Storage and Data Mgmt

Customer relationship management (CRM) is the combination of practices, strategies and technologies that companies use to manage and analyze customer interactions and data throughout the customer lifecycle, with the goal of improving customer service relationships and assisting in customer retention and driving sales growth.

Cloud computing is a general term for the delivery of hosted services over the internet.

Data analytics (DA) is the science of examining raw data with the purpose of drawing conclusions about that information.

Data in motion, also referred to as data in transit or data in flight, is a stream of data that is moving or being transported between locations within or between computer systems.

The right to be forgotten is the concept that individuals have the civil right to request that personal information be removed from the Internet.

Software as a service (SaaS) is a software distribution model in which a third-party provider hosts applications and makes them available to customers over the Internet.

Data reduction is the process of reducing the amount of capacity required to store data.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a scalable, high-speed, web-based cloud storage service designed for online backup and archiving of data and applications on Amazon Web Services.

Backup refers to the copying of physical or virtual files or databases to a secondary location for preservation in case of equipment failure or catastrophe.

Data reduction is the process of reducing the amount of capacity required to store data.

Data archiving migrates infrequently used data to low-cost, high-capacity archive storage for long-term retention.

Inline deduplication is the removal of redundancies from data before or as it is being written to a backup device.

A database is a collection of information that is organized so that it can be easily accessed, managed and updated.

Data analytics (DA) is the science of examining raw data with the purpose of drawing conclusions about that information.

Data mining is the process of sorting through large data sets to identify patterns and establish relationships to solve problems through data analysis.

Cloud content management is the process of collecting, delivering, retrieving, governing and managing information within a cloud-based hosting environment.

Automatic content classification is a process for managing text and unstructured information by categorizing or clustering text.

A CDN (content delivery network), also called a content distribution network, is a group of geographically distributed and interconnected servers that provide cached internet content from a network location closest to a user to accelerate its delivery.

Primary storage is the collective methods and technologies used to capture and retain digital information that is in active use and critical for an organization’s operations.

TCP/IP, or the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, is a suite of communication protocols used to interconnect network devices on the internet. TCP/IP can also be used as a communications protocol in a private network (an intranet or an extranet).

Secondary storage is storage for noncritical data that does not need to be frequently accessed.

Pure Storage is a provider of enterprise data flash storage solutions designed to substitute for electromechanical disk arrays.

An SSD (solid-state drive) is a type of nonvolatile storage media that stores persistent data on solid-state flash memory.

An SSD write cycle is the process of programming data to a NAND flash memory chip in a solid-state storage device.

Tiered storage is a way to assign different categories of data to various types of storage media with the objective of reducing the total cost of storage.

Flash storage is any type of drive, repository or system that uses flash memory to keep data for an extended period of time.

Fibre Channel is a high-speed networking technology primarily used for transmitting data among data centers, computer servers, switches and storage at data rates of up to 128 Gbps.