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Cloud Definitions
The Cloud: is an Internet empowered CO-OP of connectivity, data center infrastructures, platforms, processes, middleware and software for the purpose of shared services.

Cloud Models: Public cloud, Private cloud and the Hybrid cloud - three unique, potentially intermingling types of cloud infrastructures.

Cloud Services Provider (CSP): companies or co-operatives that offer cloud services.

Cloud Services: productivity tools and processes bundled for consumer benefit and utility (e.g. DRaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS). Monthly fee or free as opposed to traditional IRS related capitalization.

Cloud Application: specific productivity tool, also known as an “app”.

Cloud Services Brokerage: (CSB) your cloud middleman, a liaison between technology and business. A CSB lifts the burden of dealing with the cloud services providers, vendors and technicians.

Human Element: personalities, expectations and abilities that affect organizations.

Ecosystem: your cloud. The combination of tools and services you use. All of the cloud applications services YOU are consuming in YOUR business or personal life from what is available in the cloud.

Cloud Architect: a creator of bundled cloud solutions.