{"id":3609,"date":"2011-12-31T16:59:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T16:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/provisioning-computing\/"},"modified":"2022-07-22T19:29:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T19:29:59","slug":"provisioning-computing","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/4069\/provisioning-computing-computing","title":{"rendered":"Provisioning (Computing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_provisioning_computing_mean\">What Does Provisioning (Computing) Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Provisioning is the process of configuring and deploying an information technology (IT) system resource either locally or in the cloud. In enterprise computing, the term is often associated with virtual machines (VMs) and cloud resource <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/16325\/instance\">instances<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The process of removing an IT resource from a system is called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/32200\/user-de-provisioning\">de-provisioning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_provisioning_computing\">Techopedia Explains Provisioning (Computing)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Provisioning provides equipment, software, or services to customers, users, employees or IT personnel.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"provisioning_in_information_technology\">Provisioning in Information Technology<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In an enterprise computing context, provisioning is frequently divided into the following subsets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Network provisioning<\/li>\n<li>Server provisioning<\/li>\n<li>User provisioning<\/li>\n<li>Self-service provisioning<\/li>\n<li>Subscriber provisioning<\/li>\n<li>Mobile device provisioning<\/li>\n<li>Internet access provisioning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span id=\"types_of_provisioning\">Types of Provisioning<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/26531\/cloud-provisioning\">Cloud provisioning<\/a> &#8211; describes the processes of deploying and integrating cloud services within an enterprise IT infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/29433\/self-provisioning\">Self-Provisioning<\/a> &#8211; a feature among many cloud service providers that allows customers to spin up (provision) resources without the help of dedicated IT personnel or the service providers themselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/1129\/thin-provisioning\">Thin provisioning<\/a> &#8211; a storage area network (SAN) management process in which the storage capacity for a device is reserved and allocated on demand through a shared storage pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Does Provisioning (Computing) Mean? 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