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Microsoft Azure VM Scale Sets

A Microsoft Azure VM Scale Set is a group of individual virtual machines (VMs) within the Microsoft Azure public cloud that IT administrators can configure and manage as a single unit.

white box server

A white box server is a generic server made from commercially available retail computer parts.

Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider

A Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider is a member in the company's cloud partner program that has met requirements to offer Red Hat products and services in a cloud computing environment.

WAN accelerator

A WAN accelerator is an appliance that improves the end user's experience on a wide area network (WAN).

hyper hybrid cloud

A hyper-hybrid cloud is a complex distributed environment involving multiple and diverse interconnected public and private clouds, often from multiple providers.

load sharing mirror

A load-sharing mirror or load-balancing mirror is a mirror image copy of a site or service that not only acts as a backup but actively shares in serving a portion of traffic.

mobile cloud applications

A mobile cloud application is a software program that is designed to be accessed over the Internet by many types of portable computing devices.

multi cloud strategy

A multi-cloud strategy is the procurement of cloud computing services from two or more public cloud providers.

multi tenant cloud

A multi-tenant cloud is a cloud computing architecture that allows customers to share computing resources in a public or private cloud.

native cloud application (NCA)

A native cloud application (NCA) is a program that is designed specifically for a cloud computing architecture.

portable app

A portable application (portable app) is a software product designed to be easily moved from one computing environment to another.

private cloud appliance

A private cloud appliance is a hardware device that provides software-defined converged infrastructure functions for an organization's proprietary network.

What is public cloud? Everything you need to know

A public cloud is a platform that uses the standard cloud computing model to make resources -- such as virtual machines (VMs), applications or storage -- available to users remotely.

resource oriented architecture (ROA)

A resource-oriented architecture (ROA) is the structural design supporting the internetworking of resources.

stateless app

A stateless app is an application program that does not save client data generated in one session for use in the next session with that client.

storage container

A storage container is a defined, specific location in high-volume storage.

streaming application

A streaming application is a program that has its necessary components downloaded as needed instead of being installed ahead of time on a computer.

telecom cloud provider

A telecom cloud provider is a telecommunications company that has shifted a significant part of its business from landline service to devote resources to providing cloud services.

turnkey cloud

A turnkey cloud is a product that includes pre-tested and certified packages of software and/or hardware and storage that a cloud provider or enterprise can deploy quickly.

unified computing system (UCS)

A unified computing system (UCS) is is a converged data center architecture that integrates computing, networking and storage resources to increase efficiency and enable centralized management.

vertical cloud

A vertical cloud is a set of cloud computing services optimized for use in a particular industry, or for a specific business model.

virtual firewall

A virtual firewall is a firewall device or service that provides network traffic filtering and monitoring for virtual machines (VMs) in a virtualized environment.

virtual private cloud (VPC)

A virtual private cloud (VPC) is the logical division of a service provider's public cloud multi-tenant architecture to support private cloud computing.

wake word

A wake word is a phrase spoken to the Amazon Echo hands-free speaker and virtual assistant that causes the device to "wake up" and process a user's request.

white label cloud service

A white label cloud service is a cloud provider that sells customers resources that they can, in turn, offer to their own customers under their own brand.

PayPhrase

Amazon's PayPhrase is an Internet point-of-sale (POS) shortcut that allows Amazon customers to use their Amazon payment and shipping authorization credentials while shopping at third-party partner sites.

HTML 5 desktop client

An HTML5 desktop client is a type of remote desktop client that provides an end user with access to a desktop or application through a web browser.

SDDC (software defined data center)

An SDDC (software-defined data center) is a data storage facility in which networking, storage, CPU and security are virtualized and delivered as a service.

open API (public API)

An open API, also known as a public API, is an application programming interface made publicly available to software developers.

iCloud

Apple's free iCloud service stores subscribers' photos, videos, documents, apps and more and updates everything across users' synced devices.

NetScaler (SDX)

Citrix NetScaler SDX is a service delivery networking platform for enterprise and cloud datacenters.

