on a public network. This means that third parties such as one's own Internet provider, authorities or hackers cannot track one's own online activities.

What is a cloud? What does Cloud Computing mean?

Nowadays, both private individuals and entrepreneurs regularly come into contact with the term cloud. But what is a cloud anyway? And what does cloud computing mean in this context?

What is a Data Lake?

A data lake is a very large digital data store where a variety of data can be stored in their different original raw formats in a common location. This means that the data does not need to be customized, or the native format of the data changed, in order to store it in a data lake.

What is a data warehouse?

The term data warehouse refers to a central database system that is used primarily for analysis purposes in companies. The task of the data warehouse is to collect information or data from heterogeneous sources, to prepare it, to store it in the long term and to provide further structures with analyses, the data marts.

What is a public cloud?

A public cloud is a cloud service that is provided publicly by a provider via the Internet. Conversely, this means that any users can access the cloud offering and share infrastructures and services. A public cloud makes further investment in internal software or hardware unnecessary for companies.

What is Amazone Web Service (AWS)?

Amazon AWS (short for Amazon Web Services) is now considered the leading global provider of cloud computing. Companies all over the world access the services of AWS - including companies from the marketing, software, gaming and finance industries.

DaaS - Desktop as a Service: What is that?

DaaS is an abbreviation and stands for Desktop as a Service. The written-out name already makes it clear what the focus of this cloud service is. This is about an external provider using the methods of desktop virtualization and cloud computing to provide your desktop anytime, anywhere.

What is Edge Computing?

Cloud computing is increasingly seen as the IT technology of the future. There is almost no company left that does not have at least one application in the cloud these days. However, cloud computing has proven to be inferior to so-called edge computing in some areas. What this is and how your company can also benefit from it, we reveal in the following guide.

What is Infrastructure as Code?

Infrastructure as Code, often abbreviated as IaC, refers to a process in which IT services computing power, storage and networking are executed using machine-readable code. Manual tasks become obsolete. IaC is based on virtualization and is indispensable for IaaS products and the use of DevOps team in the own company.

What is Kubernetes?

In more and more IT areas, decentralization is proving to be the superior form of organization. This is also the case in the field of Linux developers, where independently acting containers have now become a fixed standard. However, this can quickly lead to chaos and mismanagement in larger applications that combine a large number of containers. The open source software Kubernetes provides various solutions for precisely this problem.

What is Microsoft AZURE?

Microsoft Azure is the cloud platform of the IT giant Microsoft . Microsoft Azure is primarily aimed at developers who use it to develop new apps and run them either internally or externally. The service scores points above all for its high resilience and reliability, which is ensured by extensively maintained servers around the world.

What is the Google Cloud Platform?

One of the most important and successful providers of cloud computing services is Google with its Google Cloud Platform. We have summarized what this is, what advantages your company can benefit from with this service and how the Google solution differs from the competition in this guide.

What is the Hybrid Cloud?

The hybrid cloud is a hybrid model of cloud architectures: the private cloud and the public cloud. For a long time, users had to choose between one of the two models, both of which have advantages and disadvantages. With a hybrid cloud, a company can now access the advantages of both applications while eliminating all the disadvantages. 

What is the private cloud?

The private cloud is a cloud environment that is only provided for a single end user and to which third parties have no access. The respective resources and applications can only be used by the designated end user, and often IT infrastructure is also used exclusively as part of a private cloud. In addition, access to the private cloud is via an internal network or a virtual private network (VPN).