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Provisioning and deprovision

Provisioning and deprovision

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Provisioning and deprovision

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- Users, servers, virtual devices, and applications all need to be provisioned in order to provide services to our end users. Now, provisioning simply means to set aside a certain amount of resources in order to provide an established service. Every time we need a new server, though, this could mean that we need to create a purchase request, order the server, and wait for it to arrive before we even get started with dealing with the traditional networking and installation, configuring, and operating of that physical server. This can make provisioning and deprovisioning time-consuming and challenging. Thankfully, with virtual devices and cloud computing, we can instantly provision new servers on demand by using our personnel or by using the cloud service personnel or even using automation. In the information technology world, we provision things all the time. For example, we may provision a new user account when our organization hires a new employee. Another example might be…

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