What is cloud backup and how does it work?

Cloud backup, also known as online backup or remote backup, is a strategy for backing up data that involves sending a copy of the data over a proprietary or public network to an off-site server and storage system.

What is cloud management? Everything you need to know

Cloud management is the exercise of administrative control over public, private and hybrid clouds.

What is cloud migration? An introduction to moving to the cloud

Cloud migration is the process of moving data, applications or other business elements to a cloud computing environment.

Rackspace Cloud

Cloud provider Rackspace offers several different cloud storage services including Cloud Files, Cloud Block Storage and Cloud Backup.

Nebula

Nebula is an open source cloud computing program that provides on-demand computing power for NASA researchers and scientists.

HP CloudAgile Service Provider Program

HP CloudAgile Service Provider Program is an initiative aimed at cloud and telecommunication providers, hosting service providers, system integrators and value-added resellers (VARs) in the cloud market.

hybrid IT

Hybrid IT is an approach to enterprise computing in which an organization provides and manages some information technology (IT) resources in-house but uses cloud-based services for others.

hybrid cloud hosting

Hybrid cloud hosting allows organizations to provision dedicated servers and storage and cloud servers and storage on the same network.

hybrid cloud

Hybrid cloud is a cloud computing environment that uses a mix of on-premises, private cloud and third-party, public cloud services with orchestration between the two platforms.

Hybrid Cloud Storage

Hybrid cloud storage is an approach to managing storage that uses both local and off-site resources.

Hyper V Cloud

Hyper-V Cloud is a combination of Microsoft virtualization and virtualization management software that makes it easier for businesses to virtualize their existing server hardware assets and either consolidate them or move them to the cloud.

IBM Bluemix Local

IBM Bluemix Local is a private version of the IBM Bluemix public cloud platform.

IBM Cloud Functions

IBM Cloud Functions is the company's software underlying cloud applications to provide granular access control to cloud resources.

IBM Cloud (formerly IBM Bluemix and IBM SoftLayer)

IBM Cloud is a suite of cloud computing services from IBM that offers both platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

IBM SmartCloud

IBM SmartCloud is a line of enterprise-class cloud computing technologies and services for building and using private, public and hybrid clouds.

IBM SoftLayer

IBM SoftLayer is a public cloud computing platform that offers a range of services for compute, networking, storage, security and application development.

provisioning

In general, provisioning means "providing" or making something available.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a form of cloud computing that provides virtualized computing resources over the internet.

Integration as a Service (IaaS)

Integration as a Service (IaaS) is a cloud-based delivery model that strives to connect on-premise data with data located in cloud-based applications.

iPaaS (integration platform as a service)

Integration platform as a service (iPaaS) is a set of automated tools for connecting software applications that are deployed in different environments.

Jamcracker

Jamcracker Services Delivery Network (JSDN) is a platform for purchasing and managing public and private cloud computing services.

Jitterbit

Jitterbit is a commercial software integration product that facilitates transport between legacy, enterprise, and on-demand computing applications.

Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI cloud)

Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) is the proposed Department of Defense (DoD) cloud infrastructure network.

Kapow

Kapow is a company that provides an API (application program interface) called Katalyst to migrate digital content in the cloud between diverse applications or databases.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes, also referred to as K8s, is an open source system used to manage Linux Containers across private, public and hybrid cloud environments.

lift and shift

Lift and shift is a strategy for moving an application or operation from one environment to another - without redesigning the app.

Lustre

Lustre is an open source parallel distributed file system (DFS) specialized for large-scale cluster computing.

managed hosting

Managed hosting is an IT provisioning model in which a service provider leases dedicated servers and associated hardware to a single customer and manages those systems on the customer's behalf.

MapReduce

MapReduce is a core component of the Apache Hadoop software framework.

Microsoft Antimalware for Azure

Microsoft Antimalware for Azure is a security extension in Microsoft Azure that extends antimalware protection to virtual machines and to cloud services.

