Glossary

A cloud computing environment optimized for use and built around the compliance needs of specialized industries such as healthcare, financial services, and government operations.

Allows multiple guest virtual machines (VM) to run on a host operating system. Guest VMs can run on one or more levels above the host hardware, depending on the type of virtualization.

An emulation of a computer system that is based on computer architectures and provides functionality of a physical computer. For example, the Barracuda NextGen Firewall Azure can be deployed as a virtual machine in the Microsoft Azure cloud.

A software company that provides cloud and virtualization software and services, incuding vSphere.

An elastic network populated by infrastructure, platform, and application services that share common security and interconnection.

An enhanced suite of tools for cloud computing utilizing VMware ESX/ESXi. Includesthe VMWare vCenter server and the vSphere client.

Specifies virtual model of a Barracuda Networks products. For example, Barracuda Web Application Firewall 460 Vx.

Client–server software application in which the client (or user interface) runs in a web browser.

Web-based user interface.

A computer system that processes requests via HTTP, the basic network protocol used to distribute information on the web.

A technology for wireless local area networking with devices based on the IEEE 802.11 standards.