Technologies and capabilities
Technology approaches and capabilities covered by Compare the Cloud.
Terms
- Abstraction layers
- Access control
- Access control lists
- Access networks
- Accessibility
- Accounting information systems
- Action recognition
- Active learning
- Ad hoc networks
- Adaptive routing
- Advanced persistent threats
- Adversarial machine learning
- Adversarial training
- Agile development
- Agile testing
- AI agents
- AI capability control
- AI-generated content
- AI lifecycle
- AI models
- AI risk
- AI safety
- AI security
- AI systems
- AI watermarking
- Algorithmic bias
- Algorithmic transparency
- Algorithms
- Ambient IoT
- Anonymisation
- Anonymity
- Antennas
- Anycast
- API-first design
- API management
- API testing
- APIs
- Application development
- Application security
- Application-specific integrated circuits
- Architectural patterns
- Artificial general intelligence
- AI governance
- Artificial neural networks
- Aspect-oriented programming
- Assistive technology
- Attribute-based access control
- Augmented reality
- Authentication
- Authentication failures
- Authorisation
- Automated decision-making
- Automated machine learning
- Automated manufacturing
- Automated planning and scheduling
- Automated reasoning
- Automated teller machines
- Autonomous navigation
- Autonomous underwater vehicles
- Autoscaling
- Availability zones
- Avatars
- Backdoors
- Backup and recovery
- Backup as a service
- Bandwidth
- Bandwidth management
- Big data analytics
- Biometrics
- Black-box testing
- Block-level storage
- Blockchain
- Blockchain analysis
- Blockchain consensus mechanisms
- Blockchain mining
- Blockchain platforms
- Bluetooth
- Body area networks
- Boosting
- BGP
- Botnets
- Brain-computer interfaces
- Bring your own AI
- Broadband networks
- Broken access control
- Browser isolation
- Browser security
- Buffer overflows
- Bufferbloat
- Business information systems
- Business intelligence
- Business process reengineering
- Business technology
- Cache memory
- Cache poisoning
- Canary release
- Capability maturity models
- Capacity management
- Carbon footprint calculation
- Causal AI
- Cellular networks
- Central processing units
- Chatbots
- Client-server architecture
- Cloud access security brokers
- Cloud architecture
- Cloud cost optimisation
- Cloud hosting
- Cloud management
- Cloud migration services
- Cloud monitoring and reporting
- Cloud native computing
- Cloud portability
- Cloud security
- Cloud services
- Cloud storage
- Cloud strategy
- Cloud testing
- Cluster computing
- Code coverage
- Code injection
- Code repositories
- Coding conventions
- Cognitive computing
- Cognitive radio
- Collaboration software
- Colocation
- Command injection
- Compatibility testing
- Compilers
- Compliance
- Component-based software development
- Computational intelligence
- Computer-aided software engineering
- Computer clusters
- Computer engineering
- Computer graphics
- Computer hardware
- Computer memory
- Computer networks
- Computer science
- Computer security policy
- Computer telephony integration
- Computer vision
- Computing
- Computing education
- Concurrency issues
- Confidential computing
- Configuration management databases
- Consumer electronics
- Contact centre technology
- Container orchestration
- Container services
- Containers
- Content delivery networks
- Content management
- Continual learning
- Continuous delivery
- Continuous deployment
- Continuous integration
- Continuous integration and delivery
- Continuous monitoring
- Continuous testing
- Contrastive learning
- Copyright law
- Core banking software
- Core networks
- Corporate networks
- Credential stuffing
- Cross-site request forgery
- Cross-site scripting
- Cryptanalysis
- Cryptoassets
- Cryptocurrencies
- Cryptographic algorithms
- Cryptographic failures
- Cryptography
- Customer premises equipment
- Customer relationship management
- Customer service platforms
- Cyber espionage
- Cyber hygiene
- Cyber resilience
- Cyber threats
- Cyber warfare
- Cyberattacks
- Cybercrime
- Cybersecurity architecture
- Cybersecurity risk management
- Data
- Data acquisition
- Data analytics
- Data and analytics
- Data augmentation
- Data bias
- Data cleansing
- Data dictionaries
- Data-driven testing
- Data engineering
- Data ethics
- Data fusion
- Data integration
- Data lakes
- Data loss prevention
- Data migration
- Data mining
- Data models
- Data poisoning
- Data processing
- Data profiling
- Data protection policy
- Data protection regulation
- Data science
