Data Center Management

Kubernetes, also referred to as K8s, is an open source system used to manage Linux Containers across private, public and hybrid cloud environments.

Data center capacity planning ensures that an IT organization has enough facility space, power and computing resources to support average and peak workloads.

Hyper-converged infrastructure is a software-centric architecture that tightly integrates compute, storage and virtualization resources in a single system that usually consists of x86 hardware.

Kubernetes, also referred to as K8s, is an open source system used to manage Linux Containers across private, public and hybrid cloud environments.

Virtualization sprawl is a phenomenon that occurs when the number of virtual machines (VMs) on a network reaches a point where administrators can no longer manage them effectively.

A database management system (DBMS) is system software for creating and managing databases. A DBMS makes it possible for end users to create, protect, read, update and delete data in a database.

Data protection is the process of safeguarding important information from corruption, compromise or loss.

Confidentiality, integrity and availability, also known as the CIA triad, is a model designed to guide policies for information security within an organization.

A cloud SLA (cloud service-level agreement) is an agreement between a cloud service provider and a customer that ensures a minimum level of service is maintained.

Transformational leadership is a management philosophy that encourages and inspires employees to innovate and develop new ways to grow and improve the path to a company's future success.

A cloud service provider, or CSP, is a company that offers some component of cloud computing -- typically, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software as a service (SaaS) or platform as a service (PaaS).

Inventory management is the supervision of noncapitalized assets -- or inventory -- and stock items.

Cyber espionage, also called cyber spying, is a form of cyber attack that is carried out against a competitive company or government entity.

Cybersecurity is the protection of internet-connected systems such as hardware, software and data from cyberthreats.

The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) is United States legislation that defines a framework of guidelines and security standards to protect government information, operations and assets.

MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) is an antenna technology for wireless communications in which multiple antennas are used at both the source (transmitter) and the destination (receiver).

Server virtualization is a process that creates and abstracts multiple virtual instances on a single server.

Dropout refers to data, or noise, that's intentionally dropped from a neural network to improve processing and time to results.

Protected health information (PHI), also referred to as personal health information, is the demographic information, medical histories, test and laboratory results, mental health conditions, insurance information and other data that a healthcare professional collects to identify an individual and determine appropriate care.

Digital health, or digital healthcare, is a broad, multidisciplinary concept that includes concepts from an intersection between technology and healthcare.

Cybersecurity is the protection of internet-connected systems such as hardware, software and data from cyberthreats.

IT4IT is a reference architecture for information technology (IT) management. IT organizations and tool vendors use IT4IT as a framework to improve and guide IT capabilities by focusing on value chains.

IT4IT Foundation is a certification for the IT4IT reference architecture.

A value chain is a concept describing the full chain of a business's activities in the creation of a product or service -- from the initial reception of materials all the way through its delivery to market, and everything in between.

CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access) refers to any of several protocols used in second-generation (2G) and third-generation (3G) wireless communications.

NOR flash memory is one of two types of non-volatile storage technologies.

An M.2 SSD is a solid-state drive that is used in internally mounted storage expansion cards of a small form factor.

Virtualization sprawl is a phenomenon that occurs when the number of virtual machines (VMs) on a network reaches a point where administrators can no longer manage them effectively.

A virtual machine (VM) is an operating system (OS) or application environment that is installed on software, which imitates dedicated hardware.

Server virtualization is a process that creates and abstracts multiple virtual instances on a single server.