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Virtual appliance

A virtual appliance is a pre-configured virtual machine image, ready to run on a hypervisor; virtual appliances are a subset of the broader class of software appliances. Installation of a software appliance on a virtual machine and packaging that into an image creates a virtual appliance. Like software appliances, virtual appliances are intended to…

Standards, Software as a service & File formats

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File formats

Grid computing

Infrastructure as a service

Software as a service

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Virtual appliance

Nodes23
Edges22
Triples37
Avg. degree1.91
Density0.086957
Components1

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Virtual appliance

Top relations

related to File formats · 15
Virtual appliance → Citrix, DMTF, Force, It, Microsoft, Most, Open Virtual Appliance, Open Virtualization Format, Oracle, OVA, OVF, The, The Distributed Management Task, Virtual, VMware
related to Software as a service · 12
Virtual appliance → Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Machine Image, ASP, By, EC2, Prior, SaaS, Salesforce, Traditional, With, Xen
related to Infrastructure as a service · 4
Virtual appliance → However, In, The, Virtual
is a · 2
Virtual appliance → concern of the cloud provider and usually not relevant to the cloud user even though the cloud user may be the owner of the virtual appliance, pre-configured virtual machine image
related to Grid computing · 2
Virtual appliance → Adding, Virtualization
see also · 2
Virtual appliance → Appliance LibraryrPathBitnamiSUSE StudioSoftware, VMware InfrastructureTurnKey Linux Virtual

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virtual appliance appliances software machine image infrastructure file service hypervisor virtualization application saas may grid also format ovf cloud hosted

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Virtual applianceis apre-configured virtual machine image0.90text
Virtual applianceis aconcern of the cloud provider and usually not relevant to the cloud user even though the cloud user may be the owner of the virtual appliance0.90text
Virtual appliancerelated to File formatsVirtual0.60section
Virtual appliancerelated to File formatsThe0.60section
Virtual appliancerelated to File formatsOpen Virtualization Format0.60section
Virtual appliancerelated to File formatsOVF0.60section
Virtual appliancerelated to File formatsIt0.60section
Virtual appliancerelated to File formatsOpen Virtual Appliance0.60section
Virtual appliancerelated to File formatsOVA0.60section
Virtual appliancerelated to File formatsThe Distributed Management Task0.60section
Virtual appliancerelated to File formatsForce0.60section
Virtual appliancerelated to File formatsDMTF0.60section

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