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animated Graphics Interchange Format - An animated GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) file is a graphic image on a Web page that moves - for example, a twirling icon or a banner with a hand that waves or letters that magically get larger.
anime - Anime (pronounced AH-nee-may) is a term for a style of Japanese comic book and video cartoon animation in which the main characters have large doe-like eyes.
anisotropic filtering - Anisotropic filtering (AF) is a feature of some video cards that sharpens the details of the fading-away part of a 3D object that recedes into the distance.
Anna - The Anna Kournikova VBS.
Anna Kournikova virus VBS.SST - The Anna Kournikova VBS.
annoyware - On the Web, nagware (sometimes called "annoyware") is programming that presents the user with one or more pop-up windows or alerts when an application is launched or closed (sometimes both), reminding the user to register, purchase the application, or take some other action.
anode - An anode is the electrode in a polarized electrical device through which current flows in from an outside circuit.
anonymizer - Anonymous Web surfing allows a user to visit Web sites without allowing anyone to gather information about which sites the user visited.
Anonymous - Anonymous is a loosely organized hacktivist collective created to promote free speech, unimpeded access to information, and transparency in government and corporate activities.
anonymous email - Anonymous e-mail is e-mail that has been directed to a recipient through a third-party server that does not identify the originator of the message.
anonymous File Transfer Protocol - Using the Internet's File Transfer Protocol (FTP), anonymous FTP is a method for giving users access to files so that they don't need to identify themselves to the server.
anonymous FTP - Using the Internet's File Transfer Protocol (FTP), anonymous FTP is a method for giving users access to files so that they don't need to identify themselves to the server.
anonymous FTP (File Transfer Protocol) - Using the Internet's File Transfer Protocol (FTP), anonymous FTP is a method for giving users access to files so that they don't need to identify themselves to the server.
anonymous video analytics - Anonymous video analytics (AVA) is a strategy for gathering metrics about digital signage audience engagement.
anonymous video analytics (AVA) - Anonymous video analytics (AVA) is a strategy for gathering metrics about digital signage audience engagement.
anonymous Web surfing - Anonymous Web surfing allows a user to visit Web sites without allowing anyone to gather information about which sites the user visited.
anonymous Web surfing (Web anonymizer, SafeWeb) - Anonymous Web surfing allows a user to visit Web sites without allowing anyone to gather information about which sites the user visited.
ANSI - ANSI, American National Standards Institute, organization for fostering, development of technology standards, industry groups, International Organization for Standardization, ISO, International Electrotechnical Commission, IEC, computer standards, American Standard Code, Information Interchange, ASCI, Small Computer System Interface, SCSI, what is, definition, term, glossary.
ANSI (American National Standards Institute) - ANSI, American National Standards Institute, organization for fostering, development of technology standards, industry groups, International Organization for Standardization, ISO, International Electrotechnical Commission, IEC, computer standards, American Standard Code, Information Interchange, ASCI, Small Computer System Interface, SCSI, what is, definition, term, glossary.
ANSI/ISA-95 - ANSI/ISA-95, more commonly referred to as ISA-95, is an international standard for enterprise and control systems integration developed for manufacturers.
Ansible - Ansible is an open source IT configuration management (CM) and automation platform, provided by Red Hat.
Ansible playbook - An Ansible playbook is an organized unit of scripts that defines work for a server configuration managed by the automation tool Ansible.
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Ant - Ant is an open source build tool (a program for putting together all the pieces of a program) from the Apache Software Foundation.
antenna - An antenna is a specialized transducer that converts radio-frequency (RF) fields into alternating current (AC) or vice-versa.
anthropomorphism - Anthropomorphism (from the Greek anthrôpos, for human, and morphé, for shape) is the tendency for people to think of other animals or inanimate objects as having human-like characteristics.
anti money laundering software - Anti-laundering software is a type of computer program used by financial institutions to analyze customer data and detect suspicious transactions.
anti spam cocktail - A spam cocktail (or anti-spam cocktail) is the use of several different technologies in combination to successfully identify and minimize spam.
anti-competitive practice - An anti-competitive practice is an action conducted by one or more businesses to make it difficult or impossible for other companies to enter or succeed in their market.
