Definitions about data centers including hardware, virtualization and cloud computing.
Cloud computing
Terms related to cloud computing, including definitions about on-demand, distributed computing and words and phrases about software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service and storage-as-a-service.
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- managed hosting - Managed hosting is an IT operations model in which a service provider leases dedicated servers an...
- Opscode Chef - Chef is an open-source systems management and cloud infrastructure automation framework created b...
- Amazon Dynamo Database (DDB) - Amazon Dynamo Database (DDB) is a fully-managed NoSQL database service. Dynamo Database is known ...
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Data centers
Terms related to data centers, including definitions about network operations centers (NOCs) and words and phrases about the storage, management and the transmission of data.
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- ambient air cooling - Ambient air cooling is the use of naturally cool air surrounding a building, such as a data cente...
- Red Hat Storage (RHS) - Red Hat Storage is a new distributed file system based on the Gluster file system.
- off-grid data center - An off-grid data center is a facility that produces all its own power and is not connected to any...
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Hardware
Terms related to computer hardware, including definitions about cables, connectors and power supply units and words and phrases about computing peripheral devices including the keyboard, mouse, audio speakers, and printers.
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- computer forensics (cyber forensics) - Computer forensics is the application of investigation and analysis techniques to gather and pres...
- server hardware degradation - Server hardware degradation is the gradual breakdown of the physical parts of a server.
- NAND flash memory - NAND flash memory is a type of non-volatile storage technology that does not require power to ret...
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Storage hardware
Terms related to storage hardware, including definitions about solid state drives and words and phrases about hard disk drives, tape drives, disk arrays and tiered storage.
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- NAND flash memory - NAND flash memory is a type of non-volatile storage technology that does not require power to ret...
- memory mirroring - Memory mirroring is the division of memory on a server into two channels. The first channel is mi...
- Multi-Root IOV (MR-IOV) - Multi-Root IOV (MR-IOV)
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Virtualization
Terms related to virtualization, including definitions about virtualization technologies and words and phrases about server virtualization, desktop virtualization and storage virtualization.
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- virtual NAS - Virtual NAS is a virtual machine (VM) that acts as a file server for network-attached storage (NA...
- VMware host profile - VMware Host Profiles is a vCenter Server tool to design and deploy ESX/ESXi hosts.
- Citrix FlexCast - Citrix FlexCast is a delivery technology that allows an IT administrator to personalize virtual d...
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