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- cache - A cache (pronounced CASH) is a place to store something temporarily.
- cached - A cache (pronounced CASH) is a place to store something temporarily.
- caching - Caching (pronounced “cashing”) is the process of storing data i...
- calculator - A calculator is a device that performs arithmetic operati...
- Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium - Cal...
- calibrate - In information technology and other fields, calibration is ...
- calibration - In information technology and other fields, calibration...
- calm technology - In computing, calm technology aims to reduce th...
- campus - In telecommunications, a campus is a physically contiguous associ...
- canonical - In programming, canonical means "according to the rules.
- capacity planning - In information technology, capacity plannin...
- cardinality - The term cardinality refers to the number of cardinal (...
- Cartesian coordinates - Cartesian coordinates, also called ...
- Cartesian coordinates (rectangular coordinates)
- CAS - Content-addressed storage (CAS) is a method of providing fast access to...
- catalog - In computing, a catalog is a directory of information about dat...
- CBT - Computer-based training (CBT) is any course of instruction whose primar...
- CDF - The Channel Definition Format (CDF) is a file format from Microsoft tha...
- CDI - Customer data integration (CDI) is the process of consolidating and man...
- CDP - Continuous data protection (CDP), also called continuous backup, is a s...
- cellspace - According to writer David S. Bennahum, cellspace is the kin...
- cellular automata - A cellular automaton (CA) is a collection o...
- cellular automaton - A cellular automaton (CA) is a collection...
- cellular automaton (CA) - A cellular automaton (CA) is a ...
- CEO and others - CEO, CFO, CIO, CTO, CSO, CCO and CKO are abbrevia...
- certification - In information technology as in other fields such a...
- chalcogenide RAM - Phase-change memory (PCM) is a form of comput...
- Challenge-Handshake Authentication Procedure
- change management - Change management is a systematic approach ...
- chaos theory - Chaos theory is the study of nonlinear dynamics, in w...
- character - In information technology, a character is a printable symbo...
- Charles Babbage - If John von Neumann is the father of modern com...
- cheat sheet - A cheat sheet is a piece of paper with information writ...
- cheatsheet - A cheat sheet is a piece of paper with information writte...
- check digit - A check digit, also known as a checksum character, is t...
- check digit (checksum character) - A check digit...
- checksum - A checksum is a count of the number of bits in a transmission...
- checksum character - A check digit, also known as a checksum c...
- Chief Information Officer - Chief Information Officer (...
- CIO - Chief Information Officer (CIO) is a job title commonly given to the pe...
- CIO (Chief Information Officer) - Chief Informati...
- citation style guides - A number of generally recognized au...
- Clarus - The dogcow is a drawing of a rather indiscriminate-looking animal...
- classification of data - Data classification is the catego...
- Claude Shannon - Claude Elwood Shannon, a mathematician born in Ga...
- CLC - In customer relationship management (CRM), customer life cycle is a ter...
- clean install - A clean install is a software installation in which...
- clean room - A clean room (or cleanroom) is an enclosed space in which...
- cleanroom - A clean room (or cleanroom) is an enclosed space in which a...
- clear zone - In barcode technology, a quiet zone is the blank margin o...
- click - In Web advertising, a click is an instance of a user pressing down ...
- client - A client is the requesting program or user in a client/server rel...
- client/server - Client/server describes the relationship between tw...
- clipboard - A clipboard is a temporary storage area for data that the u...
- clock cycle - In a computer, the clock cycle is the time between two ...
- Clonezilla - Clonezilla is a free open source disk cloning application...
- closed caption - Closed captions are a text version of the spoken ...
- closed captions - Closed captions are a text version of the spoke...
- cluster computing - In computers, clustering is the use of mult...
- clustering - In computers, clustering is the use of multiple computers...
- CM - Configuration management (CM) is the detailed recording and updating of i...
- CMOS - CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) is the semiconductor t...
- CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor)
- CMS - CMS (Conversational Monitor System) is a product that comes with IBM's ...
- co-branding - Co-branding is the practice of using multiple brand nam...
- cobot - A cobot or "collaborative robot" is a robot designed to assist huma...
- cobranding - Co-branding is the practice of using multiple brand names...
- code review - Code review is a phase in the computer program developm...
- coefficient - In a mathematical equation, a coefficient is a constant...
- cold backup - A cold backup, also called an offline backup, is a data...
- cold backup (offline backup) - A cold backup, also c...
- cold boot - To reboot is to restart a computer and reload the operating...
- cold buffer - In data processing, a cold buffer is a buffer (segment ...
- cold fusion - Not to be confused with ColdFusion, a software product,...
- cold server - In the backup and recovery of a computer server, a cold...
- cold/warm/hot server - In the backup and recovery of a compu...
- collaborative robot - A cobot or "collaborative robot" is a r...
- collaborative robot (cobot) - A cobot or "collaborati...
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- Opscode Chef
  
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  Zabbix is an open-source tool designed to monitor networks, servers, appliances and other hardware through a Linux-based server, which communicates to the native agents that are available for many operating systems, including Linux, UNIX and Windows.
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- SoMoClo (social, mobile and cloud)
  
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- Vine (Vine app)
  
  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.
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  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.
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  A sunk cost is money that has already been spent and cannot be recovered. Logic dictates that because sunk costs will not change -- no matter what actions are taken -- they should not play a role in decision-making. Emotionally, however, the more someone invests time, effort and money on something, the harder it becomes to leave it and move on.
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- I/O contention (input/output contention)
  
  I/O contention (input/output contention), occurs when virtual machines compete for I/O resources because there is a limited storage bandwidth.
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  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.
- pNFS (Parallel NFS)
  
  The Parallel Network File System (pNFS) is part of the NFS v4.1 protocol that allows compute clients to access storage devices directly and in parallel.

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