Pilvitukea

Pilvitukea is a term used in information technology to describe a set of cloud-based services and practices designed to provide operational resilience, data protection, and scalable support for organizations. The term combines Finnish words pilvi (cloud) and tuki (support). It is not a single product or standard, but a category of capabilities delivered via cloud computing.

Core components typically include cloud infrastructure services (IaaS), platform services (PaaS), disaster recovery and business continuity, data backup and archival, monitoring and incident response, and security services such as identity and access management, encryption, and threat detection. Pilvitukea emphasizes on-demand elasticity, geographic redundancy, and pay-as-you-go pricing, often integrated with hybrid architectures that connect on-premises systems to cloud resources.

Adoption: Organizations use pilvitukea to augment or replace traditional on-site support, enabling scalable provisioning, rapid recovery, and simplified management. It is commonly deployed by small and medium enterprises as well as large corporations, with vendors offering various service levels and compliance options.

Standards and challenges: There is no universal standard for pilvitukea; best practices involve clear data sovereignty policies, regular backup testing, and well-defined recovery objectives. Challenges include data privacy concerns, vendor lock-in, latency, and regulatory compliance across jurisdictions.

See also: Cloud computing, Disaster recovery as a service, Data backup, Hybrid cloud.