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More information about Audio/Digital/Scanning/Photo/Printing/TV/Video Terms may be found here (Click). Banking, Finance, Mortgage & Real Estate Terms are here (Click) More information about Pharma/Biological/Pharmaceutical Terms may be found at (Click here). You can use your Broweser's Find function to locate a specific term. REFERENCES _T - an MFC macro used to make string literals character set neutral. :: - global scope resolution operator (WIN). Ensures that the API function is called even if the object that makes the call has a member function of the same name. 1080i - 1080 lines of inter-laced vertical video resolution - this IS an HDTV format. more 1080I info 1080p - 1080 lines of Progressive vertical (NON-laced video content. - this IS an HDTV format. more 1080P info 1080p is a set of HDTV high-definition video modes characterized by 1,920 pixels displayed across the screen horizontally and 1,080 pixels down the screen vertically; the p stands for progressive scan, i.e. non-interlaced. 1BASE5 - Implementing the IEEE 802.3 standard 1Mbps transmission on a baseband medium with a maximum segment length of 500 meters. 1BASE5 - factbites 1G - analog mobile phone service 2G - 2G is digital mobile phone service, and includes SMS and text messaging. Second generation (2G) wireless data networks in Japan deliver datarates up to 9.6 kbps for upload and up to 29.8 kbps for download. 3DES - Triple Data Encryption Standard 3DNS - is a wide area load balancer from F5 Networks. The 3DNS Controller is a high availability, intelligent load balancing solution for geographically distributed Internet sites and data centers. 3DNS manages and distributes user requests across multiple, redundant server sites – regardless of the platform type or combination and without requiring additional software on the servers. User requests are distributed according to factors such as round trip time, number of active servers, packet loss, etc. and, the 3DNS Controller can be configured to make traffic distribution decisions according to what is most important for an organization’s network. - it takes a request (for a web site for instance) and looks at the best route to get there. What is 3-DNS? - Networking - DSLReports Forums 3DNS - Everything2.com F5 3DNS configuration - DevCentral - F5 Networks Using F5's BigIP and 3DNS for Failover and DR routing - PDF Gottry.com See also: BIG-IP 3G - Third generation (3G) wireless networks in Japan deliver datarates on the order of 64 kbps for upload and on the order of 200 kbos for downlad. These higher speeds allow the transmission of video and two-way video telephony. Other data connections, e.g. download of information or JAVA applets, are also several times faster on 3G networks then on older 2G networks. In Japan there are three parallel, independent and competing 3G networks. In U.S, 3G currently (12/03) supports 300 to 500 kilobits per second, with bursts up to 2 mbps. 3GPP - Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is a collaboration agreement that was established in December 1998. The collaboration agreement brings together a number of telecommunications standards bodies which are known as "Organizational Partners". The current Organizational Partners are ARIB, CCSA, ETSI, ATIS, TTA, and TTC. The original scope of 3GPP was to produce globally applicable Technical Specifications and Technical Reports for a 3rd Generation Mobile System based on evolved GSM core networks and the radio access technologies that they support (i.e., Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) both Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) modes). The scope was subsequently amended to include the maintenance and development of the Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) Technical Specifications and Technical Reports including evolved radio access technologies (e.g. General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)). Click here for more info 3GPP2 - Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) - Developing the next generation of cdma2000 wireless communications. Third-Generation Partnership Project 2 is a collaborative effort for Generating 3G specifications for providing high-speed IP-based mobile systems. It was established for developing global specifications for network evolution from ANSI/TIA/EIA-41 to 3G, and global specifications for the radio transmission tehcnologies supported by ANSI/TIA/EIA-41. 3GPP2 is mainly supported in North America, China, Japan and South Korea and continues to play a dominant role in bringing IP technology to these cellular markets. 3GPP2 was born out of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000) initiative for providing high-speed data over the wireless network. Although discussions did take place between ETSI and the ANSI-41 community to consolidate collaboration efforts for 3G, in the end it was deemed appropriate to establish 3GPP2 as a parallel partnership project. Click here for more info 3PAR - HP's 3PAR Inc. is a manufacturer of systems and software for data storage and information management. HP 3PAR - Wikipedia HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage - HP Official Site 480i - 480 vertical lines of inter-laced video content - NOT an HDTV format. Click here for more 480I information 4G - At present the download speed for imode data is limited to 9.6 kbit/sec which is about 6 times slower than an ISDN fixed line connection. With 504i handsets the download data rate was increased 3-fold to 28.8kbps. However, in actual use the data rates are usually slower, especially in crowded areas, or when the network is "congested". For third generation mobile (3G) data rates are 384 kbps (download) maximum, typically around 200kbps, and 64kbps upload since spring 2001. Fourth generation (4G) mobile communications will have higher data transmission rates than 3G. 4G mobile data transmission rates are planned to be up to 20 megabits per second. Click here for more info 4K - a monitor/TV that displays about 4K (4,000) of video (pixels). Apple manipulates a 4K signal to produce a 5K display. 5K - Apple's (2014) monitor/TV that displays about 5K (5,000) of video (pixels) 5-S - Essential in Lean Manufacturing is The 5-S Philosophy (Five Japanase Words). Also "5S" or "5 S". Based on five Japanese words that begin with ‘S’, the 5S Philosophy focuses on effective work place organization and standardized work procedures: Essential in Lean Manufacturing is The 5-S Philosophy What is 5-S? 6B/10B - 6B/10B 64B/66B - 64B/66B 720p - 720 vertical lines of Progressive (NON-interlaced) video content. This is the lowest quality, true HDTV format. Click here for more info 10 Gigabit Ethernet - The new 10 gigabit Ethernet standard encompasses seven different media types. Click here for more info 10Base2 - Old "Cheapernet" (also "thinnet") with thin coaxial cable and trunk/drop topology. Maximum single segment length = 185 meters (600 feet). 10Base5 - Old "Thicknet" (also "yellow cable") with thick coaxial cable and trunk/drop topology Maximum single segment length = 500 meters (1,640 feet). 10baseFL - 10Mbps fiber optic Ethernet 10BaseT - Standard "Plain Vanilla" Ethernet based on Unshielded Twisted Pair wire 21 CFR part 11 - Electronic Records and Electronic Signatures - the rule was issued in 1997. Click here for more info 31 CFR Part 210 - Federal Government Participation in the Automated Clearing House (ACH) 100BaseFX - Implementing the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard using 100Mbps transmission on a baseband medium, using multi-mode fiber-optic cable. The maximum distance limitation of multi-mode fiber is 412 meters for half-duplex and 2km when configured in full-duplex mode. Distances greater than 2kms are archieved when implemented over single mode fiber. 100BaseT - Implementing the IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet) standard using 100Mbps transmission on a baseband medium, using UTP wiring. The maximum distance limitation of UTP is 100 meters. 100BaseT4 - Implementing the IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet) standard using 100Mbps transmission on a baseband medium, using four pairs of category 3,4 or 5 UTP wiring. An alternative standard for 100Mbps Ethernet. The maximum distance limitation of each segment is 100 meters. 100BaseTX - Implementing the IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet) standard using 100Mbps transmission on a baseband medium. This standard enables attaching AUI-compatible devices to 24 guage, unshielded twisted-pair cable, rather than the usual coaxial media. The leading standard for 100Mbps Ethernet. The maximum distance limitation of each segment is 100 meters. 100BaseX - Fast Ethernet specification using 100Mbps transmission, which refers to the 100BASEFX and 100BASETX standards for Fast Ethernet over fiber-optic cabling. 100VG-AnyLAN - 100Mbps Fast Ethernet and Token Ring media technology that uses four pairs of catagory 3, 4 or 5 UTP cabling. Not as popular as 100BaseT. 3270 - Family of IBM mainframe terminals 3270 EIS - The SNA Server 3270 Emulator Interface Specification 3c810 - Symbios Logic (NCR) 'npsc' SCSI controller often shipped attached to internal bus on DG systems 3x74 - Family of IBM cluster controllers 37xx - Family of IBM front-end processors 4G - theoretically supports 100 mbps. NTT is testing this now (12/2003). 7 Layer Networking - transport, session, presentation and application 100baseFX - Fast Ethernet on Optical Fibre (on Fibre Channel) 100baseT - Standard "Fast Ethernet" based on twisted pair copper wire 837 - ANSI X12N, Part 837 - Insurance Transactions 5250 - Family of IBM AS/400 terminals IEEE 802 family of standards PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR ALL 802 STANDARDS
802.1 - Interworking and Link Security Open source implementation of 802.1 802.1p/Q - IEEE standard for frame prioritization 802.1Q - IEEE standard for VLAN tagging 802.2 - IEEE standard data link protocol 802.3 - IEEE standard known in the vernacular as "Ethernet" - CSMA/CD 802.3REVam - Maintenance #8 (Revision). 802.3a - IEEE standard for 10-Gbps Ethernet 802.3ad - IEEE standard for link aggregation 802.3af - Power over Ethernet (POE). 802.3an - 10GBASE-T Task Force 802.3ap - Backplane Ethernet Task Force 802.3aq - 10GBASE-LRM Task Force 802.3ar - Congestion Management Task Force 802.3as - Frame Expansion Task Force 802.3x - IEEE standard for link-layer flow control using PAUSE frames. 802.3z - IEEE standard for Gibabit Ethernet. 802.4 - Token Ring (disbanded) 802.6 - Metropolitan Area Networks (disbanded) 802.8 - Fiber Optic TAG (disbanded) 802.9 - isoEthernet (also called ISLAN) 802.11 - Wi-Fi networks 802.11ah - Physical Layer 1 standards such as 802.1ah (including G.SHDSL, GigE, EPON), Ethernet 100baseFX, 1000baseSX/LX and legacy xDSL 802.11D - Layer 2 standards such as IEEE 802.11D MAC Bridge protocols 802.11n - throttles WLAN throughput 802.11P - VLAN protocol 802.11Q - VLAN protocol 802.12 - demand priority 802.14 - Cable Modems (disbanded) 802.15 - Wireless PAN 802.16 - WiMax - Broadband wireless access 802.16d - 802.16-2004 Fixed WiMax (ratified June, 2004) 802.16e - Mobile WiMax (not yet ratified - 6/2005) 802.17 - Resilient packet ring 802.20 - supports Mobile Broadband Wireless Access 802.21 - Media Independent Handoff 802.22 - Wireless Regional Area Network
8b/10b encoding - an encoding scheme that converts an 8-bit byte into two possible 10-bit characters; used for balancing ones and zeros in high=speed transports. 1000base-CX - Gigabit Ethernet on twinax copper cabling 1000base-LX - Gigabit Ethernet for vertical or campus backbones; single or multimodefiber. Also know ans 1000baseLX. 1000base-SX - Standard for 1-G bit/second Ethernet LANs that use the high-frequency optical fiber standardized in IEEE802.3z. Also know as 1000baseSX. 1000baseT - A new standard for 1,000Mbps Ethernet using four-pair Catagory-5 unshielded twisted pair cable. 1000BaseT is also known as Gigabit Ethernet. A/H - Application Handling (Wacovia/First Union term). I guess that it means loan applications. AAA - Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (computer security) How AAA Works - Citrix eDocs AAA Application Traffic - Citrix eDocs AAA - Wikipedia AAA server (authentication, authorization, and accounting) AAC - Advanced Audio Coding - sometimes called MP4. See Also AACS - Advanced Access Control System (for HD video). Both Blu-ray and HD-DVD will have AACS. Rumors circulate that one of both of these two formats will output HDTV only through HDMI connections, making non-HDMI equipped TVs not-capable of displaying true HD content. Component video outputs would probably be limited to 480i, not the 720p or 1080i of true HDTV. Click here for more information about AACS AAL - ATM Adaptation Layer AAL0 - ATM Adaptation Layer Type 0 refers to raw ATM cells. AAL1 - ATM Adaptation Layer Type 1 supports constant bit rate, time-dependent traffic such as voice and video. AAL2 - ATM Adaptation Layer Type 2 reserved for variable bit rate video transfer. AAL3/4 - ATM Adaptation Layer Type 3/4 supports variable bit rate, delay-tolerant data traffic requiring some sequencing and/or error detection support. AAL5 - ATM Adaptation Layer Type 5 supports variable bit rate, delay-tolerant connection-oriented data traffic requiring minimal sequencing or error detection support. AAR - After Action Reviews AAS - IBM accounting assistant series (Customer ordering system) AB - Ability to Perform (one of the Common features in a CMMI PA). ABAP - A Breed APart (web server) ABARA - is a budget managing system organized as a top-down budget authoring application which allows you to start with general organizational definitions and apply these to increasingly more specific program instances. ABARS - ABC - Activity Based Cost. chargeback model that assesses fixed costs across the (Cloud) use ABE - Access-Based Enumeration (windows - allows hiding files and folders). ABI - Application Binary Interface - defines how application interfaces should run on various architectures. ablubber - a NetApp test abnormal exit - Occurs when the mobile device crashes. (BREW) If the battery is accessible, removing it is the easiest way to perform an abnormal exit. ABR - Area Border Router (located on the boarder of two or more OSPF areas. It connects those areas to the backbone network. ABS - Advanced Billing System abstract - specifies that a class or method will be implemented later, in a sub-class. abstract schema - The part of an entity bean's deployment descriptor that defines the bean's psersistent fields and relationships. abstract schema name - A logical name that is referenced in Enterprise JavaBeans Query Language queries AC - the Access Channel is used to carry mobile telephone responses to paging commands that are received from the base station and for messages that are created for call origination requests. (3G). AC - Access control. DLC byte on the IEEE 802.5 token-ring network that contains the token indicator and frame priority information. AC - Authentication Center AC-3 - Dolby Digital (formerly known as Dolby AC-3, where AC-3 is short for audio coding 3) is the de facto surround sound standard in today's home theaters. ACA - auto contingent allegiance (SCSI/iSCSI) ACA - Obama's 2010 Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) ACAS - Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (DoD) accept - A firewall-filtering rule decision to pass a packet through to its next destination. access control - The methods by which interactions with resources are limited to collections of users or programs for the purpose of enforcing integrity, confidentiality, or availablility constraints. access density - A measure of performance per unit storage capacity. Generally computed as throughput (in IOPS) divided by the capacity (in Gigabytes). ACCH - Associated Control Channel ACD - Automatic Call Distribution ACE - ADAPTIVE Communication Environment (ACE) is an open-source software toolkit created to solve network programming challenges. Written in C++. ACELP - Algebaic Code Excited Linear Prediction (aren't you glad you asked?) ACH - Automated Clearing House - 31 CFR Part 210, Federal Government Participation in the ACH. The ACH system is the primary electronic funds transfer (EFT) system used by agencies to make payments, and the Financial Management Service anticipates that agencies increasingly will use the ACH system to collect funds. Part 210 provides the regulatory foundation for use of the ACH system by agencies. It defines the rights and liabilities of agencies, Federal Reserve Banks, financial institutions, and the public, in connection with ACH credit entries, debit entries, and entry data originated or received by an agency through the ACH system. ACH can be used to make an automatic withdraw from checking account to pay bills. ACID - The (JAVA) acronym for the four properties guarenteed by transactions: atomicitiy, consistency, isolation and durability. ACK - Acknowledgment ACL - Access Control List (determines if a user can have access) ACP - Associate Computer Professional. The award for successful completion of an examination in computers offered by the ICCP. ACP - Association of Contingency Planners ACPI - Advanced (computer) Configuration and Power Interface (Specification). More info acronym - For a good discussion, see wordIQ ACS - Automatic Code Synchronization acsc - Adaptec PCI? SCSI Controller, Intel, based on CHIM firmware code. Internal driver only. The user configures acsc devices using the apsc name. ACSLS - Automated Cartridge System Library Software ACT - Advanced Customer Testing active copper - a gigabit physical cabling connection that allows as much as 30 m of copper cabling between devices Active device - A set of files consisting of a resource file (.qsc extension) and device image files (.bmp extension),interpreted by the Emulator to emulate the device. The Device Configurator creates the resource file. BREW Active zone set - the zone set that is active across all directors and switches in a multiswitch fabric. Activity Diagram - An analysis model that shows a dynamic view of a system by depicting the flow from one activity to another. Similar to a flowchart. actor - A person playing a specific role, a software system, or a hardware device that interacts with a system to achieve a useful goal. also called a User Role. AD - Active Directory. A Microsoft Windows 2000 directory system that stores information from many sources in a centraly controlled and distributed hierarchical structure. "AD/2003" available. AD - Agile Design. Click here for more info AD - Access Database AD - Alzheimer disease AD GPO - Active Directory Group Policy (GPO) Objects Active Directory Group Policy (GPO) Objects - ManageEngine - YouTube Top 5 GPO's to apply to Active Directory groups Windows Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPO) Reports ... ADA - Americans with Disabilities Act ADAM - Active Directory Application Mode (Windows - used for authentication, authorization,... See also: Mastering Windows Server 2003 Upgrade Edition for SP1 and R2 adapter class - (Java) An adapter class is a class that implements an interface required by an application programming interface (API). Using Adapter classes makes it easier to handle events. adaptive maintenance - Activity associated with with changing an application to make it confrom to changes in its external environment. ADB - Android Debug Bridge (adb) is a versatile command line tool that lets you communicate with an emulator instance or connected Android-powered device. How To Install and Use ADB, the Android Debug Bridge Utility ADB - Apple Desktop Bus - NOT used anymore. Apple Desktop Bus - Wikipedia ADC - application delivery controller address identifier - in FC, a 24-bit value used to indicate the link-level address of the communicating devices; in a frame header, the address identifier indicates the source ID and destination ID of the frame. ADE - Automatic delivery Engine - The ADE runs on a server and manages the transfer of messages to a wireless device. ADEServerName - is the machine name on which the ADE runs. ADF - Automatic Document Feeder ADFS - ADFS - Active Directory Federation Services (Windows). See also: Mastering Windows Server 2003 Upgrade Edition for SP1 and R2 ADG - (HP's) Advance Data Guarding = RAID ADG HP.com - ProLiant Storage - Advanced Data Guarding - Overview HP.com - ProLiant Storage - Advanced Data Guarding - Questions ADK - Application Developer Kit (MontaVista DevRocket) ADM - Application Development and Management admission policy - A policy in a system with QoS guarantees to determine whether enough resources are avaialble to serve (admit) a request. Otherwise, the request is rejected. ADO - ActiveX Data Object. A Microsoft data access technology that enables your client applications to access and manipulate data from a database server or any other data store through an OLE DB provider. Supercedes DAO. Sometimes called just Active Data Objects. Click here for more info Abobe Photoshop CS - is Adobe Photoshop Version 8 Adobe Photoshop CS2 - is Adobe Photoshop Version 9 ADN - Application Delivery Networking. wikipedia ADO.NET - the data-access component of the Microsoft .NET Framework—works with any component on any platform that understands XML. Get a solid handle on ADO.NET and learn how to exploit the database functionality of Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET. ADO.NET interacts with XML and can access older versions of ADO from the .NET environment. ADP - Alternate Data Path (ATF [AutomaTic Failover]/Tresspass) ADPCM - Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation. ADPCM analyzes a succession of samples and predicts the value of the next sample. In then computes the difference of the actual sample and the expected sample. ADS - Application Download Server (BREW) ADSI - Active Directory Services Interface. A set of COM interfaces used for managing network resources from different network providers in a distributed computing environment. Used to access the Microsoft Active Directory. Active Directory Services Interface. A programming interface from Microsoft for accessing the Microsoft Active Directory (Windows 2000), the directory within Exchange and other directories via providers. For example, an ADSI LDAP provider converts between LDAP and ADSI. Based on COM, ADSI can be used in Visual Basic and other programming languages. See Active Directory and LDAP. Active Directory Scripting Interface. ADSL - asymmetric DSL. See also ADT - autological driver transfer (of disks that failover) ADW - Accounting Data Warehouse ADW - Agent Defeat Warhead - a warhead to destroy chemical & biological weapons AdWare - Software, almost always installed on you system in secret, that keeps displaying Ads. It is often combined with Spyware. AE - Application Engineer AEE - Application Execution Environment (BREW) AEN - asynchronous event notification Aero - A graphics card specification - a Windows Vista option. Click for more info AFAIK - as far as I know AFCI - Arc Fault Circuit Interrupter. For more AFCI information AFE - Authorization for Expenditure AFCC - RSA's Anti-Fraud Command Center (RSA is owned by EMC) affined - in DG/UX, affine simply means to assign a thread to a particular processor (or group of processors) where it can run. This might be based on which processor's memory contains related data (or the data may be moved to correspond with the affine). AFIPS - American Federation of Information Processing Societies Inc. DISBANDED AFM - Area Financial Manager AFT - Automatic File Transfer | Assured File Transfer afk - away from keyboard (not at my computer) Afx - MFC's global functions begin with "Afx". Class member functions can only be called in the context of the objects to which tehy belong, but AFX functions are available anytime, anywhere. AfxAbort - Unconditionally terminates an application; usually called when an unrecoverable error occurs AfxBeginThread - Creates a new thread and begins executing it AfxEndThread - Terminates the thread that is currently executing AfxMessageBox - Displays a Windows message box AfxGetApp - Returns a pointer to the application object AfxGetAppName - Returns the name of the application AfxGetMainWnd - Returns a pointer to the application's main window AfxGetInstanceHandle - Returns a handle identifying the current application instance AfxRegisterWndClass - Registers a custom WNDCLASS for an MFC application AGE - CGE models also called AGE - applied general equilibrium models agent - Software that processes queries and returns replies AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port. more info aGPS - (Assisted Global Positioning System) is a method used for determining mobile station (MS) location in terms of universal latitude and longitude coordinates. This capability has been mandated for wireless carriers in the United States by the Federal Communication Commission so emergency callers can be easily located in times of crisis. aGPS implies that the mobile not only has GPS hardware and software but that the wireless network is providing the mobile with short assistance messages. The phone itself will not display the longitude and latitude information. AGCH - Access Grant Channel aggregation - The virtualization method of collecting various extents into a large storage pool. Or the networking method of combining multiple links together to make a single, bigger link (trunking). Agile - Agile designs are emergent, they’re not defined up front. More on AGILE AH - Additional Header ;; authentication header (with IPsec) AHIMA - American Health Information Management Association AHS - additional header segment AI - Artificial Intelligence AI - Acquisition Indicator AI - All Inclusive (you pay nothing extra) AICH - Acquisition Indicator CHannel AIDs - Access Identifiers (TL1) AIFF - Audio Interchange File Format - created by Apple Computer AIMD - Active Implantable Medical Device Directive (European medical devices). Implanted defibrillators, drug delivery systems, pacemakers, etc. AIN - Advanced Intelligent Network AIO - All-In-One. Actually, it just means a device that does more than one thing. AIO Printers will Print, Scan, Copy, and POSSIBLY FAX. For reviews of some AIO Printers, please click here AIQ - Analytical Instrument Qualification. The USP has developed a draft for analytical instrument qualification (AIQ AIT - Advanced Intelligent Tape; tape drive architecture AIX - Advanced Interactive Executive (IBM's UNIX) AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML - a technique for implementing Web applications Click here for more AJAX information AL - Arbitrated Loop ALAS - Application Lifecycle Automation Services ALDC - Adaptive Lossless Data Compression (used in AIT tape drives) ALCAP - Access Link Control Access Part ALM - Application Lifecycle Management HP Quality Center/ALM ALP - Advanced Lighting Package ALPA - Arbitrated Loop Port Address. The upper 16 bits of a 24-bit port address form a loop identifier, while the lowest order byte is called an Arbitrated Loop Port Address (ALPA). alpha test - The first test of newly developed hardware or software in a laboratory setting. When all the bugs have been fixed, the product next goes into beta test with actual users. See beta test and beta version. ALS - Advanced Loan Systems ALU - Allocation Unit Size. File systems allocate disk storage tio files using ALU Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) ;; Association of Lisp Users The Alu sequence, a common short repeated stretch of DNA AM - Agile Modeling. Click here for more info AMD - Advanced Micro Systems - makes CPUs - competes with Intel AMDD - agile model driven development AMD-V - AMD virtualization ("Pacifica"). See also AMI - Automatic Meter / Metering Infrastructure; advanced metering infrastructure. See AMI for more information AMI - Alternative mark inversion (T1 lines). A pulse T1 line coding scheme using alternate polarities in the pulse train. AMP - asymmetrical multiprocessing mode AMPC - AdMin PC - runs both M3W and WinAlert for AV 2x0000 and AV 3x000 Aviions Audubon Management PC AMPS - Advanced Mobile Phone Service. AMR - automatic meter reading. See AMR for mroe informaiton AMR - Adaptive Multirate AMS - Adaptable Modular Storage - Hitachi's Midrange Storage AMS - Application Management Services AMW - Array Menu Window - also Storage Sub-system Window. The GUI that shows a specific data storage sub-system being managed. anaconda - Red Hat system installer used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 analysis of variance - Analysis of variance is a statistical technique for analyzing data that tests for a difference between two or more means by comparing the variances *within* groups and variances *between* groups. analytical modeling - The modeling technique that uses mathematical expressions to represent the relationships between modeled system components analytics - Analytics is the discovery and communication of meaningful patterns in data - Analytics - Wikipedia anamorphic - video enhanced for Widescreen TVs (1.78:1 aspect ratio, also called "16 by 9"). Anchor test - "For equating the scores on two forms of a test that are taken by different groups of test takers, it is necessary to know how those groups differ in the ability measured by the test. An anchor test is a test given to both groups to obtain this information. The anchor test can be a set of test questions appearing in both forms (called "common items"), or it can be a separate test taken by both groups." - Glossary of Standardized Testing Terms - ETS Android - Google's mobile platform. more info ANI - Automatic Number Identification (caller ID) Annotated XM - annotated version of the XML 1.0 Specification (document) anonymous space - is space which has no name (i.e., no permanent identity). anonymous space is the total of main memory PLUS swap space. ANSI - American National Standards Institute. Click here for more info ANSI T1 - U.S standards orgaization Ant - Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, but without Make's wrinkles. Click here for more info Ant is the definitive build tool for Java developers. ANT - Automated Nightly Test AOD - Atomic Op Depth - #times VP obtained a critical resource (kernel lock) AoE - ATA over Ethernet, a lightweight IP storage protocol. Click here for more AoE Information AON - Application Orientated Networking (a Cisco development group) AOP - aspect-oriented programming (often a Java consideration) AP - Access Preamble; Application Processor; Access Point AP - Agile Patterns. Click here for more info AP - Asian-Pacific market AP-AICH - Access Preamble Acquisition Indicator Channel Apache - the most popular Web server on the internet. It comes free with most versions of Linux. The Apache Software Foundation - Apache.org Apache HTTP Server - Wikipedia APC - Adaptive Process Control; Array Parity Check ; ambulatory payment classifications APCI - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. A power management specification. APCS - ARM Procedure Call Standard. (BREW) APD - Assembly Procedure Document (special setup instructions for purchased parts) APE - Commonly called Monkey's Audio is a royalty-free lossless format. Application Performance Engineer (APE) - (First Citizens Bank) apen - 64-bit SCSI controller card Apex - IBM's Rational Apex Family. The IBM Rational Apex tool is the centerpiece of an extensive family of Rational Ada tools that provide support for modern software practices throughout the software lifecycle. These practices include: * Controlled iterative development to reduce risk and improve time-to-market * Object-oriented technology to simplify communication about real-world constructs * Architecture-based design to foster large-scale software reuse and software that is adaptable in response to changing operational conditions * Iterative testing throughout the entire development lifecycle From initial the high-level analysis through design, coding, testing, and debugging to maintenance, the Rational Apex family helps you reduce the risks associated with developing complex software systems and helps you improve the quality of your software. Other members of the Rational Apex family include TestMate (test management, test generation, and coverage analysis), Ada Analyzer (static code analysis and coding standards enforcement), and AXI (Ada X-bindings). IBM Rational Apex is also integrated with Rational Suite products including IBM Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, SoDA, and Rose. Click here for more info APEX - Application EXchange API - Application Programmable Interface ;; Application Programming Interface API - All Parts In (to manuafacturing, ready to go ahead) APIC - Advanced Programmer Interupt Controller - handles interupts that occur on this node - Intel APL - Approved Products List (APL) Testing & Certification The DoD Unified Capabilities (UC) APL is established in accordance with (UCR 2013) Approved Products List - GSA APL - A Programming Language - almost? extict. APM - (HP) Application Performance Monitoring - for Mobile Applications and Services APM - Advanced (computer) Power Management ;; Array Policy Module (IBM) APN - Actual Private Networks (Trusted VPNs). (VPN) APON - ATM Based PONs APP - Application APPC - Advanced Program-to-Program Communications (IBM) APPL - Application Applet - A class that supports the base IApplet interface. This interface is used by the BREW AEE to load an applet, dispatch events, and terminate an applet. In this document, it is also used synonymously with the word “application.” Applets are Java programs you can download and run in your Web browser, and they're what has made Java so popular. Click here for more info applet container - a container that includes support for the applet programming model. appliance - a network product designed to perform a specialized task with minimal user administration. Computer appliance - Wikipedia application assembler - A person that combines components and modules into deployable applications units. application client - A first-tier client component that executes in its own Java virtual machine. Application clientshave access to some 9JNDI, JDBC, RMI-IIOP, JMS) J2EE platform APIs. application component provider - A vendor that provides tha Java classes that implement components' methods, JSP page definitions, and ant required deployment descriptors. Application Layer Protocol - The layer of information that gives meaning to transmitted data Application Manager - Generically refers to an application that displays individual icons for selecting and running an application. ApplicationServerName - is the machine name on which the Content Provider’s application runs. application server - is software hosted by the connect provider that transmists content to devices using the ADE server and the WMS SDK. apsc - Adaptec PCI SCSI Controller, Intel, based on HIM firmware code. APT - Application Test Software (some examples: MEMTEST, ATEST) appware - NVSRAM (IBM) APR - Array Parity Repair APWG - Anti-Phishing Working Group. APWG - Anti-Phishing Working Group Click here for more information on Phishing AQR - await quantum runout AR - Aspect Ratio more ARB - Adapter Request Block arbitrated loop - shared 100-MBps Fibre Channel transport supporting as many as 126 devices and 1 fabric attachment. archive - Archiving has different purposes and can be defined from three points of view. Records management defines archiving as long-term preservation of records in an unalterable form. Information technologists define archiving as storing data off production systems. And from a legal perspective, archiving is keeping records as long the government requires and to protect against future liabilities arising from disputes and lawsuits. - DataWitness.com Archiving Vendors - techtarget area - a set of network segments and their attached devices ARIB - Association of Radio Industries and Businesses - Japanese standards organization ARM - Advanced RISC Machines ARP/RARP - Address Resolution Protocol / Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. A high-level network protocol running over TCP/IP that identifies network hardware addresses on a LAN given an IP address. ARQ - Automatic Repeat Request arrival theorem - (queueing theory) States that a job arriving at a queue in a closed queuing network with N jobs, will see a queue length in front of it as if the system had N-1 jobs. ARX - F5 ARX intelligent file virtualization decouples file access from physical file location. AS - Autonomous system ;; Address Space ;; Access Stratum AS/400 - Family of IBM minicomputers ASA - Advanced Scsi Architecture; Adaptive Security Appliances (Cisco) ASAM - Alcatel 7300 ASAM DSL Subscriber Access Platform (ASAM) ASAM - Standardisation of Automation an Measuring Systems (created by German car makers) ASAP - Automated Selection and Audit Process - Mainstar Software Corporation's product ASARA - As Soon As reasonably Achievable ASB - Advanced Server Board (a modem replacement on AV 8700's) ASBR - Autonomous System Boundary Router. An ABR located between an OSPF autonomous system and a non-OSPF network. ASC - additonal sense code (SCSI) ASC - Access Service Class ASCE - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASCQ - additional sense code qualifier (SCSI) ASE - Array Software Engineering ASE - 1) Amplified Spontaneous Emissions. Noise is added to an optical signal when it is amplified. This noise (or ASE) accumulates and builds in optical spans that have multiple optical amplifiers between regenerators. 2) Application Service Element. 3) Adaptive Server Environment (Sybase product) ASET - Automated Security Enhancement Tool (Sun) ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuit ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuit. Chip designed for a specific task ASL - vendor unique software for recognition of the LSI array to work with DMP ASM - Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is a new feature in Oracle Database 10g that provides easier management of storage. ASM ASM - All-in-One Storage Manager (HP) ;; Advanced System Management ;; Assembler ASMP - ASymmetric Multi-Processor (a type of MP) ASN.1 - Abstract Syntax Notation One - is a formal language developed and standardized by CCITT: X.208 and ISO, ISO 8824 ASP - Application Services Platforms - a new class of integrated circuits that combine a CPU, a standard set of configurable peripherals, and a programmable fabric - all on a single device (Tom Williams - Editor-in-Chief of RTC Magazine). The definition of ASP may be enlarged to include more than ASICs and SoCs. ASP - Application Services Platform - "new class of IC that combines a CPU, a set of standard configerable peripherals and a progammable fabric - on a single device" - Greg Brown - Xilinx in RTC magazine. ASP - Active Server Pages. A Microsoft server-based scripting language that combines HTML and script code into a single file. Can be used create all kinds of dynamic pages. Active Server Pages (ASP) has long been the foundation for creating rich and dynamic Web sites using server-side scripting. You can construct server-side code using any of the languages that are compatible with the .NET Framework including ASP.NET , and ADO.NET. Average Selling Price; Authorized Service Provider ASP - application service provider Aspect - Symantec's (Quarterdeck) ProComm Plus scripting language and editor. See ASPECT for more information Aspen Board set - Intel's Bear and Aspen IOMB together. ASPI - Advanced SCSI Programming Interface. See also ASQ - American Society for Quality assertion - A Boolean statement to a program's debug version that tests a condition that should evaluate as TRUE, providing the program is working correctly. Assertion Testing - (NBS) A dynamic analysis technique which inserts assertions about the relationship between program variables into the program code. The truth of the assertions is determined as the program executes. AST - Automatic Spanning Tree. A function that supports the automatic resolution of spanning trees in SRB (Source-Route Bridging) networks, providing a single path for spanning explorer frames to traverse from a given node in the network to another. AST is based on the IEEE 802.1 standard. Asterisk - an open source Internet telephony (VoIP) system than runs on Linux. ASU - Application Storage Unit [SPC-1] ASUP - AutoSUPport (email from appliances in the field) Asymmetric cryptography - Asymmetric cryptographic algorithms have the property that you do not use a single key, but a key pair. An intro to Elliptical Curve Cryptography. See also Complete Encryption, Compression, RFID, Smart Cards & Fuzzy Logic Asynchronous Notification - the ATAPI device itself will notify the host of changes to the media. See also AT-holes - 640K-1MB - globally mapped at high address plus local availability ATA - AT Attachment - advanced technology attachment ATA - analog telephone adaptor (VoIP) ATC - Address Translation Cache ATE - Automatic Test Equipment. Machines that test electronic systems, primarily chips. See EDA and DTA. ATF - AuTomatic Failover ATG - Art Technology Group (ATG), a leading provider of eCommerce software and related on demand commerce optimization applications. Oracle and ATG - Oracle buys ATG ATH - Another Test Harness ATL - Active Template Library is basically a set of template classes provided by Microsoft for writing COM components ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode. A communication protocol designed to offer much higher data transmission speeds over existing networks than traditional methods such as Ethernet. See also Atmos - EMC's Big Data company. Atmos (EMC) NNI - Network to Network Interface UNI - User to Network Interface ATM - Active Thread manager - controls all of the other threads ATO - Assemble to Order ATO - Authority to Operate (DoD) Atos-L - LG's mobile phone OS, based on LiMO ATP - Available-to-Promise (Business systems analyst term) ATPG - Automatic Test Pattern Generator ATRAC - A lossy format developed by Sony that offers approximately 5-to-1 compression and is used on all MiniDiscs. ATRAC3 is an improved version & used by Sony music sites. ATS - authority to ship || acceptance test schedule || automatic test system ATTR - attributes ATU - Address Translation Unit ATU-C - ATU-C stands for ADSL Termination Unit - Central (Office). ATU-R stands for ADSL Termination Unit - Remote. These two devices are the ADSL modems that sit on either side of the telco copper loop. In other words, the ATU-C/R are fancy words for ADSL modems. The ATU-R is a self-contained box suitable for customer use, including an AC adapter for powering. The ATU-C is packaged into Central Office type equipment. ATU-C/R - TU-C stands for ADSL Termination Unit - Central (Office). ATU-R stands for ADSL Termination Unit - Remote. These two devices are the ADSL modems that sit on either side of the telco copper loop. In other words, the ATU-C/R are fancy words for ADSL modems. The ATU-R is a self-contained box suitable for customer use, including an AC adapter for powering. ATVEF - Advanced Television Enhancement Forum. An industry group dedicated to creating standards for the future combination of Internet content with ordinary broadcast television, using IP, HTML & JavaScript. AUC - Authentication Center audio - We typically mean some form of audible music (or sound). AUI - Attachment unit interface AUP - Acceptable Use Policy AUT - Application Under Test AUTH - TCP sevice port 113, associated with the identd user authentication server. authentication - A means of verifying the indentity of a network device before data transmission is initiated. The process by which an entity proves to another entity that it is acting on behalf of a specific identity. The J2EE platform requires three types of authentication: basic, form-based and mutual, and supports digest authentication. authorization - The process by which access to a method or resource is determined. Authorization in the J2EE platform depends upon the determination of whether the principlal associated with a request through authentication is in a given security role. autofs - A file system type used for automatic mounting via NFS. See automounter. Automated Security Enhancement Tool - (ASET) Sun's tool for assessing the security posture of a system. The user specifies the level (low, medium or high) of checking to be performed. Automated Testing - Software testing which is assisted with software technology that does not require operator (tester) input, analysis, or evaluation. automounter - Sun's software that automatically mounts a directory when a user requests it (e.g., with a cd command). autoSPID - Automatic service profile identifier. A feature of terminal adapter; it downloads SPID information from a compatible switch. Autosys - IT Automation with CA AutoSys Workload Automation. Unicenter Autosys Job Management - Wikipedia AV - Anti-Virus (software) AVAIL - availability or uptime availability - The degree to which a system stays up (running) within acceptable limits of performance and without any unrecoverable failures. AVI - old Windows video clip format. AViiON - A Data General line of computer systems, no longer made. AVL - Approved Vendor List AVP - Audio/Video Profile AVR - Automatic Voltage Regulation/Regulator. More info AVR - Audio Video Receiver. More info AVSM - Audio-Visual Storage Manager (HItachi). findarticles.com Hitachi Introduces Streaming Media Software Technology for Digital ... AVT - Auto-Volume Transfer (IBM) (LUN Failover mode) - used if not using an RDAC. AVT - autological volume transfer (of disks that failover) avt - Audio/Video Transport (avt) - IETF working group AVT - Address Validation Table (Snet data structure) AID - Cisco Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data AUP - Acceptable Use Policy Autonomous Systems (AS)- a collection of networks under common adminstration, sharing a common routing strategy. AVP - Associate Vice President await quantum runout - bound thread group blocked in the dispatcher for more than 4 seconds AWG - American Wire Gauge AWGN - Additive White Gaussian Noise AWS - Amazon Web Services. more on: AWS AWT - Abstract Window Toolkit. the original java class library for providing platform independent support for GUIs. AX - "Designed for midsize and larger companies, Microsoft Dynamics AX is a multilanguage, multicurrency enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. With core strengths in manufacturing and e-business, there is an additional strong functionality for the wholesale and services industries." - More on this what's new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Microsoft Dynamics Community - Microsoft Dynamics AX Axix - xis is Apache's major entry for web services development. Axway - Axway - See also: Axway - Enterprise Integration, Security & Technology Solutions b - BOOL - Windows header file Hungarian notation B2B - Business to Business B311/Hub - IBM's Building B311, in RTP is the buildup Hub for some of their hardware B-ISDN - Another version of ISDN, called B-ISDN, uses broadband transmission and is able to support transmission rates of 1.5 Mbps. B-ISDN requires fiber optic cables and is not widely available B-ICI - BISDN Inter Carrier Interface (ATM PNNI Signalling) b-link bus - Designed by Dolphin. Handles transactions between SCC and LC2. (B)IQ - Busines IQ - understanding the busines, not understanding the business systems. B channel - Bearer channel. A 64Kbps channel that is end-user data BA - Business Analyst What is a BA? What is the role of a BA in an Agile project? backend storage - The next layer of storage in a storeage hierarchy behind any virtualization interface. For example, backend disks behind a disk arry controller. backup and archieve - A backup stores a snapshot of active data in bulk, for restoration in the event of deletion, corruption, or loss. Backups are designed to enable you to copy your data back to a computer and pick up where you left off. For security and efficiency reasons, backup data may be encrypted and compressed. Restoring a backup to a hard drive takes time to decompress and transfer the large volume of data involved - DataWitness.com Archiving has different purposes and can be defined from three points of view. Records management defines archiving as long-term preservation of records in an unalterable form. Information technologists define archiving as storing data off production systems. And from a legal perspective, archiving is keeping records as long the government requires and to protect against future liabilities arising from disputes and lawsuits. - DataWitness.com Carbonite is one example of a popular backup/restore program, other examples include Avamar (EMC), NetBackup (Symantec), SnapMirror (NetApp), RMAN. What is the difference between Archiving and Backup? Backup Type - Full Backup = A complete backup of everything you want to backup Differential Backup = creates copies of all the files that are different from the ones in the last full backup. Incremental Backup = The backup software creates copies of all the files, or parts of files that have changed since previous backups of any type (full, differential or incremental). Difference between: Full, Differential, and Incremental Backup Backus-Naur Form - A metalanguage used to formally describe the syntax of a language. BACP - Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol (PPP suite) Bad Path Testing - Testing the paths (negative testing) that are triggered by abnormal behavior at a code decision point (a software test of some item) - ex: file does not exist. BAP - Bandwidth Allocation Protocol (PPP suite) BAR - BREW Applet Resource. The binary output file from the Resource Editor BAR - Base Address Register BARS - Build/Release Engineer (BARS) base level code - code accessed by Users bash - Bourne Again Shell. See bash for more information about bash Basic Block - A sequence of one or more consecutive, executable statements containing no branches. Basis Path Testing - A white box test case design technique that uses the algorithmic flow of the program to design tests. These tests would be devided into "Good Path Testing" and "Bad Path Testing"> Basis Set - The set of tests derived using basis path testing baseline - A configuration item that has been formally reviewed and agreed upon, that thereafter serves as the basis for further development, and that can be changed only through formal change control procedures. BASP - Broadcom Advanced Server Program (IBM) BAT - Board Availability Tool BB - Black Belt (in SIX SIGMA) BB_Credit - Also known as Buffer-to-Buffer Credit. Indicates the maximum number of frames a port can transmit without receiving a receive ready signal from the receiving device. BBI - Browser Based Interface BBU - battery backup unit BC - Business Controls (IBM) BCAM - Business Case Analysis Methodology BCAST - Broadcast Protocol (Novell protocols) BCC - Broadcast Call Control BCI - BREW Compressed Image. A BCI file consists of a series of graphic images compressed and combined, using the BREW Compressed Image Authoring Tool, to add animation to a BREW application BCP - BCP Utility - Bulk Copy Program - MSDN (Microsoft). The bcp utility bulk copies data between an instance of Microsoft SQL Server and a data file in a user-specified format. bcp Utility - MSDN - Microsoft Bulk Copy Program - Wikipedia BCP - Best Current Practice ;; Business Continuity Planning BCP - Bridging Control Protocol (PPP suite) BCS - Block CheckSums (data integrity) ;; Business Consulting Services BCT - Backward Compatibility Testing (a kind of QA testing) BCV - Business Continuation Volume (EMC) B-D - Bandwidth times Delay (a network characteristic) BDC - Backup Domain Controller. A Windows NT Server installation that holds a read-only backup copy of security and other information for a network domain. Can authenticate users, and be promoted to a PDC in case of failure of the primary machine. BDD - Behavior-driven development is a software development process based on test-driven development (TDD). Behavior-driven development - Wikipedia BDGRAM - Boot Datagram Subsystem - supports diskless boot. BDM - Background Debug Manager BDR - Backup Designated Router. In OSPF, a backup to the DR. BDS - BREW Distribution System BE - Build Environment BEA - (they say) BEA Systems, Inc. WAS the world's leading application infrastructure software company ORACLE bought BEA. WebLogic Suite | Oracle Bean-test - EJB component testing BECN - Backward Explicit Congestion Notification beds - back-end devices BEEP - Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol over TCP (IETF) BEET - End-to-End Tunnel (BEET) mode for IPsec. Host Identity Protocol InfraHIP Experimentation Behavioral modeling - Representing the mode of behavior (called states) of an application and the events that cause transitions from state to state. BEM - Back End Manager benchmarks - Programs that provide performance comparison for software, hardware, and systems. The concept of discovering what is the best performance being achieved, whether in your company, by a competitor, or by an entirely different industry. Benchmarking is an improvement tool whereby a company measures its performance or process against other companies' best practices, determines how those companies achieved their performance levels, and uses the information to improve its own performance. Benchmarking is a continuous process whereby an enterprise measures and compares all its functions, systems and practices against strong competitors, identifying quality gaps in the organization, and striving to achieve competitive advantage locally and globally. BER - Binary Error Rate BERT - Bit Error Rate Test Best Practice - A way or method of accomplishing a business function or process that is considered to be superior to all other known methods. A lesson learned from one area of a business that can be passed on to another area of the business or between businesses. Beta testing - Testing that is conducted by the user, before the final release of a product. BFLT - Binary Flat format - used by uClinux. BFS - Boot File System BFSI - Banking, Financial services and Insurance. BFSI - Wikipedia BGA - Ball Grid Array, chip (solder) connection method. BGP - BGP stands for Border Gateway Protocol. The popular "BGP" protocol that people speak of ("Can a Cisco 2501 speak BGP?") in use is actually BGP4 (which differs from BGP3 the same way that RIPv2 differs from the old RIP protocol - in that BGP4 and RIPv2 (the result of what some call "unsuccessful brain surgery" on the original RIP protocol) allow the announcement of "classless routes" - routes that aren't strictly on "Class A", "Class B", or "Class C" boundaries - but instead can also be "subnets" or "supernets"). For more information on "classless" or "CIDR" routes, see April's Boardwatch column. Introduction to the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Joe's BGP Page. BGP Multipath Load Sharing for Both eBGP and iBGP in an MPLS VPN The BGP session between two BGP peers is said to be an external BGP (eBGP) session if the BGP peers are in different autonomous systems. more info bgp-4 - Border Gateway Protocol (TCP/IP) BHO - Browser Helper Object - while not developed for that purpose, has become a big help tp spammers. BHS - basic header segment (SCSI) BI - Business Intelligence - is driven by an understanding of the business, rather than than an understanding of business systems. BIA - Business Impact Analysis bias - Bias in a sample is the presence or influence of any factor that causes the population or process being sampled to appear different from what it actually is. Bias is introduced into a sample when data is collected without regard to key factors that may influence it. BIB - Block Interface Board Provides the bridge between the snoop based P6 bus protocol and the directory based inter-node SCI protocol. Connects the P6 bus to the BLINK bus. One side attaches to a slot-2 connector and the other to a SCIFI connector. BIB Terminator - Intel-designed board which terminates the BIB board Or fifth CPU slot when there is no BIB in the block. Also, Called the FSB, CPU, or Cluster terminator. BICI - BISDN Inter Carrier Interface (ATM PNNI Signaling) BID - BREW ClassID - 32 bit number BID - Bus Identifier (Clariion/K10). bidir-PIM - A variant of the Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) suite of routing protocols for IP multicast. In PIM, packet traffic for a multicast group is routed according to the rules of the mode configured for that multicast group. Big Data - big data is a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process. Big Data - lots of information about big endian - Most Significant byte first, 1122h stored as 1122h, Motorola 68k and SUN format. big-endian adj. [common; From Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" via the famous paper "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace" by Danny Cohen, USC/ISI IEN 137, dated April 1, 1980] 1. Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest address (the word is stored `big-end-first'). Most processors, including the IBM 370 family, the PDP-10, the Motorola microprocessor families, and most of the various RISC designs are big-endian. Big-endian byte order is also sometimes called `network order'. See little-endian, middle-endian, NUXI problem, swab. 2. An Internet address <../i/Internet_address.html> the wrong way round. Most of the world follows the Internet standard and writes email addresses starting with the name of the computer and ending up with the name of the country. In the U.K. the Joint Networking Team had decided to do it the other way round before the Internet domain standard was established. Most gateway sites have ad-hockery <../a/ad-hockery.html> in their mailers to handle this, but can still be confused. In particular, the address me@uk.ac.bris.pys.as could be interpreted in JANET's big-endian way as one in the U.K. (domain uk) or in the standard little-endian way as one in the domain as (American Samoa) on the opposite side of the world. BIG-IP - an F5 Networks "BIG-IP product suite is a system of application delivery services that work together on the same best-in-class hardware platform or software virtual instance. From load balancing and service offloading to acceleration and security, the BIG-IP system delivers agility—and ensures your applications are fast, secure, and available." - F5 BIG-IP Product Suite - F5 Using F5's BIG-IP and 3DNS for Failover and DR routing. Big "Q" - Distinguishing the professional and concepts of Quality from that of the word quality. Binary Portability Testing - Testing an executable application for portability across system platforms and environments, usually for conformation to an ABI specification BIODs - demons used to clean pages from VM cache - 2 types: one for anonymous data & other data flushes BIOS - Basic Input-Output System (CPU board low level firmware). Audubon1 used a Pheonix-based BIOS. Audubon2 is using An Intel-based BIOS with DG User Binary extensions. Click here for more info BIOS resides in some kind of flashable chip, and while BIOS sometimes be updated or damaged, BIOS resides permanently on all products that "boot up". BIP - Break into Production - phase in the new item (IBM) BIP - Bit Interleaved Parity. In ATM, a method used to monitor errors in a link. A check bit or word is sent in the link overhead for the previous block or frame. Bit errors in the payload can then be detected and reported in maintenance information. BIRT - Build Integration Release Testing BIS - Boot Integrity Service BIST - Built-In Self Test (hardware feature) bit - n. [from the mainstream meaning and `Binary digIT'] 1. [techspeak] The unit of information; the amount of information obtained by asking a yes-or-no question for which the two outcomes are equally probable. 2. [techspeak] A computational quantity that can take on one of two values, such as true and false or 0 and 1. 3. A mental flag: a reminder that something should be done eventually. "I have a bit set for you." (I haven't seen you for a while, and I'm supposed to tell or ask you something.) 4. More generally, a (possibly incorrect) mental state of belief. "I have a bit set that says that you were the last guy to hack on EMACS." (Meaning "I think you were the last guy to hack on EMACS, and what I am about to say is predicated on this, so please stop me if this isn't true.") "I just need one bit from you" is a polite way of indicating that you intend only a short interruption for a question that can presumably be answered yes or no. A bit is said to be `set' if its value is true or 1, and `reset' or `clear' if its value is false or 0. One speaks of setting and clearing bits. To toggle or `invert' a bit is to change it, either from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0. See also flag, trit, mode bit. The term `bit' first appeared in print in the computer-science sense in a 1948 paper by information theorist Claude Shannon, and was there credited to the early computer scientist John Tukey (who also seems to have coined the term `software'). Tukey records that `bit' evolved over a lunch table as a handier alternative to `bigit' or `binit', at a conference in the winter of 1943-44. bitblit - (BIT BLock Transfer) In computer graphics, a hardware feature that moves a rectangular block of bits from main memory into display memory. It speeds the display of moving objects (animation, scrolling) on screen. A hardware bitblt provides fastest speed, but bitblts are also implemented in software even in non-graphics systems. For example, text scrolls faster when it is copied as a contiguous block (bitblt) to the next part of the window rather than processing every character on every line. See stretch blt. BITS - Background Intelligence Transfer Services (part of MS's SMS [System Management Server] 2003) software updates & deployment BIU - B-link Interface Unit. Within SCC. Responsible for mapping, protection, and routing of incoming packets Black Belt - Six Sigma team leaders responsible for implementing process improvement projects (DMAIC or DFSS ) within the business -- to increase customer satisfaction levels and business productivity. Black Belts are knowledgeable and skilled in the use of the Six Sigma methodology and tools. Black Belts have typically completed four weeks of Six Sigma training, and have demonstrated mastery of the subject matter through the completion of project(s) and an exam. Black Belts coach Green Belts and receive coaching and support from Master Black Belts. Black Box Testing - A testing method where the application under test is viewed as a black box and the internal behavior of the program is completely ignored. Testing occurs based upon the external specifications. Also known as behavioral testing, since only the external behaviors of the program are evaluated and analyzed black hole - Routing term for an area of the internetwork where packets enter, but do not emerge, due to adverse conditions or poor system configuration within a portion of the network. Blackboard - time-sensitive mass notification. See Blackboard.com blacklisting - Marking a component bad so that it can not be used. blade servers - A blade server is a thin, modular electronic circuit board, containing one, two, or more microprocessors and memory, that is intended for a single, dedicated application (such as serving Web pages) and that can be easily inserted into a space-saving rack with many similar servers. Blink Test - Blink comparator - wikipedia QA / Testing blit - see bitblit BLOB - Binary Large OBject (or BLOb). BLOB - Wikipedia block - Block Storage (SAN). Data is moved in blocks of bytes, rather than by files. Block Storage SAN Storage block - Compute node comprised of CPU, Memory, IO Boards. block (special) device - A device that transfers data in blocks. Blocking - In connectionless networks, a characteristic of a switch, switch fabric, or network interface implying that it is not capable of handling traffic at the maximum frame and/or data arrival rate without having to discard traffic (in the worst case) due to a lack of internal resources. BLOG - A blog, or weblog, is a personal Web site updated frequently with links, commentary and anything else you like. New items go on top and older items flow down the page. Blogs can be political journals and/or personal diaries; they can focus on one narrow subject or range across a universe of topics. The blog form is unique to the Web -- and highly addictive. ANYONE CAN ADD/EDIT COMMENTS IN A BLOG. blogging - Blogging, the publication of running commentary on personal online weblogs blubber - A multipurpose raw-disk exerciser (NA). bluefin - Bluefin (formerly SMI-S). Click here for more information on BLUEFIN Bluetooth Bluetooth MESH Networking, conceived in 2015, adopted on July 13, 2017 is a protocol based upon Bluetooth Low Energy that allows for many-to-many communication over Bluetooth radio. It has been defined in Mesh Profile Specification and Mesh Model Specification. Bluetooth mesh networking - Wikipedia Bluetooth Mesh Network - Click here for more information> Blu-ray - Blu-ray is a Sony sponsored HD DVD format. Requires new tooling to create Blu-ray DVDs, as opposed to the competing HD-DVD format, which currently, 12/2005, will have a slightly smaller capacity, but existing DVD creating hardware can be adapted to create HD-DVDs. Blu-ray's ROM mark embeds a unique, and not-detectable, identifier on the Blu-ray DVD. Blu-ray's BD+ allows content providers to dynamically update compromised code, allowing Blu-ray to fight hacking. bluetooth Bluebugging - stealing mobile phone commands Bluejacking - sending unsolicited text messages Bluesniping - using a laptop and powerful antenna to attack from a distance Bluesnarfing - stealing information BM - Buffer Manager - responsible for a service that buffers data from physical or logical media in physical memory. also = BOM. BMC - Board Monitor Controller Server Management programmable controller chip on the Intel IO Board. BMP - Best Management Practices BMP - Bitmap (screen image) BMP (Burst) - Burst Mode Protocol (Novell protocols) BMT - BenchMark Test BNC - Bayonet Network Connector (uses coax)[Thin Ethernet]/[cheapernet]/[10base2] cables. BNF - Backus-Naur Form - a formal method of describing computer language grammers. BNT - Blade Network Technology BO - Back Office (cash reports, sales reports, theft reports, salary reports,...) BO - Business Objects BOF - Birds Of a Feather BOFM - BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager (IBM) BOGO - Buy One Get (another) One free BOL - Bugs On-Line BOM - Bill of Material BOP - bit-oriented protocol BOOTP - A network service that provides boot information (e.g., IP addresses) to clients. Contrast with DHCP. bootp is an alternative to RARP for booting diskless workstations. BOOTPC - UDP service port 68, associated with the BOOTP and DHCP clients. bootpd - The BOOTP server program. BOOTPS - UDP service port 67, associated with the BOOTP and DHCP servers. bootware - firmware (IBM) Bottom-Up - "A bottom-up approach is the piecing together of systems to give rise to grander systems, thus making the original systems sub-systems of the emergent system." - Top-down and bottom-up design - Wikipedia As contrasted to: Top-Down Design bots (Internet) - A Bot is a software program that acts as an agent, but it could be an agent working for you, perhaps a stock trading bot, or more commonly, the Bot could be Malware, trying to steal your bank account numbers, SS#, Login IDs and Passwords. On person, caught in 2005, actually had 1 1/2 Million computers doing his evil bidding, through the use of Bots. Click here botnets - a collection of software robots, or bots, which run by themselves. Boundary Value Analysis - focuses on "corner cases" or values that should be out-of-range by definition. Boundary Testing - Test which focus on the boundary or limit conditions of the software being tested. (Some of these tests are stress tests). bound thread - a thread that is permanently associated with the LWP that is running the thread. bound thread grp- thread group that has wired transient data associated with it Bounding rectangle - Each device object, regardless of its shape, is bounded by a rectangle, as represented in Windows pixel coordinates. BREW BPCS - Business Planning and Control System. Wikipedia What is Business Planning and Control System? BPDU - Bridge Protocol Data Unit BPF - Berkeley Packet Filter BPI - Business Process Improvement Continuous Process Improvement BPI - Business Process Integration BPM - Business Process Manager (IBM) BPM - Business Process Management BPO - Business process outsourcing Branch Testing - Testing in which all branches in the program source code are tested at least once. This is usually split between branches that can be tested only by Fault Injection (often via a debugger) and those that can be tested without Fault Injection. BPE - BladeCenter PCIe Expansion (IBM) B-port - A B-port connects a Fibre Channel fabric switch to a WAN backbone gateway. (SAN) BPM - Business Process Management. See also: Business process management - Wikipedia BPO - Business process outsourcing - Business process outsourcing - Wikipedia bps - bits per second BPT - Business Process Test/Testing. See also: BPT BPT - Best Practicable Control Technology ;; Best Practicable Technology BPT - Branch Prediction Table (processor micro-architecture) BPTS - Business Performance Transformation Services brb - (I'll) be right back BRE - Bridge Relay Encapsulation, proprietary Ascom Timeplex protocol that extends bridging across WAN links by means of encapsulation (Frame Relay). Breadth Testing - A test suite that exercises the full functionality of a product but does not test features in detail (as apposed to Depth Testing BREW - Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (requires Qualcomm's CDMA chipsets). BREW is an efficient application development environment that is layered upon public services offered by mobile ASICs. BREW AEE - BREW Application Execution Environment. The BREW AEE is the environment that allows BREW applets to be loaded and run. See also BREW SDK - BREW Software Development Kit. This allows application developers to quickly write and test applets and modules in a familiar Windows desktop environment. BREW test plan - The BREW test plan is a set of testing guidelines that help application developers test their applications thoroughly. BRI - Basic Rate Interface BRI - BREW Resource Intermediate. This is the intermediate resource file produced by the Resource Editor before it is compiled into a BAR file. BRIC - Brazil, Russia, India and China (collectively known as the BRIC countries) "bricking" drives - ruining them, so they have the functionality of a brick. bridge - (1) A component used to attach more than one IO unit to a port. (2) A data communications device that connects two or more networks and forwards packets between them. The bridge may use similar or dissimilar media and signaling systems. It operates at the data link level of the OSI model. Bridges read and filter data packets and frames. Bridge/Router - A device that can provide the functions of a bridge, router or both, concurrently. A bridge/router can route one or more protocols. Such as TCP/IP, and bridge all other traffic. Also Called a Brouter or a Swouter. BRM - Billing and Revenue Managment. Oracle's BRM software. BRM - Business Review Meeting Broadband PON (BPON) - The initial PON specifications defined by the FSAN committee used ATM as their layer 2 signaling protocol. As such, they became known as ATM-based PONs or APONs. Use of the term APON led users to believe that only ATM services could be provided to end-users, so the FSAN decided to broaden the name to Broadband PON. BPON systems offer numerous broadband services including Ethernet access and video distribution. Broadcast frames - Class 3 broadcast frames are transmitted to all N_Ports attached to the director or switch, regardless of zone membership. Broadcast storm - unintended flooding of the network with broadcast messages BroadHop - Policy Server - Acquired by Cisco January 2013 BroadHop supports all elements of policy control, allowing service providers to control, monetize, and personalize any service on any type of network. BroadHop's solutions work in networks with new or legacy components, in-network or third-party services, and wired, wireless, or a combination of access technologies - From Broadhop's web page. BRT - Business Review Team BRUF - Big Requirements Up Front. more in BRUF BSC - Backup Site Controller. A server within a Microsoft Message Queue Server site. It stores a backup copy of the part of the MSMQ Information Store database that applies to the site in case the PSC should fail. BSD - Berkeley Software Distribution (Unix) BSE - Base Station Emulator (BREW) BSE - Blade Storage Expansion (adds storage to a Storage Blade) bsfm - Block Special File Manager - implements standard Unix block special file access to devices. bsh - (Java) BeanShell. A Java scripting environment. BeanShell is a small, free, embeddable, Java source interpreter with object scripting language features, written in Java. BSIMM - Building Security In Maturity Model (pronounced: “bee-sim”). BSIMM is an extensive research effort to analyze software security activities of companies such as Adobe, Bank of America, Capital One, EMC, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Symantec, VMware, and Wells Fargo. BSMI - Tiawanese (sp ???) version of UL and PSRB BSN - Boot Strap Node. Determined by an election of CCB/BIBs The distributed host OS image uses the BSN for its primary tasks. This means that Shared Memory Interface messages and VIO activity only take place on the BSN RSIB after a certain point in the boot process. BSO - boundary firewall (IBM) BSOD - Blue Screen of Death - screen (and color) sometimes displayed when MS Windows crashes. [It is also possible to change the color] BSP - Board Support Package - A BSP typically consists of three major components: firmware that initializes the SBC into a known state, a basic driver set, and a so-called boot monitor. BSP - Bootstrap Processor BSS - Base Station Subsystem (wireless) BSSAP+ - protocol that manages paging for voice and data connections and optimizes paging for mobile subscribers. BSSAP+ is also responsible for location and routing updates as well as mobile station alerting. BSSGP - Base Station System GPRS Protocol (BSSGP): BSSGP processes routing and quality of service (QoS) information for the BSS. BSSGP uses the Frame Relay Q.922 core protocol as its transport mechanism BSSMAP - Base Station System Mobile Application Part (wireless) BST - Binary security Token BSU - Business Scaling Unit. The workload generator in SPC-1. One BSU represents a group of users, collectively generating a prescribed I/O demand. Each BSU demands 50 I/O operations per second BT - Business Transformation (IBM) BT - Bindery Type (used for leaf objects - NetWare) BT - Byte Tag BTE - Business Transformation Executive (IBM) BTE - Block Transfer Engine (a ServerNet thingie) BTEQ - Basic Teradata Query. BTEQ - Wikipedia BTF - Benchmark Technical Forum (conference) BTL - Bus/Target/LUN (FC) BTO - Business Transformation Outsourcing Btrfs - a linux File system. More information on Btrf BTRIEVE - a binary search database. See also Btrieve. Btrieve - Wikipedia BTS - base transceiver station buddy algorithm - used by linux to allocate and deallocate blocks of pages effectively. More info BUG - A problem in software. The part of code that makes the program behave in an unwanted manner. The sooner a bug is detected in the Software Lifecycle, lesser would be the cost involved in fixing it The term bug came from the fact that a moth flew into an early computer that ran on vacuum tubes. See also bug tracking system - used to keep track of the status of bugs during testing, so that developers know what needs to be fixed (bugs are prioritized and sgreements reached as to which bugs to fix. See also build - software under test ;; the specific version of the software being used or examined. Business Process Quality Management - Also called Process Management or Reengineering. The concept of defining macro and micro processes, assigning ownership, and creating responsibilities of the owners. BUR - Backup and Recovery (computer storage) burn / burning - Using additional exposure to selected areas to make those areas DARKER in the picture (pictues from film). burn - Using a laser to burn "pits" in CDs or DVDs, ie, a DVD burner uses a laser to create content on a CD or DVD. See also DVD Burning BURT - BUg Reporting Tool (NetApp) business risks - The set of potential business problems or occurrences that may cause the project to fail. Business Rule - A policy, guideline, standard, or regulation that defines or constrains some apsect of the business. Fundamental units of work required to complete a business process. Business rules can be automated by an application program. business unit - A logical element or segment of a company (such as accounting, production, marketing) representing a specific business function, and a definite place on the organizational chart, under the domain of a manager. Also called department, division, or a functional area." - BusinessDictionary.com BUZZ chip - PCI to PCI bridge chip. BVA - Boundary Value Analysis (testing) - BVA is different from equivalence partitioning in that it focuses on "corner cases" or values that are usually out of range as defined by the specification. This means that if function expects all values in range of negative 100 to positive 1000, test inputs would include negative 101 and positive 1001. BVA attempts to derive the value often used as a technique for stress, load or volume testing. This type of validation is usually performed after positive functional validation has completed (successfully) using requirements specifications and user documentation. BVCP - PPP Banyan VINES Control Protocol (PPP suite) BVT - Build Verification Test - Build Validation Test (BVT) involves testing the Build driver by running the BVT-specific set of test cases to determine if the driver is good enough to be released for Regression and general testing. BWC - Best Workplace for Commuters (an EPA certification) BWWI - Business Warehouse and Workplace Implementation (IBM) bytecode - Java programs are compiled into compact bytecodes (same idea as compiler pseudo code), and it's these byteco9des that the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) (an interpreter) reads and interprets to run your programs. byte reversal - the process of storing numeric data with the least-significant byte first. used for integers and addresses on devices with Intel microprocessors. bytesexual - /bi:t`sek'shu-*l/ adj. [rare] Said of hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem. c - char - Windows header file Hungarian notation C - country C12.22 - C12.22 is the ANSI standard protocol specification for interfacing to Data Communications Networks. See C12.12 for more information about the standard C&I - Commercial & Industrial C Tick - Australian version of UL and PSRB C2 - U.S. government security standard C2C - City to City (phone, cable term) CA - Certificate Authority. A (usually) well known and trusted third party that issues certificates for encryption and verification use. Examples are Verisign and Thawte Consulting. (PKI) CA - Conditional Access CA - Channel Adapter; definced by InfiniBand to decouple memory queueing, memory protection, and I/O from the CPU (JP). CA - Corrective Action CableCARD - Please see CableCARD for information CAC - Customer Advisory Council cache - high speed RAM local to CPU for main memory buffering. Cache Channel 0 - L1 Cache Driver. (Flare CMI Channel Definitions, Phase 2) Cache Channel 1 - L2 (HI-5)Cache Driver. (Flare CMI Channel Definitions, Phase 2) Cache Channel 2 - DSA Driver (not implemented in K10). (Flare CMI Channel Definitions, Phase 2) Cache Coherence - the maintenance of consistent caches in a multi-CPU system. CACS-G - CACS-G is a market-leading collections system built specifically to help government organizations overcome the challenge of managing delinquent accounts. Computer Assisted Collection System for Government (CACS-G) CACS-G - PDF - CGI.com CAE - Content Acceptance Engine - Runs on a wireless device and accepts data from the ADE. wms CAEN - Command Aging ENable CAGR - Compound Annual Growth Rate (a way of quantifying change over time) CALEA - Communications Assistance for law Enforcement Act Welcome to CALEA Online CALEA - PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS ACCREDITATION The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) is a United States wiretapping law FCC - Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act CALEA | Electronic Frontier Foundation caliber request - RFE call agent - Intelligent entity in an IP telephony network that handles call control in an MGCP model voice over IP network. Also known as a Media Gateway Controller (MGC). call manager - Cisco CallManager is the software-based call-processing component of the Cisco IP telephony solution callpath - Telephony Interface Standard. An IBM-developed standard interface for connecting switches to PCs to provide automated call handling. CAM - Common Access Method (SCSI). Click for more info CAMEL - Customized Applications For Mobile Network Enhanced Logic. more CamelCase - the practice of concatenating capitalized words without spaces, to meet the syntax requirements that dis-allow white spaces. CamelCase - Wikipedia Camel Case Meatball Wiki: CamelCase Capitalization Styles - Microsoft CAN Controller - Controller Area Network. 1991 CAN 2.0 Spec Allows microcontrollers and devices to communicate with each without a computer - (Wikipedia). Designed for cars. canonical - DG/UX canonical naming syntax form: sd(qpsc(pci[0-7],0),B),0) canonical hostname - the one and only official hosthame. All others are considered aliases. CAPA - Corrective Action Preventative Action - FDA. What is an FDA CAPA - WikiAnswers carbonized - A MAC running old OS-9 programs on OS-10 - usually requires some minor changes to your code. Carrier - PC board "cage" for plugging boards into/out-of chassis. CAS - Content-Addressable Storage (associative storage). Same type of storage as FAS CAS - Wikipedia CAS - channel associated signaling; Column Address Select (RAM signal) CASE - Computer Aided Software Engineering cascade - connecting two or more FC hubs or fabric switches to increase the number of ports, or to extend distances. Castor - Castor is a popular XML and data binding framework for Java. CAT - Cabinet Availability Tool CAT.5 - catagory 5 (Ethernet cable) catch - Catches excpeptions generated by a TRY (Java) Catenet - A collection of networks (typically LANs) interconnected at the Data Link layer using bridges. Also known as a bridged LAN. CatOS - Catalyst Operating System - Cisco's first Switch OS - IOS (is) used on HUBs An early Cisco switch line is called Catalyst cause-effect graphing - A black-box testing method - A graphical representation of inputs and the associated outputs effects which can be used to design test cases. CA Wily - CA Wily Application Performance Management CA Wily Technology, formerly Wily Technology, Inc., was purchased by CA, Inc. Wily Technology - Wikipedia Application Performance Management - CA Technologies CBC - Cipher Block Chaining. A special DES encryption mode that combines blocks of the message together before encrypting them to provide higher levels of security. Usually referred to as DES-CBC. See also: Cryptology / Encryption CBN - Continuing Business Need (IBM) - need to prove why you still need whatever it is. CBP - Customs & Border Protection (CBP) agency CBR - Constant Bit Rate CBT - Core Based Trees - a sparse mode multicast routing protocol that uses a single shared tree to deliver multicast messages between members of multicast groups regardless of their location. CBT - Computer Based Training cc - Cloud Computing. see Cloud Computing CC - Cluster Control ;; cache-coherent CCB - Change Control Board - The person(s) who have responsibility for deciding whether a change is to be made. CCB - Oracle CCB (Customer Care and Billing) (formerly part of SPL) CCDL - Controller Code DownLoad (download of computer Storage Controller Firmware) CCF - Common Connectivity Framework CCHECK - SUN checking C++ results CCET - Continuous Customer Environment Testing CCI - Command Control Interface CCITT - International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (after the French). CCK - Complimentary Code Keying - a modulation scheme used with some wireless networks. Complementary code keying - Wikipedia CCMP - Counter Mode with Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code Protocol - is an IEEE 802.11i encryption protocol. See also ccNUMA - cache-coherent NonUniform Memory Access. An extension of SMP designed to solve the bandwidth and scaling issues. CCP - Connection Control Protocol (SIPv1). CCP - Compression Control Protocol (PPP suite). CCPCH - Common Control Physical Channel (wireless) CCS - Common Channel Signalling; Certified Coding Specialist (Healthcare IT) CCS - Controlled Cryptography Service CCT - tool LPG of configuration and safety of Linux waiter CCT - Communication Control Table - To control communication, the kernel maintains a Communication Control Table or CCT that controls what communication can take place between processes in different compartments. It also controls what communication can take place with network interfaces from a given compartment. Most communication mechanisms are supported including IP, shared memory, semaphores, and message queues). Communication between processes in the same compartment is not restricted by the CCT. CCT - China Coast Time CCT.sh - CD - Continuous Deployment (Continuous delivery) Continuous delivery - Wikipedia CD - Compact Disk. Click here for more info CD - Committee Draft - ISO CD/CA-ICH - Collision Detection/Channel Assignment Indicator Channel (wireless) CDB - Control/Command Descriptor Block - iSCSI uses CDBs to carry SCSI commands. CDC - Cache Directory Controller. Provides cache coherent bridge between multi-processing nodes. ASIC responsible for managing all communication and coherency between SCI and P6 busses. CDC - Change Data Capture - feature in SQL Server 2008. Setting up Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008 CDDI - Copper Distributed Data Interface - good for about 90 yards/100 meters. CDE - Common Desktop Environment. A windowing system available on Solaris, developed jointly with HP and other vendors. CDE - Clariion Driver Extensions (used in ATF) - Backend failover, SP or cable connecting, LCC or cable connecting, cable from LCC to physical disks, ... CDF - Channel Definition Format. An application of XML, currently under review by W3C, designed to create channel-style information delivery through automated client-side pull or server-side push techniques. CDFS - CD-ROM Filing System. An ISO standard that defines the way information is stored on a CD-ROM. CDM - NetWare disk driver file name suffix CDM - Custom Device Module CDMA - Code-Division Multiple Access, a digital cellular technology that uses spread-spectrum techniques. Unlike competing systems, such as GSM, that use TDMA, CDMA does not assign a specific frequency to each user. Instead, every channel uses the full available spectrum. Individual conversations are encoded with a pseudo-random digital sequence. CDMA is a military technology first used during World War II by the English allies to foil German attempts at jamming transmissions. The allies decided to transmit over several frequencies, instead of one, making it difficult for the Germans to pick up the complete signal. See also Because Qualcomm Inc. created communications chips for CDMA technology, it was privy to the classified information. Once the information became public, Qualcomm claimed patents on the technology and became the first to commercialize it. CDMA - Wikipedia cdma2000 - The ITU-R developed cdma2000 as a set of recommendations for International Mobile Telecommunications in the year 2000, to support high-speed data rates and, more importantly, to be able to provide for multimedia services. cdma2000 devices may contain an option SIM, called an R-UIM. CDN - content delivery network. "CDN) is a system of distributed servers (network) that deliver webpages and other Web content to a user based on the geographic locations of the user, the origin of the webpage and a content delivery server" - webopedia CDO - Collaboration Data Objects. The object programming interface for Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, which allows other applications to access the mail features of Exchange Server. CDO - chief data officer (CDO). "Data has become such a crucial asset that many organizations have been prompted to create a role specifically to oversee it – the chief data officer (CDO). But what are the expectations of CDOs, apart from maintaining data? Discover the 4 quintessential actions for a CDO to take in their first year" - CDO? 4 quintessential actions that are expected CDONTS - Collaborative Data Objects for NT Server. A subset of the Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 CDO objects that provides access from script to mail services of all kinds, such as the NT Server SMTP service as well as Exchange Server. CDP - Continuous Data Protection ;; Cisco Discovery Protocol CDR - clock & data recovery circuitry; used to recover intelligible data from a continuous bit stream CDS - Content Download Status CDS - Class Data Storage (K10) - a client of PSM. Breaks flat files up into streams CDS - Component Design Specification CDT - Eclipse C++ Development Toolkit CE - Compressed Encoding. See also: Cryptology / Encryption CE - Customer edge device (VPN) CE Marking - CE Marking is a requirement of the EC's New Direction Directives. These put a mandatory requirement on a manufacturer in the EC, or importers into the EC to self certify that their products are safe. From that simple and rather obvious statement a whole lot of bureaucracy has grown up. EN 46002 requirement. ISO-9000. For each of the major categories of equipment, eg Machinery, Pressure Vessels or Medical Devices an EC Directive has been issued and enacted by each member states. These give the philosophy of safety in their area. Compliance with these Directives is generally achieved by compliance with one or more Standards. CE Marking Directives impose an obligation for the manufacturer or the Authorized Representative to compile a Technical File, which demonstrates the technical basis for conformity of the product to the requirements of the applicable directive(s). The manufacturer must implement internal measures to ensure that the product remains in conformity. The Technical file is intended essentially for national surveillance authorities. Ceph - "Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability and scalability." - Ceph home page Ceph (storage) - Wikipedia Ceph is a massively scalable, open source, distributed storage system. Gluster Vs. Ceph: Open Source Storage Goes Head-To-Head CE technical Files - CE Marking Directives impose an obligation for the manufacturer or the Authorized Representative to compile a Technical File, which demonstrates the technical basis for conformity of the product to the requirements of the applicable directive(s). The manufacturer must implement internal measures to ensure that the product remains in conformity. The Technical file is intended essentially for national surveillance authorities. (Pharam). CEC - Consumer Electronics Control (HDMI 1.4) CELP - code excited linear prediction compression. Compression algorithm used in low bit-rate voice encoding. Used in ITU-T Recommendations G.728, G.729 & G.723.1 CENTS - Controlled Environment NetCache Test Suite CER - Cell Error ratio. In ATM, the ration of transmitted cells that have errors to the total cells sent in a transmission for a specified period of time. CERT - Computer Cyber Security Readiness Team. Click here for more info certificate - A form of identification for secure communication. Certificates are used to pass public encryption keys between applications, and to verify the certificate holder. Used for secure communication with HTTPS and by (Microsoft's) MSMQ. CEWIRED - Cache Exclusive Wired subsection; CE_WIRED foo_type foo2 CACHE_ALIGN = { 0 }; CFB - cipher feedback. See also: Cryptology / Encryption CFF - Combination Form Factor (IBM) CFL - Compact Fluorescent Light CFML - Cold Fusion Markup Language CFO - Clustered Fail Over (politically-correct term for HA); Chief Financial Officer CFP - Certification in Financial Planning. CFP 21 CFR part 11 - Code of Federal Rules. Electronic Signatures. Click here for more info CFS - Celerra File System cfsb - CrossPoint's 4x00 Fibre-to-SCSI FC Bridge - BLACK CONTENT - NOT SUPPORTED CFW - (Data Storage) Controller Firmware CGE - Computable general equilibrium. class of economic models that use actual economic data CGE models also called AGE - applied general equilibrium models CGE - Copper Gigabit Ethernet CGI - Common Gateway Interface. A standardized interface exposed by most Web servers. Allows script and executable programs to access the user requests and server responses in order to create dynamic pages. CGI - Computer Generated Imagery CGMP - CGMP was first implemented by Cisco to restrain multicast traffic in a layer 2 network. Because a switch is, by essence, not capable of looking at layer 3 packets, it cannot distinguish an IGMP packet. With CGMP, the router provides the interface between the hosts. The routers "talk" IGMP, and the switches "talk" CGMP. cGMP - Current Good Manuafacturing Process on Human Use Pharmaceuticals the latest FDA interpretations of the GMP. cGMP Information CGT - BREW Code Generation Tool Class A template (file) that defines the generic characteristics of an object or module in the system. ch - char - Windows header file Hungarian notation CHAP - Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol. CHAP info CHAP - wikipedia chain - list of rules defining what packets can come in and what can go out through a network interface. Change Agent - A person who leads a change project or business-wide initiative by defining, researching, planning, building business support and carefully selecting volunteers to be part of a change team. Change Agents must have the conviction to state the facts based on data, even if the consquences are associated with unpleasentness. Change control - Combines human procedures and automated tools. A change control procedure may include these entities and activities: change request, evaluation, change report, change control authority, engineering change order (ECO), check out, changes, review, check in (access and synchronization control), baseline, testing, promoting changes for inclusion in the next release, rebuild of version, review of changes, inclusion of all changes, distribution of new version. channel - a term that originated with mainframe computing environments, and connotes a high degree of reliability and availablility (HA). channel bonding - same as Ethernet bonding. Channel bonding - Wikipedia data in each message gets striped across multiple network cards installed in each machine DOCSIS 3.0 provides a number of enhancements, most notably, channel bonding CHAP - Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (PPP suite) character special device - A device that transfers data character by character. check script - a script run during installation whose failure prevents loading a part of DG/UX Child Disk - A virtual hard disk that is a derivative of another hard disk (the Parent Disk). Essentially we have a disk that seems larger than it really is, by combining didks. Chi Square Test - The Chi Square Test is a statistical test which consists of three different types of analysis 1) Goodness of fit, 2) Test for Homogeneity, 3) Test of Independence. The Test for Goodness of fit determines if the sample under analysis was drawn from a population that follows some specified distribution. The Test for Homogeneity answers the proposition that several populations are homogeneous with respect to some characteristic. The Test for independence (one of the most frequent uses of Chi Square) is for testing the null hypothesis that two criteria of classification, when applied to a population of subjects are independent. If they are not independent then there is an association between them. Chi Square is the most popular discrete data hypothesis testing method. CHPS - Certified in Healthcare Privacy and Security (AHIMA) CHS - Comprehensive Health Services. About CHS chunk - Smallest retrievable piece of storage from a RAD volume. Chunk Size - The configurable unit in blocks (32, 64, 128, 256, 512) used to perform COFW operations. CHW - Configured Hardware CI - Continuous Integration (an Agile philosphy) Continuous Improvement Model - Learning Resources - ASQ.org DevOps Leadership: Ryan Martens Ex #5: TDD, CI and CD - BMC “It is difficult to do TDD & CI” - Exploring the “Why” in a large company Fighting the Software Uncertainty principle. SCRUM+TDD+CI+SELENIUM+cfEngine Continual improvement: a broader term preferred by W. Edwards Deming to refer to general processes of improvement and encompassing “discontinuous” improvements —that is, many different approaches, covering different areas. Continuous improvement: a subset of continual improvement, with a more specific focus on linear, incremental improvement within an existing process. Some practitioners also associate continuous improvement more closely with techniques of statistical process control. Continuous integration - Wikipedia Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) CI/CD - Continuous integration and Continuous deployment https://www.atlassian.com/continuous-delivery/ci-vs-ci-vs-cd CICS - Customer Information Control System ((IBM) is a family of application servers and connectors CID - Content ID. A pointer into an email attachment, that points to images / pictures that are embedded into some email messages created by a Microsoft email program (Outlook, Outlook Express,...). For more CID information CID - connection ID CIDR - classless interdomain routing; currently used in place of traditional IP addressing based on classes to create more usable IP addresses. allows more efficient use of IPv4 address space. RFC 1517. allows Prefix Aggregation - reducing the size of routing tables. CIDR /8 255.0.0.0 /16 255.255.0.0 /24 255.255.255.0 More CIDR InformationCIF - Cells In Frame (ATM over LAN) CIFS - Common Internet File System (created by Microsoft). See also CIM - Common Information Model. See also Cinder - Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++ Cinder dot Org Cinder - OpenStack Welcome to Cinder's developer documentation Cinepaint - may, in the future, complete well with Photoshop for creating movies. being considered, for future use, by Disney. CIP - Common Industrial Protocol utilized by memebers of the ODVA organization. CIP is an open industrial protocol for automation of industrial tasks. CIP Safety - a safety network is a fieldbus system that connects devices on the factory floor. But unlike standard networks, a safety network is designed to trap errors and react with pre-determined safe operation. CIP Sync - CIPE - Crypto IP Encapsulation CIR - Committed information rate - a stated bandwith is called a CIR. CIRT - US Government Client security bulletins (CIRT) CIS - Cisco Ethernet SM (Switch Module) (for a BladeCenter) CIS - Customer Information Systems. CIS - Content Intelligence Services (EMC) ;; Computer Information Science (degree) cisc - Ciprico Rimfire 3500 SCSI controller for m88k systems. See "man cisc". CISSP - Certified Senior Information Security Analyst Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) is an independent information security certification Getting a CISSP CITRIX - Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite—an integrated set of enterprise access infrastructure products that provide secure, easy access to comprehensive information resources from any location, device or connection, and simplify management, monitoring and measurement in heterogeneous computing environments. CKD - Count Key Data - variable blocksize specified in "count". cKVM - Concurrent KVM (card) CLARiiON - CLARiiON was developed by Data General (DG) and become an EMC product when EMC bought Data General. As of 2011 the Clariion and Celerra products have been replaced by the new VNX series of unified storage disk arrays. Internally the VNX is labeled the CX5. CLARiiON - Wikipedia CLAS - Comprehensive Logic Analysis System, HP logic analyzer. .CLASS - Java Bytecode file suffix (called a Java Class file) Class - A template (file) that defines the generic characteristics of an object or module in the system. class - A description of a set of objects having common properties and behaviors, which typically corespond to real-world items (persons, places or things) in the business or problem domain. class 1 - in FC, a connection-orientated class of service that requires acknowledgment of frame delivery. Class-1 laser-component assemblies use one of two kinds of power-level control technologies, depending on the open-circuit power levels of the laser source: OFC and non-OFC. class 2 - in FC, a connectionless class of service that requires acknowledgment of frame delivery class 3 - in FC, a connectionless class of service that requires NO acknowledgment of frame delivery class 4 - in FC, a class of service that that defines virtual circuits via fractional bandwidth and QoS parameters. (no class 5) class 6 - in FC, a class of service that that provides multicast frame delivery with acknowledgment. Class A - in IP networking, an address class providing 126 networks with 16.5 million hosts per network. Class B - in IP networking, an address class providing 16,000 networks with 65,000 hosts per network. Class C - (IP networking) an address class providing more than 2 million networks with 254 hosts / network. Class Diagram - An analysis model that shows a set of system or problem domain classes and their relationships. ClassID - 32-bit IDs for identifying BREW classes and applets. These IDs are assigned at the site www.qualcomm.com/brew/sdk/classid. BREW ClassIDs are available to authenticated developers only. classing engine - A mechanism that allows an application to query a database in order to determine how a desktop object should be handled. For example, the classing engine determines the icon used to display a file and what happens when a user double-clicks it. CLASSPATH - tells Java where to find compiled bytecode files - both the User and System created ones. Clawback - originally: parties agree that if one discloses information inadvertently, the other will return or destroy the information and provide verification of the latter. NOW: "forcing" the over-paid executive to return some or all of the money. CLD - Clariion Layered Driver CLDAP - Connectionless LDAP. A protocol for communication between directory services that does not require a synchronous session to be set up. CLDC - Connected Limited Device Configuration - J2ME CLDC/MIDP - Connected Limited Device Configuration/Mobile Information Device Profile - J2ME CLEC - competitive local exchange carriers - companies reselling long distance service CLI - command line interface / interpreter ClickConnect - ClickConnect is a new cabling mechanism that includes a latch that keeps the SATA cable connected. Client - Sends request to server in client-server relationship. client - a host - a client of the Filer. Client-Server - Distributed application environment. A combination of servers and clients where a program running on a client can initiate a session and send requests to another program on a server, which processes these requests and returns the result. CLIF - CLIF is a Java framework dedicated to performance testing of any kind of system reachable from a JVM. CLIF framework. more clipaging - CLI Paging - A Cisco feature that pauses the scrolling of the console screen when the show command displays more than one page. Cloud - computing resources (hardware and software) that are delivered as a service over a network (typically the Internet). Cloud Center - A Cloud Center is a DataCenter whose resources are used for Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing - Cloud computing is a pay-per-use model for enabling available, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This cloud model promotes availability and is comprised of five *key characteristics, three *delivery models, and four deployment models. Cloud Definition more Cloud Computing information Cloud computing - Wikipedia Cloud Orchestration - Cloud Orchestration – A Real Business Need Orchestrating the cloud to simplify and accelerate service delivery Cloud provisioning and orchestration CLP - Novel Certified Linux Professional CLP - cell loss priority. Field in the ATM cell header that determines the probability of a cell being dropped if the network becomes congested. CLR - ratio of discarded cells to cells that are transmitted successfully (ATM). clr - COLORREF - Windows header file Hungarian notation CLSID - Class Identifier - a UUID that identifies a COM component - similar to a GUID CLT - this prefix to a development item number indicates a combined client specific design requirement - wms Cluster - One or more nodes running separate instances of the DG/UX (or other) operating system software and the DG/UX Clusters Software. Each cluster node "knows about" every other node so that services can be moved among the nodes. The nodes share a common Cluster File System, but do not share memory. A DG/UX cluster presents to its users the image of a single server, regardless of how many nodes are in the cluster or how the nodes are configured. - A Group of Computers. Several computers that are connected and set up so as to appear as one machine, and provide failure protection for any of the machines in the group by sharing the workload. Clusters aware - Operating system or application software that has been designed and implemented so that it can run concurrently on more than one node and can move seamlessly among nodes. The DG/UX operating system, starting with DG/UX R4.10 is clusters aware. Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) is an example of clusters aware application software. Cluster Card - contains memory and system interconnects required for far memory cache. CM - Content Managment ; Configuration Management; Configuration Manager for Flare CM - Channel Manager - maintains the descriptor to object mapping. cmac - Crash Macro - Macro that can be utilized by the Crash (or gcrash) program CMDB - Configuration (or Change) Management DataBase CMDCAS - Canadian Medical Devices Conformity Assessment System. See also CME - Configuration Management Ericsson (an Ericsson "home brew"). CMHC - some form of health care software CMI - Communications Management Interface - Bob Goudreau, Mark Corzine & Darren Insko CMI channels - software, renamed to CMI conduits, to avoid confusion with the actual hardware - NOW (K10) CMI channels refers to the actual messaging hardware, for example, SCSI, FC, TCP/IP... CMI conduits - software, abstract bi-directional communication links between peer components on each SP CMId - CMI using the Dual mode driver CMIISCD - CMI over SCSI CMIP - Common Management Information Protocol - OSI's network management protocol CMISE - (OSI) Common Management Information Service Element (similar to SNMP) CMM - Capability Maturity Model (usually considered to be for software). Carnegie Mellon University. See also CMMI - Capability Maturity Model Integration (an integration of earlier standards, including CMM). Carnegie Mellon University. See also CMM / CMMI Reference Books cmmu - Cache Memory Manager Unit (88K only) Comma Splice - A comma splice is the use of a comma to join two independent clauses. For example: It is nearly half past five, we cannot reach town before dark Comma splice - Wikipedia Grammar Girl - Comma Splice - Quick and Dirty Tips CMPI - Common Manageability Programming Interface (computer storage API) CMS - Content Managed Systems (WordPress, for example) CMS - Call Management System ; Celerra Media System CMS - Configuration and Management Subsystem. CMSB - Selerra Media System Bobcat CMSS - Call Management Server Signalling CMT - connection management CMTS - Cable Modem Termination System. CMVC - Configuration Management Version Control, from IBM (includes BUGS) CN - Core Network (wireless); Common Name CNA - Converged Network Adapter CNE - Certified Novell Engineer. See also C-NIC - converged network interface controllers CNP - Card Not Present ("credit" card not physically present at sale site, ie., probably an Internet purchase, so buyer does not have to present card. See GIFT CARD FRAUD WARNING CNR - Cisco Network Registrar. CNR and DHCP FAQs for Cable Environment [Cable Management and ... Cisco CNS Network Registrar is a full-featured DNS/DHCP system that provides scalable naming and addressing services for service provider and enterprise networks Cable Modem Basic Install with Cisco Network Registrar - Ciscowiki CNR - Carrier-to-Noise Ratio CO - connection only CO - Commitment to Perform (one of the Common features in a CMMI PA). COB - chip-on-board. I.E., more lighting companies now offer COB (chip-on-board) LED products. COBRA - chip-on-board reflective-array (LED). Includes miniature reflector around each LED. COC - Cost Of Conformance. (COC) A component of the *Cost Of Quality* for a work product. Cost of conformance is the total cost of ensuring that a product is of good Quality. It includes costs of Quality Assurance activities such as standards, training, and processes; and costs of *Quality Control* activities such as reviews, audits, inspections, and testing. COC represents an organisation's investment in the quality of its products. Contrast Cost Of Non-Conformance. Cocomo - Cocomo (Adobe) is actually a codename for an Adobe project and stands for Common Collaborative Model. See also: Cocomo Vitamins for RIAs cocoon - Brocade 2800 switch - supported 3rd calendar quarter '99 cocoon - Brocade Switch Model 2400 - 8 ports - DG Internal Name: Cocoon - Official Name: Silkworm2000 cocoon - Brocade Switch Model 2800 - 16 ports - DG Internal Name: Cocoon - Official Name: Silkworm2000 CODEC - Programs that perform the entire process, from compression/encoding to decompression/decoding are called CODECs. There is often more than one CODEC for a particular format, so the phrase encoding method is often used when referring to a particular compressed format. Format is often used instead of encoding method. An algorithm or set of algorithms that both compress and expand data (and decompress). The data might be sound, video or just plain data. Data compression often causes a loss of data, which can be very noticeable. or not. usually, the less loss there is of data, the larger the file size. These Codecs are used to allow either faster transmission of data, or smaller sized files or both. Codecs can also include encryption. Codec - Wikipedia Code Coverage - An analysis method that determines which parts of the software have been executed (covered) by the test case suite and which parts have not been executed and therefore (should, or take a risk) require additional attention Codesoft - Advanced Label Design and Integration Software. With CODESOFT 8 you can design RFID Labels CodeWarrior - an Intergrated Development Environment (IDE) (BREW & MSDN are other examples) CodeWarrior Development Tools - metrowerks CodeWarrior - Wikipedia COE - Center Of Excellence - What is a Center of Excellence COFF - Unix file format, apparently being replaced by ELF. Common Object File Format, a binary file format used in UNIX System V and Windows. COFW - Copy On First Write. A policy that insures the original version of source LU data is saved before being modified. This policy states that before the first modification, after the start of a SnapView session, the original data on the source LU will be read and stored in the SnapView cache. This policy only applies to the first modification of the data. Overwrite of any data that has already had a COFW does not require any extra processing since the original data was previously saved in the SnapView cache. COLA - Cost Of Living (salary) Adjustments Collaboration Diagram - In UML this diagram shows the same information as the Sequence Diagram does, but in a different form. COM - Microsoft's Component Object Model - Common Object Model COM+ - which adds extra features to COM that make building component interfaces easier. comet - "Comet is a web application model in which a long-held HTTP request allows a web server to push data to a browser, without the browser explicitly requesting it. Comet is an umbrella term, encompassing multiple techniques for achieving this interaction" Comet (programming) - Wikipedia Developing with Comet and Java - IBM Comet : Ajax Development - Ajaxian HTML 5 Web Sockets vs. Comet and Ajax Comet Programming in Web Development Common Cause Variation community profile - Information that specifies which management objects are available to what management domain or SNMP community name. Component - A minimal software item for which a separate specification is available. Compute Node - minimum set of CPU, IOMB, DAC, etc., that forms a VCS. CONC - Cost Of Non-Conformance. (CONC.) The element of the *Cost Of Quality* representing the total cost to the organisation of failure to achieve a good *Quality* product. CONC includes both in-process costs generated by quality failures, particularly the cost of *Rework*; and post-delivery costs including further *Rework*, re-performance of lost work (for products used internally), possible loss of business, possible legal redress, and other potential costs. See also: Cost of Poor Quality - COPQ concatenation - The process of combining subdisks in an end-to-end arrangement. Space in a concatentation is used sequentially, such that the first subdisk is used before data is stored on the next, and so forth. Concatentation is one way of forming a large virtual disk from a number of smaller didks and works well for small random I/O. conduits - abstract bi-directional communication links between peer components on each K10 SP (formerly Channels) configuration - The collection of programs, documents, and data that must be controlled when changes are to be made. ConnectDirect - Formerly NDM. Now an IBM Sterling product for point-to-point (peer-to-peer) file transfer. See also: Sterling Commerce Products See also: Connect:Direct - Wikipedia ConsoleOne - Server's Root Console (as an X window). constraint-based routing - Procedures and protocols that determine a route across a backbone take into account resource requirements and resource availablility instead of simply using the shortest path. content - is the wrapper for what we get from the application server that includes the file attributes. WE DO NOT HAVE MESSAGES, ATTACHMENT TYPES, ATTACHMENT (WMS). contention - Access method in which network devices compete for permission to access the physical medium. Confidence Band (Or Interval) - Measurement of the certainty of the shape of the fitted regression line. A 95% confidence band implies a 95% chance that the true regression line fits within the confidence bands. Measurement of certainty. content server - Similar to the application server but might only be pushing content whereas the Application Server might do additional services. Controller - An IBM intelligent computer storage controller. The controller communicates with, and controls, the shelves (trays)(EXPs) that hold the individual hard drives. CONTROL-M - BMC's CONTROL-M for Distributed Systems is a business integrated scheduling product that focuses on the production environment's business applications and platforms. It provides advanced production-scheduling capabilities across the enterprise from a single point of control. controlling PTE - Structure used for anonymous objects - describes the state of the individual pages of the object. Controlling SP - An SP that owns a primary LU or secondary LU. A controlling SP for a primary LU communicates with the controlling SP for the secondary LU. Remote Mirroring. CONTROL-M - BMC CONTROL-M for Distributed Systems is a business integrated scheduling product that focuses on the production environment's business applications and ... BMC CONTROL-M Conversion Testing - Testing of programs or procedures used to convert data from existing systems for use in replacement systems cooked - jargon for a (Unix) file that is a finished product. A cooked file is generated by running the original file through either the "nroff" or "troff" text processing program to create a formated, finished product. Cooked mode - Also called "line mode" - state of terminal input operation. Indicates that there is no input from a terminal and that the computer will take no action until the carriage return or enter key has been pressed. Mode of operation in which input uses the UNIX input/output system for character interpretation. Slower than "raw" mode, but is device-indpendent. COPQ - Cost of Poor Quality - COPQ consists of those costs which are generated as a result of producing defective material. This cost includes the cost involved in fulfilling the gap between the desired and actual product/service quality. It also includes the cost of lost opportunity due to the loss of resources used in rectifying the defect. This cost includes all the labor cost, rework cost, disposition costs, and material costs that have been added to the unit up to the point of rejection. COPQ does not include detection and prevention cost. See also *Cost Of Non-Conformance*. COPQ should contain the material and labor costs of producing and repairing defective goods, you can include a portion of the appraisal cost if you have an inspection point, but never should you include prevention costs. COPS - Common Open Policy Service COQ - Cost Of Quality. The cost associated with the quality of a work product. As defined by Crosby ("Quality Is Free"), Cost Of Quality (COQ) has two main components: 1) Cost Of Conformance and 2) Cost Of Non-Conformance (see respective definitions). CORBA - Common Access Request Broker Architecture. Generally UNIX-based, and supported by Sun, Netscape, IBM, etc. corpus - Index Server document collection. The set of documents, files and other resources that are indexed by Microsoft Index Server or other indexing service. Cost of Living - See: Cost of Living Elsewhere COT - Continuity Test COTS - commercial off the shelf Coventry Health - uses the name "First Health" for Prescription plans Coventry was bought by Aetna in May, 2013 COW - Copy On Write CPA - Certified Public Accountant. CPA - Wikipedia CPC - The letters stand for Certified Product Consultant. The CPC is an advanced lab-based certification intended for individuals who have consultant level knowledge and skill with one or more Mercury Interactive software products. CPC - Certified Professional Consultant cPCI - CompactPCI (VME) CPCS - Common Part Convergence Sublayer (ATM) CPCS/SAR - ATM Domain Adaptation Layer CPD - Control Point Directory - allows limit of # of blocks that can be allocated. The root of every file system is a CPD. CPE - Customer provided/premises Equipment (telephony). Often a Modem CPE - Common Platform Enumeration is a structured naming scheme for information technology systems, platforms, and packages. CPExpert CPE - Capacity Planning Engineer CPFR - Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment CPG - Consumer Packaged Goods CPI - Continuous Process Improvement. Click here for more CPI information CPI-C - Common Programming Interface for Communications CPSK - coherent PSK CPL - Common Public License CPO - Cooling/Power Observer board (NUMA). CPOP - Customer Prrof of Concept (NetApp) CppUnit - The first port of JUnit to C++ was done by Michael Feathers. His versions can be found on the XProgramming software page. They are os-specific, so Jerome Lacoste provided a port to Unix/Solaris. His version can be found on the same page. The CppUnit project has combined and built on this work. CPU - Computer Programming Unit - this is the chip that runs the instrctions for your computer. The "brains" of the computer. Generally speaking, the faster the CPU, the faster your computer will run. CPUC - California Public Utilities Commission. CPU Terminator - Intel-designed board which terminates the BIB board Or fifth CPU slot when there is no BIB in the block. Also, Called the FSB, Cluster, or BIB terminator. CQ - ClearQuest (Rational's defect reporting tool, now owned by IBM) CQA - Certified Quality Auditor. Quality Auditor Certification - CQA CQG - Central Quality Group CR3 - Pentium Page Directory Base Register that points to the system HLPT resetting CR3 does an automatic TLB flush. CRC - cyclic redundancy check - A method for detecting data errors. CRC - class responsibility collaborator (Agile). CRC-32c - cyclic redundancy check, version with 32 bits. credential - a Kernel testimonial that reliably indentifies the userID and group of the requesting process. CRIT-SITS - Critical Situations (critical problems) CRL - Certificate Revocation List. A list of certificates that are no longer valid. Maintained and published by the CA that originally issued these certificates. CRM - customer relationship management. CRM CRO - clinical research organizations ;; Contract research Organization (Pharma) CROWN - Consolidated Renal Operations in a Web Enabled Network - Southeastern Kidney Council (SKC) CRU - Customer Replacable Unit - power supplies, fans, some disks CRUD - Create, Retrieve, Update & Delete - from operations on databases. CRUD - Wikipedia CRUD matrix - A table that correlates system actions with data entities to show where each data item is Created, Read, Updated and Deleted. Cryptix - Cryptix is an open source library for strong cryptography. CS - Customer Satisfaction; Computer Science CS - Colloidal Silver (used to purify drinking water in 3rd world countries [for families]) CSA - Customer Service Agreement CSA - Compliance, Safety, Accountability. CSCR - Central Society for Clinical Research CSCF - Call/Session Control Function CSEL - Cable Select (IDE/ATA/EIDE) - For computer drives - instead of either Master or Slave, use the order in which the devices appear on the ATA signal cable (obsolete). CSF - Class Scheduling Facility - Cluster software that enables cluster administrators to build scheduling classes that define for processes in a class characteristics such as priority and scheduling policy, processor affinity (for an SMP node), allowable execution times, and list of nodes that can run the process (in order of preference). csfm - Character Special File Manager - uses information in the vnode to locate proper device driver. CSG - current Stage CSM - Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection, a set of rules determining how network devices respond when two devices attempt to use a data channel simultaneously (called a collision). Standard Ethernet networks use CSMA/CD. This standard enables devices to detect a collision. After detecting a collision, a device waits a random delay time and then attempts to re-transmit the message. IF the device detects a collision again, it waits twice as long to try to re-transmit the message. This is known as exponential back off. CSMA/CD - Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection - used by Ethernet CSP - Cryptographic Service Provider. A code module that integrates with the CryptoAPI to perform the authentication, encoding and encryption. Often created by ISVs. CSP - Cross System Product CSQE - Certified Software Quality Engineer CSR - Configuration Status Reporting - An activity that helps software developers to understand what changes have been made, and why. CSR - this prefix to a development item number indicates a combined client/server design requirement - wms CSR - Control and Status Registers. Provide the software visible interface to the CDC. (any hardware register with side-effects) or Customer Support Representative CSRC - Contributing source identifiers list (h323). Identifies the contributing sources for the payload contained in this packet. CSRI - Coordinated Spam reduction Initiative - Microsoft CSS - Cascading Style Sheets (web pages). The W3C-approved way to specif text formatting and layout in a Web page or for an XML document. Several style sheets can be linked to a Web page, or the style information embedded within the page. CSS info CSTE - Certified Software Test Engineer Exam. CSU - Channel service unit. More info on CSU CSU/DSU - Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit - converts a digital data frame from the communications technology used on a local area network (LAN) into a frame appropriate to a wide-area network (WAN) and vice versa. CSU/DSU Information CSV - Common Service Verbs (Microsoft ? or IBM ? ) CSV - Comma Separated Values (example: a,xray,tango ) CT - Channel Table CT SCAN - Computerized tomography (CT scan) — also called CT — combines a series of X-ray views taken from many different angles and computer processing to create cross-sectional images of the bones and soft tissues inside your body. The resulting images can be compared to looking down at single slices of bread from a loaf." - Mayo Clinic In some cases, CT images can be combined to create 3-D images. CT scan images can provide much more information than do plain X-rays. Medical grade CT SCAN .5 mm Conical grade CT SCAN = Cone beam computed tomography. LOWER RADIATION than Medical Grade CT Scan. CTAG - Correlation tag (TL1). CTB - Clear-to-Build (Business systems analyst term) CTERM - Command Terminal (DECnet) CTG - Community Technology Preview CTH - Contract-to-Hire - starter Telephony Integration. The process of connecting telephone sytems and computers to provide automated call handling and routing. CTM - ?? Record and track CTM defects CTM - CTM is a system which was designed by Poul-Henning Kamp for making changes to a source tree available on a regular basis by email. CTO - Communications Tasking Orders (DoD) CTO - Configure to Order (adds more features than ATO) CTP - CTP has set the standard for analog frequency inversion decoders CTP2 - Control Processor card - provides an initial machine load (IML) - (Mc) There is a button on the faceplate. When the button is pressed and held for three seconds, the director reloads firmware and resets the CTP2 card without switching off power or affecting operational fiber-optic links. Each CTP2 card also provides a 10/100 megabit per second (Mbps) CTS - Content transmission State (formerly MTS) - Brandon and Corey own it - wms CTT - Certified Technical Trainer cucumber - Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language and serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid - all rolled into one format. Cucumber works with Ruby, Java, .NET, Flex or web applications written in any language. It has been translated to over 40 spoken languages. Cucumber also supports more succinct tests in tables - similar to what FIT does. Dig around in the examples and documentation to learn more about Cucumber tables. - from: cucumber information - cukes.info Cucumber (software) - Wikipedia cucumber/cucumber · GitHub Curam Software - integrates human services, labor, health, social security, and military and veterans agencies. curamsoftware.com cut-through switching - a frame's destination address is read at the switch's incoming port, and the data is immediately routed to the proper outgoing port. With cut-through switching, it is possible that the frame is already on its way over the outgoing port's link before the entire frame is received on the incoming link. This method is the opposite of Store and Forward switching. CV - Coding Violation. Occurance of transmission bit error(s) in paths & lines. CV - Content Viewer - wms CVE - Common (computer software) Vulnerability and Exposures, Click here for more info CVS - Concurrent Versions System - A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. It supports group collaboration by merging the files from each programmer. CVS - Custom Volume Size CWDM - Coarse WDM. "In 2002 the ITU standardized a channel spacing grid for use with CWDM (ITU-T G.694.2), using the wavelengths from 1270 nm through 1610 nm with a channel spacing of 20 nm. (G.694.2 was revised in 2003 to shift the actual channel centers by 1, so that strictly speaking the center wavelengths are 1271 to 1611 nm). Many CWDM wavelengths below 1470 nm are considered "unusable" on older G.652 specification fibers, due to the increased attenuation in the 1270–1470 nm bands. Newer fibers which conform to the G.652.C and G.652.D[2] standards, such as Corning SMF-28e and Samsung Widepass nearly eliminate the "water peak" attenuation peak and allow for full operation of all 18 ITU CWDM channels in metropolitan networks." Coarse WDM - Wikipedia The Ethernet LX-4 10 Gbit/s physical layer standard is an example of a CWDM system in which four wavelengths near 1310 nm, each carrying a 3.125 gigabit-per-second (Gbit/s) data stream, are used to carry 10 Gbit/s of aggregate data. The main characteristic of the recent ITU CWDM standard is that the signals are not spaced appropriately for amplification by EDFAs. This therefore limits the total CWDM optical span to somewhere near 60 km for a 2.5 Gbit/s signal, which is suitable for use in metropolitan applications. The relaxed optical frequency stabilization requirements allow the associated costs of CWDM to approach those of non-WDM optical components. CWinApp CWinApp::InitInstance is a virtual function whose implementation contains just one statement: return TRUE; The application does NOT have a window unless InitInstance creates it. The window is NOT visable unless so specified: m_pMainWnd = new CMainWindow; m_pMainWnd->ShowWindow (m_nCmdShow); m_pMainWnd->UpdateWindow (); return TRUE; Do any application initialization in InitInstance. CWP - Ceramic Water Purifier (for families - coated with CS) CWTS - China Wireless Telecommunication Standard cx, cy - Horizontal or vertical distance - Windows header file Hungarian notation Cyclomatic Complexity - A measure of the logical complexity of an algorithm, used in white-box testing. Cygwin - Linux-like environment for Windows. See Cygwin for more information cylinder - A set of tracks on a disk that line up horizontally. cylinder group - Consecutive cylinders grouped together into a logical group. DA - Directory Agent (with SLP) ;; destination address DAA - Distribution Asset Analysis - an itron solution and distribution design tool suite. DaaS - data-as-a-service. StrikeIron is the leading innovator in the data-as-a-service (DaaS) space DaaS - Desktop as a Service (Dell, and many others), DAB - Digital Audio Broadcast DAC - DiAgnostic Card - DG's runs on an ISA bus. Newer "DAC"'s are called RIBs or iBIBs cards. DAC - Device Access Controller (really an intelligent diagnostics card) old name for SMM board. DAC - Digital to Analog Converter; Dual attachment concentrator dac0 - controller A dac1 - controller B DAC/ADACTOR - A DAC modified with a daughter card to provide SMM support to Audubon2 systems until the RIBS board is ready. DAE - Disk Array Enclosures (Clariion) daemon - A server process that runs without a controlling terminal. Usually a process that is started when the system boots and runs in the background until it is terminated or until the system shuts down. Other daemons are started by the inetd daemon. upon demand. DAFS - Direct Access File System - takes advantage of the new VI and Infiniband One of the goals of DAFS is to allow a single file system image to continue to expand, even if a single NAS appliance approaches its capacity limitations. DAFS info Dakota - internal name for the NAS product, the IP4700 - uses VxWorks, CrossStore, and DG/UX. Dakota also uses the LongBow board, originally developed for the K10. DAO - Data Access Objects (database) DAP - Directory Access Protocol. A protocol used to gain access to an X.500 directory listing. See LDAP. DAP - Data Access Protocol (DECnet) DAR - Disk Allocation Region. DAR 0 contains the superblock, so 1 blk smaller than other DARs. - Each 512 byte block in the DAR is represented by a bit in the bitmap for the DAR; Bits in the bitmap that don't represent real blocks are set as if the blocks were allocated (set to '1'). DARE - Disk Allocation Region Entry dark fiber - Dark fiber is optical fiber infrastructure (cabling and repeaters) that is currently in place but is not being used. Optical fiber conveys information in the form of light pulses so the "dark" means no light pulses are being sent. The term dark fibre was originally used when referring to the potential network capacity of telecommunication infrastructure, but now also refers to the increasingly common practice of leasing fibre optic cables from a network service provider, or, generally, to the fibre installations not owned or controlled by traditional carriers - WITHOUT ANY applications p[rovided by the Leasor (the Leasee provides all other needed services) - Dark fibre - Wikipedia DARx - Disk Array Router DAS - Direct Attach Storage. See also DASD - Direct Access Storage Device Dashboard - A dashboard is a tool used for collecting and reporting information about vital customer requirements and/or your business' performance for key customers. Dashboards provide a quick summary of process and/or product performance. DAT - Digital Audio tape - was/is? a commly used network tape backup format Data Caching - Temporary storage of new write data or high-demand read data in solid state memory in order to accelerate performance. The cached data is later overwritten with newly cached data once it is either written to disk or deemed to be of low demand. DataCenter - also Data Center, datacenter, data center, computer centre or computer center. A data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components. Data center - Wikipedia DataCore - DataCore Software Corporation creates storage virtualization and storage networking software data deduplication - the elimination of redundant data = capacity optimization = single-instance storage. "In the deduplication process, duplicate data is deleted, leaving only one copy of the data to be stored" - Deduplication - Wikipedia Data deduplication - wikipedia Three Tips for Making the Right Choice between CDP and Deduplication What is progressive deduplication? See also: deduplication data dictionary - A data dictionary, or metadata repository, as defined in the IBM Dictionary of Computing, is a "centralized repository of information about data such as meaning, relationships to other data, origin, usage, and format." See also: Database Information Data Domain - Data Storage and Backup "company" - now owned by EMC. Click here for more information about: Data Domain datagram - Logical grouping of information sent as a network layer unit over a transmission medium without prior establishment of a virtual circuit. IP datagrams are the primary information units in the internet. Data in Motion - enterprise data loss. Data in Motion, And At Rest - Storage Blog - InformationWeek Data Integrity - Data integrity - Wikipedia Data Invulnerability Architecture - DataDomain DataONTAP - NetApp's software creates a grid storage architecture. More info Now called ONTAP Data on the Edge - "the majority of a typical company's data doesn't reside on data center storage - it lives on the "edge." The edge may be desktop PCs, laptops or even smart phones and PDAs" - Protecting Data on the Edge - HP Data Scrubbing - provides a means of detecting media errors before they are found during a normal read or write to a drive. Data Scrubbing is performed as a background task. datatest - A multipurpose filesystem and raw-disk exerciser performing data validation (NA). Data Warehousing - Ralph states that a data warehouse is "a copy of transaction data specifically structured for query and analysis". Two quibbles I have with Ralph's definition are: 1) Sometimes non-transaction data are stored in a data warehouse - though probably 95-99% of the data usually are transaction data. 2) I say "querying and reporting" rather than "query and analysis" because the main output from data warehouse systems are either tabular listings (queries) with minimal formatting or highly formatted "formal" reports. Queries and reports generated from data stored in a data warehouse may or may not be used for analysis DAV - Distributed Authoring and Versioning. A W3C-based standard that provides for a Web server to be used as the central repository for documents that are edited by users via their Web connection and Web browser or other specialist software. D/B/A - Doing Business As (using another name for the company) DB - DataBase DBA - 1] Data Base Administrator 2] Data Base Access 3] Disk Block Address dba - Doing Business As (using another name for the company) DBI - Database independent interface for Perl - more info DBLK - Data Block DBMS - Database Management System DBX - A debugger, often used to debug AV/Alert DC - Data Center DC - Device Context. A data structure maintained by the operating system that defines the graphic objects, their associated attributes, and the graphics modes affecting output on a device. DCAP - Data Link Switching Client Access Protocol DCD - Disk Class Driver DCE - Data circuit-terminating equipment (also called data communications equipment) DCIM - Data Center Infrastructure Management DCML - Data Center Markup Language - the proposed standard provides a common language to describe the resources within a data center and how the data center is built. DCOM - Distributed COM (Microsoft). Dynamic DNS. A system for programs to update DNS record dynamically, rather than by hand editing static zone files. DCP - Decision Checkpoint Process DCP - Data Compression Protocol over Frame Relay DCPCP - DCP Control Protocol DCS - Device Connect State - wms DCS - Distributed ontrol systems DCS - Digital Command Script (language) - Digital Computers DCT - DataCenter Technology DCT - Development Core Team DCX - High Performance Brocade Fibre and Ethernet Switch. Click here for more information about Brocade's DCX switch DD - discovery domain DD - Download Dialog DD... - DD530s, DD510s and DD120s,... = Data Domain's deduplication storage systems DDC - Display Data Channel DDC - Diagnostic Data Capture ;; Defect Detection Capability DDD - Defunct Disk Drive - if a physical drive fails, the DHS becomes a DDD - RAID-5E DDE - Dynamic Data Exchange, an interprocess communication (IPC) system built into the Macintosh, Windows, and OS/2 operating systems. DDE enables two running applications to share the same data. For example, DDE makes it possible to insert a spreadsheet chart into a document created with a word processor. Whenever the spreadsheet data changes, the chart in the document changes accordingly. Although the DDE mechanism is still used by many applications, it is being supplanted by OLE, which provides greater control over shared data. DDF - Common Disk Data Format (DDF) Specification (SNIA). The Specification defines a standard data structure describing how data is formatted across the disks in a RAID group. The Disk Data Format (DDF) structure allows a basic level of interoperability between different suppliers of RAID technology. The Common RAID DDF structure benefits storage users by enabling data-in-place migration among systems from different vendors. Click for more DDF info Click for more RAID info DDH - decision Diffie-Hellman problem = DDHP. more on DDH DDHP - alternate "name" for DDH DDI - Device Driver Interface DDI - Welcome to the Data Documentation Initiative - DDI DDL - Data definition language. Data definition language - Wikipedia DDM - Doctor of Dental Medicine "The DDS (Doctor of Dental Surgery) and DMD (Doctor of Dental Medicine) are the same degrees. They are awarded upon graduation from dental school to become a general dentist. The majority of dental schools award the DDS degree; however, some award a DMD degree. The education and degrees are, in substance, the same" - Wikipedia DDM - Disk Drive Module DDNS - Dynamic DNS. A system for programs to update DNS records dynamically, rather than by hand editing static zone files. DDoS - Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). In the case of a DDoS attack the perpetrator recruits other unwitting computers into a network and uses a multitude of machines to mount the attack. Denial of service denial Click here for more DoS information DDP - Datagram Delivery Protocol (AppleTalk)\ DDR - Double Data Rate (memory) - also called DDR SDRAM DDR2 - Double Data Rate SDRAM (memory). NOT backward compatible with DDR. Computers: DDR2 SDRAM is supplied in DIMMs with 240 pins and a single locating notch. Notebooks: Laptop DDR2 SO-DIMMs have 200 pins and often come identified by an additional S in their designation. DDR3 - Double Data Rate three synchronous dynamic random access memory (memory). Transfer at twice the data rate of DDR2. NOT backward compatible with DDR2 nor DDR. Reduces power consumption of 16% compared to DDR2. DDS - Data Distribution Services. Data Distribution Service - Wikipedia - (HDMI 1.4) DDS - Doctor pf Dental Surgery "The DDS (Doctor of Dental Surgery) and DMD (Doctor of Dental Medicine) are the same degrees. They are awarded upon graduation from dental school to become a general dentist. The majority of dental schools award the DDS degree; however, some award a DMD degree. The education and degrees are, in substance, the same" - Wikipedia DDS - Discovery Domain Set DDS - DDS, I believe, stands for Diagnosis Decision System or Diagnostic Decision System, and is the database that holds AV/Alert information (MI call data) at the CSC. DDS - Detailed Design Specification DDV - Dialog Data Validation. In MFC, a method for checking data as it is transferred from the controls in a dialog box. DDV is an easy way to validate data entry in a dialog box. DDX - Dialog Data eXchange. In MFC, a method for transferring between the controls of a dialog box and their associated variables. DDX Array - Data Domain's High-Speed Inline Deduplication Storage DECnet - Digital Equipment Corporation protocols developed to communicate between DEC minicomputers. DE - Development Engineering (IBM) ; Distinquished Engineer (IBM) de-dupe - Deduplication debug (mode) - Debug mode usually lets the user (debug person) change many aspects of the software being debug. Debug mode allows tracing or stepping through the code and enables the human debugger to see what is happening or what would happen if the debugger causes certain changes. Debugging - The process of finding and removing the causes of software failures. more info deduplication - capacity optimization = single-instance storage. Removal of duplicate data before storage, to save storage space. Default zone - the default zone consists of all devices not configured as members of a zone in the active zone set. If there is no active zone set, then all devices attached to the fabric are in the default zone. defect - The difference between the functional specification (including user documentation) and actual program text (source code and data). Often reported as problem and stored in defect-tracking and problem-management systems. defect - Also called a fault or a bug, a defect is an incorrect part of code that is caused by an error. An error of commission causes a defect of wrong or extra code. An error of omission results in a defect of missing code. A defect may cause one or more failures. [Robert M. Poston, 1996.] Any type of undesired result is a defect. A failure to meet one of the acceptance criteria of your customers. A defective unit may have one or more defects. A defect is a failure to conform to requirements' (Crosby, 'Quality Is Free'), whether or not those requirements have been articulated or specified. The non-conformance to intended usage requirement. degraded mode - The condition in which a RAID system operates when a component has failed. Click here for more info Degree of Freedom - Degrees of freedom are the equivalent of currency in statistics - you earn a degree of freedom for every data point you collect, and you spend a degree of freedom for each parameter you estimate. Since you ususally need to spend 1 just to calculate the mean, you then are left with n-1 (total data points "n" - 1 spent on calculating the mean). Demand caching - A performance caching technique in which the currently requested data is read in anticipation of another request before its allocated blocks are recycled. Reassignment of the blocks is done on the basis of least recently used (LRU). demote primary LU - primary LU becomes a secondary LU for the mirror. LU no longer accessible by production host. dense mode multicast - multicasts to every router and node. This is preferred over sparse mode when there are many routers/nodes and bandwidth is not a problem. Dependency Testing - testing for any required pre-existing software, hardware and state configurations. depot - In Perforce terminology, the repository is call the depot. Pathnames within the depot are always written //depot/stuff. It has a tree structure, very much like you'd see in any hierarchical filesystem. if mirror state is not in sync, set to out of sync. Depth Testing - testing a product feature in full detail (all of it). deregister - deregister will deregister all paths to the disk DES - Data Encryption Standard. A standard that protects passwords from being read and then used again on the same a network to obtain unofficial access. des - Digital Entertainment System desc - DPT's SmartRaid SCSI controller for Intel systems. Descriptive statistics - Descriptive statistics is a method of statistical analysis of numeric data, discrete or continuous, that provides information about centering, spread, and normality. Results of the analysis can be in tabular or graphic format. Deschutes - Intel Pentium Pro processor, 400MHz, 1MB L2 Cache at single-block FCS. descriptor - a small non-negative integer used in I/O calls like read(), write(), etc. design - The approach that engineering (and some other) disciplines use to specify how to create or do something. A successful design must satisfies a (perhaps informal) functional specification (do what it was designed to do); conforms to the limitations of the target medium (it is possible to implement); meets implicit or explicit requirements on performance and resource usage (it is efficient enough). Design Control Guidance - Design Control Guidance For Medical Device Manufacturers. Design Control. All projects involving product and process design are identified, planned, approved, conducted, and reviewed according ... Design Control Services - Medical device Design Control (CFR 820.30) Design Transfer - Of these life-cycle transitions, design transfer, the introduction of a design to production, may be the most important. destroy remote mirror - admin turns primary LU into normal LU all secondary LUs must be removed first. Click here for more info detached - background process Developer - referes to the software developer who writes code that interfaces with the WMS SDK device - A wireless device that can hold CAE software - wms Device - In the context of the Emulator, an image of a mobile phone faceplate. (BREW) Device attributes - The attributes pertaining to the wireless device, such as model and pushed image file. (BREW) device discovery - in storage networking, any mechanism used by initiators to discover targets. device locality - Devices that communicate with each other through the same director or switch have high locality. Devices that must communicate with each other through one or more ISLs have low locality. DeviceNet - DeviceNet uses CAN (Controller Area Network) for its data link layer, and CIP (Common Industrial Protocol) for the upper-layers of the network, DeviceNet is an open standard managed by ODVA and accepted by international standards bodies around the world. DevOps - DevOps aids in release management for a company by standardizing development environments. The goal is to automate as much as possible different operational processes. DevOps - Wikipedia DFA - Design For Assembly DFD - Data flow diagram - a modeling notation that represents a functional decomposition of a system. DFM - Data Fabric Manager (NetApp) DFM - Design for Manufacturing DFM - DOS File Manager DFR - Design for Reliability DFS - Distributed File System. A component of Windows 2000 that allows a hierarchy view of distributed data storage devices to be constructed, rather than using a UNC share or path name for each one. DFSC - Design For Supply Chain DFT - Design for Testability DFT - Distributed Function Terminal (IBM) DGRPCGEN - Tool used to convert RPC.x file into .c and .h files for code use. dgsb - Data General Sunburst SCSI Adapter for m88k systems. DH - Device Handler DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (TCP/IP). A protocol under which a client can contact a server to obtain a valid IP network address for its own use, rather than using one hard-wired into the client. Useful on large networks to prevent IP address conflicts. DHCP is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. This networking protocol automatically configures the mobile computer with an IP address, subnet and gateway. Socket's cards support obtaining an IP address automatically via DHCP. Please note that Pocket PCs may have trouble obtaining an IP address automatically from some sources such as the popular DSL/Cable modem routers, smart hub/switches and non-Microsoft servers. DHF - Design History File (Pharma) DG - Data Governance. Overall management of the availability, usability, integrity, and security of the data employed in an enterprise. What is data governance (DG)? - Definition from WhatIs.com Data Governance Professionals Organization - DGO.org DHMO - Dental Health Maintenance Organization DHP - Diffie-Hellman problem. more on DHP DHS - Distributed Hot Spare - a virutal hot spare made from unused disk space - RAID-5E DHS - Department of Homeland Security DHTML - Dynamic HTML DI - Data Integrity DI - Directing Implementation (one of the Common features in a CMMI PA). DIACAP - Department of Defense Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process DIAG - Diagnostic Responder protocol (Novell) dichotomy - A division, or the process of dividing into two mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities. Differential backup - creates copies of all the files that are different from the ones in the last full backup. See Also: Full Backup Incremental Backup Difference between: Full, Differential, and Incremental Backup DiffServ - Differentiated Services dig - An extremely valuable tool for debugging DNS. Compare with nslookup Digicam - A Digital Camera (primarily for still pictures [photographs], although it could allow taking of movies - it is NOT a Digital Video Camera. See DIGITAL for more information DIME - Direct Internet Message Encapsulation DIP - Device Information (block) Pointer Director Class Switches - SAN Director Class Switches - A fault-tolerant Fibre Channel switch that typically has a high port count and may serve as a central switch to other fabrics. More information about Director Class Switches DIRT - Data IntegRity Test or Data Integrity and Recovery Test Dirty Testing - Negative Testing [Beizer] DIS - Draft International Standard - an ISO draft DIS - Device Information Structure DISA - Defense Information Systems Agency discovery domain - in the iSNS protocol, a grouping of initiators and targets that are authorized to communicate. Disk Mirroring - A fault-tolerant technique that writes data simultaneously to two hard disks using the same hard disk controller. Click here for more info disk pooling - A SAN solution in which disk storage resources are pooled across multiple hosts rather than be dedicated to a specific host. disparity - the relationship of ones and zeros in an encoded character; positive disparity contains more ones; negative disparity contains more zeros; neutral disparity contains an even number of ones and zeros. DISPID - Dispatch Identifier. a 32-bit attribute value for identifying methods and properties in Automation. Allk accessor functions for a single property have the same DISPID. distance vector routing algorithm - Class of routing algorithms that iterate on the number of hops in a route to find a shortest-path spanning tree. Distance vector routing algorithms call for each router to send its entire routing algorithms can be prone to routing loops, but are computationally simpler than link state routing algorithms. Also called Bellman-Ford routing algorithms. distinquished name - An object's distinquished name consists of the name of the object plus the the names of each of the contained objects between itself and the [ROOT] object of the NDS tree (NetWare). DIT - Device Information Table DITA - XML-based Darwin Information Typing Architecture. Created and made available by IBM, DITA is an open standard, XML-based, end-to-end architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information that helps content creators consistently structure information into discrete, modular topic chunks. DKI - Driver-Kernel Interface DKT - Direct ??? Knowledge Transfer DL - Data Leakage ;; Data Loss ;; Discussion List (a mailing list). DLC - Data Link Control DLL - Dynamic Link Library. A software component or library of functions stored as a disk file in a special format. Used by other applications that require these functions. DLM - Data Life-cycle Management (viewed by Storage vendors as a sub-set of ILM). DLM is considered a simpler conecpet than ILM, and focuses on the general characteristics of data - age, size, and file type - without detailed knowledge of applications. DLM - Distributed Lock Manager, allows DG/UX clusters to share per-cluster resources. DLNA - Digital Living Network Alliance All devices designed around DLNA guidelines will be able to communicate with each other. DLNA - Wikipedia Frequently Asked Questions About DLNA DLNA - More Information - Woodsmall.com DLP - Data Loss Prevention ;; data leakage prevention DLP - Digital Light Projector ;;; DownLoadable Package DLPAR - Dynamic Logical Partition is a LPAR that you can reconfigure dynamically without shutting down the OS running there - would be better to think of DLPAR as an operation to dynamically alter a virtual machine aka LPAR. LPAR, DLPAR and WPAR - The UNIX and Linux Forums DLPI - USL's Data Link Provider Interface DLS - Distributed Lock Services (K10) DLSw - Data Link Switching (IBM SNA) DLU - Disk Logical Unit (K10). The VLU to DLU mapping is many to one. The interface between the TCD and the TxD is tightly coupled. DM - Direct Message (a person to person message, not public) DM - Dual-Mode. See dual-mode driver; Directory Map; Drive Migration (IBM). DMAIC - Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control. Incremental process improvement using Six Sigma methodology. See DMAIC Methodology Pronounced (Duh-May-Ick). DMAIC refers to a data-driven quality strategy for improving processes, and is an integral part of the company's Six Sigma Quality Initiative. DMAIC is an acronym for five interconnected phases: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control. DMF - Data Migration Facility - Mike Haynes DMI - Desktop Management Interface DML - Data Manipulation Language. Data Manipulation Language - Wikipedia DML - Dependent ML (DML) is a conservative extension of the functional programming language ML. The type system of DML enriches that of ML with a restricted form of dependent types. DMP - Data Management Protocol - Veritas DMP - Device Messaging Protocol DMR - Device master record (Pharma) DMS - Document Management Systems DMTF - Desktop Management Task Force - will develop the DTMF Common Information Model (CIM) DMTF has a these working groups Now called Distributed Management Task Force. DMV - data management virtualization. See also Actifio, who coined the term DMZ - demilitarized zone - a buffer zone that separates the Internet and your private LAN (same as Microsoft's "Screened Subnet") DN - Distinquished Name || Directory Number DNA - Microsoft's Distributed interNet Architecture. A methodology for three-tier application design using components that communicate via COM and DCOM. Also a broad marketing term for the combination of the different services offered by Windows NT. DNCP - PPP DECnet Phase IV Control Protocol (PPP suite) DNG - Adobe's proposed Digital negative specification format. Adobe hopes to make this format the standard for all digital cameras that record in a raw (uncompressed) format. Currently most all vendors use a format different from their competitors. Adobe is already developing plug-ins for their graphics software. DNS - Domain Name Server protocol (TCP/IP). Also refers to a Domain Name Server. Translates a text URL (such as http://webdev.wrox.co.uk) into the equivalent IP address (194.73.51.228). DOC - Declaration Of Conformity DOCSIS - Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification. The SPEC used for delivering data over our cable internet. DOCSIS 3.0 is being rolled out. See DOCSIS 3.0 document - a document is simply an abstract representation of a program's data (windows). A document could just as easily be a byte array. document root - The top-level directory of a WAR. The document root is where JSP pages, client-side clases and archives, and static Web resources are stored. dodge / dodging - A method of obtaining lighter areas in a photograph, by masking selected areas from exposure to light (pictures from film). DOE - Depending on Experience (salary paid depends on your applicable experience) Design of Experiments. DOM - Document Object Model. A standard definition of the structure and content of a Web page when displayed in a browser or other user agent. Used in scripting to manipulate the contents of the document. A tree of objects with interfaces for traversing the tree and writing an XML version of it, as defined by the W3C specification. DOM - Department Operating Manual (IBM) Domain Switching - (NetApp) uses a Coarse Symmetric Multiprocessing approach to MP. Kernel routines are divided into domains of execution. It is expensive to switch domains. In addition, workload should be distributed among the domains to ensure good MP performance. Doorbell interrupt - software can notify a hardware device that there is something to be done. Doorbell Interrupt - Wikipedia DoS - Denial of Service. DOS - DOS directory entries are fixed in size at 16 bytes each. Uses 8+3 filename lengths. dot address - IP address, form is aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd where each is 0..255 dotted quad format - see dot address = dotted-decimal notation = dotted-quad address DOU - Document Of Understanding downresolution - delibertly decreasing the amount of video resolution. AACS may require this. DP - dietary pattern data processing DPC - Deferred Procedure call, NT term DPCM - Differential Pulse Code Modulation are simple forms of lossy compression based on PCM. Probably not much used any more? Stores only the difference between two successive samples. This takes a lot less space than storing the actual sample values. DPE - Disk Processor Enclosure (EMC) dpen - DEC PCI Ethernet controller DPF - Digital Picture Frame DPI - Deep Packet Inspection. A step up from an SPI firewall. DPI examines a packet's contents in addition to the header inspection performed by SPI firewalls. DDI can detect many types of of DoS attacks, buffer overflows, IP masking and some worms. DPI is the ability to deeply inspect a packet's content, and remove any packets that do not conform to standsrds. DPI is used to help filter out Malware, Worms and Viruses, that are trying to force a failure that allows them to take control of you computer. DPI is useful for IPS (Intrusion Prevention Systems). Firewall Evolution - Deep Packet Inspection Deep packet inspection - Wikipedia Some fear that ISPs will use DPI to charge us higher rates for specific Internet traffic (VoIP for example) Deep packet inspection engine goes open source Congress Begins Deep Packet Inspection of Internet Providers ... Deep Packet Inspection: Reading List and Call for ... - Ralf Bendrath DPI - Dots Per Inch - a measurement use for inkjet printers. DPM - Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) DPP - Defect Prevention Process - an IBM process in the 80's - The basic element is a well defined process that is closely followed for each release. Then modified based on the defects / lessons learned from the previous iteration. Currently, I would call this CPI. dppb - DEC PCI-to-PCI bridge DPU - Defects per unit (DPU) represents the number of defects divided by the number of products. DQP - Data Queue Packets - wms DR - Disaster Recovery ; Data Recovery ; Dynamic Reconfiguration ; Data Recognition Disaster Recovery - Wikipedia DR - Data Rentention (permanent copy, for example, for government regulations) DR - Designated Router. The first (or only) router to appear on a LAN is the DR. Subsequent routers defer to the DR. Only when the first two routers are activated at about the same time (within 4*RouterDeadTime of each other) will the highest RouterID become DR, otherwise it is the first router with a non-zero RouterPriority. DRAT - Distributed aRrAy Technology, which was going to include more than two SPs,... DRL - Distrubuted Reference Links (NetWare) DRM - Digital Rights Management. See DRM for more information DRM tools are technological locks or identification measures that range from ensuring a software program is genuine to protecting a movie against unauthorized copying. DRM will limit the number of times a music file can be duplicated. DRM - Data Replication Manager (HP) DRO - Detail Resolution Owner (usually for a CritSit) DROP - A firewall-filterimg rule decision to silently drop a packet without returning any notification to the sender. DROP is identical to DENY in earlier Linux firewall technologies. DRP - Distribution and Replication Protocol. An index-based protocol proposal designed to improve the efficiency and reliability of data distribution over HTTP. Based on XML and RDF, and provides content identifiers, an index format, and new HTTP header fields. DRP - Disaster Recovery Planning DRR - Deployment Readiness Review Drupal - an open source content management platform. Drupal.org Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Trends: A caution about Drupal as a social software platform Drupal videos, tutorials, training, consulting, and guidance - COSTS - Lullabot DRV - Disk Reallocation Volume (EMC) DS - Directory Server DS-CDMA - Direct-Sequence Code Division Multiple Access DS1 - DS1 is a dedicated, private line service designed for point-to-point communications. This 1.544 Mbps digital service is well-suited for large organizations requiring high capacity Internet connections. Depending upon your organization's location, you may also want to consider a 1.536 Mbps Frame Relay service, which, unlike DS1, Frame Relay does not include a mileage charge. DS3 - A DS3 is very similar to a DS1. The big difference is that, with a bandwidth of 45Mbps, a channelized DS3 has the ability to carry 28 DS1s (at a cost lower than just ordering 28 DS1s). It is also a High Capacity Special Access Service that will provide you with high-speed, dedicated, point-to-point lines capable of transmitting multiple streams of information. Whether you are sending voice, data, or high quality video, a DS3 can fulfill your requirements. And since it is a dedicated line, the full bandwidth will be available to you 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week. DS3 - Frame Relay (see above DS3 definition) DS3 - 44.736 Mbps = 672 DS0 multiples = T-3 (telephony) DS4 - 274.176 Mbps = 4032 DS0 multiples DS4/NA - DS4 North America = 139.264 Mbps = 2176 DS0 multiples DS3000 - IBM's entry level enterprise disk storage systems. Mostly iSCSI. DS4000 - IBM's mid-range disk data storage (lower cost (than their Shark/DS8000) computer storage systems. Formerly called FAStT DS5000 - IBM's highest mid-range disk storage systems. IBM System Storage DS5000 series : Overview - Disk Systems - IBM DSA - Directory Service Agent. The component of Active Directory that manages the physical storage of the directory information content. DSA - Dual Simultaneous Access - A mechanism, initially developed for Alpine, that provides host read/write access to a lun through a SP that doesn't actively have the lun assigned to it. This functionality is currently not planned on being ported to K10. Talk to Finney Patterson, Bruce Keesee. dSATA - some type of enclosure ??? DS-CDMA - Direct-Sequence Code Division Multiple Access DSCP - DiffServ code point; use of the IP header TOS field to specify additional class of service parameters. DSD - Direct Store Delivery DSG - DOCSIS Set-top Gateway DSHM - A means to allow applications to access more than 4 GB of physical memory while using only 4 GB of logical address space (typically for databases). DSIG - Digital Signature DSL - Digital Subscriber Line. See also Currently, there are four types of DSL: ADSL, HDSL, SDSL and VDSL. DSLAMs - Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexers (DSLAMs) The device placed in the CO that accepts all the DSL lines. D-SLR - Digital Single-lens reflex (Camera). See also: DIGITAL as opposed to SLR that uses film. DSM - Device Specific Module - usually talks to an MPIO device driver. DSM - distributed shared memory (Mc); District Sales Manager DSM - deep-sub-micron (a chip fabrication process) DSMA-CD - Digitial Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection DSMCC - Digital Storage Media Command and Control (Audio Visual over ATM) DSML - Directory Services Markup Language. A set of XML tags that defines the contents of a directory. Developed by Bowstreet Software, Portsmouth, NH, (www.bowstreet.com), and endorsed by major vendors, it is designed to allow directories to work together. An access protocol such as LDAP is required to request services, and DSML provides a common format for delivering the results. For information on the DSML initiative, visit www.dsml.org. See LDAP. DSN - Data Source Name. The name of a data source that applications use to request a connection to the data source. For example, DSN can be registered with ODBC throught the ODBC Administrator program. A specification of all the information required to connect to and access a data store. Used with ODBC, and can also be stored a file on disk (File DSN) or with system-wide access (System DSN). DS0 - (DSzero) - Digital signal X is a term for the series of standard digital transmission rates or levels based on DS0, a transmission rate of 64 Kbps, the bandwidth normally used for one telephone voice channel. DSO - Dynamic Shared object DS0 - Some terminations, which typically represent ports on the gateway, such as analog loops or DS0s, are instantiated by the MG when it boots and remain active all the time. DSO - Data Source Object. A control embedded into a Web page that provides an OLE-DB interface allowing ADO to connect to a remote data store. Used in RDS for data binding. Examples are the IE4+ Advanced Data Control and Tabular Data Control. DSP - Digital Signal Processor DSPU - Downstream Physical Unit (IBM) DSR - Design, Size, Review Subprocess DSS - Data Security Standard. see also: PCI Compliance DSS - Decision Support Systems DSS-1 - Digitial Subscriber Line No. 1 DSSS - Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum. Click for more info DST - Developer Skill Transfer DST - Drive DSU - Data Service Unit. More info on DSU D-sub 15 connector - the standard VGA connector for computer monitors VGA is being phased out as a computer monitor standard. DT - datatest DTAP - Direct Transfer Application Part DTC - Distributed Transaction Coordinator (Microsoft's). A software component that manages changes to a data source under control of a transaction manager. Allows updates to be rolled back if the transaction needs to be aborted, leaving the data store unchanged. DTC - Direct-to-Customer DTCA - Direct-to-Customer advertising - the promotion of prescription drugs to customers DTCH - Dedicated Traffic Channel DTD - document type definition. A description of the structure & properties of a class of XML files. more on DTD DTD Tutorial DTE - Data Terminal (or Termination) Equipment DTLS - DTLS is a derivation of SSL protocol. It provides the same security services (integrity, authentification and confidentiality) but under UDP protocol. DTLS is implemented by several projects including CyaSSL and the OpenSSL project. DTMF - Dual Tone Multiple Frequency. The system of creating the keypress tones that are used when dialing or sending CTI commands over a phone line. DTP - Desk Top Publishing (small home/office publishing) DTP - Dynamic Trunking Protocol - attempts to determine what trunking protocols are on each side & to establish a trunk, if possible ;; Data Transfer Packets - wms DTS - Data Transformation Services. See also: Using DTS and FTP to Push Files DTS - A Netware I/O testing program. DTS - DTS Digital Surround, or just "DTS". Like Dolby Digital, DTS