In iPod and other audio or multimedia playback applications, shuffle mode is the playing of items in a list in some random fashion.
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Glocalization is the concept that in a global market, a product or service is more likely to succeed when it is customized for the locality or ...
Glocalization is the concept that in a global market, a product or service is more likely to succeed when it is customized for the locality or culture in which it is sold.
Vine is a free mobile application that enables users to record and share an unlimited number of short, looping video clips with a maximum length of six seconds.
Google Wallet is a mobile payment system developed by Google that allows smartphone users to store debit and credit card information for online and in-store purchases.
The AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) is a member association for the accounting profession that sets ethical standards for accountants, as well as U.S. auditor standards for private companies, nonprofit organizations and the government.
The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is a U.S. federal regulatory agency designed to monitor and prevent anticompetitive, deceptive or unfair business practices.
Geolocation data is information associated with an electronic device that can be used to identify its physical location. The most common example of geolocation data is an IP address.
vNUMA (virtual NUMA) is a memory-access optimization method for VMware virtual machines (VMs) that helps prevent memory-bandwidth bottlenecks.
VMware Host Profiles is a vCenter Server tool to design and deploy ESX/ESXi hosts.
VMware NSX is a virtual networking and security software product family created from VMware's vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS) and Nicira Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) intellectual property.
A storage hypervisor, also called software-defined storage, is a marketing term for software that allows storage to be controlled centrally in a storage pool regardless of what hardware the storage is located on.
I/O contention (input/output contention), occurs when virtual machines compete for I/O resources because there is a limited storage bandwidth.
Erasure coding (EC) is a method of data protection in which data is broken into fragments, expanded and encoded with redundant data pieces, and stored across a set of different locations, such as disks, storage nodes or geographic locations.
Computer forensics is the application of investigation and analysis techniques to gather and preserve evidence from a particular computing device in a way that is suitable for presentation in a court of law.
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Security information and event management (SIEM) is an approach to security management that seeks to provide a holistic view of organization’s information technology (IT) security.
An Apple Authorized Service Provider (Apple ASP) is an individual or organization that can legally service Apple products although their warranties are held by other entities. Service by anyone other than an authorized service provider (ASP) will render a product's warranty void.
An authorized service provider (ASP) is an individual or an organization that is permitted to service products that are covered by warranties held by another entity. Service conducted by anyone other than an authorized service provider will generally render a warranty void.
Hosted services are outsourced information technology (IT) systems and functions. A hosted service provider owns and oversees infrastructure, software and administrative tasks and makes the system available to clients, usually over the Internet.
Automatic Data Processing Inc. (ADP) is a global business outsourcing services provider headquartered in Roseland, N.J.
Kronos Inc. is a provider of workforce management software and associated services headquartered in Chelmsford, Mass.
Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) is a form of business process outsourcing (BPO) that employs a cloud computing service model.
Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) is a self-service identity management software suite.
Microsoft Assurance Software is a program that was introduced in 2002 to help users with the maintenance of Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and applications for the server and desktop.
DCPromo (Domain Controller Promoter) is a tool in Active Directory that installs and removes Active Directory Domain Services and promotes domain controllers.
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