Microsoft Azure Data Lake

Microsoft Azure Data Lake is a highly scalable public cloud service that allows developers, scientists, business professionals and other Microsoft customers to gain insight from large, complex data sets.

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute is a service that provides a private connection between an organization's on-premises infrastructure and Microsoft Azure data centers.

Microsoft Azure Key Vault

Microsoft Azure Key Vault is a cloud-hosted management service that allows users to encrypt keys and small secrets like passwords or answers to security questions that are used in their cloud applications and services.

Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Microsoft Azure Marketplace is an online store that provides tools and applications that are compatible with the Azure public cloud.

Microsoft Azure Operational Insights

Microsoft Azure Operational Insights (AOI) is a cloud-hosted Software as a Service tool that allows an IT operations staff to collect and search data from multiple machines for analysis.

Microsoft Azure Premium Storage

Microsoft Azure Premium Storage is solid-state drive storage for Azure virtual machines for workloads that require low latency and high throughput.

Microsoft Azure RemoteApp (Remote Application Services)

Microsoft Azure RemoteApp (Remote Application Services) is a program that allows organizations to make remotely accessed programs or applications in Microsoft Azure, known as RemoteApp programs, appear as if they are native to end users' local computers.

Microsoft Azure Resource Manager

Microsoft Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is a management framework that allows administrators to deploy, manage and monitor Azure resources.

Microsoft Azure Security Center

Microsoft Azure Security Center is a set of tools and services for securing virtual machines that run on the Azure public cloud.

Microsoft Azure Site Recovery

Microsoft Azure Site Recovery is a new service in Microsoft Azure primarily used for disaster recovery purposes.

Microsoft Client Hyper V

Microsoft Client Hyper-V is a type-1 hypervisor for the Windows 8.

Microsoft Cloud Witness

Microsoft Cloud Witness is a high availability feature for failover clusters that uses storage in the Microsoft Azure cloud platform to ensure clusters continue to function if there is a site outage.

Microsoft Intune

Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based enterprise mobility management tool that aims to help organizations manage the mobile devices employees use to access corporate data and applications, such as email.

Microsoft Office 365 suite

Microsoft Office 365 suite is a hosted, online version of Microsoft Office software.

Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct

Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is a feature in Windows Server 2016 that uses local server storage to build highly available and scalable software-defined storage systems for Hyper-V virtual machines.

Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop

Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop is an Azure-based cloud service for desktop and application virtualization.

Middleware as a Service (MWaaS)

Middleware as a Service (MWaaS) is the distribution model wherein middleware is offered as a cloud-based service, rather than as an on-premise solution.

mobile backend as a service (mobile BaaS)

Mobile backend as a service is a cloud computing architecture that provides mobile applications with the resources they need to run.

MuleSoft

MuleSoft is an integration platform provider that connects SaaS and legacy applications both on-premises and in the cloud with its Anypoint Platform.

multi cloud computing

Multi-cloud computing is the use of more than one cloud environment to satisfy business requirements.

NetMagic Solutions

NetMagic Solutions is an India-based IT hosting and services provider whose specializations include cloud computing, infrastructure management, disaster recovery and application hosting.

NoOps

NoOps (no operations) is the concept that an IT environment can become so automated and abstracted from the underlying infrastructure that there is no need for a dedicated team to manage software in-house.

NoSQL (Not Only SQL database)

NoSQL is an approach to database design that can accommodate a wide variety of data models, including key-value, document, columnar and graph formats.

noisy neighbor (cloud computing performance)

Noisy neighbor is a phrase used to describe a cloud computing infrastructure co-tenant that monopolizes bandwidth, disk I/O, CPU and other resources, and can negatively affect other users' cloud performance.

open virtualization format (OVF)

Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is an open-source standard for packaging and distributing software and applications for virtual machines (VM).

open source cloud storage

Open source cloud storage is a cloud storage architecture that uses freely available source code to build and manage a private cloud storage platform.

OpenNebula

OpenNebula is an open source management tool that helps virtualized data centers enable private clouds, public clouds and hybrid clouds.

OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder)

OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) is open source software designed to create and manage a service that provides persistent data storage to cloud computing applications.

OpenStack Horizon

OpenStack Horizon is a web-based graphical interface that cloud administrators and users can access to manage OpenStack compute, storage and networking services.

OpenStack

OpenStack is a collection of open source software modules that provides a framework to create and manage both public cloud and private cloud infrastructure.

Oracle Cloud

Oracle Cloud is the database company's public cloud service offering.

PC as a service (PCaaS)

PC as a service (PCaaS) is a device lifecycle management model in which an organization pays a monthly subscription fee to lease endpoint hardware and management services from a vendor.

HP Helion (Hewlett

Packard Helion) - HP Helion (Hewlett-Packard Helion) is the brand name for HP's custom distribution of OpenStack.

HPCaaS (High

Performance Computing as a Service) - High performance computing as a service (HPCaaS) is the provision of high-level processing capacity to customers through the cloud.

personal cloud storage (PCS)

Personal cloud storage (PCS) is a local network-attached storage (NAS) device that lets users store data, photos, music, videos and other files and is optimized for media streaming.

SAP HANA App Center

SAP HANA App Center is a cloud-based service that connects buyers and sellers to applications that were developed on SAP's HANA in-memory database platform.

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Platform as a service (PaaS) is a cloud computing model where a third-party provider delivers hardware and software tools to users over the internet.

private cloud (internal cloud or corporate cloud)

Private cloud is a type of cloud computing that delivers similar advantages to public cloud, including scalability and self-service, but through a proprietary architecture.

private cloud storage (internal cloud storage)

Private cloud storage, also called internal cloud storage, is a service delivery model for storage within a large enterprise.

private PaaS (private platform as a service)

Private platform as a service (private PaaS) is software that facilitates development, deployment and operations for IT on a private infrastructure or behind a firewall.

VMware Project NEE

Project NEE, which stands for Next-generation Education Environment, is VMware's multi-tenant, cloud service that provides an online learning environment.

public cloud storage

Public cloud storage, also called storage-as-a-service or online storage is a service model that provides data storage on a pay-per-use basis, similar to the way a public utility like electric or gas provides and charges for services.

Racemi

Racemi is a data center software vendor that specializes in cloud provisioning and cloud migration products.

Rackspace Fanatical Support

Rackspace Fanatical Support is Rackspace's customer service program, which provides support for customers using its managed hosting services and cloud platforms.

Rapid Access Computing Environment (RACE)

Rapid Access Computing Environment (RACE) is a United States federal government infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) initiative for developing and testing new Department of Defense (DoD) software applications.

Red Hat Storage (RHS)

Red Hat Storage is a new distributed file system based on the Gluster file system.

RightScale Inc.

RightScale is a software as a service (SaaS) provider that offers cloud management and analytics tools for public, private and hybrid clouds.

SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP Analytics Cloud (or SAP Cloud for Analytics) is a software as a service (SaaS) business intelligence (BI) platform designed by SAP.

SAP Business ByDesign

SAP Business ByDesign is a cloud-based ERP system designed for the middle and upper range of the SME market, as well as for subsidiaries of large enterprises in a two-tier ERP scenario.

SAP Cloud Platform

SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) product that provides a development and runtime environment for cloud applications.

SAP HANA One

SAP HANA One is an inexpensive, private cloud-based instance of the SAP HANA platform, hosted in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.

SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud)

SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) is the concept that the convergence of four technologies is currently driving business innovation.

SPI model

SPI is an acronym for the most common cloud computing service models, software as a service, platform as a service and infrastructure as a service.

SaaS ERP

SaaS ERP is a type of cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that runs on the vendor's or cloud provider's servers, is sold through subscription and delivered as a service over the internet.

SaaSgrid

SaaSGrid is an application server and integrated framework for software as a service (SaaS) applications.

Salesforce Commerce Cloud

Salesforce Commerce Cloud, formerly called Demandware, is a cloud-based service for unifying the way businesses engage with customers over any channel or device.