- Data security
- Data sharing
- Data sovereignty
- Data storage devices
- Data strategy
- Data visualisation
- Data warehousing
- Database management systems
- Database marketing
- Databases
- Debugging
- Decentralised application frameworks
- Decentralised finance
- Decentralised identifiers
- Decision support systems
- Deep learning
- Deep reinforcement learning
- Deepfakes
- Demilitarised zones
- Denial of service
- Deployment environments
- Developer experience
- Developer portals
- Device drivers
- DevSecOps
- Dialogue systems
- Digital employee experience
- Digital forensics
- Digital identity
- Digital intellectual property law
- Digital literacy
- Digital operational resilience
- Digital platforms
- Digital preservation
- Digital skills
- Digital sovereignty
- Digital twins
- Digital workplace
- Direct-to-device satellite connectivity
- Disaster recovery
- Discrimination and toxicity
- Disinformation and misinformation
- Display devices
- Distributed computing
- Distributed databases
- Distributed ledger technology
- Distributed storage
- DNS hijacking
- Document management
- DNS
- Drive-by downloads
- E-learning
- Edge artificial intelligence
- Edge computing
- Egress filtering
- Elasticity (computing)
- Electronic banking
- Electronic commerce
- Electronic data interchange
- Electronic human resource management
- Electronic procurement
- Electronic trading
- Email security
- Embedded systems
- Embeddings
- Embodied artificial intelligence
- Emerging technology
- Encryption
- End user computing
- Endpoint detection and response
- Endpoint security
- Ensemble methods
- Enterprise architecture
- Enterprise file synchronisation and sharing
- Enterprise resource planning
- Enterprise search
- Enterprise social networking
- Enterprise software
- Environmental harm from technology
- Environmental information systems
- Error detection and correction
- Ethernet
- Ethernet hubs
- Event-driven architecture
- Evolutionary algorithms
- Expert systems
- Explainable AI
- Exploits
- Exploratory testing
- Extended detection and response
- Extract, transform and load
- Facial recognition
- Fairness in AI
- Far edge
- Fault tolerance
- Feature engineering
- Feature selection
- Federated learning
- Few-shot learning
- Fibre-optic networks
- Field-programmable gate arrays
- File systems
- Financial data processing
- FinOps
- Firewalls
- Firmware
- Fixed wireless access
- Formal methods
- Formal specification
- Foundation models
- Functional programming
- Functional testing
- Fuzzing
- Genetic algorithms
- Geographic information systems
- Geospatial analytics
- Gesture recognition
- GPU clusters
- Graph databases
- Graphical user interface testing
- Green AI
- Green cloud computing
- Green data centres
- Hallucination
- Handheld computers
- Haptic technology
- Hardening
- Hardware accelerators
- Hardware architecture
- Hardware description languages
- Hardware security
- Hardware security modules
- Hexagonal architecture
- High availability
- High-availability clusters
- High-level languages
- Home networks
- Human-centric AI
- Human-computer interaction
- Human-in-the-loop oversight
- Human-robot interaction
- Humanoid robots
- Hybrid cloud storage
- Hybrid working
- Hyper-converged infrastructure
- Hyperscale computing
- ICT accessibility standards
- ICT environmental policies
- ICT power consumption
- ICT process quality models
- Identity and access management
- Identity assurance
- Identity governance and administration
- Image generation
- Image recognition
- Image segmentation
- Incident response
- Incremental development
- Industrial Internet of Things
- Industrial robots
- Inference engines
- Information and communication technologies for environmental sustainability
- Information assurance
- Information extraction
- Information management
- Information retrieval systems
- Information security management systems
- Information systems
- Infrastructure as a service
- Infrastructure as code
- Initial access brokers
- Injection flaws
- Insecure deserialisation
- Insecure design
- Insider threats
- Integrated circuits
- Integrated development environments
- Integrated Services Digital Network
- Integration testing
- Intelligent robots
- Intelligent virtual agents
- Inter-domain routing
- Interactive data visualisation
- Internet
- Internet backbone
- Internet exchange points
- Internet governance
- Intranets
- Inventory management systems
- IP networks
- IPv6
- IT energy management
- IT infrastructure
- IT operations
- IT risk
- IT security audit
- IT service management