anti-money laundering software - Anti-laundering software is a type of computer program used by financial institutions to analyze customer data and detect suspicious transactions.
anti-money laundering software (AML) - Anti-laundering software is a type of computer program used by financial institutions to analyze customer data and detect suspicious transactions.
anti-replay protocol - The anti-replay protocol is part of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) standard.
anti-spam cocktail - A spam cocktail (or anti-spam cocktail) is the use of several different technologies in combination to successfully identify and minimize spam.
anti-spyware software - Anti-spyware software is a type of program designed to prevent and detect unwanted spyware program installations and to remove those programs if installed.
anti-virus software - Antivirus software is a class of program designed to prevent, detect and remove malware infections on individual computing devices, networks and IT systems.
antialiasing - Antialiasing is the smoothing of the image or sound roughness caused by aliasing.
antiferromagnetically coupled media - Pixie dust is the informal name that IBM is using for its antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) media technology, which can increase the data capacity of hard drives to up to four times the density possible with current drives.
antiferromagnetically-coupled media - Pixie dust is the informal name that IBM is using for its antiferromagnetically-coupled (AFC) media technology, which can increase the data capacity of hard drives to up to four times the density possible with current drives.
Antigen - Sybari's Antigen is antivirus software for Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange.
antimalware (anti-malware) - Antimalware is a type of software program created to protect IT systems and individual computers from malicious software, or malware.
antimatter - Antimatter is any substance that, when combined with an equal amount of matter, results in the complete and direct conversion of all substance to energy.
antipattern - An antipattern is a frequently used, but largely ineffective solution to a problem.
antispoofing - Antispoofing is a technique for countering spoofing attacks on a computer network.
antitrust - Antitrust is a group of laws established to regulate business practices in order to ensure that fair competition occurs in an open-market economy for the benefit of consumers.
antivirus software (antivirus program) - Antivirus software is a class of program designed to prevent, detect and remove malware infections on individual computing devices, networks and IT systems.
anycast - In Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), anycast is communication between a single sender and the nearest of several receivers in a group.
anything as a service - XaaS is a general, collective term that refers to the delivery of anything as a service.
AoE - ATA over Ethernet (AoE) is an open source network protocol designed to connect storage devices and servers in a storage area network (SAN).
AOP - Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is an approach to programming that allows global properties of a program to determine how it is compiled into an executable program.
AOSP - The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is an initiative created to guide development of the Android mobile platform.
AP - An artificial passenger (AP) is a device that would be used in a motor vehicle to make sure that the driver stays awake.
Apache - Apache is a freely available Web server that is distributed under an "open source" license.
Apache Camel - Apache Camel is a Java-based framework that implements messaging patterns in Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) to provide a rule-based routing and mediation engine enterprise application integration (EAI).
Apache Cassandra - Apache Cassandra is an open source distributed database system that is designed for storing and managing large amounts of data across commodity servers.
Apache Cheat Sheets - We've gathered cheat sheets for fast reference to Apache-related information.
Apache Falcon - Apache Falcon is a data management tool for overseeing data pipelines in Hadoop clusters, with a goal of ensuring consistent and dependable performance on complex processing jobs.
Apache Flink - Apache Flink is an in-memory and disk-based distributed data processing platform for use in big data streaming applications.
Apache Giraph - Apache Giraph is real-time graph processing software that is mostly used to analyze social media data.
Apache Hadoop YARN - Apache Hadoop YARN is the resource management and job scheduling technology in the open source Hadoop distributed processing framework.
Apache HBase - Apache HBase is a column-oriented key/value data store built to run on top of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
Apache Hive - Apache Hive is an open source data warehouse system for querying and analyzing large data sets that are principally stored in Hadoop files.
Apache HTTP Server - Apache HTTP Server is a freely-available Web server software package that is distributed under an open source license.
Apache Incubator - Apache Incubator is the starting point for projects and software seeking to become part of the Apache Software Foundation’s efforts.
Apache JMeter - Apache JMeter is an open source, Java-based, load testing tool that can be used to analyze the functional behavior of a system and measure the performance of a system under a load test.
Apache Kafka - Apache Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system that receives data from disparate source systems and makes the data available to target systems in real time.