Scalr

Scalr is an information technology (IT) vendor that offers a management platform for cloud computing.

Security as a Service (SaaS)

Security-as-a-service (SaaS) is an outsourcing model for security management.

self service cloud computing

Self-service cloud computing is a form of private cloud service where the customer provisions storage and launches applications without going through an external cloud service provider.

serverless computing

Serverless computing is an event-driven application design and deployment paradigm in which computing resources are provided as scalable cloud services.

ServiceNow

ServiceNow is a cloud-based company that provides software as a service (SaaS) for technical management support.

sharding

Sharding is a type of database partitioning that is used to separate very large databases the into smaller, faster, more easily managed pieces called data shards.

Skytap

Skytap is a software company that makes applications for cloud automation and virtual machine (VM) management, development and testing.

SlapOS

SlapOS (Simple Language for Accounting and Provisioning Operating System) is an open source operating system for distributed cloud computing.

SnapLogic

SnapLogic is a software company that offers cloud integration products to allow customers to connect cloud-based data and applications with on-premise business systems.

Software as a Service BI (SaaS BI)

Software as a Service business intelligence (SaaS BI) is a delivery model for business intelligence in which applications are typically deployed outside of a company's firewall at a hosted location.

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Software as a service (SaaS) is a software distribution model in which a third-party provider hosts applications and makes them available to customers over the Internet.

SugarSync

SugarSync is an online file sync-and-share service.

Windows Azure Fabric Controller (FC)

The Azure Fabric Controller (FC) is the part of the Windows Azure platform that monitors and manages virtual and physical servers and coordinates resources for software applications.

Melbourne shuffle algorithm

The Melbourne shuffle algorithm is a sequence of actions intended to obscure the patterns by which cloud-based data is accessed.

Microsoft Cloud Security Readiness Tool (CSRT)

The Microsoft Cloud Security Readiness Tool (CSRT) is a survey that assesses the systems, processes and productivity of an IT environment in preparation for the adoption and secure use of cloud computing services.

Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)

The Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) is a set of standards defining the way in which information is shared among diverse components of large, heterogeneous grid systems.

OpenStack Foundation

The OpenStack Foundation manages and oversees the development of the OpenStack open source cloud platform.

OpenStack Innovation Center

The OpenStack Innovation Center is a research and development facility dedicated to the open source cloud platform OpenStack.

Oracle Customer Experience Cloud (Oracle CX Cloud)

The Oracle Customer Experience Cloud (Oracle CX Cloud) is a suite of cloud-based tools for CRM and sales, marketing, customer service, e-commerce and other tools.

Red Hat Cloud Partner Program

The Red Hat Cloud Partner Program is an initiative offering Red Hat certification for cloud providers.

Salesforce App Cloud

The Salesforce App Cloud offers developers a series of frameworks and tools to create applications within the Salesforce platform or to create third-party apps on top of it.

Same Origin Policy (SOP)

The Same Origin Policy (SOP), also called Single Origin Policy, is a security measure used in Web browser programming languages such as JavaScript and Ajax to protect the confidentiality and integrity of information.

Security, Trust and Assurance Registry (STAR)

The Security, Trust and Assurance Registry (STAR) is an online registry of cloud provider security controls.

Simian Army

The Simian Army is a collection of open source cloud testing tools created by the online video streaming company, Netflix.

Symantec.cloud Service Provider Program

The Symantec.

TOSCA (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications)

The Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) is an open-source language used to describe the relationships and dependencies between services and applications that reside on a cloud computing platform.

Trusted Cloud Initiative

The Trusted Cloud Initiative is a program of the Cloud Security Alliance industry group created to help cloud service providers develop industry-recommended, secure and interoperable identity, access and compliance management configurations and practices.

VM hardware version (virtual machine hardware version)

The VM hardware version (virtual machine hardware version) designates the virtual hardware functions supported by a virtual machine (VM), which relates to the hardware on the host server.

internet of things (IoT)

The internet of things, or IoT, is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers (UIDs) and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.

mobile cloud

The mobile cloud is Internet-based data, applications and related services accessed through smartphones, laptop computers, tablets and other portable devices.

pay as you go cloud computing (PAYG cloud computing)

The pay-as-you-go cloud computing (PAYG cloud computing) method charges users only for the services they use, eliminating wasted resources.

