Definitions about storage and data management including backup/recovery vocabulary, business intelligence terminology, storage area networks and database management.
Backup and recovery
Terms related to backup and recovery, including definitions about making copies of data and words and phrases about restoring original data after a data loss event.
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- Symantec Backup Exec - Symantec Backup Exec is a small- to medium-sized business (SMB) data protection product.
- backup log - Backup log is a feature of backup applications that records the events that occur during a backup...
- bidirectional replication - Bidirectional replication is a method of replication between storage media such as hard disks or ...
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Business intelligence - business analytics
Terms related to business intelligence, including definitions about business analytics and words and phrases about gathering, storing, analyzing and providing access to business data.
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- data hygiene - Data hygiene is the collective processes conducted to ensure the cleanliness of data. Data is con...
- Amazon RedShift - Amazon RedShift is a fully managed petabyte-scale data warehouse service. RedShift is designed fo...
- polynomial interpolation - Polynomial interpolation is a method of estimating values between known data points. When graphic...
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Content management
Terms related to content management, including definitions about enterprise content management and words and phrases about content management applications (CMA) and content management systems (CMS).
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- content marketing - Content marketing is the publication of material designed to promote a brand, usually through a m...
- native advertising - Native advertising is the integration of marketing content with a website in such a way that it i...
- dot com disclosures (.com disclosures) - The dot com disclosures are the Federal Trade Commission's guidelines for applying its regulation...
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Customer data management
Terms related to customer data management, including customer data integration (CDI) technology definitions and words and phrases about data quality and data governance.
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- dot com disclosures (.com disclosures) - The dot com disclosures are the Federal Trade Commission's guidelines for applying its regulation...
- four eyes principle - The four eyes principle is a requirement that two individuals review and approve some action befo...
- golden record - A golden record is a single, well-defined version of all the data entities in an organizational e...
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Data and data management
Terms related to data, including definitions about data warehousing and words and phrases about data management.
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- data migration - Data migration is the process of transferring data between data storage systems, data formats or ...
- Apache Solr - Apache Solr is an open source search platform built upon a Java library called Lucene.
- golden record - A golden record is a single, well-defined version of all the data entities in an organizational e...
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Data deduplication
Terms related to data deduplication, including definitions about single-instance storage and words and phrases about eliminating redundant data.
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- data reduction in primary storage (DRIPS) - Data reduction in primary storage (DRIPS) is the application of capacity optimization techniques ...
- data scrubbing (data cleansing) - Data scrubbing, also called data cleansing, is the process of cleaning up data in a database that...
- data life cycle management (DLM) - Data life cycle management (DLM) is a policy-based approach to managing the flow of an informatio...
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Database
Terms related to databases, including definitions about relational databases and words and phrases about database management.
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- Amazon Dynamo Database (DDB) - Amazon Dynamo Database (DDB) is a fully-managed NoSQL database service. Dynamo Database is known ...
- Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) - Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a fully-managed SQL database service. Amazon RDS offe...
- Redis - Redis is an open source key-value database sponsored by VMware.
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Network-attached storage (NAS)
Terms related to network-attached storage (NAS), including hard disk storage definitions and words and phrases about file-level computer data storage.
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- scale-out storage - Scale-out storage is a network-attached storage (NAS) architecture in which the total amount of d...
- virtual NAS - Virtual NAS is a virtual machine (VM) that acts as a file server for network-attached storage (NA...
- clustered storage - Clustered storage is the use of two or more storage servers working together to increase performa...
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Storage-area network (SAN)
Terms related to storage area networks, including definitions about SAN management and words and phrases about virtual SANs, Fibre Channel and iSCSI SANs.
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- Microsoft iSCSI Initiator - Microsoft iSCSI Initiator is a tool that connects external iSCSI-based storage to host computers ...
- network-attached storage (NAS) - Network-attached storage (NAS) is a dedicated hard disk storage device that provides file-based d...
- FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) - FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) is a storage protocol that enable Fibre Channel communications...
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