Apache License - The Apache License is a free software licensing agreement from the Apache Software Foundation that stipulates terms for use, modification and distribution of the software.
Apache Lucene - Apache Lucene is a freely available information retrieval software library that works with fields of text within document files.
Apache Mesos - Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that isolates and shares pooled resources from across clusters with applications and frameworks.
Apache OpenOffice - Apache OpenOffice is an open-source office productivity suite used to create and edit documents (Writer), presentations (Impress), spreadsheets (Calc), graphics (Draw), mathematical formulas (Math) and databases (Base).
Apache OpenWhisk - Apache OpenWhisk is an open source and serverless cloud platform that performs functions in response to events.
Apache Parquet - Apache Parquet is a column-oriented storage format for Hadoop.
Apache Pig - Apache Pig is an open-source technology that offers a high-level mechanism for parallel programming of MapReduce jobs to be executed on Hadoop clusters.
Apache Software Foundation (ASF) - The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a non-profit, decentralized corporation that oversees development of Apache software.
Apache Solr - Apache Solr is an open source search platform built upon a Java library called Lucene.
Apache Spark - Apache Spark is an open source parallel processing framework for running large-scale data analytics applications across clustered computers.
Apache Storm - Storm is a free and open source (FOSS) distributed real-time computation system developed by the Apache Foundation.
Apache ZooKeeper - Apache ZooKeeper is an open source file application program interface (API) that allows distributed processes in large systems to synchronize with each other so that all clients making requests receive consistent data.
APAR - An APAR (authorized program analysis report) is a term used in IBM for a description of a problem with an IBM program that is formally tracked until a solution is provided.
Apex - Apex is a development platform for building software as a service (SaaS) applications on top of Salesforce.
Apex Connector Framework - The Apex Connector Framework is a set of classes and methods in the DataSource namespace for creating a custom adapter for Salesforce Connect.
API - An application program interface (API) is code that allows two software programs to communicate with each other.
API economy - The API economy refers to the set of business models and practices designed around the use of APIs in today's digital economy.
API endpoint - An API endpoint is a point at which an application program interface (API) -- the code that allows two software programs to communicate with each other -- connects with the software program.
API gateway - An API gateway is a software pattern that sits in front of an application programming interface (API) or group of microservices, to facilitate requests and delivery of data and services.
API key - An API key is a unique identifier used to connect to, or perform, an API call.
API lifecycle management - API lifecycle management is a part of API management that supports the design, development and maintenance of APIs, including their transitioning from design and testing to a production environment.
API management - API management is the process by which an organization creates, oversees and controls application program interfaces (APIs) in a secure and scalable environment.
API management platform - An API management platform is a tool that acts as a proxy for customer requests to protect the back ends of online services from being brought down from too many queries.
API proxy - An API proxy is a thin application program interface (API) server that exposes an interface for an existing service or services.
API security - API security is an overarching term referring to practices and products that prevent malicious attacks on, or misuse of, application program interfaces (API).
API testing - API testing is a type of software testing that analyzes an application program interface (API) to verify it fulfills its expected functionality, security, performance and reliability.
API-centric application - An API-centric application is a web service that is built using application programming interfaces (APIs) to exchange data with other applications.
Apigee - Apigee, pronounced App-ih-gee, is an API gateway management tool offered by Google to exchange data across cloud services and applications.
APIPA - Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) is a feature of Windows-based operating systems (included in Windows 98, ME, 2000, and XP) that enables a computer to automatically assign itself an IP address when there is no Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server available to perform that function.
APK file (Android Package Kit file format) - An APK (Android Package Kit) is the file format for applications used on the Android operating system.
APL - APL (A Programming Language) is a general-purpose, third-generation (3GL) programming language that allows certain data manipulations to be expressed with a special non-ASCII set of symbols, resulting in programs that are shorter than would be possible using most other languages.
APL (a programming language) - APL (A Programming Language) is a general-purpose, third-generation (3GL) programming language that allows certain data manipulations to be expressed with a special non-ASCII set of symbols, resulting in programs that are shorter than would be possible using most other languages.
APM - Application portfolio management (APM) is a framework for managing enterprise IT software applications and software-based services.

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