is another 5.1-channel surround sound format that is available in movie theaters, and as an optional soundtrack on some DVD-Video movies for home theater viewing. Click here for more info DTS-ES - DTS Extended Surround (Matrix or Discrete 6.1). Click here for more info Dual Block System - Frame with two blocks running coherently, connected by A SCIFI-0 dual-mode driver - The dual-mode (DM) driver is the code that comprises the bulk of a full Fibre Channel driver. It is referred to as a "dual-mode" driver due to its ability to either act as both an initiator and target to exchanges simultaneously. It used the API to interface to a controller chip, and provides a hardware-independent and operating system-independent interface to the O/S Wrapper. DUnit - a testing tool for Borland's Delphi. DUnit is an Xtreme testing framework for Borland Delphi programs. It was originally inspired on the JUnit framework written in Java by Kent Beck and Erich Gamma, but has evolved into a tool that uses much more of the potential of Delphi to be much more useful to Delphi developers. durable subscription - In a JMS publish/subscribe messaging system, a subscription that continues to exist whether or not there is a current active subscriber object. If there is no active subscriber, JMS retains the subscription's messages until they are received by the subscription or until they expire. DVB - Digital Video Broadcasting DVD - Digital Versatile Disk. Click here for more info DVD-Audio - A high-resolution, multi-channel audio that can use either PCM or MLP formats. DVD-Audio disks can contain embedded vidio, and other content. The high resolution audio is stored in the \AUDIO-TS directory, and DVDI-Video is stored in \VIDEO-TS See also DVE - Dynamic Volume Expansion DVI - Digital Visual Interface) A digital flat panel interface from the Digital Display Working Group (www.ddwg.org). Click here for more information DVI - DeVice Independent (Unix) DVMRP - the Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol is a RIP derivative which has a maximum hop count of 31. DVR - Digital Video recorder (same as PVR), al la TiVo Click here for more info DVT - Design Verification Testing. more on DVT DW - Data Warehouse dw - DWORD - Windows header file Hungarian notation DWDM - Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing, an optical technology used to increase bandwidth over existing fiber optic backbones. WDM, DWDM and CWDM are based on the same concept of using multiple wavelengths of light on a single fiber, but differ in the spacing of the wavelengths - Wavelength-division multiplexing - Wikipedia DWQ - drinking-water quality ;; Division of Water Quality DWT - Data Warehouse Technologies dynamic reconfig - hot swap dynamic reconfiguration - The process of adding or removing a system board on the fly, changing the basic configuration of a system. dynamic routing - dynamically discover network destinations and how to get to them. Dynamic Routing Protocols Dynamic Testing - Testing, based on specific test cases, by execution of the test object or running programs [Tim Koomen, 1999] Dynamics - Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 is a comprehensive business management solution, also called ERP-solution E-DDM - Enhanced Disk Drive Module E1 - ATM physical interface. The E1 interface operates at 2 Mbps over coax cables, compliant with ATM Forum UNI specifications. It supports both PLCP and direct cell mapping and complies with the following standards: G.704, G.706, G.732. The interface has BNC connectors. E2E - End to End. What is E2E Testing End To End Testing - softwaretestinggenius.com E3 - ATM physical interface. The E3 interface operates at 34.368 Mbps over coax cables, compliant with ATM Forum UNI specifications. It supports both PLCP and direct cell mapping and complies with the following standards: G.751, G.832. The interface has BNC connectors. EA - Enterprise Architect EA approaches - A “complete” EA approach must include six core elements, which must be designed to work together - internationaleainstitute.org Understanding EA Approaches: Traditional - Gartner e-Load - (Empirix)(Scientific Computeres, Ltd.)Load/Stress Testing E Test Suite - browser plug-in web test tool. Functional, scalability and monitoring tools. With the range of e-commerce and web testing products from Empirix, SCL can assist you in testing your web based business. We have experience with the testing of major internet banking and retail systems in both the UK and Europe, and can provide a range of services designed to ensure you deliver a quality web solution. (Empirix) e-Tester - Push-button Functional and Regression Testing for Browser-based Applications (Empirix) EA - Enterprise Architect EAD - employment authorization document. EAD - wikipedia EAI - Enterprise Application Integration EAL - Evaluation Assurance Level (security rating) eAMT - Inventory Managment (tool) - IBM EAP - IETF's Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP). See also: EAP EAR file - Enterprise Archive file. A Java JAR file that contains a J2EE application "early tenure employees" - less than five years with the company EAS - Emergency Alert System. eBGP - external BGP Border Gateway Protocol - wikipedia EBIT - H.261 End bit. (3 bits) Number of least significant bits that are to be ignored in the last data octet. EBM - Enterprise Business Management Team ebuild - Engineering Build EC - Engineering Changes - "Know how to process ECs" EC - European Commission EC - electrical connection EC - Electronic-COMMERCE. Doing business online, typically via the Web. It is also called "e-business," "e-tailing" and "I-commerce." Although in most cases e-commerce and e-business are synonymous, e-commerce implies that goods and services can be purchased online, whereas e-business might be used as more of an umbrella term for a total presence on the Web, which would naturally include the e-commerce (shopping) component. E-commerce may also refer to electronic data interchange (EDI), in which one company's computer queries and transmits purchase orders to another company's computer. See m-commerce, microcommerce and clicks and mortar. EC2 - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. Cloud Computing ECB - electronic codebook. See also: Cryptology / Encryption ECC - some form of Error Correcting Cache (memory) ECC - Electronic Customer Care (IBM) ECD - enterprise cloud development ECI - External Communication Interconnect (clusters). E-CLI - IBM / LSI's Command Line Interpreter for IBM and LSI Mid and small-range Storage systems. NetApp bought LSI. Click here for more information about E-CLI ECLIPSE - Eclipse is a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular. Eclipse is a wonderful open-source IDE, as well as a development platform for GUI applications in Java. Eclipse was created by IBM and then given away as open-source. Eclipse RCP - Rich Client Platform - Eclipsepedia ECM - Enterprise Content Management (FileNet) ECMA - European Computer Manufacturers Association. A standards body that manages and ratifies proposals for computer technologies. Issues the open standard for the scripting language ECMAScript, which is based on JavaScript and JScript. ECO - Engineering Change Order Engineering changes in procedures that will be implemented in a new revision of a procedure. ECP - Encryption Control Protocol (PPP suite) ECPAM - Engage/Collect/Process/Apply/Maintain ECR - Engineering Change Request: A request or suggestion to Engineering for an improvement in a process or procedure. EDA - Electronic Design Automation. Electronic design automation - Wikipedia EDAP - Extended Data Availability and Protection EDGE - Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution. (G3). EDGE - Data on the Edge - "the majority of a typical company's data doesn't reside on data center storage - it lives on the "edge." The edge may be desktop PCs, laptops or even smart phones and PDAs" - Protecting Data on the Edge - HP edgelet - This term is similar to facelet, but with reference to edges instead of faces. An edgelet is what appears to be an edge from outside a polyhedron, so these are the edges that you will need to score/fold/cut to build a physical model. True edges may intersect through other faces and be partly hidden inside the model. EDI - Electronic Data Interchange. The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. Although interactive access may be a part of it, EDI implies direct computer to computer transactions into vendors' databases and ordering systems. The Internet is expected to give EDI quite a boost, but not by using private networks and the traditional EDI data formats (X12, EDIFACT and TRADACOMS). Rather, XML is expected to be the glue that connects businesses together using the Web as the communications vehicle. See X12, EDIFACT, TRADACOMS, extranet and XML. EDI Analyst - A person responsible for the implementation of electronic data interchange systems between companies. The EDI analyst is technical consultant for the trading partners and is involved with deploying systems using the traditional EDI standards and XML-based Web implementations. See EDI and XML. EDIFACT - Electronic Data Interchange For Administration Commerce and Transport. An ISO standard for electronic data interchange (EDI) that was proposed to supersede both X12 and TRADACOMS as the worldwide standard. See EDI. EDM - Electronic Document Management EDM - Engineering Data Management (EDM) is the management using computers and electronic storage media of documents or data that relate to engineering applications. EDM - Electrical Discharge Machine or Machining - is a machine process driven by a computer program that is used in making high-precision molds, dies, or machine parts. EDRD - European Union Data Retention Directive EDS - Engineering Design Specification EDW - Enterprise Data Warehouse eel - Extended Error Logging EFC - Enterprise Fabric Connectivity (Mc) EFCM - Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager - EFC Manager (Mc) EFI - The companies (Intel, Microsoft) will begin promoting a technology specification called EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) as a new system for starting up a PC's hardware before its operating system begins loading, a process that kicks in every time a PC is switched on or restarted. EFI info A replacement for the BIOS. Used on Intel Itanium 64-bit processors. Eficient Consumer Response: A term used to describe a way of doing business in the grocery industry that involves trading partners. EFM - Ethernet for subscriber access networks, also referred to as “Ethernet in the First Mile”, or EFM, combines a minimal set of extensions to the IEEE 802.3 Media Access Control (MAC) and MAC Control sublayers with a family of Physical (PHY) Layers. These Physical Layers include optical fiber and unshielded twisted pair (UTP) copper cable Physical Medium Dependent sublayers (PMDs) for point-to-point connections in subscriber access networks. EFS - Engineering Functional Spec EFS - Encrypting File System. A new feature in Windows 2000/NTFS version 5.0 that allows the content of a fixed (hard) disk to be encrypted for protection should the device be stolen or accessed without the users permission. EFS - Embedded File System EFT - Electronic Funds Transfer EGID - Execution Group ID EGID - a computerized database system for Citrus network EGL - Enterprise Generation Language. IBM's Rational software. EGMC - End Game Management Committee (they can stop or delay software shipments EGP - Exterior Gateway Protocol RFC 904. RFC 827 (rfc827) - Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) EHB - Essential Health Benefits EHS - Environmental, Health and Safety EHLLAPI - Emulator High-Level Language API EIA - Electroncs Industry Association EIDE - Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics. A low cost, limited functionality drive interface. Controlled by the ANSI X3T9.2 committee. IDE, ATA, EIDE EIO - Enhanced I/O ) A hardware interface for HP printers that is used for adding an internal print server and network adapter, a hard disk and other plug-in functionality. EIO cards are smaller than previous MIO cards and more energy efficient. They use the PCI bus. See MIO. EIP - Intel PC register EIR - Equipment Identity Register EISA bus - Extended ISA bus, 8MHz, 32-bit w/bus mastering, now fairly well obsolete. EJB - Enterprise Java Beans EJB container - A container that implements THE EJB contract of the J2EE architecture. EJB context - An object that allows an enterprise bean to invoke services provided by the container and to obtain the information about the caller of a client-invoked method. EJB home object - An object that provides the life cycle operations (create, remove, find) for an enterprise bean EJB JAR file - a JAR archive that contains an EJB module EJB QL - Enterprise JavaBeans Query Language - defines the queries for the finder and select methods of an entity bean with container-managed persistence. A subset of SQL92, EJB QL has extgensions that allow navigation over the relationships defined in an entity bean's abstract schema. EJB module - A software unit that consists of one or more enterprise beans and ans EJB deployment descriptor EJBs - Enterprise JavaBeans ELDK - Embedded Linux Development Kit ELDS - Embedded Linux Developer Suite (Red Hat's), utilizes GNUPro Tools ELDT - Embedded Linux Development Tools (Gnu croos-compiler, binutils & gdb. Elevator Sort - Data is written to disk in order of increasing cylinder, head and sector number, minimising physical disk seeks and rotational latency. ELF - Executable and Linking Format (UNIX) ELF images Describes ELF files and format - SUN ELF is generally superceding UNIX "COFF" file format. Elicitation, requirements - The process of identifying software or system requirements from various sources through interviews, workshops, workflow and task analysis, document analysis, and other mechanisms. ELILO - As for Linux, Intel has provided a native Linux bootloader for EFI: ELILO (EFI Linux Boot Loader). With this you can boot Linux, even Linux that isn't EFI aware, without much trouble. Elixir - code name for new service consumption in feature in Outlook Elliptic Curve Cryptography - ECC - based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields. See also: Elliptic Curve Cryptography - ECC ELP - Extended Life Program (stress testing to determine product lifespan) EKM - Encryption Key Manager ELP - exchange link protocol (McData) ELS - Extended Link Service (FC) EM - Enhanced Messenging EMEA - European Union of UL/PSRB type of agency embedded RTOS - ROM stored RTOS able to run in small ROM/RAM footprint. EMC - Electromagnetic Compatibility EMC - Computer Storage Manufacturer. Bought VMware, Data General, McData, Legato, and others. EMC EMCD - Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive. (Europen non-Medical Device). Anything susceptible to or emitting EMI/RFI, anything electronic, with motors (lawnmowers). EMEA - Europe, the Middle East and Africa EMI - Electromagnetic Interference (interference on wavelengths that can cause problems with electronic equipment, including computers. EMI /RFI FAQ Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) on TV Antenna Systems EML - a layer of the TMN architecture - ITU-T EMM - Enterprise Mobility Management EMMA - Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language EMR - Electronic Medical Records EMS - TIBCO Enterprise Messaging Service EMS - Enhanced messaging Service; Electronic Manufacturing Services; Environmental Management System EMT64T - Extended Memory 64 Technology - Intel's NON-Itanium 64 bit architecture EMV - Europay, MasterCard and Visa -- is a global standard for cards equipped with computer chips and the technology used to authenticate chip-card transactions. EMV - Wikipedia A Guide to EMV EMVCo manages, maintains and enhances the EMV Integrated Circuit Card 8 FAQs about EMV credit cards - CreditCards.com EMW - Enterprise Manager Window (main window of GUI to manage SAN/NAS) Endurance Testing - Checks for memory leaks or other problems that may occur with prolonged executionwhat is testing. The controlled conditions should include both normal and abnormal conditions. Testing should intentionally attempt to make things go wrong to determine if things happen when they shouldn’t or things don’t happen when they should. entity-relationship diagram - An analysis model that identifies the logical relationships between pairs of entities. Entry Criteria - A predefined set of conditions used as a *Process Control* mechanism, to determine the cost-effectiveness of initiating a *Process* or sub-process. Entry Criteria should be used to prevent the entry of "garbage" into a process, such as poor-*Quality* specifications or inadequate levels of prior work. See also Exit Criteria. ENISA - the European Network and Information Security Agency ENUM - RFC 2916. This new Internet protocol, dubbed ENUM (short for Electronic Numbering), maps phone numbers to URLs, and it could give Internet telephony providers the technology to turn the Internet into a fully functional telephony network. "Without ENUM, VoIP [Voice over IP] operators need to spend huge amounts of money connecting to the PSTN to carry calls between IP phones with unknown IP addresses. EOB - Explanation of Benefits EOL - End of Life - after this date, NO manufacturer support is avaailble EoS - Ethernet over Sonet EP - embedded port (Mc) EPF - Eclipse Process Framework. More EPF info epfc - Emulux FC (Fibre Channel) for Intel systems EPICS - ?? some mainframe software ?? EPOC - compact operating system for wireless devices. operating system with separable GUI layer owned and developed by Symbian, a consortium including Ericsson, Matsushita, Motorola and Nokia, for deployment in next generation smart phones, PDAs and WAP enabled devices. EPON - Ethernet Based PONs. EPON is based upon a mechanism named MPCP (Multi-Point Control Protocol), defined as a function within the MAC control sublayer... E-port - An expansion port is located on a fabric switch and is used to connect two switches. (SAN) EPS - Encapsulated PostScript - is a file format that describes the contents of a box within a page. Equivalence partitioning - A black-box testing method - the input domain of a program or subsystem may be partitioned into a finite number of equivalence classes. You can assume (although not be absolutely sure) that a test of a representative value of each class is equivalent to a test of any other value. A blood test is an example of an equivalence test - any drop drawn from the finger is, for many tests, equivalent to any other drop. ERD - Engineering Requirements Document ERD - Entity Relationship Diagrams ERD - Entity Retational Document ? - wms ERM - Enterprise risk management ERM - wikipedia ERM Careers ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning. ERP - Wikipedia Error Correction - extra data is stored to allow detection and possible correction of a data problem. See also Error Correction ES - Enhanced Security ES/9000 - Family of IBM mainframe computers ES-IS - End system to Intermediate System protocol (ISO protocols) ESA - Early Shipment Authorization eSATA - external SATA. See also ESB - Enterprise Service Bus. See also: For more ESB Information - IBM Web Sphere ESB = WESB ESC - Embedded Systems Conference. ESC-Boston Sept 21-24, 2009 Registration ESC - Employment Security Commission (UNemployment). ESC-NC ESCON - Enterprise Systems Connection ESG - Enterprise Strategy Group ESI - Electronically stored information, within a computer or on storage media ESI - Extended Streams Information ?? ESIP - Extended Streams Information Pointer ESL - End of Service Life ESM - Environmental Services Monitor (IBM) ESM software - small software developer and distributor specializing in software for materials science, thermochemistry, and thermophysical properties. see also ESM Services, In.c ESM - enterprise systems management ESM - Ethernet Switch Module ESN - Enterprise Storage Network ESP - Encapsulating Security Payload Protocol. A protocol used in IPsec that encrypts a packets payload (content). Unlike the AH protocol, it does not authenticate the packet header but instead guarantees secrecy of the message content. ESS - Enterprise Storage Server (IBM). Environmental Stress System ESS - Environmental Stress Screening Essbase - JD Edwards software ESSID - ESSID stands for Extended Service Set Identifier and identifies the wireless LAN. The ESSID of the mobile device must match the ESSID of the AP to communicate with the AP. The ESSID is a 32-character maximum string and is case-sensitive. ETF - Exchange-Traded Funds. ETF - Yahoo Ethernet - CSMA/CD LAN developed by Xerox, Digital and Intel. See also CSMA See also ETHERNET Ethernet/IP - Ethernet Industrial Protocol, supported by ODVA. Ethernet Physical Topology Segment - An arbitrated bus-like technology spanning tree - groups of interlinked segments switched - the highest performance, scalability and flexibility Ethernet POS ports - By default the switch will configure its PoS interface for PPP with bridged encapsulation. ETL - extract, transform, load = In managing databases, extract, transform, load (ETL) refers to three separate functions combined into a single programming tool. First, the extract function reads data from a specified source database and extracts a desired subset of data. Next, the transform function works with the acquired data - using rules or lookup tables, or creating Combinations with other data - to Convert it to the desired state. Finally, the load function is used to write the resulting data(either all of the subset or just the changes) to a target database, which may or may not previously exist. ETL can be used to acquire a temporary subset of data for reports or other purposes, or a more permanent data set may be acquired for other purposes such as: the population of a data mart or data warehouse; conversion from one database type to another; and the migration of data from one database or platform to another. ETA Tools - Category:ETL tools - Wikipedia ETLA - Extended Three-Letter Acronym, an acronym with four letters. ETM - Embedded Trace Macrocell, a low-level debugging technology in ARM microprocessors ETM, see JTAG - Wikipedia ETO - Enterprise Technology Organization ETS - Emissions Trading Scheme (European Union's) ;; Environmental tobacco smoke Engineering Testing Services ;; Electronic Transaction System ETSI - European Telecommunications Standards Institute EU - European Union (a Europen Standards Body [organization]) EUE - End User Experience EUI - extended unique identifier (for EIU-64) eui - enterprise unique identifier (for iSCSI names) EUID - Enterprise-Wide User ID // Enterprise UserID // Execution User ID EUID stands for "Enterprise UserID" and has been created to simplify access to computer resources across the company EULA - End User License Agreement EULA - Software license agreement - Wikipedia What is EULA? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia EV - Extra Value (added) EvDO - Evolution Data Optimized - a fast wireless protocol Everest - codename for Navisphere that runs K10s. EVT - Engineering Verification Testing EWD - Enterprise Wide Data Warehouse EWS - Eiffel Windowsing System (sourceforege) Exchange Web Services Exchange Plans - Health Insurance Marketplace, sometimes known as the health insurance “exchange.” A one-page guide to the Health Insurance Marketplace Exhaustive Testing - Testing which covers all combinations of input values and preconditions for an element of the software under test. exec - by default, starts you running on the least busy Local exhale - save the state out to the user's JP ? Exit Criteria - A predefined set of conditions used as a *Process Control* mechanism, to verify that a *Process* or sub-process has been completed and that its products are of acceptable Quality. Exit Criteria prevent the delivery of "Garbage Out" to downstream users of the products. See also Entry Criteria. EXP - A shelf (tray) that holds the individual computer hard drives in some IBM storage systems. Requires a Controller. Expect - Expect is a tool for automating interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect really makes this stuff trivial. Expect is also useful for testing these same applications. And by adding Tk, you can also wrap interactive applications in X11 GUIs. exporting - The process by which a file server advertises and shares file systems. Also known as sharing. The process by which the Korn Shell (ksh) makes variables available to the system, rather than keeping them interanal to the shell. extended BIOS - Extended BIOS, aka VCS BIOS external fragmentation - a condition in which several small blocks of memory are scattered (not -contiguous), making compaction of free memory more difficult. See also: external fragmentation & the Buddy Algorithm Extreme Programming - an "agile" software development methodology charactorized by face-to-face collaboration between developers and an on-site customer representative, limited documentation of requirements in the form of "user-stories", and rapid and frequent delivery of small increments of useful functionality. F2SA - FC to Serial ATA (SATA) F4 - ATM Domain Layer Management - F4/F5 OAM (Operations, Administration & Maintenance) Flows F5 - ATM Domain Layer Management - F4/F5 OAM (Operations, Administration & Maintenance) Flows F5 - F5 Networks, Inc F-16 - 16-bit 100 MHz IO subsystem bus supporting 1 64-bit or 2 32-bit PCI busses in Intel Aspen Architecture F10 - Flare 10 - Software based project that encompasses Virtual Drivers, HI-RAID, RAID Groups, LUN Partitions, and HI-5. FA - Failure Analysis FAAM - File Attribute Area Manager - one of the types of managers that interface with CM manages the PER-Open attribute area in the object pointer. For normal files it contains: 1) pointer to the vnode for the file 2) current position in the file 3) a lock to protect the current position in the file FAB - Field Alert Bulletin fabric - The interconnection between (FC) nodes FACCH - Fast Associated Control Channel FACH - Fast Access Channel FAE - (embedded) Field Application Engineer Fagan Style Software Inspection - A variety of related manual defect detection activities go by names such as inspection, formal inspection, Fagan inspection, walkthrough, peer review, formal technical review, and so on. In the most general sense, these are all ways in which someone other than the creator of a software work product examines the product with the specific intent of finding errors in it. Software Inspections were introduced in the 1970s at IBM, which pioneered their early adoption and later evolution. Michael Fagan helped develop the formal software inspection process at IBM, hence the term "Fagan inspection." Reference: Fagan, M. "Design and Code Inspections to Reduce Errors in Program Development." IBM Systems Journal 15, 3 (1976): 182-211. FAI - First Article Inspection (first look at a product under development) FAR - Federal Acquisition Regulations far memory - Memory that is on another fabric-connected node. (i.e. It is physically located on another block.) FarSight - Remote monitoring service. A hosted service that lets you monitor your Web site in real time, from outside your firewall, from a secure network that spans five continents. FAS - Fabric Attached Storage (NetApp's Filer [storage controller]) Click here for more information about FAS FAS - Fiber Attached (FAS) storage FAS - Fixed Content Storage. Same type of storage as CAS Fast ATA - ATA drives that support the higher ATA speeds Fast Ethernet - IEEE 802.3u Fast SCSI - SCSI-2 FAStT - IBM's FAStT storage family, since renamed to the DS4000 series. FAStT MSJ - IBM FAStT Management Suite for Java fast tags - Minimal tag information held by the CDC in fast SRAM to quickly access how to handle addresses snooped on the P6 bus. Contains a "pessimistic" version of the more complete tags maintained by the SCC. FAT - File Allocation Table - early DOS computer file (disk) format FAT - First Article Test - like an audit of the first few units off the assembly line to ensure basic soundness (IBM). FAT - ?? (some marketing/sales group ??) FATA - The Fibre Attached Technology Adapted (FATA) drives was developed jointly with Hewlett-Packard Co. Fault tolerance - The ability of a system to continue to perform its functions, even when one or more components have failed. FAUSCH - Fast Uplink Signaling Channel Fault Injection - using a debugger or signal generator to create faults than can only be tested, in the lab, by forcing the fault condition. FBA - Fixed Block Architecture FBO - For the Benefit Of FC - Fibre Channel. See also FC FC-4 - IP FC-4 Layer - FC-4 maps upper level protocols to FC-2. Click here for more info FCAL - Fiber Channel Arbitration Loop. Connects mass storage between blocks. A ring network. FC-AL - same as FCAL FCAPS - ISO fault-management, configuration, accounting, performance, and security) is an acronym for a categorical model of the working objectives of network management. There are five levels called: the fault-management level (F), the configuration level (C), the accounting level (A), the performance level (P), and the security level (S). At the F level, network problems are found and corrected. Potential future problems are identified, and steps are taken to prevent them from occurring or recurring. In this way, the network is kept operational, and downtime is minimized. At the C level, network operation is monitored and controlled. Hardware and programming changes, including the addition of new equipment and programs, modification of existing systems, and removal of obsolete systems and programs, are coordinated. An inventory of equipment and programs is kept and updated regularly. At the A level, which might also be called the allocation level, is devoted to distributing resources optimally and fairly among network subscribers. This makes the most effective use of the systems available, minimizing the cost of operation. This level is also responsible for ensuring that users are billed appropriately. The P level is involved with managing the overall performance of the network. Throughput is maximized, bottlenecks are avoided, and potential problems are identified. A major part of the effort is to identify which improvements will yield the greatest overall performance enhancement. At the S level, the network is protected against hackers, unauthorized users, and physical or electronic sabotage. Confidentiality of user information is maintained where necessary or warranted. The security systems also allow network administrators to control what each individual authorized user can (and cannot) do with the system. FCB - Fibre Channel Back-end FC-BBW - Fibre Channel Backbone WAN - tunnels storage traffic over ATM or SONET wide area networks. FCCH - Frequency Correction Channel FCE - Fibre Channel Front-End FCIP - Fibre Channel over TCP/IP. Fibre Channel (FC) over TCP/IP relies on IP-based network services to provide connectivity between SAN islands over LANs, MANs, or WANSs. FC over TCP/IP relies upon TCP for congestion control and management and upon both TCP and FC for data error and data loss recovery. FC over TCP/IP treats all classes of FC frames the same, that is, as datagrams. FCLI - Flare Command Line Interface, runs as part of Flare, as usual, for K10. FCN - Fibre Channel Node FCN-1 - The Fibre Channel I/O Node (FCN-1) provides connectivity to disk arrays or single disk drives with a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FCAL) interface. Fibre Channel GigaRing Channel Interfaces "There are five separate Fibre Channels on a single FCN-1, each connecting up to 40 primary drives and up to 40 alternate path drives or 80 total drives." FCO - Field Change Order FCoE - Fibre Channel over Ethernet. Click here for more FCoE information Click here for more FCoE information FCP - Fibre Channel Protocol - serial SCSI for Fibre Channel (FC) Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) is a transport protocol (similar to TCP used in IP networks) that predominantly transports SCSI commands over Fibre Channel - FCP - Wikipedia Click here: for more Fibre Channel Information FCP - Foundation for Cooperative Processing (FCP) is a client/server development tool from Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting). FCS - First Customer Ship (initial product shipment) FCS - Frame Check Sequence FD - floppy disk (Unix special file) FDA - Food and Drug Administration FDCC - Federal Desktop Core Configuration FDD - Frequency Division Duplex FDDI - Fiber Distributed Data Interface, standardized by ANSI - a ring network.Fiber (or Fibre) Distributed Data Interface. A network backbone technology based on optic fiber cables which provided high speeds (up to 100MHz) and fault tolerance through a redundant token ring scheme. FDE - Full Disk Encryption. SEE FDE - Full Disk Encryptionfor more details FDM - Frequency Division Multiplexing FDQN - Fully-Qualified Domain Name. The complete domain name of a resource, including the full path. For example myserver.mysite.mycompany.com. FDR - Fast Dump Restore suite for IBM z/OS FDS - Fibre SCSI Disk ??? FE - The FE (Field Engineering) support driver character special file which provides proprietary service information to the service daemon. OR a real TSB is present?? FE2... - Ix86 Kernel NULLs start with "FE2" FEBE - Front-end Back-end (storage I/O) FEC - Forward Error Correction feds - front-end devices FEP - Front End Processor - software at CSC that first receives and validates AV/Alert MI packets FEQ - Front End Qualifier - "a version of Flare that is used to test the array. Many types of tests are configurable, but FEQ is most often used to run host I/O to another array. The fibre version of FEQ runs on a Sedona SP. The SCSI version runs on a Sauna, Phoenix, Tuscon." FER - Frame Error Rate FF - Functional Freeze FFA... - 88k Kernel Nulls start with "FFA" FFD - Flat File Descriptor FFD - Feature Function Definition FFF - First Fault File - one the first page fault, get it from the file (EXE), thereafter, get it from the swap file (consider it an anonymous object). FFM - Flat File Manager - only the FFM currently supports UFIA operations main manager of the local DG/UX file system. FFP - full-feature phase FFPO - full-feature phase only FFR - Focus For Results FFT - Feature/Functionality Test - a QA test phase FFT - fast Fourier transform FFV Fossil Fuel Vehicle. All vehicles with a tailpipe. FHA - Full High Availability (has failover) FHD - Full High Definition (FHD) is the resolution 1920x1080P FHLMC - Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation = Freddie Mac FHP - Future Hardware Project FIB - Fabric Interconnect Board. Provides the node innerconnect. Fibre Channel. See also FC Fibre Channel Class 1 Service - This service level guarantees bandwidth and ordering of packets. It also returns confirmation of delivery. Fibre Channel Class 2 Service - This service level is connectionless and can deliver packets out-of-order. Delivery of packets is guaranteed and confirmation is sent. Fibre Channel Class 3 Service - This is the lowest service level and does not guarantee either ordering or delivery. Fibre Channel Fabric - One of the physical topologies of Fibre Channel. The addressing of ports on a network of FC nodes is made independently of the physical location or address of the target port. Switches are responsible for passing FC packets to the target port regardless of which FC loop or switch the port physcially resides. Fibre Channel SAN - An oxymoronic reference to a storage deployment topology more appropriately named "switched, server-attached storage" or "Fibre Channel Fabric". FIC - Framework for Internal Controls (IBM) FICON - Fibre Connection FID - Fabric ID FIFO - the scheduling entity is added to the run queue ahead of other entities of worse priority; i.e., it is placed behind its peers. FIFO mechanisms try to be fair with entities of the SAME priority. FIFO runs until 1) pre-empted, 2) blocked 3) finished First In, First Out Filer - A NetApp (Network Appliances) intelligent computer storage controller. The Filer communicates with, and controls, the shelves (trays) that hold the individual hard drives. FilerViw - NetApp File Share - any of various software programs designed to share files between at least two locations, and probably two different companies or persons. I suggest that you include Encryption with your file share program. Some business use examples are: ShareFile (Citrix), YouSendIt, Symantec's Fileshare,... Filesystem Performance is largely determined by disk behavior. filter drivers - Anti-Virus products are FSM's Filsystem filters (filter drivers) are Kernel mode non-device drivers, that monitor inbound and outbound I/O. FIM - fix interval marker final - Indicates that a variable holds a constant value or that a method will not be overridden (Java). finally - Indicates a block of code in a try-catch structure that will always be executed (Java). FiOS - Verizon's Fiber Optics method of delivering TV over FC to a customer's house. Requires the use of an ONT to convert the optical signal to 10BaseT. FIPS - Federal Information Processing Standard. Federal Information Processing Standard - Wikipedia FIR - finite impulse response (digital filters). Firewall - Network security component. A software component that acts as a filter restricting specific types of network packets from passing from one network to another. Often used between a LAN and the Internet. Firewire - IEEE-1394 FISH - Flash Internal Semiconductor Hard-drive (FISH) format looks like a USB memory key, with a tiny rectangular printed circuit board the same width as the full-sized USB connector. The board will house a conventional flash chip and USB controller. Article The Universal Transportable Memory Association Inc. (UMTA) recently debuted (1/04) "FISH", a new type of flash memory card for digital cameras and other devices. FISMA - The Federal Information Security Management Act. More FIT - Framework for Integrated Tests FitNesse - ================= FitNesse - FitNesse is a web server, a wiki, and a software testing tool A simple tool that allows non-technical users to specify and run acceptance tests for software systems FitNesse ... FitLibraryUserGuide · FitNesse · FitNesseBuzz · FitNesseCalculator · FitNesseDevelopment · FitNesseRoot · FitNesseStories · FitNesseTests FIX - Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol. The FIX Protocol Organization > What is FIX? fixed ip - FK - Foreign key FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec. Used a tagging system identical to Ogg Vorbis flag - n. [very common] A variable or quantity that can take on one of two values; a bit, particularly one that is used to indicate one of two outcomes or is used to control which of two things is to be done. "This flag controls whether to clear the screen before printing the message." "The program status word contains several flag bits." Used of humans analogously to bit. See also hidden flag, mode bit. FLARE - Fibre Logic Array Runtime Environment - Microcode/firmware for Clariions (DG, now (EMC). Unlike the Enginuity Code, the FLARE Code is customer self upgradable. This Code sits on the first 5 drives of the Clariion SPE or DAE (depending on the model), the drives that are marked with numbers (0 to 4) and do not remove stickers. FlashCopyAssist - forces W2K to flush its cache (IBM) Flintstone - Single/Dual CPU; w/wo Deep Caches. Processor Types 33 thru 37. Related to a Rolling Rock? Flex - Adobe Flex. Flex is a highly productive framework for building and maintaining open source web applications that deploy across all major browsers, desktops, ... open source framework - Adobe Flex Adobe - Flex Developer Center Adobe Flex - Wikipedia Tour de Flex is an application for exploring Flex capabilities and resources - flex.org Flex-10 - Flex-10 technology is a hardware-based solution that enables users to partition a 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) connection and regulate the bandwidth of each partition. HP Flex-10 is available only with Virtual Connect (VC), and is currently available for implementation only with supported HP BladeSystem servers. More Flex-10 information FlexClone - enables multiple, instant data set clones with minimal storage overhead - NetApp - More info NetApp FlexVol - FlexVol pools physical storage - NetApp - More info NetApp FLOGI - Fabric Login (FC). FLOOT - Full life cycle Object-Oriented Testing. more on FLOOT flow specification - QoS requirements for an RSVP connection. FM - File manager FMA1 - FRAMES multiple access 1 FMA2 - FRAMES multiple access 2 FMC - Far Memory Cache. Maintains locally cached data from far memory. FMEA - Failure Mode and Effect Analysis Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a disciplined approach used to identify possible failures of a product or service and then determine the frequency and impact of the failure. See the tool Failure Mode and Effects Analysis. Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a tool used to recognize and evaluate the potencial product or process failure and its causes associated with the designing and manufacturing of a product. FMIA - FEDERAL MEAT INSPECTION ACT - probably not what we want ?? I was looking for some biotech term. FMS - FICON management server FN - Frame Number FNC - Fujitsu Network Communications. FNC FNC - Fibre Channel Network. See also: Complete Fibre Channel (FATA, FC, FC-AL, FCIP, FCP, FC-WA, FoE, iFCP, HBA) Information FNMA - Federal National Mortgage Association = Fannie Mae FOA - First Office Application (an ONI term) - seems to be the first customer alpha test folio - 4 MB of address space FOT - First Off Test F-port - A fabric port is located on a fabric switch and connects the switch to an end Node’s N-port. (SAN) FL-port - A fabric loop port is located on a fabric switch. It supports and can be connected to an arbitrated loop device or to a hub. forest - Windows 2000 Domain Structure. A group of Windows 2000 domains and sub-domains that share a common schema and directory, but do not have a common root domain (i.e. do not form a contiguous namespace). forwarders - A list of addresses to which a machine should should send forward requests for sites that it cannot resolve. FOS - Fabric Operating System FOT - ??? FPT - Final Product Testing (Click here for more QA information) FQDN - fully qualified domain name FoIP - FAX over IP FP - Fraud Prevention FPMA - Fabric Provided MAC Address (FCF) - AKA Mapped MAC Addresses (an addressing approach suggested for FCoE). See also: FPMAs for VN_Port to VN_Port Virutal Links - PDFFPMAs for VN_Port to VN_Port Virtual Links See also: SPMA and FPMA with FLOGI/FDISC 08-470v0 - PDF FC-BB5: Multiple Fabric support via FIP (for FPMA) - PDF See also: FCoE: Distributed FCF Functionality - PDF End-to-End FCoE - Adding details to the Idea - PDF - October 2009 End-to-End FCoE - PDF See also: SPMA Server P{rovided MAC Addresses FR - Frame Relay (see also) fracture log - tracks changed regions on primary LU when secondary is unreachable. when secondary becomes reachable, fracture log is used to quickly resync data (only changes resynced). fracture log is not persistent. fracture secondary LU - Admin causes secondary LU to behave like secondary array unreachable. If minimum number of secondary LUs drops below required: 1) primary LU put in attention availability state 2) primary LU becomes inaccessible to production host Can be used to minimize perf impact of remote mirror [virtual async mirroring (sync then fracture each night)] Admin fractured secondary copies require admin sync (auto sync option will not take effect). frames - are units of physical memory. Size is determined by the achitecture. frames are physical memory; they are accessed by physical addresses. frames generally have no associated permissions (i.e., all frames are read-write, providing you can generate the appropriate physical address. A frame has one, constant physical address.a Frames can be mapped at multiple logical addresses or no logical addresses. frame relay - Frame Relay is a protocol standard for LAN internetworking which provides a fast and efficient method of transmitting information from a user device to LAN bridges and routers. Free as in beer - give it away (totally no cost) Free Form Testing - Ad hoc or brainstorming using intuition to define test cases. [William E. Lewis, 2000] Frequency Bands - Frequency Bands - antenna-theory.com Frequency Bands - ARRL FPM - Fibre Channel Protocol Manager FRC - Frame Rate Control - used to create the appearance of more colors in 6-bit LCDs (not the usual 8-bit, 28.7 million color LCDs). FRMA - Field Returned Material Authorization FRR - Functional Requirements Review FRU - Field Replacable Unit (item replaced as-a-whole). FRU - Character special files through which DG/UX device drivers provide messages to dgsvc_d. FRU/SDR Code - Intel information in their PCB resume PROMs which Contains information on each FRU and various System Data Records. An incorrect revision level can cause Environmental sensors to keep the system from operating. FS - 1] File System 2] File Server FSA - Flexible Savings Account. NOT as good as an HSA, in my opinion FSA - Flexible Spending Account - Wikipedia FSAN - Full Service Access Networks consortium FSAN compared to other organizations. FSB Terminator - Intel-designed board which terminates the BIB board Or fifth CPU slot when there is no BIB in the block. Also, Called the Cluster, BIB, or CPU terminator. FSD - Fibre SCSI Disk FSFS - File Server File System - supports Unix & AOS/VS - OBSOLETE ? FSK - Frequency Shift Keying FSLS - File System Logging Service - journaling service for the local DG/UX file system. FSPF - Fabric Shortest Path First; a routing protocol for FC fabrics; a subset of the IP OSPF protocol. FSRC - file system recovery FSS - Field Sales Support FSS - GSA Federal Supply Schedules FTC - Forward Traffic Channel (see also RTF). FTC - Federal Trade Commission FTCA - Fast Tag Cache Array FTDC - First Time Data Capture FTE - Full-Time Employees other meanings for FTE - thefreedictionary FTP - Function Test Plan FTP - File Transfer Protocol (TCP/IP). Generally faster and more efficient than email or HTTP. See also: FTP Information FTPS - File Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer (SSL) FTS - Full Text Search. FTTC - Fiber To The Curb FTTP - Fiber to the Premises (User) FUD - fear, uncertainty and doubt Full backup - A complete backup of everything you want to backup See Also: Differential Backup Incremental Backup Difference between: Full, Differential, and Incremental Backup full bind - bind all space on the disk drives, not just some of the space. full project life cycle - A project from inception to completion (cradle to grave). Full Stop - "Full stop and period are two terms used (in different locations) for the punctuation mark placed at the ends of sentences." - Full stop - Wikipedia Function - Function or subroutine, a portion of code within a larger program, performs a specific task. Functional Decomposition - creates a functional hierarchy for the software - used in the planning, analysis and design stages. Functional Requirement - A statement of a piece of required functionality or behavior that a system will exhibit under specific conditions. Functional Specification - A description of what a system (e.g. a piece of software) does or should do (but not how it should do it). The functional specification is one of the inputs to the design process. Functional Testing - black-box testing - Application of test data derived from the specified functional requirements without regard to the final program structure. Some good automated test tools are: WinRunner, Quick Test Professional, SilkTest, Rational Robot. FUNI - Frame-based UNI (User Network Interface) FVD - Taiwan-developed DVD format FVD (forward versatile disc). More info FVT - Functional Verification Test; Field Verification Test FVTP - Function Validation Test Plan; FW - Firmware. See Embedded / Firmware for more information FWB - Fixed Wireless Broadband FWH - firmware hub (a chip/hub used to store the BIOS codes) (Courtesy of electro-tech-online.com and phil7890 FWH are SPI are typically thought of as chips (some insist it's a hub). This is used to store the BIOS firmware/codes. For example, the Phoenix/Award BIOS or AMI BIOS (or other equivalent BIOS) codes are stored in this FWH or SPI serial chip. The brand on the FWH is typically SST, Atmel, Intel or Winbond. However with the Winbond brand we'll have to be careful as they make many other types of chips too (not just memory chips - but their other chips typically have a lot of pins, ie. more than 32 for a FWH). The FWH is usually a 32-pin PLCC chip. Most/some of the time it'll be sitting in a socket so that it's removable if anybody wants to do this. It'll typically have a 29-something part number. (from LPC, FWH And SPI Used In Bios Rom?) If we can't find a 32-pin FWH (PLCC chip with or without socket), then we'll have to look for an 8-pin chip of those similar brands. The part number is typically 25-something or 45-something, etc. The SPI chip is normally 8-pin, and it is sometimes found on recent motherboards using the Intel 965 or newer chipsets. It is normally soldered down - without a socket. The FWH is usually a 32-pin PLCC chip. 1. Yes we can regard the 32-pin PLCC as a BIOS ROM chip but this as long as it's a memory/flash/EE type of chip. 2a. It's usually the south bridge chip (I/O controller hub) where the BIOS chip (LPC/FWH/SPI) connects to, ie. it's like a leaf of its own and hanging off this south bridge branch. From the south bridge chip, various other items connect to/out from here. 2b. As for the LPC bus itself, some items such as the BIOS chip, Super I/O (multifunction) chip, optional TPM/security chip, and other ~low-speed/ bandwidth chips can be found here. 3a. We normally don't hear anything called HPC (high pin count) on a motherboard but there are various chips with lots of pins. There's HPC for a high-performance something-else though. 3b. It's usually in the microcontroller world (for example, the PIC stuff) where we find this HPC term. It's because the PIC originally came with a few pins and over the years they added many more general-purpose I/O pins. - Courtesy of: phil7890 FWSM - firewall services module (Cisco) G.fast - DSL running on copper telephone wires, can run at GIGABITE/second speeds G.fast = Lowly DSL (running on copper wires) will get GIGABIT speed boost G.SHDSL - Also known as G.991.2, G.SHDSL is an international standard for symmetric DSL developed by the ITU. G.SHDSL provides for sending and receiving high-speed symmetrical data streams over a single pair of copper wires at rates between 192 kbps and 2.31 Mbps. GA - General Availability GAMP - Good Automated Manufacturing Practices gang-of-four - Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides Gang Trespass - Source LUs and their associated Snapshot LUs must be owned by the same SP. If a source LU is trespassed, any associated Snapshot LU must also implicitly be trespassed. The same is also true if the Snapshot LU is trespassed. A design of how Gang Trespass will be implemented was agreed to in a meeting with Dave Harvey and Jim Cook in SOBO. Details of this implementation will be released by them and implemented in time for SnapView Phase 2 qualification Gantt Chart - A Gantt chart is a powerful and preferred visual reporting device used for conveying a project's schedule. A typical Gantt chart graphically displays the work breakdown, total duration needed to complete tasks, as well as %completion. The Gantt chart itself will not display level of effort, and is not an effective planning tool on its own. Today, Gantt Charts may be integrated with other spreadsheet-type reporting devices that convey additional information related to project planning. Furthermore, Gantt Charts are often enhanced with functionality that includes the identification of relationships between tasks, and the ability to dynamically change task attributes. gap analysis - something in QA coverage ?? perhaps, analysis of missing coverage? GARP - Generic Attribute Registration Protocol. GARP was originally designed to to facility multicast filtering at the MAC layer. GARP was generalized and two trivial applications were designed on top of GARP: 1] the GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP), and 2] the GARP Multicast Registration protocol (GMRP). The only difference: GMRP manipulates 48-bit multicast MAC addresses, while GVRP handles 12-bit VLAN IDs. Gartner - Gartner's Enterprise Architecture Process and Framework Gartner's Enterprise Architecture Process and Framework The Gartner Business Value Model: A Framework for Measuring Business Performance gas - GNU Assembler gateway - A device that connects dissimilar networks. Gateways often connect Ethernet networks to mainframe computers or to the internet Gating - Gating is the limitation of opportunities for deviation from the proven steps in the manufacturing process. The primary objective is to minimize human error. A Gating issue is one that must be resolved before a product can ship. GAV - Generally Available Variant BG - Brown Belt (in SIX SIGMA) GB - (GB) (GigaByte) One billion bytes (technically 1,073,741,824 bytes). Gb - (Gb) (GigaBit) One billion bits (technically 1,073,741,824 bits). 1 gb = 1,000 megabits Lower case "b" for bit and "B" for byte are not always followed and often misprinted. Thus, Gb may refer to gigabyte. Gbps - Gigabits per second GBIC - Gigabit Interface Converter - a removable transceiver module for Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet physical layer transport - it's basically an optical transceiver. All single-mode GBIC optical transceivers are Radiation Safety Class-1 laser-component assemblies with long-wavelength (1300-1350 nm) laser sources. These wavelengths are beyond the visible spectrum. GC - Green Card (a permit for non-US citizens to work in the USA) GCC - GNU Compiler Collection GCC - Group Call Control (www.protocols.com) GCD - Global Controls Documentation (IBM) GCI - General Circuit Interface (also known as ISDN Oriented Modular Interface, Rvision 2 (IOM-2) GCI - The Global Commerce Initiative (GCI) is a voluntary platform created in October 1999 to improve the performance of the international supply chain for consumer goods through the collaborative development and endorsement of recommended standards and key business processes. GCM - Global Coherent Memory - DG/UX memory global to, and cachable by all blocks. Unifies distributed block memory by interconnecting them using a distributed set of caches and memory directory structures. GCP - Good Clinical Practices GD - Global Data - a file object type - FFF (First Fault File) then Anonymous and Shared GDB - Gnu (project) debugger. More info GDDR3 - ATI Promotes New GDDR3 Graphics Memory Specification GDI - Graphics Device Interface Geek Stick - USB Key = USB Stick = Thumb Drive = USB Flash Drive = USB Memory Key - May or May NOT be Bootable GEMMS - ?? financial software ? GEN - this prefix to a development item number indicates a general design requirement - wms GENA - General Event Notification Architecture (UPnP) - relies on XML. general testing process - the creation of a test strategy (which sometimes includes the creation of test cases), creation of a test plan or design (which usually includes test cases and test procedures) and the execution of tests. Gerrit - Gerrit simplifies Git based project maintainership by permitting any authorized user to submit changes to the master Git repository (Google's software). Gerrit is a free, web-based team software code review tool. gerrit - Gerrit Code Review - Google Project Hosting Gerrit (software) - Wikipedia Gerrit Code Review - openstack.org Gerrit Workflow - OpenStack SEE ALSO: git GF - Galois Field GFS - Groove File Sharing 9 GFS - Grandfather, Father, Son rotation model, is a combination of three (backup) tape rotations (how long to keep, and when to reuse). GGSN - Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) - In the core network, the existing MSCs are based upon circuit-switched technology, and they cannot handle the GPRS style packet traffic. Thus two new components, called GPRS Support Nodes, are added (GGSN & SGSN). GGSNs are used as interfaces to external IP networks such as the public Internet, other mobile service providers' GPRS services, or enterprise intranets. GGSNs maintain routing information that is necessary to tunnel the protocol data units (PDUs) to the SGSNs that service particular MSs. Other functions include network and subscriber screening and address mapping. One (or more) GGSNs may be provided to support multiple SGSNs. GHS - Global Hot Spare (IBM). Can replace any HDD of the correct size and speed in any Storage Shelf. GIAC - Global Information Assurance Certification - vendor-neutral computer security certifications - Wikipedia GIAC - Global Information Assurance Certification GIAC - GOLD Certification GIG - Department of Defense Global Information Grid (GIG) Gigabit Ethernet - Ethernet running a one-gigabit per second. Click here for more info 10 Gigabit Ethernet - 10-gigabit Ethernet or 10GbE is the fastest Ethernet standard currently (7/2006) being developed. Click here for more info GigE - Gigabit Ethernet GINA - Graphical Identification and Authentication. A software library component in Windows NT that handles the encryption, delivery and checking of user passwords as they are entered, set or changed. GIS - In the strictest sense, a GIS is a computer system capable of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying geographically referenced information, i.e. data identified according to their locations. Practitioners also regard the total GIS as including operating personnel and the data that go into the system" - GIS - wikipedia git - Is a small footprint Source Code Control Language. According to git-scm.com: "Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. It outclasses SCM tools like Subversion, CVS, Perforce, and ClearCase with features ... Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency." - SO THEY SAY. Git - Downloads Git (software) - Wikipedia Git Reference - http://gitref.org/ git - the simple guide - no deep shit Git for Windows - github.io ?Downloads - ?Documentation - ?Windows Build - ?About Glass Box Testing - Synonyms: Logic testing, Structural Testing and White Box Testing GLBA - Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. In March 2000, the nation's insurance commissioners endorsed the Statement of Intent - The Future of Insurance Regulation. G.lite - G.lite offers a download capability of 1.5mbps, much slower than pure ADSL is capable of. G.lite is obsolete. For more info, click here GL - General Ledger Glamping - "Glamping is where stunning nature meets modern luxury. It's a way to experience the untamed and completely unique parts of the world—without having to sacrifice creature comforts." - glamping.com GLAMOROUS CAMPING Glance - The Glance project provides services for discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine images. Glance has a RESTful API that allows querying of VM image metadata as well as retrieval of the actual image - openstack.org Welcome to Glance's documentation Controlling Glance Servers - OpenStack Manuals The OpenStack Glance Open Source Project on Ohloh Glance in Launchpad openstack/glance · GitHub Installation — glance Debian - Details of source package glance in sid GLMs - Gigabit Link Modules - modular media connectors that mount on hardware interfaces, like a daughter card, that can be removed and replaced as neccessary in the field. All multimode GLM and GBIC optical transceivers are Radiation Safety Class-1 laser-component assemblies with short-wavelength (770-850 nm) laser sources. These wave lengths are barely in the visible spectrum. Global Compression - DataDomain GLP - Good Laboratory Practices GLT - Global Load Testing glurges - glurge is the sending of inspirational (often supposedly "true") tales that conceal much darker meanings than the uplifting moral lessons they purport to offer. Usually? NOT true, but we would usually like it to be true. See also: Glurge gluster - Gluster = GlusterFS = GlusterFS is an open source, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes (actually, 72 brontobytes!) and handling thousands of clients. Understanding GlusterFS CLI Code – Part 1 Gluster Community Website - Frontpage RedHat Storage Server built on GlusterFS Gluster Vs. Ceph: Open Source Storage Goes Head-To-Head Glusterfs, Glusterfs - SlideShare Gluster.org - Public Mirror - GitHub Gluster-Swift - Gluster backend for Swift glusterfs-hadoop - GlusterFS plugin for Hadoop HCFS See also: FILE SYSTEMS See also: HADOOP See also: SAN-NAS-Virtualization GMM - GPRS Mobility Management - protocol that operates in the signalling plane of GPRS and handles mobility issues such as roaming, authentication, and selection of encryption algorithms. GMM - General Managers Meeting GMP - Good Manufacturing Processes GMP - Group Management Protocol GMPCS - Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite - ITU GMRP - the GARP Multicast Registration protocol GMSK - Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying GNMA - Government National Mortgage Association = Ginnie Mae GNOME - GNU Object Model Environment. opensource desktop environment for X window system used on UNIX and Linux platforms. GNU - (Gnu's Not UNIX) A project sponsored by the Free Software Foundation that develops and maintains a complete software environment including operating system kernel and utilities, editor, compiler and debugger. Many consultants and organizations provide support for GNU software, and more than 150 software products are available online or on CD-ROM. For information, visit www.gnu.org. See Linux, GNU General Public License and Free Software Foundation. GNU Core Utilities - also called coreutils is a package of basic Linux tools. Good support for Unicode is still absent, even in coreutils version 6.10. GNU TLS Library - GNU Transport Layer Security Library GO - Google's New Programming Language That’s Python Meets C++. Info on GO GOBN - H.261 GOB number. (4 bits) Encodes the GOB number in effect at the start of the packet. Set to 0 if the packet begins with a GOB header. GOEP - Generic Object Exchange Profile (Bluetooth). Gorilla Testing - Heavily testing one module's functionality. Good Path Testing - Testing the paths (positive testing) that are triggered by normal behavior at a code decision point (a software test of some item) - ex: file does exist. GP - Guard Period GPC - (GPC Group). Originally the Graphics Performance Characterization committee of the NCGA, the GPC Group is now part of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) and oversees the following graphics performance benchmarks: APC, MBC, OPC, PLB and XPC. APC tests applications, MBC tests multimedia, OPC tests OpenGL, XPC tests X Window, and PLB tests wireframe and surface modeling. See APC, MBC, OPC, XPC, PLB and SPEC. GPFS - General Parallel File System GPI - General Platform Interface; Global Product Interface. GPL - GNU General Public License (also called "Copyleft") GPO - Group Policy Object. A management object that defines the policies for a group of users or accounts, and specifies what actions the members can take with regard to the machine or operating system functions - Microsoft's Active Directory. GPON - Gigabit PONs G-port - A generic port on a switch can be used either as an F-port, an FL-port or an E-port. These typically self-configure based on the type of device to which they are connected. GPP - General Purpose Processors GPRS - General Packet Radio Service - Short for General Packet Radio Service, a for wireless communications which runs at speeds up to 115 kilobits per second, compared with current GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) systems' 9.6 kilobits. GPRS, which supports a wide range of bandwidth, is an efficient use of limited bandwidth and is particularly suited for sending and receiving small bursts of data, such as e-mail and Web browsing, as well as large volumes of data. GSM upgrade known as general packet radio service (GPRS). This is TDMA technology-based and can optimally run at 171Kbps when all eight time slots are used DAVE's GPRS INFO GPS - Global Positioning System. See GPS for Complete GPS Information GPT - The EFI defines a new partition style called GUID partition table (GPT). The installation partition on an Itanium-based computer must be on a GPT disk. You cannot access GPT disks locally from an x86-based computer. If you want to move a disk from an Itanium-based computer to an x86-based computer, use an MBR disk. This is true regardless of whether the disk is basic or dynamic. See also: GPT GPT - Wikipedia GQF - Quality Framework GR-303 - GR-303 is a standard interface for integrated digital loop carrier systems. Information in this chapter pertains to the Cisco 6732, which uses GR-303 to handle call processing and operations when connected to a Class 5 switch.(Telecom) GR-57 - a Telecom spec Graph-Track - Gray Box Testing - Tests involving inputs and outputs, but test design is educated by information about the code or the program operation of a kind that would normally be out of scope of view of the tester.[Cem Kaner] Gray Box Testing - Test designed based on the knowledge of algorithm, internal states, architectures, or other high -level descriptions of the program behavior. [Doug Hoffman] Gray Box Testing - Examines the activity of back-end components during test case execution. Two types of problems that can be encountered during gray-box testing are: 1] A component encounters a failure of some kind, causing the operation to be aborted. The user interface will typically indicate that an error has occurred. 2] The test executes in full, but the content of the results is incorrect. Somewhere in the system, a component processed data incorrectly, causing the error in the results. [Elfriede Dustin. "Quality Web Systems: Performance, Security & Usability."] A combination of Black Box and White Box testing methodologies, testing a piece of software against its specification but using some knowledge of its internal workings. GRC - Governance, Risk and Compliance Management Green Belt - An employee of an organization who has been trained on the improvement methodology of Six Sigma and will lead a process improvement or quality improvement team as part of their full time job. Their degree of knowledge and skills associated with Six Sigma is less than that of a Black Belt or Master Black Belt. Extensive product knowledge in their company is a must in their task of process improvement. The green belt employee plays an important role in executing the Six Sigma process at an organization level. green-field project - brand-new product grid computing - c More on GRID COMPUTING GRM - Global Request Manager, aka Germ, is a DNS based redirection system for use in a Content Delivery Network. It is intended as an alternative to 3rd party switches (Layer 4, Global Server Load Balancers) and WCCP enabled routers. GRM - Giant MagnetoResistive, a storage technology. The term is usually referred to in reference to GMR heads. GMR heads are not named "giant" because of their size. The technology is named for the giant magnetoresistive effect, first discovered by two European researchers -- Peter Gruenberg and Albert Fert -- in the late 1980s. GRPI - GRPI stands for four critical and interrelated aspects of teamwork: goals, roles, processes, and interpersonal relationships, and it is a tool used to assess them. Groovetune - Groovetunes are special MIDI-based sound tracks available exclusively for Motorola C330 series GSM model phones. Using a special mixing tool included with your phone, you can edit Groovetunes to produce a personalized ringtone or a signature song you can email to others as a text message attachment. GSA - General Services Administration (US government) GSK - GlaxoSmithKline - a large pharamceutical and medial solutions company. GSK GSM - Global System for Mobile Communications, one of the leading digital cellular systems. GSM uses narrowband TDMA, which allows eight simultaneous calls on the same radio frequency. GSM was first introduced in 1991. As of the end of 1997, GSM service was available in more than 100 countries and has become the de facto standard in Europe and Asia. GSM upgrade known as general packet radio service (GPRS). This is TDMA technology- based and can optimally run at 171Kbps when all eight time slots are used GSMP - General Switch Management Protocol (IP Switching) GsmSCG - GSM service control function GsmSSF - GSM service switching funtion GSN - GPRS Support Node GSS - Global Support & Services GStreamer - A multimedia framework with a plugin based architecture for a variety of platforms including Linux, Windows and OSX. Click for more info GStreamer documentation GStreamer - Sourceforge GTK - GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. GTO - Global Technology Organization - part of LexisNexis GTP - GPRS Tunnel Protocol (GTP): protocol that tunnels the protocol data units through the IP backbone by adding routing information. GTP operates on top of TCP/UDP over IP. GTP-U - GPRS Tunneling Protocol in the User Plane guard band - 1) non-recorded band between ajacent data tracks. 2) For closed loop servo drives, extra servo tracks outside the data band preventing the Carriage Assembly from running into the carsh stop. 3) a narrow frequency band between adjacent channels, kept unused to prevent data signal interference. GUI - Graphical user interface. Click HERE for more GUI information GUID - Globally Uniqueue Identifier - another name for a UUID. A 128-bit number that is generated automatically and used to refer to a resource, component, directory entry or any other type of object. Guaranteed to be unique. GVRP - the GARP VLAN Registration Protocol gw - GateWay (router) GWT - Google Web Toolkit Google Web Toolkit - Wikipedia Google Web Toolkit — Google Developers H.225 - ITU-T : Series H H.225.0 v2 is a standard which covers narrow-band visual telephone services defined in H.200/AV.120-Series Recommendations. It specifically deals with those situations where the transmission path includes one or more packet based networks, each of which is configured and managed to provide a non-guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) which is not equivalent to that of N-ISDN such that additional protection or recovery mechanisms beyond those mandated by Rec. H.320 is necessary in the terminals. H.225.0 describes how audio, video, data, and control information on a packet based network can be managed to provide conversational services in H.323 equipment. The structure of H.225 follows the Q.931 standard H.235 - H.235 provides enhancements within the framework of the H.3xx-Series Recommendations to incorporate security services such as Authentication and Privacy (data encryption). H.235 should work with other H series protocols that utilize H.245 as their control protocol. All H.235 messages are encrypted as in ASN.1. H.245 - H.245 is line transmission of non-telephone signals. It includes receiving and transmitting capabilities as well as mode preference from the receiving end, logical channel signalling, and Control and Indication. Acknowledged signalling procedures are specified to ensure reliable audiovisual and data communication. H.245 messages are in ASN.1 syntax. They consist of an exchange of messages. MultimediaSystemControlMessage message types can be defined as request, response, command and indication messages. The following additional message sets are available: Master Slave Determination messages Terminal capability messages Logical channel signalling messages Multiplex Table signalling messages Request Multiplex Table signalling messages Request Mode messages Round Trip Delay messages Maintenance Loop messages Communication Mode Messages Conference Request and Response Messages TerminalID Commands and Indications H.248 - H.248 - a Control Protocol Stack coupling. See also MGCP H.261 - H.261 describes a video stream for transport using the real-time transport protocol, RTP, with any of the underlying protocols that carry RTP. H.263 - H.263 specifies the payload format for encapsulating an H.263 bitstream in the Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP). Three modes are defined for the H.263 payload header. An RTP packet can use one of the three modes for H.263 video streams depending on the desired network packet size and H.263 encoding options employed. The shortest H.263 payload header (mode A) supports fragmentation at Group of Block (GOB) boundaries. The long H.263 payload headers (modes B and C) support fragmentation at Macroblock (MB) boundaries. For each RTP packet, the RTP fixed header is followed by the H.263 payload header, which is followed by the standard H.263 compressed bitstream. The size of the H.263 payload header is variable depending on the modes. H.323 - H.323 Protocol The H.323 standard provides a foundation for audio, video, and data communications across IP-based networks, including the Internet. H.323 is an umbrella recommendation from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) that sets standards for multimedia communications over Local Area Networks (LANs) that do not provide a guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS). H.323 is generally modeled after PRI/ISDN and H.320 signaling models in some places with some additional innovations (if you can call them that) thrown in. H.450.1 - The H.45o series defines Supplementary Services for H.323, namely Call Transfer and Call Diversion. The H.450.1 protocol deals with the procedures and signalling protocol between H.323 entities for the control of supplementary services. This signalling protocol is common to all H.323 supplementary services. The protocol is derived from the generic functional protocol specified in ISO/IEC 11582 for Private Integrated Services Networks (PISN). The H.450 protocol is used to exchange signalling information to control supplementary services over a LAN. It works together with the H.225 protocol. This protocol has no header as all messages are in text, in ASN.1 format. H.450.2 - This is a Call Transfer supplementary service for H.323. The H.450.2 protocol describes the procedures and signalling protocol for the call transfer supplementary service in H.323 networks. This supplementary service allows the served user A to transform an existing call (from user A to B) to a new call between user B and a third user C selected by A. User A may or may not have a call established with the third user prior to the call transfer. This is based on H.450.1 This protocol has no header as all messages are in text, in ASN.1 format. H.450.3 - The H.450.3 is a call diversion supplementary service for H.323. It describes the procedures and signalling protocol for the call diversion supplementary service in H.323 networks. This includes the services Call Forwarding Unconditional (SS-CFU), Call Forwarding Busy (SS-CFB), Call Forwarding No Reply (SS-CFNR) and Call Deflection (SS-CD). These are all supplementary services, which apply during call establishment, providing a diversion of an incoming call to another destination endpoint. This is based on H.450.1 This protocol has no header as all messages are in text, in ASN.1 format. H.264 - H.264 flavor of MPEG-4 (also known as MPEG-4 Part 10 or Advanced Video Coding). This feature is strategically significant because H.264/AVC has been chosen to be part of the next-generation Blu-Ray and HD-DVD blue-laser optical-disc specifications. More important, increasing numbers of handheld and set-top video and DVD players are now adding the ability to play H.264/AVC content h - handle - Windows header file Hungarian notation H-IPS - Horizontal in Plane Switching. IPS It improves the contrast ratio by twisting the electrode plane layout. HA - High Availability HACCP - Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point. for more HACCP information, click here HACMP - High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (IBM). Click for more info HADOOP - "Hadoop is a free, Java-based programming framework that supports the processing of large data sets in a distributed computing environment. It is part of the Apache project sponsored by the Apache Software Foundation." - techtarget. Apache Hadoop is an open-source software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications - Apache Hadoop - Wikipedia See also: HADOOP See also: HDFS - Hadoop Distributed File System See also: MapReduce HAF - High Availability Features HALT - Highly Accelerated Life Testing (same as IBM's ELF) HAM - Host Adapter Module - NetWare driver file name suffix HAMR - Seagate's Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording technology should eventually store up to 50 Terabytes od data per square inch (using nanotube technology). HAN - Home Area Networks (HANs). Used to control a devices in a smart home. See also HAN See also: Home Network - Wikipedia See also: Smart Meter: Home Area Network See also: ZigBee for HAN (Home Area Network) Energy Management See also: Smart Grid: Home Area Networks See also: ZigBee hard zoning - works by creating an exclusive set of internal circuit links between ports in a zone. Hard zoning is intended to be implemented in hardware and is designed to be impervious to security attacks. Hard zoning is in contrast with soft zoning. Hard zoning across multiple switches requires a dedicated switch-to-switch link for each zone spanning multiple switches. Note: hard zoning should NOT be assumed to be the same as Port Zoning, as Port Zoning can also be accomplished through software that zones by ports, as opposed to destination and source addresses Harvest - Computer Associates' AllFusion Harvest Change Manager - defects, change control, version control HAS - Height Adjustable Stand (for Monitors) HASS - Highly Accelerated Stress Screen (Shock and Vibe [vibration]) HATS - An IBM Websphere tool that stands for Host Access Transformation Services HBA - Host Bus Adapter HC - Head Count HCA - Host Channel Adapter HCI - Human Computer Interface HCL - Hardware Compatibility List HCL - India's Leading IT and Technology Company - so they say - a $5 billion global company HCL America HCL Technologies - home page HCL Technologies - Wikipedia HCS - Header Check Sequence; Hierarchical Cell HCT - Hardware Compatiblity Tests HD - High Definition (TV) hd - hard drive (Unix special file) HDCP - High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection. HDCP – A Technical Overview - Extron Electronics Click here for more info HDCP v 2.2 - is NOT backwards compatible. ALL video equipment in your video viewing MUST be upgradedto HDCP v 2.2. HDCP 2.2 will probably be applied to 4K video signals (movies). HDCP 2.2: What you need to know - CNET Digital Content Protection - HDCP Specifications Everything you know about 4K is wrong thanks to HDCP 2.2 HDCP 2.x Hardware-Assisted Software Client for Android HDCP v 2.1 - was Breached. High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection - Wikipedia A cryptanalysis of HDCP v2.1 - A Few Thoughts HDCP v 2.0 - was Breached. High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection - Wikipedia revision 2.0 - Digital Content Protection LLC HDD - hard disk drive HDD - High Level Driver HD-DVD - A format for putting HD on a DVD. Competes with Sony sponsored Blu-ray DVDs. HDHP - high deductible health plan (HDHP) qualified high deductible policy (allows you to open an HSA account, if offereed) HDI - How Do I? HDL - HanDLe Manager HDLC - High-Level Data-Link - ISO 4335 - High Level Data Link Control protocol developed by ISO, based on pioneering work by IBM on SDLC. HDMI - Will be a REQUIRED connection for viewing HDTV signals IF, certain AACS author content media proection "locks" are enabled on your DVD or HD video source. Both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD formats will support AACS, and could have this viewing restriction enabled. Supports 1080i and 1080p (and lower resolutions). You can purchase a cable (adapter) to convert HDMI to DVI. Click here for more information about HDMI and related things HDR - high dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR). HDRI - More information about: High Dynamic Range Imaging (pictures) HDS - Hitachi Data Systems HDSL - High bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line, See also HDTV - High Definition TV. Click here for more info headless system - has no monitor nor keyboard heartbeat - messages used to determine when a secondary array is reachable heartbeats only used after secondary array determined unreachable. HEIF - High Efficiency Image File Format - Wikipedia MPEG-H Part 12 (ISO/IEC 23008-12). "The HEIF specification also defines the means of storing High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC)-encoded intra images and HEVC-encoded image sequences in which inter prediction is applied in a constrained manner." - Wikipedia HEIF files are compatible with the ISO Base Media File Format (ISOBMFF, ISO/IEC 14496-12) and can also include other media streams, such as timed text and audio. Image File Format heisenbug - a bug that changes behavior when attempts are made to study it. Common examples are 1] race conditions 2] code does not fail with debug turned on. HEMI - hemisphere OS/kernal for Flare - NOT used on the K10. Hemi pipe - (the CMI Inbound message pipe. NOT used for K10, replaced w/NT's IRPs) Heterogeneous Network - Often used in teh context of distributed systems that may be running different operating systems or network protocols (a heterogeneous network). HEV Hybrid Electric Vehicle. This is a 100% FFV, with no plug but with increased efficiency using a small battery and some technology borrowed from electric vehicles. They are also called “electrified vehicles” or “self charging” vehicles. Some types are “Mild Hybrids,” if they borrow the absolute minimum from electric vehicles. Pioneered by Toyota and Honda, HEVs are now widely used by others to reach EU emission targets. HEVC - "High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2, is a video compression standard, one of several potential successors to the widely used AVC (H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10)." - Wikipedia "HEVC is a video compression standard, one of several potential successors to the widely used AVC (H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10). In comparison to AVC, HEVC offers about double the data compression ratio at the same level of video quality, or substantially improved video quality at the same bit rate. It supports resolutions up to 8192×4320, including 8K UHD." - Wikipedia HFM - (Oracle's) Hyperion Financial Management. HFM - Oracle's Hyperion Financial Management HFM - High sierra File Manager (compact disks). Read-Only file system. First used on MAC and PC. HFS - Hardware Functionality Scan. For more info HH - A disk form factor HHD - Hybrid Hard Drives (have huge onboard FLASH CACHE), allow fster access times, and allow drives to stop spinning more (saves energy). HHG - HitchHikers Guide (collection of information about some topic) HI-5 - L2 Cache (see L2 Cache). I've also seen "Hi-5". Specific implementation of a hierarchical RAID that uses a RAID 3 style disk based second level cache in front of a RAID 5 LUN. HI-UX/MPP system - A parallel computing system that connects many nodes using a dedicated, multidimensional crossbar network to process scientific and technical computations in parallel at a high speed. Hibernate - an open source Java persistence framework project. hibernate.org HIC - Health Insurance Claim hidden flag - n. [scientific computation] An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked on in a hurry. HIDS - Host Based Intrusion System High Availability - step below fault tolerant, redundant hardware. high frequency - occurs more often than other events (testing) HIM - health information management HIN - Hardware Instance Numbers (NetWare) (which is necessary when setting up an interrupt) - probably also means it's Plug-n-Play. HIP - Host Identity Protocol - an IETF protocol supporting mobile VPN. (VPN) summary of BEET discussion - Unfortunately, the IPsec WG is being closed down InfraHIP Host Identity Protocol InfraHIP Experimentation HIPAA - Health Care Accountability and Portability Act. HIPAA includes sweeping federal laws that are designed to do everything from reduce the cost of filing insurance claims electronically to making sure patients' privacy isn't violated during hospital and doctor's office visits. includes EDI/Code Sets, Security & Privacy. HIPPI - High Performance Parallel Interface HIS - hospital information system HL7 - HL-7 - Health Level 7 (Health Level Seven). more HL7 info "HL7" is a registered trademark of Health Level Seven (HL7), Inc., the non-profit standards developing organization that is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Bioinformatics / Pharma Info HLD - High level Design HLPT - High Level Page Table HLR - Home Location Registers - keeps profile data about the of GPRS subscribers. HMAC - hashed message authentication code HMBD - Heavy Metal Battery Directive (European non-Medical Device). Anything containing heavy metal (cadmium) batteries HME - Hundred-megabyte Ethernet. Compare with Lance Ethernet (le0). HMOC - Hash Message Authentication Code. A secret key authentication method that uses digital signatures. HMVD - H.261. Horizontal motion vector data field. (5 bits) Represents the reference horizontal motion vector data (MVD). Set to 0 if V flag is 0 or if the packet begins with a GOB header, or when the MTYPE of the last MB encoded in the previous packet was not MC. HMVD is encoded as a 2's complement number, and `10000' corresponding to the value -16 is forbidden (motion vector fields range from +/-15). HO - Hand Over HOD - (IBM) WebSphere Host On-Demand - access to your host applications and data holistic - Holistic grading of a test is based on anchor paper (samples). Instead of counting the number of errors, the number of errors is comapred to a pre-graded anchor paper. - Standards based tests - Wikipedia Holistic scoring - Holistic scoring is a method by which trained readers evaluate a piece of writing for its overall quality. Holistic_grading - Wikipedia Holistic Scoring in More Detail - Guides Homophone - A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning, and may differ in spelling - Homophone - Wikipedia hot disk - In some volume there may be a “hot” disk. That is a disk that gets some disproportionate amount of I/O requests. hot swap - the ability to remove a disk drive and plug in a new one, without first turning off the power to the system or the drive bus/network. HPA - Hollywood Post Alliance - An alliance for the creation and finishing of motion pictures, TV, commercials, digital media,... HPC - High Performance Computing / High Pin Count HPDP - HP Data Protector VMware Integration. For more HPDP information, click here - PDF Data Protection Software - HP Data Protector Uses Deduplication. HP Data Protector software - PDF - HP HPET - High Precision Event Timers - Intel HPI - Hardware Platform Interface HPR-APPN - High Performance Routing Advanced Peer to Peer Network, IBM network architecture for dynamic routing across arbitrary network topologies. HQA - Hand-off to QA. Development releases a build (final drop) to QA for verification against milestone entry criteria of a particular segment. These builds include the latest drafts of the online help and the HTML manuals and help. HRA - Human Resources Administration HRIS - Human Resources Information System. Click here for more information HSA - Health Savings Account (tax defered - superior to FSA , in my opinion) HSA - Health savings account - Wikipedia HSCSD - High Speed Circuit Switched Data is an upgrade to GSM networks. See also HSCSD HSD - High Level SRL Driver HSDPA - The 3G Partnership Project (3GPP) group has built a specification called the high-speed downlink packet data access (HSDPA) protocol that allows carriers to increase downlink throughput over W-CDMA links. Click for more HSDPA information HSM - Hardware Security Module a physical computing device that manages digital keys for strong authentication and provides cryptoprocessing without revealing decrypted data - Hardware security module - Wikipedia HSM - Hierarchical Storage Management HSS - Home Subscriber Service HSSDC - High Speed Serial Data Connector HSUPA - High-Speed Uplink Packet Access. more info HTFS - High Throughput File System (IP4700/Dakota) HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language HTS - High Throughput Screening (biological) HTIB - Home Theater In a Box HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (TCP/IP) HTTPD - Hypertext Transfer Protocol Daemon HTTPS - Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure. The secure version of HTTP using certificates that can uniquely identify the server and client, and encrypt all communication between them. also: HTTP/S hub - in FC, a wiring concentrator that collapses a loop topology into a physical star topology. In Ethernet, a device that is used with 10BaseT and 100BaseT cabling to connect computers to the network. Most hubs have from 5 to 24 ports. Switches / Routers / Hubs HUD - Heads Up Display Hungarian Notation - Dang - I thought that I had invented this in the late 60's. It is the use of chacters prefixed to variable names to describe the variable type. While harder to read (perhaps the letters should be postscripted). It does make it harder to miss-use or miscast variables. b - BOOL - Windows header file Hungarian notation c - char - Windows header file Hungarian notation ch - char - Windows header file Hungarian notation clr - COLORREF - Windows header file Hungarian notation cx, cy - Horizontal or vertical distance - Windows header file Hungarian notation dw - DWORD 32-bit unsigned integer - Windows header file Hungarian notation h - handle - Windows header file Hungarian notation l - LONG - Windows header file Hungarian notation m_ - variable is a member of a class - indows header file Hungarian notation n - int - Windows header file Hungarian notation p - pointer - Windows header file Hungarian notation sz - Zero-terminated string - Windows header file Hungarian notation w - WORD - Windows header file Hungarian notation wnd - CWnd variables - Windows header file Hungarian notation HVAC - Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning HVEC - High Volume Easily Configured (manufacturing) hw - hardware HWND - Window Handles HyperTransport - AMD & API Network's leading contender to replace the PCI bus. HyperTransport LOST - Everyone is using PCIe. The current (8/2001) HyperTransport spec calls for an aggregate bandwidth of 6.4 GB per second in a 16-bit configuration, and 12.8 Gb/sec in a 32-bit configuration. In contrast, 32-bit PCI starts at less than 133 MB/second, and scales to only 533 MB/sec at 64-bit configurations HyperTransport is 24 times faster than PCI, out of the gate. HyperTransport is software compatible with PCI - vendors will not have to rewrite their PCI device drivers. Hypothesis Testing - Hypothesis testing refers to the process of using statistical analysis to determine if the observed differences between two or more samples are due to random chance (as stated in the null hypothesis) or to true differences in the samples (as stated in the alternate hypothesis). A null hypothesis (H0) is a stated assumption that there is no difference in parameters (mean, variance, DPMO) for two or more populations. The alternate hypothesis (Ha) is a statement that the observed difference or relationship between two populations is real and not the result of chance or an error in sampling. Hypothesis testing is the process of using a variety of statistical tools to analyze data and, ultimately, to accept or reject the null hypothesis. From a practical point of view, finding statistical evidence that the null hypothesis is false allows you to reject the null hypothesis and accept the alternate hypothesis. I&C - instrumentation and control I&KM - Information and knowledge management (I&KM) i-mode - I_T - Initiator_Target I_T_L - Initiator_Target_LUN I2C (bus, controller) - Inter IC Communications bus/protocol/controller. A bus used to connect integrated circuits. Multiple chips can be connected to the same bus and each one can act as a master by initiating a data transfer. I2O - Intelligent I/O (an industry standard) IA - Intel Architecture IA - Interrupt Address IA-64 - Instruction Architecture, 64-bit, see Merced. IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service, typically a platform Virtualization IaaS - OpenStack (Linux) IAB - Internet Architecture Board IAC - Intelligent Automation for Cloud (IAC) - Cisco's holistic cloud management solution with broad coverage for various types of cloud deployments. IAM - Identity and Access Management (security). Identity and Access Management - Gartner You use IAM to control who can use your AWS resources (authentication) and what resources they can use and in what ways (authorization). IANA - Internet Assigned Numbers Authority IAR - IAR Systems offers integrated development tools for embedded applications IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM IASA - International Association of Software Architects IAVMa - DoD Information Assurance Vulnerability Messages IB - InfiniBand iBGP - internal BGP Border Gateway Protocol - wikipedia IBTA - InfiniBand Trade Association ICA - Irreversible Corrective Action ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICAP - The Internet Content Adaption Protocol, is a protocol aimed at providing simple object-based content vectoring for HTTP services. ICAP is, in essence, a lightweight protocol for executing a "remote procedure call" on HTTP messages. It allows ICAP clients to pass HTTP messages to ICAP servers for some sort of transformation or other processing ("adaptation"). The server executes its transformation service on messages and sends back responses to the client, usually with modified messages. Typically, the adapted messages are either HTTP requests or HTTP responses. ICB - Internet Cooperation Board ICCB - Internet Configuration Control Board ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol (TCP/IP) - used in host-to-host communication. icmpV6 - revision of ICMP (TCP/IP) ICDA - Integrated Cache Disk Array ICE Internal Combustion Engine. (Also used by some for the vehicle.) ICE - In-Circuit Emulator. A chip used for testing and debugging logic circuits typically in embedded systems. The chip emulates a particular microprocessor and contains breakpoints and other debugging functions. See ROM emulator. ICE - Information and Content Exchange. A data sharing specification that allows one Web site to obtain data from another Web site. Using meta tags, ICE provides a standard way of defining a company's data. ICE is based on XML and OPS. See XML, OPS and meta tag. ICF - Internet Connection Firewall - Microsoft has recognized the importance of personal firewalls too. Window XP and Windows Server 2003 come with a rudimentary firewall called Internet Connection Firewall. ICF isn't a very useful firewall, although users running it are better off than users without it. The upcoming Windows XP Service Pack 2 will upgrade ICF and rename it "Windows Firewall." PC Magazine recently took a good hard look at it. Windows Firewall won't have all the features of third-party personal firewalls—for instance, it won't have tight control over programs on your system making outbound communications—but it will be turned on by default and will offer much more control over the security of your system than exists today in Windows out of the box. ICH - International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use ICH Guidelines ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol. An extension to IP that permits extra control, test and error messages to be incorporated into the packet stream. ICMP rides on top of IP as IP Protocol number 1. all ICMP packets begin with th same 4 bytes - the Type field (1 byte), the Code field (1 byte), and the Checksum field (2 bytes). RFC 792 ICOM - Internet COMmunications ICP - Internet Control Protocol (Banyan) ICPM - Intelligent Copper Pass-thru Module for an IBM Blade I-CSCF - Interrogating-Call/Session Control Function (SIP) ICS - Inter-Company shipment ICT - information and communications technology ICEV Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle. ICV - initial chaining value. See also: Cryptology / Encryption ICV - integrity check value (with IPsec) I-D - Internet Draft ID - Information Development. IBM team that creates and updates IBM publications ID - Identification IDC - Internet Database Connector. A Microsoft server-based scripting language for linking ODBC data sources to a Web sever, so as to create dynamic pages based on a database. IDD - Interrupt Disable Depth -#times VP disabled hrdw interrups via explicit calls IDE - Integrated Development Environment (BREW, CodeWarrior, MSDN) IDE - Integrated Device Electronics. IDE, ATA, EIDE IDFF - Liberty's "Identity Federation Framework", being offered as the basis for SAML 2.0 IDL - Interface Definition Language. The platform independent standard language for specifiying the interface for remote procedure calls (RPC). See also MIDL. IDN - internationalized domain name IDP - Internet Datagram Protocol (XNS) IDP - Individual Development Plan (IBM) IDR - Intelligent Document Recognition IDS - Intrusion Detection System - sit on and monitor a port, and simply report problems IE - Integration Environment; Implementation Engineer IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission - like the ISO, is a voluntary organization composed of national members. IED - Intelligent Electronic Devices IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. An industry body that develops standards for networking, in particular local area networks (LANs). They are responsible for the Ethernet and Token Ring protocol standards. The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) defines the International Standards Organization (ISO) protocols. IEEE-1394 - Firewire - A very high-speed serial bus (400 Megabit - 1 Gigabit) which is the companion bus to the USB bus. This bus is designed to replace all external high-speed peripheral connections to Personal Computers, including Hard Disks, CDROM's, DVD's, Graphics Cards, High-speed Scanners, Direct Video, Monitors, and so on. Firewire, like USB, is very heavily supported throughout the Personal Computer Industry. IEN - Interrupt Enable IESB - Information Systems Examination Board (British). IESB - Wikipedia IET - iSCSI Enterprise Target. iSCSI Enterprise Target Project IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force. A large multi-vendor international group of engineers, operators, vendors and researchers that defines, proposes and ratifies technical standards for the Internet. iFCP - Internet Fibre Channel Protcol; Fibre Channel layer 4 FCP over TCP/IP. (proposed) extended SAN tunneling standard - an extended SAN-to-SAN tunnel between Fibre Channel networks. iFCP is to provide a virtual FC fabric to entities in a FC network over Ethernet/IP networks. IFL - Integrated Facility for Linux - on IBMs VM OSs IFMP - Ipsilon Flow Management Protocol (IP Switching) IFRS - International Financial Reporting Standards - www.IFRS.com International Financial Reporting Standards - Wikipedia Welcome to the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) IGMP - Internet Group Management Protocol (TCP/IP) IGMP is a standard defined in RFC1112 for IGMPv1 and in RFC2236 for IGMPv2. It specifies how a host can register a router to receive specific multicast traffic. This section gives a brief overview on IGMP iGroup - Initiator Group (storage) iGroup - igroup.org is a multi-disciplinary project consortium. igroup.org addresses new interfaces between humans and the real and virtual environment. igroup.org defines itself through project work. IGRP - Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (TCP/IP) IGZO - Indium gallium zinc oxide. IGZO - Wikipedia IGZO display tech finally makes it to mass market: iPad Air iHTML - iHTML - Making Dynamic Website Affordable, Quick Jump... ... iHTML is a very powerful server-side programming language for developing dynamic Internet content. ... IID - Interface Identifier. A globally uniqueue identifier associated with an interface. IID - Initiator Identifier (Clariion/K10) IID/BID - The IID/BID pair uniquely identifies a Clarion/K10 host port. IIOP - Internet Inter-Orb Protocol. A standard, like CORBA, for communication between Java-based components such as JavaBeans. Allows components to communicate over the Internet in a Crossware application. IIPC - Chinese mainland UL/PSRB type of agency IIR - infinite impulse response (digital filters). IIS - Microsft's Interprise Information Services (IIS) formerly called Internet Information Server - target of lots of viruses. IIS 7.0 is available. The Web server software included with Microsoft Windows NT. Supports applications that use CGI, ASP, IDC and ISAPI; and interfaces with Windows NT and other services running on the server machine. IISP - Interim Interswitch Signalling Protocol (ATM Signalling) IKD - In Kernel Depth = #times the VP has fully entered the kernel to proc sys call IKE - internet key exchange ILM - Information Lifecycle Management - the goal of ILM is to keep important data on high-performance, primary storage systems while moving information that's accessed infrequently to less-expensive storage, such as tape, optical and ATA-based systems. Considered a super-set of DLM. ILMI - ?? ATM Domain Network Management - ATM Forum ILMI IM - Incident Management IM - instant messenging ;; Image Management Image file - A file containing an image of the device. It is created by a third party, for example, a carrier or application developer. image format - PDF, TIFF, etc IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol IMB - Intelligent Management Bus (See I2C). IMEI - International Mobile Station Equipment Identity IMG - IMG home page IML - initial machine load implements - Specifies that a (Java) class implements an interface. IMPP - Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol IMS - Sun's IP Multimedia Subsystem ;; Information Management Systems IMSI - International Mobile Subscriber Identity. more info IMSI-catcher - a device that forces the transmission of the IMSI. more info IMT - International Mobile Communications (ITU) IMT-2000 - International Mobile Communications 2000 IN - Intelligent Network in Anger - "for real". I used ANT in anger yesterday, finally doin some real work with ANT, not class exercises. INAP - Intelligent Network Application Protocol InARP - Inverse Address Resolution Protocol (RFC 2390). InARP uses OpCodes 8 and 9, while LAN based ARP uses OpCodes 1 and 2 for Request or Reply, respectively - the different OpCodes prevent confusing InARP with ARP. in-band - transmission of management protocol over the network transport (FC, for example)(rather than over Ethernet). Includes/Excludes - Includes/Excludes is a tool that can help your team define the boundaries of your project, facilitate discussion about issues related to your project scope, and challenge you to agree on what is included and excluded within the scope of your work. Incremental backup - The backup software creates copies of all the files, or parts of files that have changed since previous backups of any type (full, differential or incremental). See Also: Differential Backup Full Backup Difference between: Full, Differential, and Incremental Backup INF - Infinity - IEEE 754 Standard: "1 1111 1111 00000 00000 00000 00000 000" Inferential Statistics - Inferential statistics allow us to make inferences about a population on the basis of data collected. InfiniBand - high performance switched fabfic, usually used to connect storage to processor nodes. It is scalable, has QoS and Failover. InfiniBand - Wikipedia For more INFINIBAND information info - The GNU Info System is an online hypertext reference manual Informatica - Informatica - The Data Integration Company - is a leading provider of enterprise data integration software - (so their webiste says). Informatica - Wikipedia infrastructure - Infrastructure is the basic organizational structures needed for the operation of an enterprise. It can be generally defined as the set of interconnected structural elements that provide framework supporting an entire structure of development. It is an important term for judging a company's development. Infrastructure - Wikipedia inhale - absorb the state initiator - typically a server or workstation on a storage network that initiates transactions to disk or tape targets. inner classes - (Java) Classes contained in other classes. Using inner classes makes it easier to implement adapter classes. inodes - have 16 bits INRIA - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique insc - Integrated SCSI adapter used in the Maverick architecture for m88k. INSO - INternet Socket subsystem - implements sockets for TCP, UDP, IP, ICMP protocols. has hooks for NSI, NFS and Cluster API. - Essentially converts socket calls into corresponding TPI messages to TCP/IP protocol engine. - INSO has only one major data structure - see: inso_socket_def.h Inspection - See: Fagan-style Inspection, Software Inspection. Note: "Inspection" outside of the software field may have a different -- and negative -- connotation equivalent to software "testing". It was the latter type of inspection that Deming condemned when he wrote, "We must cease dependence on mass inspection" as a quality management technique. Installshield - Installshield creates self-installing software packages. Installshield - Wikipedia instance - In general, an object of a particular class. instance - In C++, an instance can be created by defining it on the stack. In this case, the new keyword is not used. You can also instantiate an OLE object by calling the OLE API CoCreateInstance instance - In Java, an instance of a class is created using the new operator followed by the class name. instance - running copy of a subdriver, doing some useful work in the system; virtual disk instances - have four-part name: vdm(root,2C9730ED,0C052BED,0) instances - (user-defined-name, generation#, SysID, duplicate#-of-the-instance) instances - IFexported (made a vol)there will be a device node by thatnamein /dev/dsk&/dev/rdsk instantiate - In object technology, to create an object of a specific class. See instance. integrated - controllers built into the motherboard Integration - The process of combining software components or hardware components or both into overall system. Systems Integration - Wikipedi Integration Patterns (Book) - Microsoft Integration Testing - testing of combined parts of an application to determine if they function together correctly. The 'parts' can be code modules, individual applications, client and server applications on a network, etc. This type of testing is especially relevant to client/server and distributed systems. Testing conducted after unit and feature testing. The intent is to expose faults in the interactions between software modules and functions. Either top-down or bottom-up approaches can be used. A bottom-up method is preferred, since it leads to earlier unit testing (step-level integration) This method is contrary to the big-band approach where all source modules are combined and tested in one step. The big-band approach to integration should be discouraged. Intel-VT - Intel Virtualization Technology (for CPUs). More info Interface - An abstract class providing a set of methods for a specific service. For example, the IDisplay interface provides a set of methods for basic display services. Each interface has a unique class identifier (AEECLSID), and the name of each interface begins with the letter “I.” In BREW, all the interfaces are derived from a base level class interface called IBase. IBase consists of two standard methods for incrementing and decrementing the reference count of an object. This reference count mechanism allows an object to be shared by multiple users. Interface Tests - Programs that probide test facilities for external interfaces and function calls. Simulation is often used to test external interfaces that currently may not be available for testing or are difficult to control. For example, hardware resources such as hard disks and memory may be difficult to control. Therefore, simulation can provide the characteristics or behaviors for specific function. interlaced - not all vertical lines of the video picture are displayed at once. Usually half the lines are displayed at a time, and all lines are displayed 30 times a minutes (standard TV). HDTV and other formats may not display 50% of the lines every other time (it complicated when converting both picture size and resolution). Inter-SP interaces - DLS, MPS, CMI CMISCD (K10) Interrupt - A good descriptiption of INTERRUPTS interupt level code - NEVER blocks (or big trouble occurs) IntServ - Integrated Services IO - Input/Output; initialize only IO Board - Intel IO Motherboard, PCI card holder IOI - IO Interconnect board - Mounts on sidewall of IO tray And interconnects all cables between the RIBS, the IO Board, and the Midplane. IOMB - DG IO Motherboard, PCI card holder IO Riser Card - Intel Video/COMs/Mouse/Keyboard/etc output card IOPS - IOs Per Second IOS - Internetwork Operating Systems - Cisco's OS for its HUB & Switches Cisco IOS - Wikipedia Networking Software (IOS & NX-OS) Cisco IOS Technologies - Cisco Systems Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals Command Reference ... Cisco - IOS Tutorial Cisco IOS Software Checker Networking Software (IOS & NX-OS) Introduction - Cisco Systems Cisco IOS Firewall - Products & Services - Cisco Systems Also iOS is Apple's name for their mobile operating system (iPhone,...) iOS - Wikipedia Apple - iOS (6) Develop for iOS - Apple Developer IoT - Internet of Things = refers to uniquely identifiable objects and their virtual representations in an Internet-like structure. Internet of Things - Wikipedia Internet of Things - Architecture IOV - I/O Virtualization IP - Internet Protocol, routing layer datagram service of the TCP/IP suite. The low-level part of the TCP/IP protocol. IP assembles the TCP packets, adds address information, and dispatches them over the network. CONNECTIONLESS. See also IP IP - Intellectual Property IP4700 - Dakota - a NAS, uses VxWorks, CrossStore and DG/UX. Also uses the Longbow board, developed for the K10. The IP4700 shipped in late 2000. IP address - 32-bit IP protocol layer address, aka dot address IPAM - IP Address Management. IP Address Management (IPAM) Overview IP address management - Wikipedia DHCP DHCPv6 DNS IPv4 IPv6 IPC - InterProcess Communications Protocol, datagram and reliable message delivery service Inter-process communication - Wikipedia IPC compatability - compatability mode - provides continuity of communications between IP-based networks and IPX-based networks, and it supports SAP and RIP using SLP. (NetWare) IPCP - IP Control Protocol, responsible for configuring the IP parameters on both ends of the PPP link IPD - Integrated Product Development IPD-CMM - Integrated Product Development Team Model Capability Maturity Model IPDC - ?? There are, of course, a number of MGs already on the market. These devices use older, de facto protocols, most notably IPDC and MGCP. IPFW - IP firewall mechanism, now replaced by Netfilter. IPHC - IP Header Compression IPL - Initial Program Load (boot) IPLS - IP-only LAN-like service (VPN) IPMI - Intelligent Platform Management Interface IPMT - Integrated Products Management Team IP/SPX - Novell NetWare network protocol. A network protocol developed by Novell to allow servers to provide an easily navigable network structure, and to share network resources. AS I REMEMBER, THIS WAS REPLACED with TCP/IP. IPMI - Microsoft Intelligent Platform Management Interface. (IPMI) IPP - Internet Printing Protocol (Novell ?) IPR - intellectual property rights ip routers - traditionally called routers, are often now called "layer-3 switches", if they achieve high-performance forwarding by employing special purpose hardware - they still route. IP SAN - The basic components of the system are the same, but here the application makes the file I/O to a file-system which is outside the server and the block I/O now happens within the storage between the volume manager and the RAID. See also IP SAN IPS - Intrusion Prevention system - operate inline, often at wire speed, and are tuned to drop bad traffic from the network. Most IPS systems also use Deep Packet Inspection. IPsec - Security Protocol for IP. A mechanism that uses the Authentication Header and Encapsulating Security protocols to guarantee confidentiality, security and integrity for IP data transmissions. An illustrated guide to IPsec See also IPsec iptables - The firewall administration program for the current Netfilter firewall mechanism in Linux. IPTEL - IP Telephony IPTV - IP TV (TV shows sent via IP). IPv4 - IP Version 4. the 32-bit Internet Protocol; uses a 32-bit address scheme. See also IPv4 IPv6 - Internet Protocol Version 6. The next generation IP protocol. Started in 1991, the specification was completed in 1997 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). IPv6 is backward compatible with and is designed to fix the shortcomings of IPv4, such as data security and maximum number of user addresses. IPv6 increases the address space from 32 to 128 bits, providing for an unlimited (for all intents and purposes) number of networks and systems. It also supports quality of service (QoS) parameters for realtime audio and video. The draft version of IPv6 was originally called "IP Next Generation" (IPng). See also IPv6 IPv6CP - IPv6 PPP Control Protocol, responsible for configuring, enabling and disabling the IPv6 protocol modules on both ends of a PPP link. IPX - Internetwork Packet Exchange, Novell's implementation of the Xerox Internet Datagram Protocol (IDP). See also IPX IPX/SPX - Novell’s proprietary LAN protocol. WHICH I thought they had finally scrapped in favor of TCP/IP. IPXCP - IPX PPP Control Protocol, choose and configure the IPX network-layer protocol over PPP IQ - Installation Qualification - Any new equipment, or equipment that has been relocated or modified will need an IQ, OQ, PQ to validate that piece of equipment. The IQ protocol is used to ensure that the equipment is installed correctly to meet the drug manufacturer's specifications. IQMS - IQMS provides a single source ERP solution for manufacturers, iqn - iSCSI qualified name IR - Information Recovery IrDA - Infrared Data Association. IRIX - Silicon Graphics Incorporated's version of Linux IRG - Internet Research Group IRL - In Real Life IRM - infrastructure resource management IRP - I/O Request Packets, an NT term IRV - IS - Information Security ;; Integrated Services ;; Interim Standards IS-54 - Interim Standard 54 for U.S. Digital Cellular IS-95 - Interim Standard 95 for U.S. Code Division Multiple Access IS-136 - Interim Standard 136 for U.S. Digital Cellular with Digital Control Channels IS-IS - ISO 10589 - Intermediate System to Intermediate System, exchage of configuration and routing information to facilitate the operation of the routing and relaying functions of the network layer (ISO). ISA bus - Industry Standard Architecture, aka AT bus, 8/16-bit 8MHz. The long, black one- or two-part connectors on all older "IBM-Compatible" PC motherboards, and many newer ones. This is the "legacy" or old "standard" bus into which virtually all PC cards made previous to 1993 plug into. It is a relatively slow 16-bit bus... typically two to four megabytes-per-second, maximum. ISAKMP - Internet Security Association Key Management Protocol. A protocol which negotiates between two systems to decide which security method the systems should use for authenticating each other. iSAN - iSCSI-based storage area network ISAPI - Internet Server Application Programming Interface. A broadly standardized interface that allows server-side programs to create dynamic Web pages, in a similar way to CGI. iSATA - integrated SATA enclosure ISC - Internet Systems Consortium. open source reference implementations of core Internet protocols. ISC.org ISC - Interagency Security Committee (US GOV) ISC2 - (ISC)2 is the official organization that maintains and administers the CISSP certification exam (ISC)² Home Page (ISC)² Members Site iSCSI - SCSI over IP (serial SCSI-3 over TCP/IP), also called Internet SCSI. Uses block I/O. Internet SCSI; serial SCSI-3 over TCP/IP. iSCSI Definition/Info iSCSI node - an iSCSI initiator or target, identified by a 255-byte name. iSER - iSCSI Extension for RDMA iSeries Line - Servers in the IBM iSeries line, formerly called the AS/400 line, can run several "virtual" Linux servers in separate partitions that share the hardware used by the native iSeries operating system, OS/400. An iSeries machine can house as many as 31 Linux partitions. ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network, all digital communications line that allows for transmission of voice, data, video and graphics, at very high speeds, over standard communication lines. Abbreviation of integrated services digital network, an international communications standard for sending voice, video, and data over digital telephone lines or normal telephone wires. ISDN supports data transfer rates of 64 Kbps (64,000 bits per second). Most ISDN lines offered by telephone companies give you two lines at once, called B channels. You can use one line for voice and the other for data, or you can use both lines for data to give you data rates of 128 Kbps, three times the data rate provided by today's fastest (analog) modems. The original version of ISDN employs baseband transmission. Another version, called B-ISDN, uses broadband transmission and is able to support transmission rates of 1.5 Mbps. B-ISDN requires fiber optic cables and is not widely available. iSER - iSCSI Extensions for RDMA. See iSER for more information iSeries - (IBM), now called IBM Power Systems. IBM System i - ISID - an initiator session ID used to monitor transactions (iSCSI). ISL - interswitch link (Mc) iSNS - Internet Storage Name Server; a discovery and management protocol for IP storage networks. Click for more info iSNSP - the iSNS Protocol ISO - Internal Sales Order ISO - International Standards Organization - protocols defined by IEEE; complete seven-layer protocol conforming to the OSI networking model. The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) defines the International Standards Organization (ISO) protocols. Most common ISO standards are contained here, in my standards.htm document. ISO 9000 Series of Standards - Series of standards established in the 1980s by countries of Western Europe as a basis for judging the adequacy of the quality control systems of companies. ISO 9001-2000 ISO 9660 - First computer CD standard format (see also "Rock Ridge"). ISO-IP - ISO Internetworking Protocol, includes built-in error signalling to aid in routing management. ISO-SP - ISO Session Protocol, specifies procedures for a single protocol for the transfer of data and control information from one session entity to a peer session entity. ISO-TP - ISO Transport Protocol (ISO 8073) ISOC - Internet Society iSOE - iSCSI offload Engine - also: ISOE isoEthernet - isoEthernet combines standard 10Mb/s Ethernet with 96B+D channels of standard ISDN on the same Category 3 twisted-pair wiring generally already installed. ISO image - an archieve file (image) of of an optical disk, utilizing a recognized ISO standard format, such as ISO 9660. (file format) - more ISP - Internet Service Provider. An agency or company that provides a connection to the Internet, usually as Cable, a leased line or a dial-up link. For example COX.com, Road Runner,... ISR - Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance ISR - Interupt Service Routine IST - Interrupt Status ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications Board. more info on ISTQB ISUP - ISDN User Part of SS7, defines protocol and procedures used to setup, manage and release trunk circuits that carry voice and data calls over the public switched telephone network. ISV - Independent Software Vendor (P) Provider. Term used to describe companies that produce software or components for use with other companies operating systems or technologies. IT - Information Technology iTC - IBM i Technology Center (iTC) ITCAM - Tivoli (IBM) Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) for WebSphere ITG - Independent Test Group - A group of people whose primary responsibility is software testing ITG - Initial Thread Group IT-GRC - information-technology governance, risk and compliance IT GRC: Combining disciplines for better enterprise security IT&S - Information Technology & Services ITIL - ITIL is a consistent/comprehensive documentation of best practice for IT Service Management. The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) - a set of concepts/policies for managing Information Technology infrastructure For more information about ITIL, SEE ALSO: ITIL - standards ITM - IBM Tivoli Monitoring Tivoli Monitoring - IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agents Deploying ITM 6.1 monitoring agents ITN - iSCSI target node or iSCSI target name ITO - IT Outsourcing Services ITOA - IT Operations Analytics Also advocates the four sources of IT visibility: wire data, machine data, agent data, and synthetic data. ITOA - integer to ASCII function is a widespread non-standard extension to the standard C programming language. It cannot be portably used. This POSIX function is deprecated. Use the ISO C++ conformant _itoa or security-enhanced _itoa_s instead. ITP - Integration Test Plan - wms ITS - intelligent transportation systems. ITS America ITSM - IT Service Management - focused on the Customer's perception of contribution to the business. More info ITSM - Wikipedia ITT - initiator task tag ITU - International Telecommunications Union. An international body that defines the standards for modems and low level transmission of data, typically over public networks like the PSTN. ITU Organization ITU Q.2931 Signaling - International Telecommunications Union signalling standard for ATM to support Switched Virtual Connections. This is the signalling standard for ISDN. ITU-R - ITU - Radio Communications Sector ITU-T - ITU - Telecommunications Standardization Sector ITW - Invalid Transmission Word (LSI). IU - information units IV & V - Independent Verification & Validation IVDD - In Vitro Diagnostic Directive (European medical Devices. IVD reagents, controls, calibrators, systems. IVR - Interactive Voice Response - An automated telephone answering system that responds with a voice menu and allows the user to make choices and enter information via the keypad. IVRS - interactive voice response systems IVS - INRIA Videoconferencing System IVT - Intel VT (Virtualization). See also iWARP - Consortium is an industry-supported organization that works to provide a neutral test environment & industry accepted test methodologies IWF - Interworking Function (BREW & 3G) Ix86 - DG uses: 32 bit cache lines; standard burst is 4 units; Pentium = 64 bit cache lines. .J - Java source code suffix J2EE - Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition JAAS - Java Authentication and Authorization Service JAD - Joint Application Development s a management process which helps IS work effectively with users to develop information technology solutions that really work. JAD - Jad - the fast JAva Decompiler Jailbreaking - opening an iPhone to applications not signed by Apple for installation. JAR files - Java ARchive files - essentially a zipped collection of Java files. File name ends in the suffix .JAR .JAV - Java source (ASCII text file) suffix .java - Java source (ASCII text file) suffix - JBuilder Java - Programming Language. Developed by Sun Microsystems with the concept that the same software should run on many different kinds of computers, consumer gadgets, and other devices. Implemented as a set of classes that can be tailored and extended as required. Java 2 platform - originally JDK 1.2 JavaBeans - Java software component. A software component built in Java that implements a control or provides a series of functions for use within another application. These are Java components that can be plugged inot other Java programs. Java EE - Java Enterprise Edition. See J2EE for more information Java Extensions Framework - Extensions are packages of Java classes (and any associated native code) that developers can use to extend the core Java platfrom. JAWS - Job Access With Speech. This language enables a Windows environment, or any other computer environment, to cater to the blind. By converting existing programs into a JAWS format, the blind can successfully work on the computer. Looking for someone with solid experience programming in JAWS, to assist in converting existing programs to be re-written into JAWS. JAX-RPC - Java API for XML-based Remote Procedure Call JBOD - Just a Bunch Of Disks, is a class of storage subsystem that provides power and I/O connectivity for multiple disk drives (drives located inside an external cabinet), but does not create create virtual drives from the members. JBoss - JBoss Application Server is the #1 most widely used Java application server on the market. Application Server - jboss.org JBoss application server - Wikipedia JBoss Enterprise Middleware - redhat.com Get JBoss.org at SourceForge.net JCA - J2EE (Java EE) Connector Architecture - Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA)Reference Guide JCAHO - some network?/healthcare? standard JCP - Java Community Process JDBC - Java Database Connectivity JDBCTM technology is an API that lets you access virtually any tabular data source from the JavaTM programming language. It provides cross-DBMS connectivity to a wide range of SQL databases, and now, with the new JDBC API, it also provides access to other tabular data sources, such as spreadsheets or flat files. The JDBC API allows developers to take advantage of the Java platform's "Write Once, Run AnywhereTM" capabilities for industrial strength, cross-platform applications that require access to enterprise data. With a JDBC technology-enabled driver, a developer can easily connect all corporate data even in a heterogeneous environment. JDBC FAQ A software interface layer that allows Java applications and components to access data stores via ODBC. JDE - Java Development Environment JDK - Java Development Kit. A set of documentation, samples and tools that provide programmers with the information required when creating Java applications and components. J-GPI - The main problem for Sony Ericsson regarding the use of Java as programming language is integrating Java with the underlying mobile phone platform through the General Platform Interface (GPI). Sony Ericsson requested an interface above the GPI which would enable Java to access the hardware functionality which has, until now, only been accessible for C. This interface, which we have developed, is called the Java GPI (J-GPI) as it constitutes a Java layer tightly bound to the GPI. jiffy - A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Jini - Distributed device architecture. A Java-based architecture developed by Sun Microsystems for providing automatic discovery and communication between network devices such as printers, storage devices, speakers and other systems. JIRA -JIRA is a proprietary issue (bug) tracking product - used for bug tracking, issue tracking and project management. JIRA - lots more information about JIT - Just In Time. An acronym applied to several technologies to indicate that a process, such as compilation of byte code, is carried out just before it is required by an application. JITC - Joint Interoperability Test Command (USA Military) Joint Interoperability Test Command - Wikipedia Joint Interoperability Test Command DoD IPv6 Product Certification - Wikipedia jitter - deviation in timing that a bit stream encounters as it traverses a physical medium. JMS - Java Message Service - an API for using enterprise messaging systems such as IBM MQ Series, TIBCO Rendezvous, and so on. JMS - Java Message Service - Wikipedia JMAPI - Java Management API. Sun's interface to manage network and systems via web browsers. JMAPI uses CIM. JMX - Java Management eXtensions JNDI - Java Naming and Directory Interface. Java API providing access to business directory systems. JNI - Java Native Interface - a standard programming interface for writing Java native methods. JP - Job Processor - alias for main CPU engine on a Storage Processor JPA - Java Persistence API JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group. A body that designed and promotes the JPEG (JPG) graphics format, which combines high color depth with small file size for photographic still images by using a lossy compression scheme. JPS - JP Sets JRA - JRockit Runtime Analyzer. Basics of using JRA with WLS JRE - Java Runtime Environment JSM - java security manager jsm Quest (Oracle) What is .jsm ??? JSP - Java Server Pages. server-side programming language combining HTML and Java code to generate custom servlets for dynamic web pages. JSR - Java Specification Request, a proposal made in the Java Community Process Java Community Process - Jump To Subroutine, an assembly language instruction JSSE - Java Secure Socket Extension JTAG - Joint Test Action Group, defines boundary scan test interface. more JTAG information see JTAG - Wikipedia JTAG Port - Joint Test Action Group Port - Back door into a microprocessor JTAPI - Java Telephony Application Programming Interface. A Sun-developed standard for use when building applications or components in Java that interface with telephony systems. JUnit - JUnit is a regression testing framework written by Erich Gamma and Kent Beck. It is used by the developer who implements Unit Tests in Java. JUnit is Open Source Software, released under the IBM's Common Public License Version 1.0 and hosted on SourceForge. JVM - Java Virtual Machine - a Java interpreter for a particular architecture & OS. JVMDI - Java Virtual Machine Debugger Interface - new debuger interface for the JVM. Jython - Jython is an implementation of the high-level, dynamic, object-oriented language Python written in 100% Pure Java, and seamlessly integrated with the Java platform. It thus allows you to run Python on any Java platform. Click for more info K - primary data-encrypting key. See also: Cryptology / Encryption KA - authentication key. See also: Cryptology / Encryption Katmai - Slot 1 32-bit chip that has embedded 3-D instructions (MMX) floating point intensive applications. kb/s - Kilobits per second (also called: Kbps ) KC - primary communications key (synonymous with session key). See also: Cryptology / Encryption KCFR - Key Controls over Fiancial Reporting (IBM) KCO - Key Controls over Operations (IBM) KDC - Key Distribution Center. An element of the Kerberos security system that checks user identities and matches them to resource permissions. It issues session keys and tickets to users allowing them to access specific resources. Kerberos - Network security protocol. A security technology that has been under development in academic institutes for some time (read this as UNIX). Windows NT 5 uses this, replacing the existing LAN Manager based security methods in NT 3.5 and NT 4. Click here for more info Key object attributes - Attributes pertaining to the screen object, such as key symbols, key action, and overload codes. BREW keyword - ITSME is a keyword I invented at the request of a paranoid friend, "X". X wanted me to use a keyword on my Emails bearing attachments, to indicate that I, David Woodsmall, sent the virus-free attachment, and not some virus program. We selected the keyword ITSME. I try to remember to include ITSME either in the message subject line, or the first line of the text, to indicate that the attachment was really sent by me, and is virus free. Complete COMPUTER SECURITY My COMPUTER SECURITY RECOMMENDATIONS Complete Computer Virus / Hoax / Trojan / Worm I ALWAYS download any new Norton virus-definition file BEFORE I read or send any Email, or visit any web sites. I also use a hardware firewall, free ZoneAlarm and AdAware to prevent getting any infestations. I also turn off my cable modem and computer when either is not in use. Lately, I often include the ITSME keyword with messages that have no attachments. KF - primary key file. See also: Cryptology / Encryption KFCs - Kernel Function Calls (thread calls) KFS - Kernel File System KI - interchange key Kinect - Microsoft wireless/hands free motion sensor for it's XBOX 360 gaming platform. Click HERE for more KINECT information KM - Knowledge Management - some Microsoft thing? kmem - kernel memory (Unix special file) KMIP - Key Management Interoperability Protocol. More KMIP information is HERE KMT - terminal master key. See also: Cryptology / Encryption KN - secondary key. See also: Cryptology / Encryption KNC - secondary (node) communication key. See also: Cryptology / Encryption KNF - seconary node file key. See also: Cryptology / Encryption Kopete - a Linux Instant Messenger program KP - personal key. See also: Cryptology / Encryption KPG - personal key-generating key used to generate KP from ID. See also: Cryptology / Encryption KPI - key performance indicator is a type of performance measurement. KPIs evaluate the success of an organization or of a particular activity in which the it engages Performance Indicator KPN - PIN generating key used to geenrate PIN from ID. See also: Cryptology / Encryption KRB5 - Kerberos version 5 KSB - Kernel Stack Base (0x1880 - Intel) = 8K KSL - Kernel Stack Limit (0x0 - Intel) KS - session key. See also: Cryptology / Encryption ksps - Kilo symbols per second KSTR - transaction session key. See also: Cryptology / Encryption KT - resident terminal key. See also: Cryptology / Encryption KTK - kernel tool kit- tools used to build and deliver kernel contributions to DG/UX products KTR - transaction key. See also: Cryptology / Encryption KVM - Kernel-based Virtual Machine (Linux). KVM - (Linux) Kernel Virtual Machine - LOTS OF INFORMATION See also KVM. Kernel-based Virtual Machine - Wikipedia KVM - Keyboard, Video, & Mouse switcher - allows a single one of each to control multiple computers (one at a time). l - LONG - Windows header file Hungarian notation L - locality L1 Cache - The Flare Write/Read Cache process, which provides a mechanism for the temporary storage of host write data in a manner that is protected from power transients and other hardware failures. L1 Spreadsheet - An L1 spreadsheet calculates defects per million opportunities (DPMO) and a process Z value for discrete data. L2 Cache - (a.k.a. "Hi-5") - A new unit type consisting of a Raid-5 lun with a log-based write cache driver placed between the System (L1) Write Cache and the HI-5 Raid Driver in the driver stack. This log-based cache provides a high performance access that greatly reduces the Raid-5 write penalty. L2F - Layer 2 Forwarding protocol, permits the tunneling of the link layer of higher layer protocols (PPP suite) L2FP - Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol, used for integrating multi-protocol dial-up services into existing ISP POP. L2TP - Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (OSI). LabVIEW - Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench - a National Instruments A development platform for NI's graphical language 'G'. LabVIEW - wikipedia NI.com LabVIEW for Dummiees LAC - L2TP access concentrator LAC - Link Access Control L2 Spreadsheet - An L2 spreadsheet calculates the short-term and long-term Z values for continuous data sets. LA - Limited Availability LAGG - "link aggregation group" - A Panaasas grouping of 10GigE Ethernet "trunks"/ LAMP - Linux + Apache web server + MySQL and PHP (a hypertext preprocessor script language usually used for server-side scripting. LAN - Local Area Network. A series of machines in close proximity, usually in the same building, connected together. Uses any of a range of common network protocols, often referred to as Ethernet. Land Mobile Radio - "Land mobile radio system (LMRS), also called public land mobile radio or private land mobile radio, is a term that denotes a wireless communications system intended for use by terrestrial users in vehicles (mobiles) or on foot (portables). Such systems are used by emergency first responder organizations, public works organizations, or companies with large vehicle fleets or numerous field staff. Such a system can be independent, but often can be connected to other fixed systems such as the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or cellular networks." - Wikipedia. Land mobile radio system - Wikipedia FCC: Wireless Services: Private Land Mobile Radio Services Part 1: Designing a land mobile radio system | LMR | Definitions ... LAPB - Link-Access Protocol, Balanced, derived from HDLC and used to carry X.25 packets. LAPD - Link-Access Protocol, D channel, layer 2 protocol defined in CCITT, used in ISDN. The data layer of ISDN's Q.931 signaling protocol. LADP is formally known as CCITT Q.922 (RFC-2427 - Multiple Interconnect over Frame Relay). LAPF - Link Access Procedure F (Frame Relay), modified LAPD standard for Frame Relay. Large font - The Emulator uses this device attribute to show text on the screen. The large font maps to AEE_FONT_LARGE. Its bold version is not used. BREW LAT - Local Area Transport protocol, designed to handle multiplexed terminal traffic to/from timesharing hosts (DECnet) latency - A measurement of the time it takes to send a frame between two locations. LauS - Linux Auditing System LAVC - Local Area VAX Cluster protocol, communications between DEC VAX computers in a cluster (DECnet). lazy wire - any attempt to access a memory frame that is paged out will be noted, but the page will not be faulted in (until lazy wire is turned off). LBA - Logical Block Address. The address of a request in Host address space. LBN - Late Breaking News LBS - Location Based Services (wireless) LC2 - Link Chip 2. Handles SCI protocol. Interfaces B-Link Protocol to SCI ring protocol. LCA - life cycle assessment. Click here for more info LCC - Link Control Card(LLC - EMC) LCD - Liquid Crystal Display. more info LCDI - Leakage Current Detection and Interruption, See also LCM - Lead Containing Material LCP - Link Control Protocol, establishes, configures and tests the data link connection (PPP suite). LCRT - Laser Cathode Ray Tube (TV/monitor display) LD - Layered Driver LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. An Internet standard used to access directory information on remote servers. Uses less resources than the traditional X.500 protocol. A protocol used to access a directory listing. LDAP support is being implemented in Web browsers and e-mail programs, which can query an LDAP-compliant directory. It is expected that LDAP will provide a common method for searching e-mail addresses on the Internet, eventually leading to a global white pages. LDAP is a sibling protocol to HTTP and FTP and uses the ldap:// prefix in its URL. LDAP is a simplified version of the DAP protocol, which is used to gain access to X.500 directories. It is easier to code the query in LDAP than in DAP, but LDAP is less comprehensive. For example, DAP can initiate searches on other servers if an address is not found, while LDAP cannot in its initial specification. See DSML and ADSI. See also: LDAP LDD - Low Level Device Driver LDEVs - Logical DEVice(s) LDM - logical data models (Agile) LDP - Label Distribution Protocol; a protocol used by LSRs to bind groups of packets to labels for forwarding through the network. LDRP - Living Disaster Recovery Plan(by Strohl Systems) le0 - Lance Ethernet - a 10Mb-per-second Ethernet interface used on many Sun systems. Lean Manufacturing - Lean manufacturing = lean enterprise = lean production, often simply, "lean" "a production practice that considers the expenditure of resources for any goal other than the creation of value for the end customer to be wasteful - Lean Manufacturing - Wikipedia Lean Principles - Lean development could be summarized by seven principles, very close in concept to lean manufacturing principles. click here for more on the LEAN PRINCIPLES Lean Six Sigma - Lean Six Sigma is a managerial concept combining Lean and Six Sigma that results in the elimination of the eight kinds of wastes / muda (classified as Defects, ...) Lean Six Sigma LEAP - LEAP - Free open source Relational Database Management System LEAP - Light Weight Extensible Agent Platform. Click here for more info Leather - Leather - Wikipedia LEC - Local Exchange Carrier = your local telephone company LEC - Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells. More information about LECs LED - low-end DASD (Direct Access Storage Device) Legato - Legato NetWorker is now EMC NetWorker (EMC bought the company). EMC NetWorker Evolves into a Unified Platformfor Traditional and Next-Gen Backup and Recovery LEGATO - EMC Legion - aka Audubon 2.5, now called AV35000 LEN - Low Entry Networking LEPT - Lab Equipment Physical Compliance Tool (IBM) LFL - lower functional layer LGPL - Lesser/Library GPL LHA - Limited High Availablity (no failover) LIC - Licensed Internal Code (used by Navisphere Agent) Liferay - Enterprise open source portal and collaboration software. Liferay Portal software that competes with WebSphere and SharePoint. LiFi - Light Fidelity (Li-Fi) is a bidirectional, high-speed and fully networked wireless communication technology similar to Wi-Fi. - Wikipedia "LiFi is a form of visible light communication and a subset of optical wireless communications (OWC) and could be a complement to RF communication (Wi-Fi or cellular networks), or even a replacement in contexts of data broadcasting." - Wikipedia LIFO - the scheduling entity is added to the run queue ahead of other entities of equal or worse prioity; i.e., it is placed ahead of its peers. LIFO mechanisms are more concerned with run to completeness. LIM - Loop Initialization Master LiMo - Linux for Mobile Devices LiMo LIMS - Laboratory Information Management Systems LIN - Link Incident Linkedin - is a business-oriented networking site that can be used to find jobs and business opportunities. My Linkedin Page (Woodsmall) Link Power Management - Allows the SATA link to be placed into one of three states: Active, Partial, or Slumber, thus allowing the disk system to be placed into a lower power state. link-state routing algorithm - Routing algorithm in which each router broadcasts or multicasts information regarding the cost of reaching each of its neighbors to all nodes in the internetwork. Link state algorithms create a consistent view of the network and therefore are not prone to routing loops; however, they achieve this at the cost of relatively greater computational difficulty and more widespread traffic (compared with distance vector routing algorithms. LINQ - Language Integrated Query LIN's - local instructions - as might be opposed to SOP's - standard operating procedures Linux - operating system. open-source UNIX-clone operating system first built by Linus Torvalds and developed by a distributed community over the internet. In large part responsible for giving free software a good name in enterprise due to its reliability and performance. MUCH more on all flavors of Linux LIR - Link Incident Record LIRR - Link Incident Record Registration Little endian - LSB first, 1122h stored as 2211h, Intel x86 format. little-endian adj. Describes a computer architecture in which, within a given 16- or 32-bit word, bytes at lower addresses have lower significance (the word is stored `little-end-first'). The PDP-11 and VAX families of computers and Intel microprocessors and a lot of communications and networking hardware are little-endian. The term is sometimes used to describe the ordering of units other than bytes; most often, bits within a byte. LiveLink - Livelink is the only software available today that provides a comprehensive and fully integrated collaboration and knowledge management platform for your global enterprise - so they say. live lock - same as "starvation" scenario, where thread "never" runs LL - Lessons Learned LLC - Logical Link Control protocol (IEEE 802.2), provides a link mechanism for upper layer protocols. LLC - Limited Liability Corporation LCCA - LLD - Low Level Design - describes each and every module in an elaborate manner LLDP - Link Layer Discovery Protocol LLFT - Low Level Frame Table - holds MFTEs and is accessed via the frame number. LLP - Limited liability partnership. wikipedia LLPT - Low Level Page Table LLSD - Low Leakage Smoke Damper - UL 555S C LASSIFIED L-mode - an IP (internet protocol) based information, data and email service which can be accessed through L-mode enabled wired telephones and IC-card payphones in Japan. LM - Line Manager LMA - Low Memory Allocations - occur in the 1st four gigabytes LMB - Line Mode Browser LMC - Licensed Machine Code LMP - Link Manager Protocol (Bluetooth) LMR - land mobile radio LNS - L2TP Network Server LO - Logical Objects ;; leading only (SCSI/ISCSI) Load Balancing LoadRunner - HP's automated Performance Testing tool. Load Stress Test - a test designed to see how heavy a load an application/system can handle Load Testing - the opposite of stress testing. With stress testing you starve the software; with load testing, you feed the software all it can handle. Operate the software with the largest possible data files. If the software operates on peripherals such as communications ports, clients,..., connect as many as you can. If you are testing an internet server thjat can handle thousands of simultaneous connections, do it. Max out the software's capabilities - LOAD IT DOWN. loadable - has a wired transient loadable thread grp - a runnable bound thread group LOB - Large Objects (often used in the context of DataBase objects) ;; Lines of Business LOC - Line of code Local - DG/UX software abstraction of a NUMA hardware block. locale - Language and locality information. A text string such as "en-us" that accurately identifies a language and locality to allow programs to use language-specific formatting and processes. Can also be identified by a number called the LocaleID. localhost - The commonly accepted name of the local loopback interface that is normally assigned the IPv4 address 127.0.0.1 Localization Testing - testing items specifically created for a locality, such as Spanish Speaking, or Metric (not English) units of measurement. LOE - Letter of Equivalency LOFS - Loopback file system. Allows a file to be used with an alternate path, Logical resource - An abstraction of a physical resource. A logical component that provides services. Logical screen size - The size of the device screen measured in Windows pixels. BREW Logically assigned ports - In an intermix environment, director or switch ports should be logically assigned to FCP port groups and FICON port groups. Although FICON devices can be zoned by device WWN, they must also be assigned logical port addresses that correspond to the port addresses configured by the attached host HCD. FICON devices must be attached to these assigned ports. LOGO - Logout (FC) LOID - LO Identifier (Logical Object Identifier). An LOAD uniquely identifies an LO among those managed by all the FSs of the same type. LOL - laughing out loud LOM - LAN on Motherboard LongBow - a board originally developed for the NAS K10, but now also used by the Block device, Dakota LONP - login operational negotional phase Low Power Embedded Architecture Platform - The new COM standard Uses 314-pin MXM 3.0 connector. Two sizes: 82mm x 50 mm (3.23" x 1.97") and "FullSize" 82mm x 80mm (3.23" x 3.15") - led by Kontron. LP - A disk form factor (low profile) ;; Loss Prevention ;; Linear Prediction lp - line printer (Unix special file) LPAC - Lossless Predictive Audio Codec - a lossless format supported on Windows, Linux and Solarix. The MPEG committe chose LPAC as the reference model for lossless audio coding under MPEG-4. LPAR - Logical Partition. More Virtualization info Logical partitions (LPARs) are, in practice, equivalent to separate mainframes. "While LPARs offer a significantly higher degree of workload isolation than do WPARs, WPARs might provide "good enough" isolation for your particular workloads, especially temporary ones such as development or test environments." - Gupta "Similarly, with LPARs, you can achieve a greater degree of control over the usage of resources—by allocating entire processors or precise fractions of processors to an LPAR, for example. With WPARs, you don’t have such fine control over resource allocations, but you can allocate target shares or percentages of CPU utilization to a WPAR (if have used the AIX Workload Manager." - Gupta Logical partition (virtual computing platform) - Wikipedia Mainframe hardware: Logical partitions (LPARs) - IBM IBM Systems Magazine - LPAR WPAR and LPAR comparison - Safari Books Online LPAR, DLPAR and WPAR - The UNIX and Linux Forums LPC - low pin count interface (basically replaced the legacy ISA bus stuff) LPC is a bus (or a port) that other circuits/chips can connect to on a motherboard. For example the PS/2 type keyboard & mouse ports (along with a few other I/O functions) are connected to an LPC-type chip which connects to the LPC port on the ICH. FWH are SPI are typically thought of as chips (some insist it's a hub). This is used to store the BIOS firmware/codes. For example, the Phoenix/Award BIOS or AMI BIOS (or other equivalent BIOS) codes are stored in this FWH or SPI serial chip. LPC is usually part of the South Bridge or ICH (I/O control hub), and the FWH and SPI are related to the BIOS ROM. LPC - lpc provides limited control over printer and class queues provided by (Unix/Linux) CUPS. It can also be used to query the state of queues. LPC - Low Power Consumption LPC - Linear Predictive Coding LPC - A small, object oriented type C language developed by Lars Pensjö for LP-MUD L-port - A loop port is present on a hub and connects to an NL-port of an end Node in an arbitrated loop topology. These are also called FC-AL ports and can be connected to an FL-port on a switch. LPP - License Program Product - a complete software collection (AIX) LQR - Link Quality Report, specifies the mechanism for link quality monitoring with PPP LRU - Least Recently Used LSA - Local Service Area ;; Local Standards Authority LSB - Least Significant Byte LSD - Load System Dump lseek - command changes the current position as recorded in the object pointer attribute area (FAAM). LSF - Line Spectral Frequency LSIMPE.COM - a NetWare only program LSL - A lower specification limit is a value above which performance of a product or process is acceptable. This is also known as a lower spec limit or LSL. Lower Specific Limit: representing the minimum acceptable value of a variable (see also USL) LSM - Local Storage Manager. Click here for more info LSN - Last Sequence Number LSP - Linux Support Package (MonteVista); Line Spectral Pair LSP - Link State packets. LSPs are the delivery devices for all Link State Protocol routing updates. LSR - label switch router; an IP router or switch supporting MPLS LSRP - Loss Sensitive Rating Plan (LSRP) LSRP - link state routing protocol US Patent 6762999 - Scalable and fault-tolerant link state routing protocol for packet-switched networks LSS - Large Storage Systems LSSGR - LATA Switching Systems Generic Requirements LATA Switching Systems Generic Requirements (LSSGR) is a set of documents which contain the generic requirements for switching system based on the needs of the Bell Operating Companies (BOCs). LSTE - Lead System Test Engineer Lt. Wolf - Intel quad-P6 CPU board, aka an Audubon node LTC - Long Term Care (insurance) LTDS - logical-text-data-segment LTE - long-term evolution, marketed as 4G LTE. LTE (telecommunication) LTE-D - LTE Direct (LTE-D) & Wearable Wireless Market LTO - Linear Tape-Open (LTO) technology was developed jointly by HP, IBM and Seagate to provide a clear and viable choice in an increasingly complex array of tape storage options. LTO technology is an "open format" technology. LTP - Long Term Predictor LTPA - Lightweight Third-Party Authentication LU - Logical Unit LU 0 - Logical Unit protocol often used in banking environments LU 1 - Old-style 3270 printer protocol LU 2 - 3270 display terminal protocol LU 3 - 3270 printer protocol LU 6.2 - SNA protocol for peer-to-peer communications (IBM) LUA - Conventional LU application API LUN - Logical Unit Number LUN masking - (address masking) is a feature of some host IO controllers that filters access to certain storage resources on the SAN. To be precise, address masking is usually the function of the device driver, not the hardware of the host IO controller. LUSE - LU Size Expansion (NetApp) Lustre file system - Lustre is a parallel distributed file system, generally used for large scale cluster computing. The name Lustre is a portmanteau word derived from Linux and cluster. See more about LUSTRE LV - Logical Volume. Removing a Disk from a Logical Volume - RH LVD - Low Voltage Differential (a type of SCSI). LVD - Low Voltage Directive (Europen non-Medical device). Anything using an electrical energy source of batteries or mains (AC). LVM - Logical Volume Manager for the Linux kernel that manages disk drives and similar mass-storage devices. LWP - Light Weight Process - used to implement library calls, only Closely resemble threads. M&A - Mergers and Acquisitions M&E - Machine and Equipment mAh - Millamps per Hour. Frequently Asked Questions about NiMH Rechargeable Batteries of all sizes and capacities M2M - M2M stands for Machine-to-Machine or Man-to-Machine, where the machine ‘talks’ and imparts essential information faster, more accurately and more cost effectively than any other means. There is little doubt that M2M wireless communications is rapidly becoming a vast business. (sonyericsson) M3D - AMPC program to remotely control Audubons. M3UA - Message Transfer Part 3 - User Adaptation layer M3W - Web-based version of M3D slated to FCS with multi-block Audubon2 systems. MAC - Media Access Control layer, physical transport layer of ISO-OSI stack. more Mandatory Access Control label. MAC address - 48-bit Ethernet hardware address MACD - Moves, Adds, Changes & Deletes (telephony) ;; Moving Average Convergence / Divergence Maemo platform - Linux-based Maemo platform is the software that powers mobile devices such as the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. magic - Toggled variable in the (Unix) ex and vi editors. When set, all special characters are treated as special characters during a search operation. magic number - Number maintained at the beginning of a (UNIX) binary executable file that provides the Kernel information about the type and use of the file. MAID - massive array of idle disks. The state of MAID in data centers mainframes - Mainframe is an industry term for a large computer, typically manufactured by a large company such as IBM or Cray for the commercial applications of Fortune 1000 businesses and other large-scale computing purposes such as global weather forecasting and scientific research. Historically, a mainframe is associated with centralized rather than distributed computing. Today, IBM refers to its larger processors as "large servers" and emphasizes that they can be used to serve distributed users and smaller server (often mid-frames or microprocessor machines) in a computing network. Modern desktop machines have far more power than early mainframes. However, the mainframe manufacturers have kept pace to produce machines that do jobs their smaller brethren could never accomplish. Mainframes still house 90% of the data major businesses rely on for mission-critical applications. This is because mainframes have superior performance, reliability, scalability, and security compared to microprocessors. Maintenance Testing - testing a released system that has been changed. Some good automated test tools are: Test Director, Test Manager. MAL - Minimum Acceptance Level (of software, firmware,...) - a machine containing certain hardware must be sold with/have a minimum level of certain things or else NO sale. MAN - Metropolitan Area Network Managed Services - the practice of transferring day-to-day related management responsibility. For example, company A might provide 1st and 2nd level help desk support for company B. Managed services - Wikipedia MAP - Mobile Application Part MAPI - Mail (or Message) Application Programming Interface. The Microsoft standard application programming interface for email software. Allows programs to read, create, send and manipulate stored messages. Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) MAPOS - Multiple Access Protocol over SONET / SDH MAPP - Mobile Message Access Protocol MAPP - Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential MARS - Multicast Address Resolution Server (TCP/IP) marshaller - in the case of COM, a marhaller converts data of one class to general RPC data and then back into the format in which the target application wants it. marshalling - in COM, the process of packaging and sending interface parameters across process or thread boundaries. MAS - metering automation server Master Black Belt - MBB (Six Sigma) MAT - Minimum Acceptance Test(s) Maturity Level 1 - Initial - organizations have no structured process in place(CMMI) Maturity Level 2 - Managed - Basic project management processes are in place & followed (CMMI). Maturity Level 3 - Defined - Organization has achieved all goals defined in Maturity Level 2. Level 3 contiues with defining a strong, meaningful organizational approach to developing products. (CMMI). Maturity Level 4 - Quantitatively Managed - Organization has achieved all goals in levels 2 & 3. Focuses on using metrics to make decisions & to measure progress. CMMI Maturity Level 5 - Optimizing - achived levels 2,3 & 4. Nirvana - everyone is a productive member of the team, defects are reduced, and the product is delivered on time and within budget. CMMI. Maximo - IBM's (Tivoli) Asset Mangement Software. more on Maximo MB/s - MegaBYTES per second Mb/s - MegaBITS per second MBAP - H.261 Macroblock address predictor. (5 bits) Encodes the macroblock address predictor (i.e., the last MBA encoded in the previous packet). This predictor ranges from 0-32 (to predict the valid MBAs 1-33), but because the bit stream cannot be fragmented between a GOB header and MB 1, the predictor at the start of the packet can never be 0. Therefore, the range is 1-32, which is biased by -1 to fit in 5 bits. Set to 0 if the packet begins with a GOB header. MBLK - Message Block MBN - Microsoft Business Network MBOA - MultiBand OFDM Alliance MBps - Megabytes per second Mbps - megabits per second MBR - master boot record MBus - The MBus is a multiprocessor bus introduced by Sun Microsystems in its 600MP server range (in Q4 1991). It became extremely popular in the high volume 32 bit CPU based SPARCstation models 10, 20, and compatibles. MBZ - must be zero. a zeroed bit in the TOS field in an IP header. MC - Master Configuration (a firmware table for all of the system, created from individual MP tables) MCA - IBM’s Micro Channel bus architecture MCF - Meta Content Framework. A Netscape proposal based on XML that provides a standard way to describe files or collections of information. Even a minimal MFC application must derive a class from CWinApp and override CWinApp::InitInstance. CWinApp::InitInstance is a virtual function whose implementation contains just one statement: return TRUE; MCL - Multi-Connected LAN is a standard M-to-N STREAMS multiplexor. It provides a limited form of fully connected LAN I/O. It allows multiple physical devices (one in each NUMA block) to be joined into a single TCP/IP interface. Works best w/large server and many clients. MCM - Multi-Chip Module MCO - Manufacturing Change Order MCP - Microsoft Certified Professionals MCRIN - Memory Copy of Record lock INformation Mc/s - Million chips per second MCS - Multi-Computer Specification (Intel standard - still in flux (2/99)) MCSE - Microsoft Certified Software Engineer MCSE 2000 - Microsoft Windows 2000 Server certification MCSE 2003 - Microsoft Windows 2003 Server certification MCTS - Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MS proficiency tests in various catagories) MCU - Multipoint Control Unit MD - Message Dispatcher (a Raid driver component). MD - Machinery Directive (Europen non-Medical Device). Anything with moving parts MD/MPH - Masters of Public Health Health Care and Prevention MD-MPH program MD5 - Message Digest version 5. A hash function for generating message digests for use in secure communications. MD5 can generate keys of to 128 bits. The digest is unique, and the original data cannot be recreated from it. Also called: MD-5 MDA - Model-driven architecture - MDA - Wikipedia An introduction to Model Driven Architecture - IBM Model Driven Architecture FAQ Examining the MDA MDA - Message Digest Algorithm. A software algorithm that creates a digest for a message or other stream of data. The digest is unique, and the original data cannot be recreated from it. Generally specified as MD2, MD4, MD5, etc. MDAC - Microsoft Data Access Components. A series of component objects that provide data access services such as ADO to Windows applications. MDD - Medical Devices Directive (European Medical Devices). Basically all other medical devices MDI/MDI-X - Auto MDI/MDI-X detects if the connection is backwards and automatically chooses the correct connection. Medium dependent interface - Wikipedia MDI - Multiple Document Interface. The standard UI architecture for Windows-based applications. An MDI application enables a user to work with more than one document at the same time. Each document is displayed within the client area of the application's main window. MDI - medium-dependent interface (MDI) switch. (Mc) MDM - Mobile Data Management MDM - Meter Data Management. See also: MDM MDM - master data management (reference data). more MDO - Master Data Organization MDS - Cisco Fabric Switch. Click here for more information abouyt Cisco MDS switches MDS - Market Data Server (Credit Suisse)- a key repository of market data in use across the global firm ME - Mobile Equipment (2G) or MS (2G) ME - Mechanical Engineer(ing) or Manufacturing Engineer(ing) mean - The mean is the average data point value within a data set. To calculate the mean, add all of the individual data points then divide that figure by the total number of data points. Median - Relating to or constituting the middle value in a distribution. The median is the middle point of a data set; 50% of the values are below this point, and 50% are above this point. Median is the middle value, when all possible values are listed in order. Median is not the same as Average (or Mean). Medicare, Original = Part A and Part B (ONLY) megabyte n. Abbr. MB A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,048,576 bytes. One million bytes. Megaco - The latest call control protocol, Megaco (an evolution of Media Gateway Control), adds to the problem while seeking to reduce the number of protocols in use. ITU designation, H.248 Megaco is essentially quite similar to MGCP from an architectural standpoint and the controller-to-gateway relationship, but Megaco supports a broader range of networks, such as ATM. I can say that Megaco is more closely coupled with media applications than MGCP because the base protocol includes semantics for conferencing. Because of that, MGCP may be a better base for non-media-centric applications, such as MPLS-based session control. MEL - Major Event Log mem - memory (Unix special file) MEMS - micro-electro-mechanical systems, are integrated systems that combine optical, mechanical, electronic, thermal, magnetic or fluidic functions on a single chip. MEMS, also called micromachines, can be fabricated using machining techniques as well as integrated circuit fabrication methods. MER - Message Error Rate Merced - Intel's IA-64 CPU, follows Deschutes. MERPS - Section 105 Medical Expense Reimbursement Plans MERPS - Middle Earth Role Playing System MES - Miscellaneous Equipment Shipment (IBM) ;;; Manufacturing Execution Systems MES Modeling - Miscellaneous Equipment Specification, also referred to as an after market option, or an add-on to an existing product. This is a specific type of Upgrade Order. (IBM) mesh networking - Mesh networking (topology) is a type of networking where each node must not only capture and disseminate its own data, but also serve as a relay for other nodes, that is, it must collaborate to propagate the data in the network. - Wikipedia metadata - are “data about data” - such as file creation date, author,... Method - An entry point into an object that allows it to interact with other objects or applets. BREW metrics - Things to measure to understand quality levels. Metric means measurement. Hence the word metric is often used in an organization to understand the metrics of the matrix (The trade off). Metrics should be objective measurements of some type. metrics (routing) - cost values used by routers to detemine the "best path" to a destination. MF - Mortgage/Financial MFA - Multi-Factor Authentication - the use of more than one method of authenticating a user prior to allowing the login. MFC - Microsoft Foundation Classes (C++) library mFCP - Metro Fibre Channel Protocol; FC layer 4 FCP over UDP/IP. MFP - Multi-Function Printers MFTE - Memory Frame Table Entry. MFTE => frame => physical address translation - fast and easy - one per physical page MG - Media Gateway MGC - Media Gateway Controller MGCF - Media Gateway Control Function MGCP - The Media Gateway Control Protocol, developed by Telcordia and Level 3 Communications, is one of a few proposed control and signal standards to compete with the older H.323 standard for the conversion of audio signals carried on telephone circuits (PSTN ) to data packets carried over the Internet or other packet networks. The reason new standards are being developed is because of the growing popularity of Voice over IP (VoIP ). Regular phones are relatively inexpensive because they don't need to be complex; they are fixed to a specific switch at a central switching location. IP phones and devices, on the other hand, are not fixed to a specific switch, so they must contain processors that enable them to function and be intelligent on their own, independent from a central switching location. This makes the terminal (phone or device) more complex, and therefore, more expensive. The MGCP is meant to simplify standards for this new technology by eliminating the need for complex, processor-intense IP telephony devices, thus simplifying and lowering the cost of these terminals. I can say that Megaco is more closely coupled with media applications than MGCP because the base protocol includes semantics for conferencing. Because of that, MGCP may be a better base for non-media-centric applications, such as MPLS-based session control. JAINTM MGCP 1.0 Specification - Final Release Bellcore (www.bellcore.com) and Level 3 Communications Inc. (www.l3.com) have merged two protocols intended to bridge the gap between circuit-switched and Internet protocol (IP) networks. The resulting protocol is known as Media Gateway Control Protocol, or MGCP, and is a combination of Internet Protocol Device Control (IPDC) and Simple Gateway Control Protocol (SGCP). MGCP enables external control and management of data communication devices, or "media gateways," at the edge of multiservice packet networks by software programs, also known as "call agents" or "media gateway controllers." Media gateways can be voice over IP gateways, voice over asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) gateways, modem banks, cable modems and set-top boxes, soft private branch exchanges (PBXs) and/or cross-connects. Merging IPDC and SGCP (into MGCP) means equipment providers can design to a single spec, so interoperability among a wider range of equipment is possible. But he says that neither SIP nor H.323 were designed to deal with the legacy switched telephone network; whereas MGCP-compliant controllers and gateways will interoperate seamlessly with H.323 and SIP endpoints, as well as with legacy telephones. MGCP Documentation MGCP was originally SGCP, prodcued by Bell and Alcatrel ? MGCP (originally SGCP) was designed to allow Media Gateway Controllers (MGC) to control the Media Gateway (MG) - in effect controlling a switching fabric both on the IP and the TDM domains. MGCP was also found useful with vendors who wanted to simplify Gateways by focusing on either Hardware or Software, but also created political havoc with many major players in the field. At some point in '98 there were no less then 5-candidate protocols all trying to solve the same problem as SGCP/MGCP. MGS - Medium Grade Services - responsible for all aspects of MGS interoperability testing MGW - Media GateWay MHL port - Mobile High-Definition Link. Click HERE for more MHL Information MHO - Managed Hosting Operations MHS - Message Handling Service MI - Machine Initiated (software generates and sends the packets automatically) - AV/Alert packet name MIA - Media Interface Adapter MIB - Management Information Base; an SNMP structure for device management. MIB - MIB MODULE RFC1213-MIB MIBE - Matrix Interface Board Enclosure (EMC) MIC - Memory In Cassette (the use of an "auxiliary" flash memory chip incorporated in the media cartridge. MICALL - Machine Initiated Callout (system uses modem to register fault); also called MI Callout, dialout, callout. MI Call - Machine Initiated Callout (system uses modem to register fault); also called MI Callout, dialout, callout. micro - 1] Small: microcircuit. 