- IT support
- Iterative development
- JavaScript frameworks
- Jitter
- k-anonymity
- Key escrow
- Key management
- Keyword-driven testing
- Knowledge-based systems
- Knowledge bases
- Knowledge distillation
- Knowledge management
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Labelled data
- Lack of transparency or interpretability
- Landing zones
- Large language models
- Layer 1 blockchains
- Leased lines
- Legacy systems
- Li-Fi
- Load balancing
- Load testing
- Local area networks
- Location privacy
- Logic programming
- Low-code and no-code development
- Low-power computing
- Low-power wide-area networks
- Machine translation
- Machine unlearning
- Malware
- Malware analysis
- Managed cloud services
- Managed detection and response
- Managed private cloud
- Managed security services
- Managed services
- Management information systems
- Manual testing
- Marketing automation
- Marketing technology
- Masked language models
- Medium access control
- Memory management
- Memory safety
- Message-oriented middleware
- Metadata
- Metadata repositories
- Metaverse
- Misaligned AI
- Mixed reality
- MLOps
- Mobile application development
- Mobile application testing
- Mobile business
- Mobile communications
- Mobile computing
- Mobile device management
- Mobile DevOps
- Mobile marketing
- Mobile operating systems
- Mobile phone standards
- Mobile phones
- Mobile robots
- Mobile security
- Model-based testing
- Model checking
- Model collapse
- Model-driven engineering
- Model weights
- Modelling languages
- Modular robots
- Modularity
- Modulation
- Monitoring and observability
- Monolithic architecture
- Motion control
- Motion detection
- MQTT
- Multi-access edge computing
- Multi-agent risks
- Multi-agent systems
- Multi-cloud management
- Multi-factor authentication
- Multicast
- Multimedia
- Multimodal AI
- Multipath routing
- Mutation testing
- Mutual authentication
- Named entity recognition
- Nanotechnology
- Natural language generation
- Natural language processing
- Natural language understanding
- Near edge
- Network architecture
- Network infrastructure
- Network layers
- Network management
- Network monitoring
- Network protocols
- Network security
- Network services
- Network topology
- Network virtualisation
- Networking and telecommunications
- Networking hardware
- Neuro-symbolic AI
- Neuromorphic computing
- Next-generation networks
- Non-functional testing
- Non-fungible tokens
- NoSQL databases
- Object-oriented design
- Object-oriented programming
- Office productivity software
- Online analytical processing
- Online booking systems
- Online retailing
- Online safety
- Ontologies
- Open data
- Open source software
- Open standards
- Operating system security
- Operating systems
- Operational data stores
- Operational technology security
- Optical character recognition
- Optical networks
- Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
- Packet-switched networks
- Parallel computing
- Parallel programming
- Password cracking
- Passwords
- Path planning
- Pattern recognition
- Payment as a service
- Peer-to-peer networks
- Penetration testing
- People analytics
- Performance engineering
- Performance per watt
- Personal area networks
- Personal clouds
- Personal computers
- Personalisation
- Phishing
- Physical layer
- PID controllers
- Platform as a service
- Platform engineering
- Predictive analytics
- Privacy
- Privacy compliance
- Privacy-enhancing technologies
- Privacy-preserving machine learning
- Private blockchains
- Private cloud
- Problem management
- Process automation
- Process mining
- Processors
- Programmable logic controllers
- Programming
- Programming languages
- Programming paradigms
- Project management software
- Prompt engineering
- Prompt injection
- Prompts
- Prototyping
- Proxy servers
- Public blockchains
- Public cloud
- Public key cryptography
- Quality of service
- Quantum machine learning
- Query languages
- Question answering
- Race conditions
- Radio communication
- Ransomware
- Rapid application development
- Real-time analytics
- Real-time computing
- Real-time operating systems
- Real user monitoring
- Recommender systems
- Reconfigurable computing
- Disaster recovery as a service
- Refactoring
- Reference architectures
- Regression testing
- Regular expressions
- Regulatory compliance
- Reinforcement learning
- Relational databases
- Relationship-based access control
- Release management
- Remote working
- Requirements analysis
- Requirements elicitation
- Requirements engineering
