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Software appliance

A software appliance is a software application combined with just enough operating system (JeOS) to run optimally on industry-standard hardware (typically a server) or in a virtual machine. It is a software distribution or firmware that implements a computer appliance.

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Types of software appliances

Commercial software appliances

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Software appliance

Nodes23
Edges22
Triples28
Avg. degree1.91
Density0.086957
Components1

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Software appliance

Top relations

related to Benefits · 8
Software appliance → CPU, If, Improved, In, OS, Simplified, Software, This
related to Virtual appliance · 5
Software appliance → Amazon EC2, Open Virtualization Format, OVF, VirtualBox, VMware
related to Live CD appliance · 4
Software appliance → ISO, Live CD, This, Virtual Machine
see also · 4
Software appliance → Linux Virtual Appliance LibrarySUSE, Portable, Studio, To Go
related to Containers · 3
Software appliance → Containers, Docker, Docker Hub
related to Commercial software appliances · 2
Software appliance → Commercial, Customers
is a · 1
Software appliance → software application combined with just enough operating system

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software appliance virtual appliances machine run application hardware format image operating system multiple platform live cd types applications typically virtualization

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Software applianceis asoftware application combined with just enough operating system0.90text
Open Virtualization Formatinstance ofallowing it to be run within a virtual machine container.A virtual appliance could be built using either a standard virtual machine format0.80text
Software appliancerelated to BenefitsSoftware0.60section
Software appliancerelated to BenefitsSimplified0.60section
Software appliancerelated to BenefitsThis0.60section
Software appliancerelated to BenefitsOS0.60section
Software appliancerelated to BenefitsImproved0.60section
Software appliancerelated to BenefitsIf0.60section
Software appliancerelated to BenefitsCPU0.60section
Software appliancerelated to BenefitsIn0.60section
Software appliancerelated to Commercial software appliancesCommercial0.60section
Software appliancerelated to Commercial software appliancesCustomers0.60section

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