2] Abnormally small: microcephaly. 3] Requiring or involving microscopy: microsurgery. 4] One-millionth (10-6): microampere. microbrowser - A microbrowser is software that allows users of mobile devices to access the Internet by making a wireless connection to a suitable server. microsecond - One millionth (10-6) of a second. one millionth of a second; one thousandth of a millisecond MID - mobile internet device middle endian - adj. Not big-endian or little-endian. Use of perverse byte orders such as 3-4-1-2 or 2-1-4-3, occasionally found in the packed-decimal formats of minicomputer manufacturers who shall remain nameless. See NUXI problem. Non-US hackers use this term to describe the American mm/dd/yy style of writing dates (Europeans write little-endian dd/mm/yy, and Japanese use big-endian yy/mm/dd for Western dates). MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface MIDL - Microsoft Interface Definition Language. Microsoft's implementation & extension of IDL. midlets - Midlets consist file of one jar and one jad. Both together permit an implementing of Wireless Java applications , to so-called MIDlets. MIDlets or MIDlet is thus the name for applications, which are based on J2ME. Midlets can be downloaden on-line of the net (e.g. over a WAP connection) and implemented locally. Mid Range - It is also termed as Mid Extreme. It is nothing but the average of the least value and most value. Steps involved are... 1. Arrange the numbers or readings in ascending order 2. Add the first number or reading with last number or reading. 3. Divide the sum by 2. It gives the mid range of the readings. MIDP - Mobile Information Device Profile - J2ME MIFs - a DMI standard MIF - Module Information File. The MIF Editor generates this binary file, which contains information regarding the list of classes and applets supported by the modules. (BREW) migration - Changing a process's home scheduling local: either thru 1) poaching or 2) load balancing between locals milli - One thousandth (10-3): millisecond. millisecond - One thousandth (10-3) of a second MIM - Mobile Instant Messaging software replaces SMS and lets users know the status of all contacts stored in their cell phone's memory, as personal computers do with buddy lists. MIME - Multipurpose (or Multimedia) Internet Mail Extension. Defines the content type of a document, file or message attachment, for example "image/mpeg" or "text/plain". See also MIME for more information about MIME mini-port - Someone, usually Microsft, does the generic driver for some interface, say, SCSI, and the vendor writes a smaller "min-port" to communicate with their specific hardware. A Windows NT term. MIO - Modular I/O) A hardware interface for HP printers that is primarily used to plug in an internal print server and network adapter. MIO has been superseded by EIO. MIOC - Memory I/O Controller - ASIC on Audubon2 CPU board MIP - Merit Increase Program (pay raises) MIP-LR - Mobile IP with Location Register MIR - Mail In Rebate MIR - Material Inspection Report mirror - an exact copy of disk data written to a secondary disk or array mirror availablity states - state applies to the entire mirror: attention - admin action required active - I/O allowed (normal state) inactive - admin control to stop mirror processing mirror data states - possibly a different state with respect to each secondary LU: in sync - primary LU and secondary LU contain identical data out of sync - full sync needed consistent - write intent log, or fracture log needed synchronizing - mirror sync operation in progress mirror fracture - condition when a secondary array is unreachable by the primary array. can be invoked by administrative command. mirror properties - sync throttling (fast, medium, slow) per secondary LU minimum required secondary copies auto sync enabled/disabled write intent log enabled/disabled active/inactive mirror availability state mirror name (64 characters) description (256 characters). mirror synchronization - mechanism to copy data from primary LU to a secondary LU. after mirror synchronization, primary LU and secondary LU are consistent. mechanism may use fracture log to avoid full LU data copy. Mirroring - Also known as RAID 1 or duplexing (when using two host bus adaptors). Full redundancy is obtained by duplicating all data from a primary disk on a secondary disk. The overhead of requiring 100% data duplication can get costly when using more than two drives. MirrorView - Data replication for disaster recovery - Ken Hayman, Bill Hotle, Mike P. Wagner, Alan Taylor, Bowei Xu MIS - management information system MIU - Memory Interface Unit. Within the SCC. Central SCI coherency manager. Manages the SCC's SCI tags. ML/MC - WAN network domain Link Layer Protocols - Ethernet, 802.3, PPP, ML/MC PPP, PPP Mux MLIDs - Multiple Link Interface Drives (Novell) MLB - Mobile High-Definition Link. "Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) is an industry standard for a mobile audio/video interface that allows consumers to connect mobile phones, tablets and other portable consumer electronics (CE) devices to high-definition televisions (HDTVs) and audio receivers. The MHL current standard supports up to 4K (Ultra HD) high-definition (HD) video and 7.1 surround sound audio, including TrueHD and DTS-HD, while simultaneously charging the connected device. To view a device through a MHL cord the TV also has to have an MHL certified HDMI input otherwise this connection will not work." - Mobile High-Definition Link - Wikipedia MHL 3.0 features - WIKIPEDIA On August 20, 2013, MHL announced its 3.0 specification to address the latest consumer requirements for connecting a mobile device to displays, marking major advancements in the areas of audio and video transmission over an MHL link. Features of the MHL 3.0 specification include:· 4K (Ultra HD): Support of 4K formats up to 3840 × 2160 at 30 Hz. Simultaneous high-speed data channel Improved Remote Control Protocol (RCP) with new commands HID support for peripherals such as a touch screen, keyboard and mouse Higher power charging up to 10 W Backward compatible with MHL 1 and MHL 2 Latest HDCP 2.2 content protection Enhanced 7.1 surround sound with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Connector agnostic – uses as few as five pins Support for simultaneous multiple displays MLP - Meridian Lossless Packing - A lossless audio compression CODEC developed by Dolby Labs. This format is optional for DVD-Audio. A DVD-Audio that uses MLP can store approximately twice as much audio as one that uses PCM, at the same sampling rate and resolution. MLP - Multilink Procedure, added upper sublayer of the LAPB, operating between the packet layer and a multiplicity of single data link protocol functions (SLPs) in the data link layer (X.25). MLT-3 encoding - used in 100Base-T Ethernet MM - Mobility Management MMAP - Memory Mapped File - get from File or swap // SHared or Private. if private, can't write back to original file, must save to new file name. MMC - Microsoft Management Console. A shell program that can accept special plug-ins. Each plug-in is designed to provide management features for a specific set of services or applications, such as the Internet Services Manager. mmc - micro device MMCC - Multimedia Conference Control MMI - Multimodal Interaction MMIC - Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit. See MMIS - Medicaid Management Information Systems. Overview Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS) - gov MMIS - Microsoft Mobile Information Server || Man Machine Interface Subsystem MMO - Massive Multiplayer On-Line (games, usually) MMR - Manufacturing Readiness Review MMS - Multimedia Messaging Services - Mobile Internet Is Getting Better The newest development in mobile messaging is called Multimedia Messaging Service, or MMS for short. MMS allows mobile phone users to incorporate audio, images, and other rich content with traditional text messages, transforming them into personal collages of vision and sound. Multimedia messaging reshapes the landscape of mobile communication, making it more personal, more versatile, and more expressive than ever before. MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) is a universally accepted standard that lets users of MMS supportive mobile phones send and receive messages with formatted text, graphics, photo-graphic imagery and audio and video clips. Video sequences, audio clips and high-quality images can be downloaded to the phone from WAP sites, transferred to the phone via an attached accessory, such as a digital camera, or received in an MMS message. MMS messages can be sent either to another MMS-enabled mobile phone or to an e-mail address. Photos, sound and video clips can also be stored in the phone for later use. MMS supports standard image formats such as GIF and JPEG, video formats such as MPEG 4 and audio formats such as MP3 and MIDI. Multimedia messaging is dependent on high transmission speeds, something GPRS and the new high speed 3G technologies can provide. To support the MMS technology, existing GSM networks need an MMS-C (Multimedia Messaging Service Centre). MMS DAVE's MMS INFO mmse - MMS Message Encapsulation MMSC - MMS-C = Multimedia Messaging Service Centre MMUSIC - Multiparty Multimedia Session Control MNC - Multinational corporation = TNC MO - (SMS) Mobile Originating - the ability to send text messages from the phone. Keying messages into the phone is a little arduous as you need to to press several keys per character, but it can be mastered. Some phones allow attachement of external devices, such as QWERTY keyboards. mobile data - wireless data (data sent wirelessly). mobile data terminal - "A mobile data terminal (MDT) is a computerized device used in public transit vehicles, taxicabs, courier vehicles, service trucks" Mobile IP - MobileShop - Generically refers to an application that is used to connect to a carrier’s catalog, review catalogs and applications, and perform over-the-air downloads of applications. (BREW) mobile UC - mobile unified communications (IM, Presence, e-mail, voice, etc.) Moblin 2 - Intel releases Linux-based Moblin 2 Alpha for Netbooks. more on Moblin 2 MoBo - Motherboard, MoBo ID Tools MoCA - Multimedia over Coaxial Alliance. "Like Ethernet, MoCA transfers digital content and information, but uses a coaxial cable to do so. So if you cannot access an Ethernet port near your DVR, you can use the same coaxial cable that brings the cable signal to your DVR to connect to your home network." - TiVo See MoCA for more information modal - A restrictive or limiting interaction created by a given condition of operation. Modal often describes a secondary window that restricts a user's interaction with other windows. mode - The value or item occurring most frequently in a series of observations or statistical data. The most often occurring value in the data set. A data set may contain more than one mode, e.g., if there are exactly 2 values or items that appear in the data the same number of times, we say the data set is bi-modal. mode bit - n. [common] A flag, usually in hardware, that selects between two (usually quite different) modes of operation. The connotations are different from flag bit in that mode bits are mainly written during a boot or set-up phase, are seldom explicitly read, and seldom change over the lifetime of an ordinary program. The classic example was the EBCDIC-vs.-ASCII bit (#12) of the Program Status Word of the IBM 360. Module - In the BREW model, a library or dynamically loaded code block that exposes one or more interfaces. As each interface is associated with an ID, the module can expose these interfaces in a generic manner. This eliminates the need for explicit entry points in modules for each exported interface. MOM - Messanger Orientated Middleware MOM - Microsoft Operations Manager (a MS software product) Monkey Testing - a few tests of various functionalies, done on-the-fly, to ensure system stability. Mono - Mono is a cross platform, open source .NET development (C#) framework for Linux, Mac and Windows. Mono:Linux - Mono Mono brings .NET apps to Linux - IBM monolithic - the user, data and user interface (the program) all reside on the same computer MOOP - Maximum Out Of Pocket expenses MOP - Method of Procedure Click here for more information about MOP MOP - Maintenance Operation Protocol, utility services such as uploading and downloading system software, remote testing and problem diagnosis (DECnet). MOPM - Mission-oriented performance measurement mospf - Multicast Extensions to OSPF (mospf) MOUNT - protocol used to initiate client access to a server supporting NFS. MOW - Most Of World Mozilla SSL/TLS - MP - Multi-Processor; Multi-Processing MP3 - MPEG Audio Layer-3 MPE - Multimedia Processing Equipment MPEG - Motion Picture Experts Group, ISO standards group dealing with video and audio compression. A body that designed and promotes the MPEG (MPG) moving graphics format, which combines high color depth with small file size for photographic moving images by using a lossy compression scheme. See also MPEG-2 - MPEG-2 is a generic method for compressed representation of video and audio sequences See Also MPEG-4 - MPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of audio and visual (AV) digital data - 1998. ISO/IEC 14496. MPEG-4 - Wikipedia Aaron Walsh - MPEG-4: Jump-Start - Prentice-Hall MPEG Audio - part of a family of international standards for compressed audio and video that includes MP3 and AAC. See Also MPF - Multi-Processor Function MPGW - Multi-Protocol Gateway configuration MPGW Basic Configuration MPH - Masters of Public Health (degree) MPIO - Multi-Path I/O MPK - MultiProcessor Kernel (NetWare) MPL - Multi-Path LAN allows configuration of a Primary & 2ndary LAN MPLS - Multiprotocol Label Switching (mpls) (a type or feature of some routers) The MPLS working group has been responsible for standardizing a base technology for using label switching and for the implementation of label-switched paths over various link-level technologies, such as Packet-over-Sonet, Frame Relay, ATM, and LAN technologies (e.g. all forms of Ethernet, Token Ring, etc.). This includes procedures and protocols for the distribution of labels between routers, encapsulations and multicast considerations. The initial goals of the working group have been largely completed. In particular, it has produced a number of RFCs that define the base Label Distribution Protocol (LDP), the basic MPLS architecture and encapsulations, and definitions for how MPLS runs over ATM and Frame Relay links. MPLS Forum The MPLS Forum's first completed implementation agreement provides a standards-based approach for service providers offering voice-over-packet services to interconnect voice media gateways over their MPLS networks. Multi Protocol Label Switching, set of procedures for augmenting network layer packets with "label stacks", thereby turning them into labeled packets. (VPN) MPOA - Multi Protocol Over ATM, deals with efficient transfer of inner-subnet unicast data in a LAN emulation environment. MPPC - Microsoft Point-to-Point Compression Protocol mprc - (NCR) PCI Controller - Mylex DAC960. Written by the Israelies, so it is NOT based on any of our other drivers. The DAC960 (mprc) is NOT the DAC intelligent diagnostics card. MPRAS - ??? (IBM) MPS - Message Passing Service - Alan Taylor MPS - Master Production Schedule MPS - Multi-Processor Specification (probably also an Intel standard) MPS - Material Production Schedule MPWD - the UNIX international MultiProcessing Working Group MQ - IBM WebSphere MQ is a family of network communication software products launched by IBM in March 1992. It was previously known as MQSeries. IBM WebSphere MQ - Wikipedia IBM MQ MQIS - Message Queue Information Store. The central repository of information about an MSMQ enterprise, stored on the PEC and distributed to each site via the PSCs and BSCs. MQMD - MQ Message Descriptor MQSeries - MQSeries - old name for IBM's WebSphere MQ. IBM Redbooks | WebSphere MQ V6 Fundamentals MQSI - MQSeries Integrator (IBM software ??) MR - Memory Read (Crash & kernel debugger command) MR - Modification Request (request for a software fix) MR - Mobile Radio - analog - 1G equipment MRF - Multimedia Resource Function MRP-II - Manufacturing Resourcing Planning Systems MRR - Manufacturing Readiness review (IBM) MRSVP - Mobile RSVP MRU - Manufacturing Replaceable Unit (not customer, nor field replaceable) MRWIRED - Mostly Read-only Wired subsection; MRWIRED foo_type foo1 = { 0 }; MS - Microsoft MS - Mobile Station (2G)(also called ME in 2G) MSA - Multidimensional Storage Architecture (Clariion) MSB - Most Significant Byte MS Build - the build system for Microsoft and Visual Studio. Reference Overview MSC - Microsoft Corporation MSC - Mobile Switching Center MSC - Message Sequence Chart MSC is a graphical and textual language for the description and specification of the interactions between system components. The main area of application for Message Sequence Charts is as an overview specification of the communication behavior of real-time systems, in particular telecommunication switching systems. Message Sequence Charts may be used for requirement specification, simulation and validation, test-case specification and documentation of real-time systems. MSCs are often used in combination with SDL. You can still read a tutorial on the formalization of MSC. MSD - Multiple System Domains. Multiple Solaris OS instances running on the same HW. MSD - Master of Science in Dentistry MSDN - Microsoft Development Network MSDSs - Materal Safety Data Sheets MSE - medium-sized enterprise MSF - Microsoft Solutions Framework. more MSI - Windows Installer, an installer system written by Microsoft for Windows platforms (note the .MSI file extension) - MSI - Wikipedia MSIM - Multi-Switch Interconnect Module MSK - Medium Shift Keying MSL - Medical Science Liaison. additonal MSL information MSM - Mobile Station Modem MSMQ - Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) technology enables applications running at different times to communicate across heterogeneous networks and systems that may be temporarily offline. Applications send messages to queues and read messages from queues. MSMQ provides guaranteed message delivery, efficient routing, security, and priority-based messaging. It can be used to implement solutions for both asynchronous and synchronous scenarios requiring high performance. MSO - multiple system operator - an operator that owns multiple cable systems, for example, Time Warner Cable. Multiple system operator MSP - Managed Service Provider MSP - Microsoft Project MSP - Message Send Protocol MSP - Message Security Protocol MSP - Medium Sized Project see also MSP - acronymfinder.com MSs - Mobile Stations - often used in GPRS discussions MSSA - Multi-Service Storage Architecture. (VOD). MSTN - Monochrome Super Twisted Nematic (TN) (LCD technology) MT - (SMS) Mobile Terminated - the ability to receive text messages on the phone MT - Mobile Terminal MTA - Multimedia Terminal Adapter MTA model - Multi-threaded apartment model. Another name for the free threading model. MTAs - Intel-written single-block DOS-based diagnostic used Mostly in manufacturing that test all hardware subsystems MTBF - Mean Time Between Failures MTBPR - Mean Time Between Part Replacement MTFE - Memory Table Frame Entries MTLS - Multual Transport Layer Security - a new TLS sub-protocol running over TLS or DTLS TLS and MTLS - TechNet - Microsoft MTM - Microsoft Test Manager. Quick Start Guide for Manual Testing using Microsoft Test Manager System Testing Your Application Using Microsoft Test Manager Running Tests in Microsoft Test Manager - MSDN - Microsoft MTM - Machine Type/Model (IBM - example: 6383-1RA) MTMS - machine type machine serial number MTOM - Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism MTP - Message Transfer Part (telephony). Message Transfer Part (MTP) is one of the subsystems in the Signaling System Number 7 (SS7) protocol that contains all requirements necessary to ensure reliable transmission of messages in a signaling network designed for maximum availability. MTP-2 - Message Transfer Part, Level 2, signalling link which together with MTP-3 provides reliable transfer of signalling messages between two directly connected signalling points (SS7). MTP-3 - Message Transfer Part, Level 3, connects Q.SAAL to the users (SS7 suite). MTP-3B - Message Transfer Part, Level 3 of Broadband SS7 for Q.2140 MTS - Microsoft Transaction Server - competes with EJB - Enterprise Java Beans. A Windows NT service that acts as both an object broker for components and as a distributed transaction manager. The basis for most DNA applications that require data access. MTS - Medium Term Scheduler - operates on VPSs, not VPs - initial thread of control becomes the MTS. MTS - Member Technical Support (yes, Shiva) MTTF - mean time to failure MTTR - Mean time to repair. This is the average time to repair a machine back to acceptable operating conditions. Also known as tool time, meaning once the machine breaksdown, the actual time spent on arranging spares, resources, planning and executing the tasks and then bringing it back to operating condition. This must be as low as possible. MTU - Maximum transmission unit (size, in bytes). Maximum Transmission Unit - Wikipedia MTU Discovery - A process whereby a station can determine the largest frame or packet that can be transferred across a catenet or internetwork without requiring fragmentation. MUD - Multiuser Detection MUI - Mobile User Identifier Multi-Byte - Some characters require more than one byte to represent. Since one byte (8 bits) can only represent 256 unique codes, this is required for languages with large numbers of characters. In general, a multi-byte language can use any number of bytes per character, and vary from character to character. Language Examples: Japanese, Korean, Chinese. SEE UNICODE, which has pretty much corned the multi-byte character world. Multicast - layer 3/4 networking protocol Multicast Transport Protocols There are three ways to design multipoint networking applications: unicast, broadcast, and multicast. Multicast is a bandwidth-conserving technology that reduces traffic by simultaneously delivering a single stream of information to thousands of recipients. multicast announcement protocol - The multicast announcement protocol allows a (device) lookup service to take an active role in advertising its presence. multicast lookup service discovery - is made available to clients and services through a number of classes and interfaces. These are used when the locations of lookup services are unknown. There are 5 publc methods. multicast request protocol - The multicast request protocol is used by clients and services to discover lookup services and is based on UDP multicast. Multi-Domain support on SunFire 3800/4800/6800/E12k/E15k class machines (SUN) multimode - a fiber-optic cabling specification that allows as much as 500 m between devices. Multiple regression - Multiple regression is a method of determining the relationship between a continuous process output (Y) and several factors (Xs). multiported storage subsystems - have more than one SAN connection port (network interface) to support the needs of multiple servers. Multitasking - The ability for the operating system to perform multiple operations at once. Windows NT Workstation is a multitasking operating system which can perform multiple I/O requests at once. SCSI and a Caching RAID coprocessor take advantage of multitasking. MUTEX - Mutual Exclusion variables - Mutual Exclusion Lock mutex object - In interprocess communication, a synchronization object which has a signaled state when the mutex is not owned by a thread, and has a non-signaled state when it is owned. Only one thread at a time can own a mutex. MUTT - A Linux eMail program ;; similar to a patch MUX / Mux - Multiplexer. a device that selects one of several analog or digital input signals and forwards the selected input into a single line. Multiplexer - Wikipedia MV - Mirror View MVA - The conventional multi-domain vertical alignment (MVA) technology has smaller viewing angle in the azimuth angle of 45 degree. MVC - Model-View Controller architecture (from Smalltalk-80) is a good example to use for Visual C++. It separates the application into three parts: 1) Model refers to the application layer, where all application-dependent objects reside. For example, in a drawing program, this is the layer that maintains the graphics objects. 2) View refers to the presentation layer, which presents that application's data to the user. 3) Controller refers to the interaction layer, which provides the interface between the input devices (keyboard, mouse,...) and the View and Model layers. Also used in Java and now ASP.NET MVC - Model View Controller. Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC Framework ASP.NET MVC Framework - Wikipedia ASP.NET MVC - The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site MVL - Multiple Virtual Line MVP - Master Validation Plan - a high level test plan. MVT - Manufacturing Verification Test MXG - A capacity planning product by H.W. (Barry) Merrill, based on SAS MX record - Mail exchanger record. more info MXML - Macromedia Flex Markup Language n - int - Windows header file Hungarian notation n nano - 10 -9th N/A - Not Applicable. Also called: NA N/E - Not Executable N-Tier Application Architecture - N-tier application architecture provides a model for developers to create a flexible and reusable application. By breaking up an application into tiers, developers only have to modify or add a specific layer, rather than have to rewrite the enitire application over, if they decide to change technologies or scale up. In the term "N-tier," "N" implies any number -- like 2-tier, or 4-tier; basically, any number of distinct tiers used in your architecture. Application architectures are part of Layer 7 of the OSI model. NA - NetApp (Network Appliance). NetApp Home Page NA - Not Applicable NAB - Not A Bug NACK - Negative ACK NAGIOS - open system network monitoring system, can even capture SMPT traps. NAL - Novell Application Launcher NAM - name space modules - NetWare file name suffix. Enable files with non-DOS naming conventions to be stored on NW 5.1 volumes. NAM - North American Market namespace - A name resolution area. The bounded area within which a named object can be resolved. Examples are a subtree in a directory service, a class within a component, or a URI-defined prefix in XML. Naming Authority - "the agency or group which catalogues given service types and attributes" (RFC 2608) NAN - Not A Number. IEEE 754 Standard: "1 or 0 1111 1111 10000 00000 00000 00000 000" either 8 bits of '1' any one bit a '1', rest are '0' NANE - Network Appliance, Waltham, MA NAS - Network Attached Storage; a disk array connected to a controller that provides file access over a LAN transport. FILE ORIENTED. See also: NAS in Complete SAN / NAS / SATA / CIM / Computer Storage NAS - Network-Accessible Storage. NAS - Nonaccess Stratum NASD - Network Attached Secure Devices. Allows disk drives to manage their own network communications, it is believed that the file sever can be removed as a potential bottleneck. NAT - NAT (Network Address Translation) is the translation of an Internet Protocol address (IP address) used within one network to a different IP address known within another network. One network is designated the inside network and the other is the outside. Typically, a company maps its local inside network addresses to one or more global outside IP addresses and unmaps the global IP addresses on incoming packets back into local IP addresses. This helps ensure security since each outgoing or incoming request must go through a translation process that also offers the opportunity to qualify or authenticate the request or match it to a previous request. NAT also conserves on the number of global IP addresses that a company needs and it lets the company use a single IP address in its communication with the world. Comparing NAT, Static Content Filtering, SPI, and Firewalls - NetGear NATE - Network/NetApp Automation Test Environment (NA) NATE unifies, extends and supersedes the functionality provided by earlier test harnesses (THARN, ANT, and ATH.) Click here for more info on Testing NATE is mostly written in Perl. native format - ESI in the format in which it was created, perhaps a Word .DOC file. native IP - a networked device with an assigned IP address and TCP/IP or UDP/IP protocol stack processing NAV - Microsoft Dynamics NAV (formerly Navision) - an ERP solution. NAV - Norton's Anti-Virus (a Symantec product) NB - Net Boot subsystem - provides device independent interfaces to LAN devices. NBC - Not Backwards Compatible NBFCP - PPP NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol, network control protocol responsible for establishing and configuring the NBF protocol over PPP. NBMA - Non-Broadcast, Multi-Access. - Seems to do most of the work of diskless booting. NC - Name Cache - provides a quick translation of a parent directory vnode/name into recently looked up vnode NCE - Network Consulting Engineer (Test Engineer) (Cisco) NCP - Network Control Protocol NCP - Novell NetWare Core Protocol, manages access to the primary NetWare server resources. NCQ - Native Command Queueing (SCSI and SATA) (SSD) native command Queuing What is NCQ (Native Command Queueing) Native Command Queuing [NCQ] Technology Explained - CoolTechZone Native Command Queuing (NCQ) is an extension of the Serial ATA ... Windows 7's AHCI enables not only NCQ but also TRIM support on SSD. NCRB - National Crime Record Bureau NCS - Cisco Network Control System Cisco Prime Network Control System (Prime NCS) NCS - (PacketCable) Network-based Call Signaling NCSA - National Center for Supercomputing Applications. A Unix body that developed early Internet applications, particularly daemons (servers) for Web and FTP use. These are named httpd, ftpd, pppd, etc. Over time, the httpd Web server was developed (patched) to create the Apache server of today. ncsc - 88k version of Symbios Logic (NCR) driver ncsc - Symbios Integrated SCSI adapter used in the Rolling Rock architecture for m88k. NDA - Non Disclosure Agreement NDB - NvRAM DataBase NDI - Non Developmental Item NDIS - Microsoft’s Network Device Interface Specification NDMP - Network Data Management Protocol - NetBackup (open standard, used by Veritas) NDPS - Novell Directory Services eDirectory NDS - NetWare Directory Services (Novell), globally distributed network database that replaces the bindery used in previous versions of NetWare. NDU - NonDisruptive Upgrade - Karl Owen nearline storage - (Near-online) - not online, but quickly available. Nearline storage - Wikipedia near memory - Memory local to a block NEBS - Network Equipment Building Standard (a family of UL Telecommunications standards) NEC - National Electric Code (of the USA) Negative Test - A test whose primary purpose is falsification; that is tests designed to break the software[B.Beizer1995] Nehalham - Intel's Xeon Processors 5500 Series. True Quad core w/improved memory bandwith. some Nehalham info here at Linux-mag Intel Previews Intel Xeon Nehalem-EX Processor Intel Nehalem (microarchitecture) - Wikipedia NEOF - No Evidence of Failure Nessus - A proprietary comprehensive vulnerability scanner which is developed by Tenable Network Security. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nessus_%28software%29 NetApp - Network Appliances NETBASIC - ships with NetWare 6 netBEUI - Networking protocol. The native protocol that forms the basis for Microsoft Networking in Windows NT environments, and by IBM in their networking products. NetBIOS - Networking protocol. A widely accepted and implemented standard for networking in a LAN environment. I BELIEVE THAT THIS HAS GENERALLY BEEN REPLACED BY TCP/IP - DRW Netfinity - IBM's Netfinity Servers netmask - Network mask. When applied to a network address,it separates the network ID from the host ID. NetRPC - NetRemote Procedure Call, used to access VINES applications such as StreetTalk and VINES Mail (Banyan). Net-SNMP - Free SNMP tool - Sourceforge.net. More Info NetView - IBM’s network management architecture network - computer network, of which there are many types. See also Ethernet IP SCSI Computer Network - Wikipedia Network Byte Order - Large Endian - Internet-standard ordering of the bytes corresponding to numeric values. Network Processor assembly language - ?? Network Service - protocol that manages the convergence sub-layer that operates between BSSGP and the Frame Relay Q.922 Core by mapping BSSGP's service requests to the appropriate Frame Relay services. newfs - A command for creating a new file system. NFC - Near Field Communication. A technique now being used to allow close proximity to your cell phone to pay for the purchase you are trying to make. NFC-Forum.ORG Click HERE for more information about NFC nfm - Network File manager - NFS file systems NFR Testing - Non-Function Requirement Testing is a type of testing in which test user test only "Requirements". Testing Mines: NFR Testing NFS - Network File System, file sharing application for the Sun protocol suite. See Also: NFS for more information See also: pNFS nfsc - Symbios - alias for ncsc for m88k. NGE - LSI Logic, formerly Engenio, formerly LSI Logic (yes they did) NHDR - Network Layer Header, begins the frame used by RTP nodes. NHRP - NBMA - Next Hop Resolution Protocol. nhsc - Symbios - hidden driver under ncsc for m88k. NI - nice NIAP - National Information Assurance Partnership (DoD) NIAS - Novell Internet Access Server NIC - Network Interface Card. The hardware providing the connection between a computer or peripheral and the network. Usually a plug-in card with sockets for a range of cable connector types, Most commonly, Ethernet. NIC - Network Interface Controller (chip) NICI - Novell International Cryptographic Infrastructure NIDS - Network intrusion detection system. More info NIM - New Improved media NIM exists to empower computer users by supporting GNU/Linux operating systems. NIP - NUFFO Initialization Program NIS - Network Information Service NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology. Click here for more info nit - Candela per square metre - a (video / SI) measure of brightness. more nix - UNIX or UNIX-like, could also refer to any version of Linux. See also Complete Linux and Unix Information NK - Nano Kernel (spoof of microkernels) - really the scheduling mechanism NLM - NetWare Loadable Module (applications) NLP - Natural Language Processing; Natural Language Programming - see also Artifical Intelligence NLS - National Language Support - can be translated into other languages as needed (IBM) NLS - NetWare Licensing Services NMAP - Nmap - Free Security Scanner For Network Exploration & Security ... Nmap Reference Guide NMI - Non-Maskable Interrupt NMS - Network Management System ; Network Management Station NMS - NMS - Developer Platforms - www.nmscommunications.com/ NMT - Nordic Mobile telephone NNI - Network-Node Interface NNTP - Network News Transfer Protocol. A protocol that transports news messages to special servers and client software over the Internet. Provides cross referencing, expiration, and search and retrieval facilities. No adverse affect on AUT's funtionality - When this statement is used as an expected result, it means the following: · The mobile device does not power cycle. · The mobile device does not lock up. · The application does not exit (unless specifically called out as the application’s expected results). NoC - Network-on-Chip NOC - Network Operations Center. NOC - Wikipedia Node - SHV server comprised of CPU, IOMB, Midplane, etc. Marketing has renamed this as "BLOCK". A single AViiON computer that is running a single instance of the DG/UX operating system, the DG/UX Clusters Software, and is connected to other nodes in a cluster. A node can be a single processor computer, SMP computer, or NUMA computer. NOM - Mexican version of UL and PSRB Non-blocking - Capable of handling traffic at the maximum frame and data arrival rates without having to discard traffic due to a lack of internal resources. Non-Cache Channel - Configuration Manager Process (Flare CMI Channel Definitions, Phase 2) non-OFC - Later technology devices use more efficient, lower-powered laser sources that do not require the overhead of open-fiber detection and control circuits to meet the Class-1 Radiation Safety requirements. This technology is called non-OFC. non-promiscuous mode - All NAD devices listen, and ignore packets not addressed to them. NOP - no operation (nothing happens) Normal Distribution - Normal distribution is the spread of information (such as product performance or demographics) where the most frequently occurring value is in the middle of the range and other probabilities tail off symmetrically in both directions. Normal distribution is graphically categorized by a bell-shaped curve, also known as a Gaussian distribution. For normally distributed data, the mean and median are very close and may be identical. Normal Exit - Occurs by using menu options, the end key, or any other OEM-specific method. A normal exit is also referred to as “exit.” (BREW) Normal font - The Emulator uses this device attribute to show text on the screen. The normal font maps to AEE_FONT_NORMAL, and its bold version maps to AEE_FONT_BOLD. BREW Normal Probability - Used to check whether observations follow a normal distribution. P > 0.05 = data is normal Normality test - A normality test is a statistical process used to determine if a sample or any group of data fits a standard normal distribution. A normality test can be performed mathematically or graphically. Northbridge - The northbridge, also known as a memory controller hub (MCH) or an integrated memory controller (IMC) - Northbridge (computing) - wikipedia NOS - Network Operating System. A generic term for the protocol and software that provides communication services over a network. Examples are NetBIOS, TCP/IP, etc. NoScript - NoScript - A free add-on for Firefox that helps prevent cross-scripting web browser attacks. np - no problem NPC - New Product Council NPI - New Product Introduction NPI - National Provider Identifier. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) mandated the adoption of a standard unique identifier for health care providers. Overview National Provider Identifier Standard (NPI) NPPES NPI - New Product Introduction N-port - A Node port connects either two end devices in a point-to-point topology or an end device such as an HBA or storage device to an F-port on a fabric switch. (SAN) NL-port - A Node loop port is present on an end Node such as a storage device. It connects the end Node to another NL-port or to an L-port in an arbitrated loop arrangement. (SAN) NPDES - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System. NPI - New Product Introduction NPOV - Neutral point of view npsc - NCR PCI SCSI adapter, Intel, ported from the 88k version, ncsc - Symbios 53C8xx controllers NPTF - No Plan To Fix (DIMS status). If a note says, deferred, it should be fixed in the next release. If there is no note about deferment, NPTF means it will NEVER BE FIXED. NQA/USA - National Quality Assurance NRAM - Nanotech RAM. Click for more info NRD - Not Really a Defect - often becomes this DIMS status after documenting "don't do this" NRE - Non-recurring engineering - the one-time cost of researching, developing, designing, and testing a new product. Non-recurring engineering - Wikipedia NRE - article by Daniel Shefer NRF - National Retail Federation NRI - Non Resident (East) Indians NS - Nano Second ( 10 -9th) NS - Network Service NSAP - Network Service-Access Point. Most private ATM networks use the NSAP addressing format. NSAPI - Network (layer) Service Access Point Identifier nsar - New System Activity Reporter NSDU - Network-Service Data Unit NSG - next stage NSI - NFS to Socket Interface (formerly dgram). Supports both connection & connectionless types of sockets. NSIF - Network and Services Integration Forum nslookup - Name Server lookup command. A tool used to make DNS queries, usually used for debugging. contrast with dig. NSP - Network Services Protocol, provides reliable virtual connection services with flow control to the network layer Routing Protocol (DECnet). NSS - Native Structured Storage. The way that Windows 2000 stores documents that are made up of objects, i.e. ActiveX Documents. For example Word documents that contain embedded controls or other documents. NSS - Novell Storage Services (uses a 64-bit interface) NSTL - National Software Testing Labs NT - Notification Thread (ATM) NT - Windows NT (which may originally have stood for "New Technology") NTest - a NetApp test that takes a lot of parameters from environment variables Click here for more info on Testing NTFS - NT File System. The Windows NT native disk format. Provides an efficient data storage format, and allows a range of security settings to be applied to individual files and directories. How many characters can a filename have? The maximum number of characters you can use for a filename depends on whether the file is on an NTFS partition or a FAT partition. You can have a 256-character filename on an NTFS partition but only an 11-character filename on an FAT partition (i.e., an 8-character filename with a 3-character extension). The version of FAT that comes with Windows NT 4.0 supports 255-character filenames, unless you turn on Win 3.1. VFAT uses 256-character filenames. NTFS filenames are case sensitive (except during searches), whereas FAT filenames do not retain case. NTFS filenames can contain any characters, including spaces and uppercase, except " * : / \ ? < > |. VFAT filenames must start with a letter or number and can contain any characters except / \ : | ? " ^. How many files can I create on the root of a FAT partition? The root of a FAT drive holds only 512 entries. Remember that long filenames use multiple entries. Thus, creating numerous long filenames on the root of a partition uses space quickly. NTLM - NT LAN Manager authentication. The protocol normally referred to as Challenge/Response that Windows NT uses to pass authentication information between the client and server when logging on. NTP - Network Time Protocol, time synchronization system for computer clocks through the Internet network (TCP/IP). Click for more information about NTP NTS - Notification Sub Type (UPnP) NUFFO - used to track test results (NA) Null Hypothesis (Ho)- A null hypothesis (H0) is a stated assumption that there is no difference in parameters (mean, variance, DPMO) for two or more populations. According to the null hypothesis, any observed difference in samples is due to chance or sampling error. The term that statisticians often use to indicate the statistical hypothesis being tested. NUMA - Non-Uniform Memory Access/Addressing - Currently (11/00) DG AV 20000 25000 & 35000 systems. A computer architecture that resembles Symmetric Multiprocessor (SMP) architecture, except that memory is distributed throughout the system (rather than configured as the SMP's single, global memory). A NUMA machine's memory is shared by all processors, although a processor can access its nearby memory faster and more cheaply than other (distant) memory. NUnit - NUnit is a unit-testing framework for all .Net languages. Initially ported from JUnit, the current version, 2.0 is the second major release of this xUnit based unit testing tool for Microsoft .NET. It is written entirely in C# and has been completely redesigned to take advantage of many .NET language features, for example custom attributes and other reflection related capabilities. NUnit brings xUnit to all .NET languages. NUXI Problem - /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ n. Refers to the problem of transferring data between machines with differing byte-order. The string `UNIX' might look like `NUXI' on a machine with a different `byte sex' (e.g., when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual. NVD - National Vulnerabilities Database Click here for more info NVMe - NVM Express, NVMe, or Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface Specification (NVMHCI), is a specification for accessing solid-state disks (SSDs). NVM Express - Wikipedia NVMe is a communications interface/protocol developed specially for SSDs by a consortium of vendors including Intel, Samsung, Sandisk, Dell, and Seagate. Like SCSI and SATA, NVMe is designed to take advantage of the unique properties of pipeline-rich, random access, memory-based storage. Everything you need to know about NVMe, the insanely fast future for SSDs NVM Express .ORG NVRAM - Non-Volital RAM - the data survives power down/up cycles. NVSRAM - Non-Volital Storage Random Access NW - NetWare NWID - an alternative to ESSID for 802.11 devices. NWPA - NetWare Peripheral Architecture NX-OS - Cisco's Networking OS - NXOS Networking Software (IOS & NX-OS) O - Organization O&M - Operations & Maintenance O3 - overall optimized organization O-QPSK - Offset Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (modulation). (3G) OAM - Operations, Administration & Maintenance usually refers to the specifics of managing a system or network. OAM&P - Operations, Administration, Maintenance and Provisioning. OBEX - Object Exchange Protocol OBIEE - Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. Oracle Business Intelligence - OBIEE - 101 Object - An instance of a class that provides a specific service. BREW object - Generally, an instance of an entity that embodies both specific data and the functions that manipulate it. object - Specifically in object-oriented programming, an object is an entity that has state, behavior and identity. An object's state consists of its attributes and the attributes' current values. An object's behavior consists of the operations that can be performed on it and the accompanying state changes. An object's identity is what you use to distinguish it from other objects. In contrast, COM objects' behavior is defined by the interfaces it supports. A COM object's state is not explicitly specified, but is implied by its interfaces. A COM object's identity is defined by the ability to use IUnknown::QueryInterface to move between interfaces. object serialization - Serialization lets you store objects and handle them with binary input/output streams. object storage - also: object-based storage "a storage architecture that manages data as objects, as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems which manages data as a file hierarchy and block storage which manages data as blocks within sectors and tracks. Each object typically includes the data itself, a variable amount of metadata, and a globally unique identifier" - Object Storage - Wikipedia Difference between Object Storage And File Storage - Stack Overflow A Beginner’s Guide To Next Generation Object Storage - DDN File System - Ceph GlusterFS All the major storage players have some kind of implementation. OBPO - Off Shore Business Process Outsourcing. OBX - Outer banks (North Carolina, USA) OC - optical connection OC-3 - a communications link supporting 155 Mbps. Right now, many vendors consider it more practical to build large gateways that separate the signaling from the media-handling because of the density of the interconnections (which may have OC-3 or even OC-12 connections). OC-12 - a communications link supporting 622 Mbps. OC-48 - a communications link supporting 2.5 Gbps. OCI - Oracle Call Interface // OCI based systems ?? OC/SDH - ?? and OC/SDH physical interface modules (Optical something ?) OCO - Object Code Only OCV - output chaining value. See also: Cryptology / Encryption OCx - Optical (Fibre Channel) Carrier circuits. OCx - bandwidth.com OCX - OLE Control Extension. A software component stored as a disk file in a special format for use by other applications. Similar to a DLL, but generally offers a single function to create an object or control. ODBC - Open DataBase Connectivity - WIN32 ODBC - Microsoft ODBC An open standard originally developed by Microsoft to allow transparent data access to all kinds of data stores such as relational databases. Drivers are manufactured by third parties to suit their own data store. ODF - Open Document Format ODMA - Opportunity-Driven Multiple Access ODSI - Open Directory Services Interface. A set of industry-standard functions that can be implemented by a directory service, such as LDAP and ADS, to allow other applications to access the directory content. ODVA - ODVA - the organization that supports network technologies built on the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) — DeviceNet, EtherNet/IP, CIP Sync and CIP Safety. (ODVA - wikipedia OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer. For BREW documents, it is the device manufacturer that produces BREW-enabled devices. OES - (Novell's) Open Interprise Server - runs on SuSE Linux. OES 2 - The next release of Novell's OES, due out in June, 2007. More OES 2 Information OFB - output feedback (see key auto-key cipher). See also: Cryptology / Encryption OFC - open-fiber detection and control circuits (OFC). Class-1 laser-component assemblies use two kinds of power-level control technologies, depending on the open-circuit power levels of the laser source: OFC and non-OFC. OFDM - Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing. MultiBand OFDM Alliance See also 802.11a OFE - Open Financial Exchange. An open specification designed for the online transfer of financial data, including bank and credit card statements, fund transfers, and billing and payments. Provides transaction history, current holdings and balances. OFM - Open Fabric Manager (probably IBM) OH - Other Half Ogg Vorbis - is a high-quality, patent-free, open source, compressed audio format and streaming technology. It supports fixed and variable bit-rates from 16 to 128 kbps per channel, and allows quality similar to MPEG AAC. www.vorbis.com OGSI - Open Grid Services Infrastructure OGS - Open GIS Consortium OID - Object Identifier. A globally unique identifier that is used with directory services to identify each entry in the directory. OIG - Office of Inspector General OJT - On the Job Training OLA - ?? application availability in accordance with the SLA / OLA OLA - Open Library Api (Application Programming Interface) O = Open - every tool can benefit from a single library, built to standard L = Library A = API = Application Programming Interface OLAP - It is important to distinguish the capabilities of a Data Warehouse from those of an OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) system. In contrast to a Data Warehouse, which is usually based on relational technology, OLAP uses a multidimensional view of aggregate data to provide quick access to strategic information for further analysis. OLAP enables analysts, managers, and executives to gain insight into data through fast, consistent, interactive access to a wide variety of possible views of information. OLAP transforms raw data so that it reflects the real dimensionality of the enterprise as understood by the user. OLE - Object Linking and Embedding. The fore-runner to ActiveX. Uses COM to let components communicate, and allows applications to use the services of other applications as though they were just components. OBSOLETE. OLE DB - Object Linking and Embedding Database. The new standard data access programming interface from Microsoft that is designed to replace ODBC, and provide wider coverage of different types of data stores. offline sequence - OLS - Sequence sent by the transmitting port to indicate that it is attempting to initialize a link and has detected a problem in doing so. OLTP - OnLine Transaction Procession (usually of a sequential nature). OMA - The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) is the first telecom standardization body to address the urgent business challenges facing the Mobile Internet, as well as the technical ones. OMAP - Texas Intrument's wireless hardware platform OMB - Office of Management and Budget (US GOV) OMC - Operations and Management Center OMEGAMON - IBM OMEGAMON, is a software bundle of various performance monitors for IBM S/390 computer environments OMG - Object Management Group. An alliance of vendors formed to define and promote the CORBA object spcification. Prominent members are Sun, Netscape and IBM. OmniORB - a multi-threaded implementation of ORB. ONC - Open Network Computing - ONC code is modular, w/each module running on a node best suited to it. ONE - Open Network Environment. A Netscape development environment based on open standards that makes it easy to build, deploy and run applications over the Internet. See also Crossware OneSight - provides a holistic view of your entire Web infrastructure to ensure optimal performance of Web-based applications. onomatopoeia - is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the source of the sound that it describes - onomatopoeia - Wikipedia ONT - Optical Network Terminal. A User's ONT converts their ISP's fiber-optic cable connection to an Ethernet Internet connection with a 10BaseT cable - This acronym is Courtesy of Nathan Nookie's Professional Web Site. What is ONT: Optical Network Terminal? OO - Object Orientated. Click here for more info OOA - Object Orientated Analysis. Click here for more info OOAD - Object-Oriented Analysis & Design. Click here for more info OOBE - out of the box experience OOD - Object Orientated Design. Click here for more info OOH - Out-of-Home streaming (place shifting as it's known). Slingbox is proven technology. It Integrates very well with the TiVo, and there are no copyright restrictions. OOM - out-of-memory (errors) ooma - OOMA is a cheaper, less well supported (opinion) VoIP similar to Vonage. OOP - Object Orientated Programming. Click here for more info OOP - Out Of Pocket expenses OPC - OpenGL Performance Characterization. A project group within GPC that manages OpenGL benchmarks. OPC endorses the Viewperf and GLperf benchmarks. Viewperf was created by IBM and OPC provides viewsets for it, which are combinations of tests using specific applications to test OpenGL performance. PTC's CDRS (CDRS-03) is used for modeling and rendering. IBM's Data Explorer (DX-03) is used for visualization. Intergraph's DesignReview (DRV-04) is used for 3-D models. Alias/Wavefront's Advanced Visualizer (AWadvs-01) is used for animation, and Lightscape Technology's Lightscape Visualization System (Light-01) is used for radiosity visualization. Developed by the OPC, the GLperf benchmark measures low-level OpenGL 2-D and 3-D graphics primitives. The results are the raw performance of a system rather than the application performance as provided by the Viewperf benchmarks. Viewperf results are in frames per second, and GLperf results are in primitives per second. See GPC. OPD - Onsite Problem Determination openSUSE - Novell renamed its free Linux OS openSUSE, to differentiate it from Enterprise versions. Click for more information OPES - Open Pluggable Services OpenSSL - Secure Sockets Layer was originally designed and implemented by Netscape in 1995 [Hickman1995]. Since then it has gone through a number of revisions [Freier1996]. It is also adopted by IETF as a standard for transport layer security protocol (TLS) [Dierks1999]. To this day, SSLv2, SSLv3 and TLSv1 are still used and supported by the most current releases of popular browsers. Although SSL is supposed to be layered above TCP, it is implemented as a user level protocol. This works well for delivering web applications for multiple platforms without having to modify the kernel in each case. OpenSSL provides a socket like API for developers. But since it is not a true socket interface, developers are stuck with the added complexity of calling the socket interface in additional to the OpenSSL API. OPM - Optical-Pass-Through Module (networking) OPR - Open Port Request - Request to open a port through a Firewall -EMC OPR - Other People's Raid (not made by our company). OPR is a special case of multi-lun, multi-port configurations where the LUN entities are managed by other vendors. This specification is for OPR and not for the general multi-lun, multi-port configuration. With use of OPR - Other People's RAID - boxes, SCSI Enclosure Services monitoring is not available. Our strategy is to disable the SES driver on detecting that OPR boxes are attached. OPRA - Online Pricing Request Application (IBM) Opsware - Opsware, Inc. was a software company based in Sunnyvale, California that offered products for server and network device provisioning, configuration,... Was acquired by HP in September, 2007. OPT - Optional Practical Training (special student visa for non-citizens) Optional Practical Training - Wikipedia optimistic locking - a recordset locking strategy in which records are left unlocked until explicitly updated. The page containing a record is locked only while the program updates the record, not while a user is editing the record. OQ - Operational Qualification - Any new equipment, or equipment that has been relocated or modified will need an IQ, OQ, PQ to validate that piece of equipment. The OQ protocol provides assurance that the equipment operates in line with the drug manufacturer's specifications. OQPSK - Offset QPSK OR - Our Raid (made by our company). Oracle 11 modules ORB - Object Request Broker orcas - the follow-on version of Visual Studio ordered set - a group of low-level protocols used to manage frame transport, initialization, & media access. Orchestration - Frequently orchestration is defined simply as automation. "orchestration is often discussed in the context of service oriented architecture, virtualization, provisioning, Converged Infrastructure and dynamic datacenter topics. Orchestration in this sense is about aligning the business request with the applications, data and infrastructure." - Orchestration (computing) - Wikipedia Original Medicare = Part A and Part B (ONLY) ORL - 1] optical return loss 2] Olivetti Research Ltd. ORM - object role model (Agile). ORM Diagrams ORT - Operational Readiness Testing ORT - On-going Reliability Testing OS - (computer) Operating System. Examples: Windows Vista, Linux,... OS/390 - O/S Wrapper - The O/S Wrapper is an interface layer that converts an operating system driver interface to the Dual-Mode driver interface. A different O/S Wrapper module must be written for each O/S under which the Fibre Channel driver must run (e.g., Hemi, NT/K10, BIOS Dev 13). Used in the FC dual-mode driver. OSC - Open Standard Clustering OSD - On Screen Display OSD - Open Software Description Format. An XML-based language for describing software packages, components and their dependencies, in order to allow automated software distribution over the Internet. OSD - Object-Based Storage devices OSE - OSE named the #2 Real-Time operating system (late 2001). OSE - OSE is a generic application framework suitable for constructing general purpose applications, distributed systems and web based services. The four main parts of OSE are an extensive C++ class library, a set of Python wrappers, a build environment based on GNU Make, and a set of documentation extraction tools. Key components of the system include support for event driven systems, stream based and message oriented interprocess communications and a framework for request/reply or publish/subscribe service agent based systems. Web based interfaces may be constructed using a HTTP servlet framework or by using RPC over HTTP protocols such as XML-RPC and SOAP. Development of OSE commenced in 1990, being made available via the Internet in 1993. OSE was a winner of CODA'94, the ComputerWorld Object Developer Awards which was held in conjunction with ObjectWorld in Sydney, Australia. OSF - Open Software Federation. A multi-vendor body that defines and promotes open standards for Unix-based operating systems and software. I THINK THAT THIS FOLDED ?? OSG - Operation Services Group OSI - The 7 Layers of the OSI Model OSI - Open Systems Interconnection OSINLCP - OSI Network Layer Control Protocol, responsible for configuring, enabling and disabling the OSI protocol modules on both ends of the PPP link. OSIS - Open Specification for Information Sharing OSMS - open-systems management server OSN - Open Storage Network (NetApp) OSPF - Open Shortest Path First implemented for IPv6 Multicast OSPF - CDS Magazine Open Shortest Path First, link-state routing protocol used for routing IP (TCP/IP). A network routing protocol for IP that allows routers to pass network and routing information between themselves as the topology of a network changes. OSPF is the preferred IGP for the Internet (RFC-1371). Transit networks interconnect multiple OSPF routers. OSPFv2 - Open Shortest Path First version 2 Overview (OSPFv2 RFC 2328). More on OSPFv2 Open Shortest Path First v2 (OSPFv2) Parameters OSPG - Open Source Participation Guidelines (IBM) OSS - Open Source Software OSS - Operational Support Services OSSC - Open Source System Code OST - Open Storage Technology - a Symantec NetBackup API. My Symantec OpenStorage (OST) “A-HA moment” DataDomain is using Symantec's NetBackup API - Open Storage. OST - Offline STorage ".OST" - a Microsoft file type associated with Microsoft Outlook Open Source Test (OST) Tools OTC - over the counter (not prescription) OTP - Open Trading Protocol. A global standard for retail trade on the Internet, designed to ensure an easy-to-use and consistent consumer purchasing experience regardless of the payment instrument or software and hardware product used. OTT - In broadcasting, over-the-top content (OTT) refers to delivery of audio, video, and other media over the Internet without the involvement of a multiple-system operator in the control or distribution of the content. - OTT- Wikipedia Over-the-top (OTT) services: Netflix, Amazon Prime and HBO Go. Is OTT video squeezing your network? - Infographic OTT - Over The Top (way above average) OU - Organizational Unit OUI - organization unique identifier out-of-band - transmission of management protocol outside the Fibre Channel network, typically over Ethernet. originated with SS7 telephony protocol. OVAL - Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language. OWL - WEB Ontology Language (W3C) is designed for use by applications that need to process the content of information instead of just presenting information to humans. OWL facilitates greater machine interpretability of Web content than that supported by XML, RDF, and RDF Schema (RDF-S) by providing additional vocabulary along with a formal semantics. OWL has three increasingly-expressive sublanguages: OWL Lite, OWL DL, and OWL Full. OOXML - Office Open XML (Microsoft's standard, now ISO approved ISO/IEC 29500 - Office Open XML - Wikipedia OOXML was based on Microsoft proprietary formats and software patents, I don't know if the ISO certification removed these problems OUI - Organizational Uniques Identifiers (VMware). OXC - Optical cross connects (OXCs). Optical cross connects (OXCs) - Wikipedia OWA - (Microsoft's) Outlook Web Access. 