- Requirements management
- Requirements traceability
- Responsible AI
- RFID
- Right to explanation
- Technology risk management
- Robot learning
- Robotic manipulators
- Robotic process automation
- Role-based access control
- Routers
- Routing
- Routing algorithms
- Routing protocols
- Sales enablement
- Sales information systems
- Satellite communications
- Scientific computing
- Screen readers
- SD-WAN
- Search engines
- Secure access service edge
- Secure communication
- Secure software development
- Security awareness
- Security compliance
- Security engineering
- Security incidents
- Security information and event management
- Security logging and monitoring failures
- Security misconfiguration
- Security operations
- Security operations centres
- Security orchestration, automation and response
- Security patching
- Self-supervised learning
- Semantic technologies
- Semantic web
- Semiconductors
- Sensitive information exposure
- Sensors
- Sentiment analysis
- Server-side request forgery
- Serverless computing
- Servers
- Service-oriented architecture
- Service robots
- Sidechains
- Signal processing
- Simultaneous localisation and mapping
- SIP trunking
- Small language models
- Smart city technologies
- Smart contracts
- SMS messaging
- Social commerce
- Social media
- Social media analytics
- Software analytics
- Software and data integrity failures
- Software architecture
- Software bugs
- Software components
- Software configuration management
- Software deployment
- Software design
- Software development
- Software development life cycle
- Software development methodologies
- Software frameworks
- Software inspection
- Software interaction design
- Software licensing
- Software maintenance
- Software metrics
- Software product lines
- Software quality
- Software reengineering
- Software reliability
- Software requirements specifications
- Software reuse
- Software supply chain security
- Software testing
- Source code
- Space communication
- SPARQL
- Spatial data
- Specification by example
- Spectrum allocation
- Spectrum management
- Spectrum sharing
- Speech processing
- Spiral development
- Split testing
- Spoken dialogue systems
- SQL
- Static analysis
- Storage area networks
- Storage systems
- Storage virtualisation
- Streaming data
- Subnets
- Supercomputing
- Superconducting quantum computing
- Supervised fine-tuning
- Supervised learning
- Supply chain security
- Sustainable IT
- Swarm intelligence
- Swarm robotics
- Symbolic AI
- Synthetic data
- System administration
- System integration
- System testing
- Tactile sensors
- Technology auditing
- Technology governance
- Technology law
- Technology policy
- Technology strategy
- Telecommunication networks
- Telecommunications
- Telecommunications law
- Telecommunications policy
- Telecommunications resilience
- Teleconferencing
- Telematics
- Telephone networks
- Telephone numbering plans
- Telephony
- Test automation
- Test case generation
- Test data generation
- Tethering
- Text mining
- Text-to-image generation
- Threat actors
- Threat hunting
- Threat intelligence
- Three-dimensional computer graphics
- Three-tier architecture
- TinyML
- Training data
- Transfer learning
- Transmission Control Protocol
- Transport Layer Security
- Triplestores
- Trustworthy AI
- Unified communications
- Unified Modelling Language
- Unstructured data
- Unsupervised learning
- Usability
- Usability engineering
- User experience design
- User interfaces
- Vector search
- Vehicle-to-everything communication
- Video conferencing
- Video processing
- Virtual desktop infrastructure
- Hypervisors
- Virtual machines
- Virtual networks
- Virtual private networks
- Virtual reality
- Virtual switches
- Virtualisation
- Voice over IP
- Vulnerabilities
- Vulnerability disclosure
- Vulnerability management
- Vulnerable and outdated components
- Waterfall development
- Wearable computing
- Web analytics
- Web application development
- Web mining
- Web programming
- Web services
- Wi-Fi
- Wide area networks
- Wireless communication
- Wireless mesh networks
- Wireless networks
- Wireless sensor networks
- Workflow management systems
- Workstations
- Zero-shot learning
- Zero trust architecture
- Zero trust network access
- Artificial intelligence
- Automation
- Big data
- Business communications
- Cloud computing
- Cybersecurity
- Data centres
- Data management
- Data protection
- Data storage
- DevOps
- Fintech
- Generative AI
- Hybrid cloud
- Internet of things
- Machine learning
- Multi-cloud
- Quantum computing
- Robotics