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Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) refers to servers and storage that are hosted in the cloud. What does infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) mean? In computing, infrastructure refers to the computers and servers running code and…
Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) allows developers to focus on the front end of their applications and leverage backend services without building or maintaining them. BaaS and serverless computing share some similarities, and…
A next-generation firewall (NGFW) is a security appliance that processes network traffic and applies rules to block potentially dangerous traffic. NGFWs evolve and expand upon the capabilities of traditional firewalls.…
Virtual machines (VMs) are computers that run inside of other computers using a process known as virtualization. What is a virtual machine? A virtual machine (VM) is a software-based computer…
Explore how a CDN delivers fast, efficient, and secure content to websites and Internet services. A content delivery network (CDN) is a geographically distributed group of servers that caches content…
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the U.S National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2001. AES is widely used…
Client-side and server-side are web development terms that describe where application code runs. Web developers will also refer to this distinction as the frontend vs. the backend, although client-side/server-side and…
A secure email gateway (SEG) is an email security product that uses signature analysis and machine learning to identify and block malicious emails before they reach recipients’ inboxes. SEGs are…
Serverless computing and containers are architectures that reduce overhead for cloud-hosted web applications, but they differ in several important ways. Containers are more lightweight than virtual machines, but serverless deployments…
Serverless computing is a method of providing backend services on an as-used basis. Servers are still used, but a company that gets backend services from a serverless vendor is charged…