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Vocabulary and buzzwords

Vocabulary and buzzwords

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Vocabulary and buzzwords

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- [Voiceover] Hello and welcome back to another edition of Building Your Technology Skills. My name is Martin Guidry. This week we're going to talk about buzzwords. When working with IT we often come across pieces of jargon that are overused and are in used inconsistently such that they develop an imprecise or unclear meaning. So today I'm gonna talk about a few buzzwords, try and define them as best they can be defined, and in some cases, talk about some alternative ways to use words that have a more precise meaning. The first buzzword we'll talk about is cloud or the cloud. Cloud should not be used as a synonym for Internet. The cloud and the Internet are not exactly the same thing. Although cloud is somewhat vaguely defined, we typically think of a cloud as a virtualized environment, an environment where resources can be allocated dynamically based on what load needs to be processed. Similarly, from a business point of view, charges can also be dynamic. The amount a customer pays…

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