Tsunami UDP

Tsunami UDP is an open source file transfer protocol that enables high-speed data transfer over network paths with a large bandwidth delay product.

uncloud (cloud repatriation)

Unclouding, also called cloud repatriation, is the retrieval of applications and data from a cloud computing platform.

usage based pricing

Usage-based pricing is a consumption-based pricing model in which customers are only charged when they use a product or service.

user self provisioning

User self-provisioning, also known as cloud self-service, is a system that allows end users to set up and launch applications and services in a cloud computing environment without the direct intervention of an IT organization or a service provider.

utility storage

Utility storage is a service model in which a provider makes storage capacity available to an individual, an organization or a business unit on a pay-per-use basis.

Windows Azure Hyper

V Recovery Manager - Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager is a cloud-based service that automates the backup and recovery of Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs).

VMware vCloud Air

VMware vCloud Air is an Infrastructure as a Service offering based on VMware's vCenter.

VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS)

VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering based on the VMware vSphere hypervisor featuring three services -- dedicated cloud, virtual private cloud and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) -- that can be managed with vCenter, vCloud Automation Center or vCloud Director.

VMware vCloud Suite

VMware vCloud Suite is a collection of applications built on VMware's vSphere platform for building a private cloud infrastructure.

vendor lock in

Vendor lock-in is a situation in which a customer using a product or service cannot easily transition to a competitor's product or service.

Vertical SaaS (Software as a Service)

Vertical SaaS describes a type of Software as a Service cloud computing solution created for a specific industry.

volunteer cloud (peer to peer cloud, ad hoc cloud)

Volunteer cloud, also known as peer-to-peer cloud and ad-hoc cloud, is the coordination of members' computing resources to amass a cloud architecture for a single purpose.

WAN optimization (WAN acceleration)

WAN optimization -- also known as WAN acceleration -- is the category of technologies and techniques used to maximize the efficiency of data's flow across a wide area network (WAN), between organizations' centralized data centers and their remote locations.

Windows Azure Backup

Windows Azure Backup is a tool that automatically sends backups to Windows Azure.

Windows Azure Pack

Windows Azure Pack is a free available download of grouped Windows Azure technologies for use in an enterprise's data center and applications.

Windows Live SkyDrive

Windows Live SkyDrive is a free online file storage system from Microsoft.

Windows containers

Windows containers are abstracted, isolated and portable operating environments supported by the Microsoft Windows Server 2016 operating system and managed with tools such as Docker and PowerShell.

workload automation

Workload automation is the practice of using software to schedule, initiate, run and manage tasks related to business processes and transactions.

XaaS (Anything as a Service)

XaaS is a general, collective term that refers to the delivery of anything as a service.

Zadara VPSA and ZIOS

Zadara Storage provides block, file or object storage with varying levels of compute and capacity through its ZIOS and VPSA platforms.

Zadara Storage

Zadara Storage provides enterprise level primary and secondary storage-as-a-service (STaaS).

zero client

Zero client, also known as ultrathin client, is a server-based computing model in which the end user's computing device has no local storage.

Zuora

Zuora sells software that helps companies manage their cloud subscriptions, including sales, pricing, billing, collection and renewal.

subscription

based pricing model - A subscription-based pricing model is a payment structure that allows a customer or organization to purchase or subscribe to a vendor's IT services for a specific period of time for a set price.

on

demand computing - On-demand (OD) computing is an increasingly popular enterprise model in which computing resources are made available to the user as needed.

SQL

on-Hadoop - SQL-on-Hadoop is a class of analytical application tools that combine established SQL-style querying with newer Hadoop data framework elements.

single

tenancy - Single-tenancy is an architecture in which a single instance of a software application and supporting infrastructure serves one customer.