10 great new features in OWA 2010 p - pointer - Windows header file Hungarian notation P - Provider device (VPN) P&IDs - ?? P&P - Plug and Play P/M - ?? P4 - a Perforce wrapper (NA); Pentium IV P Peta - 10 15th = one quadrillion p pico - 10 -12th P-link bus - handles transactions between the SCC and the CDC. P1003.4a - Pthreads standard, IEEE P5 - Pentium (classic and MMX models, Intel 586,... P6 - Pentium Pro CPU (Intel 686...) - actually even the Pentium III is a P6 architecture. PA - Performance Analysis PA - Programmer/Analyst PA - Preventive Action PA - Process Areas (CMMI). PA - Physician Assistant. Physician assistant PaaS - Platform as a Service Platform as a OpenShift Enterprise service - Wikipedia PACCH - Packet Associated Control Channel PACCCH - Packet Common Control Channel package - Group of MTS components. A set of related components installed into MTS that are defined and used together in an application. The package defines the security trust boundary for the component group. Declares a Java package. PACS - A Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) is a medical imaging technology which provides economical storage of, and convenient access to images from multiple modalities (source machine types) - Picture archiving and communication system - Wikipedia PAD - Packet Assembler/Disassembler PAE - Page Address Extensions - a technique to get above 4GB virtual memory on IA-32 architecure that translates 32-bit linear addresses to 36-bit physical addresses. In the linux kernel, the support is provided through a compile time option that produces two separate kernels - the SMP kernel which supports only upto 4GB VM and the enterprise kernel which can go up to 64GB VM (also called VLM capable). PAGCH - Packet Access Grant Channel pages - are the logical unit of an address space. Size is determined by the OS, although it must be an integer multiple of the frame size. Pages have permissions associated with them, and are either valid or invalid. Valid pages can be resident or non-resident. Accessed via logical addresses. Wiring a page to a frame forces the page to remain bound to the same frame(s) until the page is unwired. PAM - Pluggable Authentication Module PAM - Partner Account Manager (Microsoft) Panic - a Unix debugger PAP - Password Authentication Protocol, provides a simple method for the peer to establish its identity using a 2-way handshake (PPP suite). CHAP is more secure than PAP. PAP - Printer Access Protocol, manages the virtual connection to printers and other servers (AppleTalk). Pareto Principle - the 80-20 rule. a few (20 percent) are vital and many (80 percent) are considered trivial. more information about the PARETO PRINCIPLE as applied to development Parent Disk - a disk image that has become read-only, due to having some virtual disk(s) dependent on it via binary image overlays that present a single, virtual disk to the user. The dependent disks are called Child Disks. partition table - An important part of the disk label is the partition table, which identifies a disk’s slices, the slice boundaries (in cylinders), and the total size of the slices. A disk’s partition table can be displayed by using the format utility (Solaris) passfilt - Password filter component. An interchangeable software component within Windows NT that performs checking on user passwords as they are entered, ensuring they are strong enough to meet security requirements. passive copper - a low-cost Fibre Channel connection that allows as many as 13 m of copper cable lengths passphrase - password PATA - Parallel ATA (the original ATA, not SATA) PAUSE frame - a frame used by IEEE 802.3x for traffic pacing PBA - Pysical Block Address. A disk offset within the address space of a single disk. PBC - Personal Business Commitment (self evaluation) PBCH - Packet Broadcast Channel PBX - A Private Branch eXchange is a localized digital telephone network. All computing devices use existing use existing telephone wires to communicate. P-CSCF - Proxy-Call/Session Control Function PC - the Pilot Channel is an umodulated spread spectrum signal that provides the mobile telephone timing and phase reference information for coherent detection. (3G) PC - Personal Computer ;; Persistent Classes ;; Power Control PC/AT - Industry-standard bus architecture PC-104 - A "small-footprint" bus with identical electrical characteristics as the ISA Bus. PCA - Pending Customer Action PCB - Printed Circuit Board. A page is either resident in memory or on the swap disk - NEVER both. PCP - Port Control Protocols. Port Control Protocol (pcp) - Charter - IETF Datatracker Port Control Protocol (pcp) - Documents Port Control Protocol - The Internet Protocol Journal, Volume 14 - Cisco PDC - Personal Digital Communication PCCH - Pagin Control Channel PCCPCH - Primary Common Control Physical Channel PCH - Platform Controller Hub(future product). Platform Controller Hub - wikipedia PCH - Paging Channel PCI - Payment Card Industry PCI DSS - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS 1.2 - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.2 PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect (bus) that refers to a high-speed (133 MB/sec) host bus commonly used for host adaptors, Ethernet adaptors, and video cards. PCI 3.0 is the latest specification. Click here for more information PCI-X - peripheral component interconnect extended; an interface specification for a computer bus providing 66-MHz performance. PCI-X 2.0 is the latest (5/2006) specification. Click here for more information PCI Express - The newest, fastest, computer bus currently (5/2006) available. PCIe 1.1 is the latest (5/2006) specification. Click for more info PCI DSS - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of security standards designed to ensure that ALL companies that accept, process, store or transmit credit card information maintain a secure environment. PCI Compliance Guide Frequently Asked Questions - PCI DSS FAQs PCM - Pulse Code Modulation - an uncompressed digital music format. Can be read by most audio applications. PCMI - CMI over TCP/IP PCN - Personal Communications Networks (also called GSM) PCPCH - Physical Common Packet Channel PCR - Public Code Review PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Extpressions PCS - Personal Communications System PCT - Private Telecommunications Technology. A certificate-based protocol, similar to SSL, which can provide more robust and secure authentication and encryption over a network. In the Finnish patent application number 974665 and the corresponding PCT application number FI98/01032, which are incorporated herein by reference, we have presented a certain method for performing IPsec address translations and a method for packet authentication that is insensitive to address transformations and protocol conversions en route of the packet. PCT - Peripheral Commodity Team PCU - Packet Control Unit PD - dual core Pentium D. Eventually, ironically, they'll make two separate cores on one module. PD - Problem Determination PDA - Personal Data Assistant (small handheld "computer"); Packet Data Acknowledgement - wms PDBR - Page Directory Base Register. On Intel, CR3 is used for this task PDC - Primary Domain Controller. The Windows NT server installation that holds the central security and other information for the entire network domain. PDCH - Packet Data Channel PDCP - Packet Data Convergence Protocol PDD - Preemption Disable Depth; Platform Description Data PDF - Adobe's Portable Document Format; Program Development Facility PDFD - parallel Drive Firmware Download PDH - Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH) - Wikipedia Ethernet over PDH - Wikipedia PDK - Platform Developer Kit MontaVista DevRocket PDM - physical data models. more PDM info PDM - Production Data Management PDN - Public Data Network PDP - prescription drug plan (for my inlaws) A prescription drug plan (also known as a PDP) can help you manage out-of-pocket costs for medications that aren’t covered by Original Medicare. PDP - Packet Data Protocol (IP, X.25), etc.) PDP - Policy Decision Point PDS - Product Data Sheet; Partitioned Data Set PDSCH - Physical Downlink Shared Channel PDT - Product Development Team || Problem Determination Team || Packet Data Transmission PDTCH - Packet Data Transfer Channel PDU - Protocol Data Unit - iSCSI's basic unit of transfer. Protocol data unit - Wikipedia PDU - Power Distribution Unit PE - Portable Executable The Portable Executable (PE) format is a file format for executables, object code, DLLs, FON Font files, and others used in 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows operating systems. PE - Product Engineer || Phase Encoded PE - Provider edge device (VPN) PE - Professional Engineers PEAP - Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol PEC - Primary Enterprise Controller. The server that is at the root of Microsoft Message Queue Server enterprise. It stores the complete MSMQ Information Store database. PECL - Positive Emitter Coupled Logic (FC technology) peek - A peek at received data implies that the data is read without making it unavailable. PEG - Portable Embedded Gui Pel - Pixel PEP - Packet Exchange Protocol, provides a semi-reliable packet delivery service that orients towards single-packet exchanges (XNS). PEP - Policy Enforcment Point Percent of tolerance - Percent of tolerance is calculated by taking the measurement error of interest, such as repeatability and/or reproducibility, dividing by the total tolerance range, then multiplying the result by 100 to express the result as a percentage. Perforce - A commercial source code control program. Performance Testing - Testing conducted to evaluate the compliance of a system or component with specific performance requirements [BS7925-1]. Some good automated test tools for Performance testing are: LoadRunner, Rational Robot - VUScript Perl - Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. A scripting language used with the first Web applications. Runs on the server and can create dynamic pages via the Common Gateway Interface. SEE MY webinfo.htm file persistent - Lasting between program sessions, or renewed when a new program session is begun. persistent binding - A form of server-level access control that uses configuration information to bind a server to a specific Fibre Channel storage volume (or logical device) using a unit number. Persistent Disk Mode - VMware virutal hard disks in Persistent Disk Mode will cause data to be immediately and permanently written to disk - behaves as a normal disk drive. PEV Plugin Electric Vehicle. The combination of both plugin hybrids (PHEVs) and tailpipe-less battery electric vehicles (BEVs). pexit - terminates the individual thread (that invokes it) PFA - Packet Final Acknowledgement - wms; Predictive Failure Analysis PFC - ?? some legacy systems thing HFCV Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle – Also called FCEV (Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle) or FCV. It has a water outlet that is called a tailpipe. It is the remnant of hope among some that hydrogen could one day replace gasoline as the main source of energy for road transport. HFCVs have been 5 years in the future for the past 30 years. About 20 years ago, batteries became more promising, and 10 years ago, batteries started to conquer the market. HFCVs really do not have much of a future left in most of the world. PFL PFP - Potters for Peace (make ceramic water purifiers (CWP) for families in 3rd world countries) Potters For Peace dot ORG PFS - Product Functional Specification PFS - Perfect Forward Security. A security system that can provide secure communication without requiring an existing key from which to derive a new one. PFX - Personal Information Exchange. A protocol that can safely and securely transfer the contents of a PStore from one location to another. PGA - Post GA PgC - the Paging Channel contains messages with parameters that the mobile telephone needs for access and paging. (3G) PGP - Pretty Good Privacy. An independently developed encryption application that uses public keys to allow secure transmission of messages. Pharma - a pharmaceutical company. See also Most pharmaceutical companies call themselves "Pharmas" pharming - Phishing uses social engineering to convince users to enter personal information onto a faked site that collects the data for the criminals. Pharming goes one better, so they when a user enters a perfectly legit URL of their choice (like their bank) they are hijacked and taken to the criminals' faked site. No social engineering involved. BROWSER PATCHES TO MAKE SHOW THE FAKED URL ARE USUALLY AVAILABLE. See also There is a tool that will help you fight both the phishers and the pharmers. It's a browser plug-in from a company called Netcraft. Larry Seltzer did a review. PHB - Per-Hop Behavior PHEV Plugin Hybrid Electric Vehicle. This is not a 100% FFV vehicle. The driver has the opportunity to use electricity from the grid for limited driving. The driving is limited in range and often also performance. The battery is a bit larger than those used in HEVs. The PHEV best can be an alternative for those visiting the outskirts of habitation, like Northern Finland or parts of Canada, regions without charging infrastructure or an electric grid. The pure electric range is mostly between 10–30 miles, but longer range is starting to become less exceptional. phishing - Phishing uses social engineering to convince users to enter personal information onto a faked site that collects the data for the criminals. Phishing is an internet term. It means to throw out some bait, such as this message, and reel in an unsuspecting catch. See also PHP - Personal Home Pages. a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language with dedicated database abstraction layer. It is also opensource. See also PHP - Pre Hypertext Processing PHP PHP-GTK PHY - Physical (layer) Physical screen size - The size of the device screen measured in inches or centimeters. PI - Paging Indicator PICH - Paging Indicator Channel picked up - LWPs are the system execution entities on DG/UX. - A thread that has been selected for execution by an LWP is said to have been "picked up" by the LWP, will be run for a short time, and eventually "put down" by that LWP. - If the relationship is one-to-ne, that is, the thread can be picked up by no other LWP, and the LWP can only run the thread, we say that the thread is 'bound" to the LWP. pico - 1] One-trillionth (10-12): picosecond. 2] Very small: picornavirus. picosecond - One trillionth (10-12) of a second. one trillionth of a second; one thousandth of a nanosecond PICS - (SMPP V3.4) Protocol Interface Compliance Statement (PICS) PictBridge standard - allows for interconnecting consumer imaging devices. It typically uses USB as the underlying communication layer. PID - Process ID (Unix/Linux) PII - Personally Identifiable Information PIM - Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM). PIM - Personal Information Manager PING - Packet Internet Grouper. A diagnostic utility program that uses ICMP to request messages from a remote server to check that it is available and can respond. PING uses two if ICMP's 256 possible Type values, the Echo (Type 8) and the Echo Reply (Type 0). PING Identify - Ping Identity delivers single sign-on and identity management, increasing IT security. Ping Identity Ping Identity PingOne product review - SC MagazineSAML Tutorial - SAML 2.0 - Ping Identity PINT - PTSN and Internet Interworking pipe - a pipe is a metaphorical concept representing a channel of data flow between one process and another on the same host. Most Unix pipes are uni-directional. PIT - physical inventory taking (the act of physically taking an inventory) PIT - Process Interval Timer - hardware timer w/at least microsecond granularity PIU - P6 (Pentium) Bus Interface Unit, an ASIC PIU-A - P6 Bus Interface Unit, Address bus management component. PIU-D - P6 Bus Interface Unit, Data bus management component. PK - Public key in a public-key cryptosystem ;; Primary Key. See also: Cryptology / Encryption PKb - public bank key in a PKC. See also: Cryptology / Encryption PKc - public customer key in a PKC. See also: Cryptology / Encryption PKCS - Public Key Cryptography Standard. A generic term used to describe the various available types of public key encryption standards such as DES, RSA, etc. PKI - Public Key Infrastructure. The Windows 2000 service that stores and manages public keys and digital signatures, and uses them to authenticate and verify documents and users. For more PKI info PKIS - Public key Infrastructure Services PKu - public universal key in a PKC. See also: Cryptology / Encryption PL/SQL - Oracle's PLaSM - functional language for computing with geometry platform - a platform is an underlying computer system on which application programs can run. A platform consists of an operating system and the hardware that performs logic operations and manages data movement in the computer. Platfrom - techtarget PLC - Programmable Logic Controllers PLC - some form of "manufacturing control systems" PLDCF - Physical Layer-Independent Convergence Function plex - (a mirror) A group of one or more subdisks, typically from physical drives, that are used together in a concentration or striping arrangement. A volume can have up to eight plexes associated with it. Click here for more info plex consistency - Plexes of a volume containing identical data are called consistant, the opposite of inconsistant. plinux - pLinux = Linux native on (IBM) pSeries Plinux - iTRANS, a privately-held company focused on the Linux.Isdn.Pc solution, publisher of Plinux, a leading Chinese version of Linux. iTRANS - Created in 1997, iTRANS Institute Inc. is a privately held commercial company focused on Linux.Isdn.Pc solution. ITRANS successfully brought TELES AG into the Chinese ISDN market, along with its Linux solutions. The company is the founder and main sponsor of www.linux.org.cn and founded the Shanghai Linux Professional Committee (SLPC), recognized by the Chinese government in August 1999. In August 1999, ITRANS announced its general network server called 1JT (www.1JT.com), in partnership with IBM, and AMD (Fareast). iTRANS also distributes Plinux, a Linux version based on Red Hat that includes cutting-edge features like Pentium Optimization, ISDN support, strong cryptography, and poorman's Chinese user interface. PLM - Product lifecycle management. more ;; Product Line Manager PLMN - Public Land Mine Network PLOGI - Port Login (similar in operation to FLOGI) - FC. See also PLP - Packet Loss Probability PM - Project Manager PM - Protocol Manager - wms PM - Practice Management - some kind of QA software ?? PM - Process Manager PM - Private Message PMAP - Port Mapper protocol, manages the allocation of transport layer ports to network server applications (Sun). PMB - Power Monitor Board PMD - Physical Medium-Dependent PMI - Project Management I. ?? PMM - Project Management Model PMO - Project Managment Office PMP - PMI's Project Managment Professional Certification PMR - perpendicular magnetic recording - stacks magnetic recording particles vertically, instead of the the older, horizontally. PMR is expected to be able to provide Ten times the recording densities of the older, non-PMR hard drives. See also SAN/NAS/SATA/CIM/DAS/STORAGE for related iinformation PMT - Program Management Team PMMU - paged memory management unit pn - Pathname Manager - converts pathname into VNODE object. PN - Pseudonoise PNCH - Packet Notification Channel pNFS - parallel NFS. Click here for more pNFS information See also: NFS PNFE - Paging and Notification Control Function Entity PNG - Portable Network Graphics. A format for graphics and images that compresses the content to provide efficient transmission over a network. Developed by W3C, but not yet in commmon use. Developed because there are now license fees on the GIF format. PNNI - Public Network-Network Interface. A protocol used by ATM networks to find the optimum route between two or more communicating systems. (ATM Forum af-pnni-0055.000 specification) PnP - (hot) Plug-and-Play: ability to swap boards w/o cycling power. PNR - Packet Notification Response - data transfer packet - wms PO - Physical Object (VOD). poach - Move a group from one CPU to another, usually because one CPU does not have enough to do. POC - Proof Of Concept. Proof of concept - Wikipedia EMC IT’s Informatica Data Archive Proof of Concept POD - Plain Old Documentation POD Slurping - Stealing data via USB connected memory or devices similar to iPODs. POE - Power Over Ethernet POFOD - probability of failure on demand POI - Points Of Interest POID - Physical Object ID - uniquely identifies a PO among all the SSs. Poisson Distribution - The Poisson Distribution is a discrete distribution which takes on the values X = 0, 1, 2, 3,... It is often used as a model for the number of events (such as the number of telephone calls at a business or the number of accidents at an intersection) in a specific time period. It is also useful in ecological studies, e.g., to model the number of prairie dogs found in a square mile of prairie. The Poisson distribution is determined by one parameter, lambda. The distribution function for the Poisson distribution is f(x) = exp(-1*lambda) lambda^x / x! POJO - Plain Old Java Object Poly - polygraph test PONs - Passive Optical Networks PoP - Power-on Password Pooled Standard Deviation - Pooled standard deviation is the standard deviation remaining after removing the effect of special cause variation-such as geographic location or time of year. It is the average variation of your subgroups. s = sqrt[((n1-1)s1^2 + (n2-1)s2^2)/(n1+n2-2)] Population - The entire collection of items that is the focus of concern. Population Defect Rate - The true proportion of defects in the population. This is usually estimated by a sample, rather than getting true population data. Since estimates are less than perfect, it is common to indicate how imperfect they are. POP3 - Post Office Protocol version 3, permits workstations to dynamically access a maildrop on a server host (TCP/IP). POP4 - Post Office Protocol version 4, permits workstations to dynamically access a maildrop on a server host (TCP/IP). port multiples - devices that allow you to increase the number of disks on a single SATA channel from one up to fifteen. See also port zoning - port zoning be accomplished through software that zones by ports, as opposed to destination and source addresses, or by hardware. POS - Point Of Sales (retail, cash register software/hardware) POS - A Point of Service (POS) plan has some of the qualities of HMO and PPO plans with benefit levels varying depending on whether you receive your care in or out of network. POS - Packet Over SONET POSIX - The Portable Operating System Interface. POST - BIOS Power On Self Test Postcode - 8-bit or 16-bit status values written to IO register 80h by BIOS, etc. POTS - Plain Old Telephone System. Colloquial term used to described the traditional analogue telephone system, which is still in wide use by most telephone companies. POV - Point of View ;; Persistance of Vision POV-ray - a ray tracing computer graphics program PowerShell - Microsoft's remote shell program - runs shell commmands on remote hosts Windows PowerShell - Wikipedia Windows PowerShell - Microsoft Scripting with Windows PowerShell PowerShell Tutorial for Beginners - Introduction - PowerShellPro Windows PowerShell Cheat Sheet from DZone Refcardz - Free PP - ISO Presentation Protocol, performs context negotiation and management between open systems. PP - Project Plannig PP - Primary Port FPA - Robotic Process Automation PPC - PowerPC PPCH - Packet Paging Channel (downlink only) PPE - personal protective equipment PPM - Parts Per Million PPP - Point to Point Protocol, designed for simple links which transport packets between two peers. An industry-wide standard protocol that defines how packets are exchanged over the Internet, particularly via a modem. PPP-BPDU - PPP Bridge Protocol Data Unit, used to connect remote bridges. pppext - Point-to-Point Protocol Extensions PPPoE - Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet) is a protocol used by many ADSL Internet Service Providers. rfc2516 (PPPoE). PPTP - Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol, allows PPP to be channeled through an IP network (PPP). A protocol that allows native network services such as NetBEUI and IPX to be used to create a secure and reliable connection over the Internet. PPWR - Process Procedures WI Repository (IBM) PQ - There are three types of protocols that are generally used when performing validation: 1) the Installation Qualification (IQ>) protocol, 2) the Operational Qualification (OQ) protocol, 3) and the Performance Qualification (PQ) protocol. The IQ protocol is used to ensure that the equipment is installed correctly to meet the drug manufacturer's specifications. The OQ protocol provides assurance that the equipment operates in line with the drug manufacturer's specifications. Lastly, the PQ protocol is used to verify that the manufacturing equipment operates properly when used with other cooperating manufacturing equipment. PQ - Performance Qualification. Any new equipment, or equipment that has been relocated or modified will need an IQ, OQ, PQ to validate that piece of equipment. PQ&R - power quality and power reliability PQM - Project Quality Model (PQM), for product life cycle. PRACH - Packet Random Access Channel PRAM - Phase-change Random Access Memory. See also PRD - Product Requirement Document Pre-fetching - Intelligent gathering of data from disks prior to requests from the operating system. presence - Real-time reporting of availability and reachability on mobile UC phones. presentation - allows a device to offer a GUI to control points Physical Random Access Channel PRIM - Presence and Instant Messaging Primary code - A code that uniquely identifies the primary functionality of a device object. Each device object has only one associated primary code. It is assigned from a pool of available virtual codes. Key and screen objects have their own pools of virtual codes. Primary LU - An LU owned by an SP on the array that a production host accesses. It can have 0-1 secondary LUs associated with it. Remote Mirroring. LU that has been designated as a mirror primary copy. production hosts access primary LUs. primary LU may have 0-2 secondary copies associated with it primary object - the object being aliased primitive sequences - ordered sets that indicate or initiate state changes on the transport and require at least three consecutive occurrences to trigger a response. Prior Defect History Testing - Test cases are created or rerun for every defect found in prior tests of the system. [William E. Lewis, 2000] priority tag - a tag adhering to the synax of IEEE 802.1Q, but used solely to indicate frame priority as opposed to a VLAN association. From a VLAN perspective, a priority-tagged frame is considered to be untagged. private - An access specifier indicating that amethod or variable may only be accessd in the class it's declared in. private memory - MIOC controlled memory ranges on the P6 bus that the CDC does not respond to. Probability - Probability refers to the chance of something happening, or the fraction of occurrences over a large number of trials. Probability can range from 0 (no chance) to 1 (full certainty). Probability of Defect - Probability of defect is the statistical chance that a product or process will not meet performance specifications or lie within the defined upper and lower specification limits. It is the ratio of expected defects to the total output. PRO*C - ?? probably related to database software Production Host - Server where customer applications execute. This host accesses mirrored data. Product Life Cycle - The phases a software product goes through (from conception to release). The development process tends to run interactively through these phases rather than linearly. Progressive - All lines of a video picture are displayed at once, instead of displaying some, then displaying the others (inter-laced). Regular TV is interlaced, and refreshes the display of 50% of the lines once, sixty times per minute. project risks - The set of potential project problems or occurrences that may cause the project to fail. project scope - A statement of basic requirements of the software to be built. Project Server - Microsoft Office Project Server is a project management server solution made by Microsoft. It uses Microsoft SharePoint as its foundation. - Preoject Server - Wikipedia PROM Call - OS callback into host firmware Promiscuous mode - A mode of operation of a network interface in which it receives (or attempts to receive) all traffic regardless of the Destination Address promote secondary LU - usually used only upon disaster recovery (can be used to load balance array arrays). request is directed to secondary LU. if primary array reachable, primary LU demoted to secondary. secondary LU becomes the mirror primary LU: if mirror not in sync, then full sync required with any other secondary LUs. if consistent, then full sync is required, so make sure in sync if possible newly promoted LU becomes primary for all other secondary copies primary LU information (properties/state) automatically inherited mirror driver replicates primary LU information on all secondary copies. Progressive deduplication - What is progressive deduplication? see also DEDUPLICATION promiscuous mode - a configuration of a network card that makes the card pass all traffic it receives to the central processing unit rather than just packets addressed to it. more Prosumer - professional–consumer - Prosumer - Wikipedia protected - An access specifier indicating that amethod or variable may only be accessd in the class it's declared in (or a sub-class of the class it's declared in or other classes in the same package). protection testing - Tests relays and other protection mechanisms - nice if IEC 61850-ready protocols - proxy - An interface-specific object that packages parameters for methods in preparation for a remote method call. A proxy runs in the address space of the sender and communicates with a corresponding stub in the receiver's address space. Proxy Server - In an enterprise that uses the Internet, a proxy server is a server that acts as an intermediary between a workstation user and the Internet so that the enterprise can ensure security, administrative control, and caching service. A proxy server is associated with or part of a gateway server that separates the enterprise network from the outside network and a firewall server that protects the enterprise network from outside intrusion. PS3 - (Sony) PlayStation 3 (gaming console). Click HERE for more PS3 information Click HERE for PS3 vs XBOX 360 Information PS - Packet Switched; PreSales; Packet Storage - wms; Process Synchronization PSA - Product Ship Authorization PSA - Power Supply 'A' PSB - Power Supply 'B' PSC - Primary Site Controller. A server that is at the root of Microsoft Message Queue Server site. It stores a copy of the part of an MSMQ Information Store database that applies to the site. PSCH - Physical Shared Channel PSE - Product Support Engineer PSG - Personal Systems Group (Formerly PCCo)(IBM) PSIP - program and system information protocol. Within their signal, digital stations send channel remapping info via something called "PSIP". If I'm tuning to ch 45 to watch HDTV, why does the display say 7.1 PSK - Phase-shift keying (PSK) is a digital modulation scheme that conveys data by changing, or modulating, the phase of a reference signal (the carrier wave) - Wikipedia PSL - Process Specification Language (Manufacturing processes). PSL PSM - Persistent Storage Manager - Talk to Mike P. Wagner; Processor State Manager PSM - Platform Support Modules (Novell) - a hardware abstraction layer interface that NetWare 6 uses to support different hardware dependencies. PSP - CEG Linux Platform Support Package (PSP) PSR - Peripheral Status Review PSRB - Product Safety Review Board PSSP - ??? (IBM) PST - Personal Storage Table File format In computing, a Personal Storage Table is an open proprietary file format used to store copies of messages, calendar events, and other items within Microsoft software such as Microsoft Exchange Client, Windows Messaging, and Microsoft Outlook. - Wikipedia PSTN - Public Switched Telephone Network. The public system provided by telephone companies for residential and business telephone and fax services. Consists of exchanges and subexchanges, with calls switched between them as required. PStore - Public Switched Telephone Network. The public system provided by telephone companies for residential and business telephone and fax services. Consists of exchanges and subexchanges, with calls switched between them as required. PSVI - post-schema-validation infoset PT - Product Tracking system (part of Stonehenge that include strs system) P-TAX - The Property Tax Mailing list (PTAX) is devoted to the exchange of information among property tax assessors and collectors in North Carolina. PTAX Listserv - School of Government - UNC PTE - Page Table Entry PTF - PTF Definition Tool (PDT) - A set of data bases and associated process that keep track of completed APARs, PTFs, and service history for a product. pthread - in DG/UX, each pthread has a dedicated kernel LWP/VP (one-to-one mapping) PTM - Point-to-Multipoint PTO - Paid Time Off PTR - Problem Tracking Report PTT - Push To Talk; Push To Test pty - pseudo tty (Unix special file) PU 2.0 - SNA node protocol PU 2.1 - improved SNA node protocol PUA - Presence User Agent PUP - Probably/Possibly Unwanted Programs (unasked-for software was installed on your system) Often considered non-maligant malware. Usually installed when you install something your want. You can sometimes opt out of installing these, if you do the Custom install (NOT the default install). I DELETE THEM (via free Malwarebytes) OR DIS-ALLOW THEM TO INSTALL Selecting all PUPs - Malwarebytes In Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, PUP detection will show up unchecked on the results list by default. The user would have to manually check them for removal to ensure that they do indeed want these removed. But if you ever find yourself staring at a giant list of PUPs to check mark and remove, to do so quickly, you can highlight one of the detection by left clicking on it. Then, right-click on the highlighted detection, and click Check all items. Next, select Remove Selected. Additionally, you can change the default to automatically check mark all PUPs to ready for removal by following the directions below. What are the 'PUP' detections, are they threats and should they be deleted?More information about PUPs PureCoverage - Rational (IBM). A code coverage tool for making sure your code is thoroughly tested before you release it. Purify - Rational's (IBM's). An automatic error detection tool for finding runtime errors and memory leaks in every component of your program. Purify Plus - Rational combines: Purify, PureCoverage and Quantify in one package. Pushed bitmap file - An optional file containing an image of a device skin with all buttons pushed. The Emulator uses this image to animate button push action. If it is not present, the Emulator emulates button push action by inverting the color. A third party, such as a carrier or applications developer, creates this file. PV - Product Verification PVC - Permanent Virtual Circuit - used in Voice over ATM using AAL2 and MGCP Signaling. more information about PVC PVCS - Polytron Version Control System (source code archive) PVlinks - uses persistent Links PVP-OPM - Protected Video Path Output Protection Management. Click here for more info PVR - Policy Variation Request; Personal Video Recorder (al la TiVo) Click here for more TiVo info PVT - Product Verification Testing; Performance Verification Test PVP-OPM - Protected Video Path Output Protection Management. Click here for more info PW - Pseudo wire (VPN) PWD - Packaging & Waste Directive (Europen non-Medical device). Anything with excessive plastic nonrecyclable packaging. PXB - PCI Expander Bridge. ASIC on the IO Board that controls transfers between PCI busses and the MIOC via the F-16 Bus. There are 2 on each IO board. PXE - pre-execution environment, includes: Bootservice, MTFTP & proxyDHCP Python - A script language. Click here for more info Q1 - 25th percentile (from box plot) Ford Definition of "Quality is Job 1" 1st quarter of the fiscal or calendar year. Q3 - 75th percentile (from box plot) 3rd quarter of the fiscal or calendar year. Q.931 - Q.931 is ISDN's connection control protocol, roughly comparable to TCP in the Internet protocol stack. QA - A.K.A. Quality Assurance. Also known as Software Test. This is the group that performs methodical testing of the products developed by engineering. They make no statement of the quality of the product and no guaranty of finding all the bugs in a product. Their job is to take an independent approach to evaluating the product and open bugs against anything they think is broken or not performing as a reasonable end user might expect. See also All planned actions needed to provide reasonable confidence that the product is of sufficient quality to pass Customer expectations. QAE - Quality Assurance Engineer QALC - quality assurance life cycle. QAM - Quadrature Amplitude Modulation. More QAM info QC - Quality Control ;; HP's Quality Center (software) QCA - Quality Cost Analysis QCP - PureVoice files supported by the Emulator and BREW applications. For more information, see the BREW SDK Utilities Guide. QCT - Quality Control Technology QCT (software) is the most popular CMM retrofit available. QE - Quality Engineer QFD - Quality Function Deployment QFS - Solaris Quick File System QIP - QIP - QIP is BIND with a twist QIS - Qualcomm Internet Services QM - Quality Management QLLC - Qualified Logical Link Control protocol, transfers IBM SNA data over an X.25 network. QM - Queue Manager QMS - Quality Management System (ibm) QoS - Quality of Service. See also QPR - Quality Problem Report QPSK - Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (modulation). (3G) QS - Quality Systems QS-9000 - QS-9000 is a quality system standard that focuses on helping automotive suppliers ensure that they are meeting/exceeding automotive customer requirements. As mentioned before, it uses ISO 9000 as a core (document control, corrective action, auditing, etc.), but adds quite a few additional requirements. QS-9000 is now being replaced by a newer related standard called ISO/TS 16949. TS 16949 contains all of ISO 9000, QS-9000, and many European standards. TS is much more process-oriented than QS or ISO. It defines the business as a set of processes with inputs and outputs that need to be defined, controlled, improved/optimized, etc. In my view TS looks like someone who knew QS took Six Sigma/BB training and incorporated many of the SS/BB ideas. QSR - Quality Status Report QT4 - Qt is a cross-platform application and UI framework. Qt 4.0: What's New in Qt 4 Qt (toolkit) - Wikipedia QT Extended - an application platform for Embedded Linux-based mobile computing devices (Wikipedia Links Qtopia - Qt Extended, formerly known as Qtopia QTP - HP's Quick Test Pro. See also QTP Qtrees - A qtree can be an entire volume or a subset of a volume. It is similar to a partition in that you cannot move files into or out of a qtree. There are, however, two differences between a qtree and a partition: A qtree is more flexible than a partition because you can change the size of a qtree at any time. A qtree enables you to apply attributes such as oplocks and security style to a subset of files and directories rather than to an entire volume. Quad Block System - Two frames with 4 blocks running coherently, connected by 2 SCIFI-4's. Quality Assurance - A planned and systematic set of activities to ensure that variances in processes are clearly identified, assessed and improving defined processes for fullfilling the requirements of customers and product or service makers. A planned and systematic pattern of all actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that the product optimally fulfils customer's expectations. A planned and systematic set of activities to ensure that requirements are clearly established and the defined process complies to these requirements. "Work done to ensure that Quality is built into work products, rather than Defects." This is by (a) identifying what "quality" means in context; (b) specifying methods by which its presence can be ensured; and (c) specifying ways in which it can be measured to ensure conformance. DAVE's QA Menu ** Quality Attribute - A property of a work product or goods by which its *Quality* will be judged by some *Stakeholder* or stakeholders. (Also "Quality Factor" or [Gilb] "Quality".) Quality attributes are and should be quantifiable in specifications by the definition of some appropriate and practical scale of measure. Quality Audit - A systematic and independent examination to determine whether quality activities and related results comply with planned the Quality System and all Quality documents are filled out or followed. Quality Control - Also called statistical quality control. The managerial process during which actual process performance is evaluated and actions are taken on unusual performance. It is a process to ensure whether a product meets predefined standards and requisite action taken if the standards are not met. Quality Control measures both products and processes for conformance to quality requirements (including both the specific requirements prescribed by the product specification, and the more general requirements prescribed by Quality Assurance); identifies acceptable limits for significant Quality Attributes; identifies whether products and processes fall within those limits (conform to requirements) or fall outside them (exhibit defects); and reports accordingly. Correction of product failures generally lies outside the ambit of Quality Control; correction of process failures may or may not be included. Quality Gap - It is the difference between the approved standards, criteria or expectations in any process or activity and the real results in such process or activity in accordance with the adopted national and or international standards by any country. Quality Management - operational techniques and the activities used to fulfill and verify requirements of quality Quality Policy - Top Management's intention and direction for achieving a quality product. Quality System - The organizational structure, responsibilities, procedures, processes, and resources for implementing QA. QTP - Quick Test Professional (now owned by HP). HP QuickTest Pro (QTP) Quality Target - Each operation in the manufacturing process, which has an effect on the conformance of the end product to the customer's specifications, is assigned a Quality Target value. This value represents the maximum allowable discrepancies per 1,000 opportunities. (See also Opportunity) QUANT - H.261 Quantizer field. (5 bits) Shows the Quantizer value (MQUANT or GQUANT) in effect prior to the start of this packet. Set to 0 if the packet begins with a GOB header. Quantify - Rational (IBM). A performance analysis tool for pinpointing performance bottlenecks so your program can run faster. QuickPath - high speed processor-to-processor interface (12.8 GB/s unidirectional) - in Intel's new Xeon Processors 5500 Series (Nehalem). QVGA - A display with 320 x 240 pixel resolution. QVT - Quality Verification Testing QVT - Query/View/Transformation standard for transforming input modules to ouput modules qstar - qstart optical manager for optical disks R - R (open-source, free) programming language (for statisticians, data analysts and research scientists). More R information r... - raw (e.g. rfd0=raw floppy disk 0) (Unix special file) R-UIM - Removable User Identity Module - the optional SIM card for a cdma2000 3G device. The R-UIM is quite different from the USIM. R2T - ready to transfer R2TSN - ready to transfer sequence number RA - Registration Authority (PKI) RA - Regulatory Affairs ;;;; Routing Area RA - Repair Actions RAB - Raid Advistory Board (http://www.raid-advisory.com/index.html) RAB - Radio Access Bearer RAC - Real Application Clusters (RAC) | RAC Support | Database | Oracle Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g | Oracle RAC Introduction to Oracle Real Application Clusters Click here for more information about RAC> RACF - IBM resource access control facility for z/VM RACH - Random Access Channel Rack - NEMA standard cage for Audubon and other chassis RAD - Rapid Application Development (Agile, Extreme Programming) radius - Radius is a protocol which manages dispersed serial line and modem pools for large numbers of users. (Compliant with IETF RFC2138 and RFC2139.) radm - release administration radm area - the storage for a release, including the environments used to build it and the image contributions that are integrated to make the product radm environment- the compilers, headers, libraries, and software development environment needed to build pieces of a given DG/UX product RADSL - Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line RAI - Routing Area Identity RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks RAINS - Regional Alliances for Infrastructure and Network Security - pushing a Security spec RAM - Random access memory Ramp Testing - Continuously raising an input signal until the system breaks. This can include increasing the load (could be the number of users, or IO) until breakdown occurs. RAN - Radio Area Network RANAP - Radio Access Network Application Part RAPI - Remote API. Basically it lets a desktop application call any function on a Windows CE device after a short initialization. RAS - Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (Metrics) // Remote Access and Serviceability RAS - Remote Access Services. With ActiveSync 3.0, RAS is no longer required to connect your Windows CE device to your desktop. RAS - RAS manages registration, admission, status (H.225.0) See also: H323 Protocol Remote Access Service. A Windows technology that allows dial-up users to connect to a network (over a phone line or the Internet, for example) and access the resources on the network as though they were a local user. Rational Rose - (Enterprise version) includes Rational QualityArchitect for providing visual component testing capabilities. With integrated unit- and scenario-based testing, Rational QualityArchitect lets you isolate problems earlier and ensure that all components will work together long before system integration. Rational Rose Real-Time - includes Rational QualityArchitect RealTime, an extension to the visual modeling capability of Rational Rose RealTime. It enables Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio RealTime Edition and Rational Rose RealTime users to automatically generate component test code directly from Rose RealTime models. The feature automates the creation of stubs and drivers to use in testing components and classes. RAU - Romote Antenna Unit RB - Rebuild Process (a component of a Raid driver) RBA - Risk Based Approach Risk Based Approach - fatf-gafi.org Risk-based testing - Wikipedia RC - Release Candidate (software that is in Beta stage, but might actually be released) RC - Reduced Cost RCA - Root Cause Analysis RCD - "A residual-current device (RCD), or residual-current circuit breaker (RCCB), is a device that instantly breaks an electric circuit to prevent serious harm from an ongoing electric shock. In the United States and Canada, the device is more commonly known as a ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI), ground fault interrupter (GFI) or an appliance leakage current interrupter (ALCI). In the United Kingdom, these are better known by their initials RCD, and a combined RCD+MCB (miniature circuit breaker) is known as a RCBO (residual-current circuit breaker with overcurrent protection). In Australia, they are sometimes known as safety switches or an RCD. An earth leakage circuit breaker (ELCB) may be a residual-current device, although an older type of voltage-operated earth leakage circuit breaker also exists." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual-current_device RCP - Rich Client Platform, a software development platform helping software developers to rapidly build new Java applications RCS - Revision Control System, UNIX RCT - Root Canal Treatment RCT - Randomized Controlled Trial RDA - Recommended Dietary Allowance RDAC - Redundant Disk Array Controller (contains the Multipath Device driver) rdb - resident debugger - (DG/UX) RDBMS - Relational DataBase Management System. See: relational database RDF - Resource Description Framework. An XML-based specification being developed under the authority of the W3C, which governs the interoperability of applications in terms of metadata property sets. Formerly called the Meta Content Framework. RDist - A utility included in UNIX that is used to maintain identical copies of files over multiple hosts. It preserves the owner, group, mode, and timestamp of files, if possible, and can update programs that are executing. RDMA - remote direct memory access. See also RDMA RDMS - Relational Database Management System RDN - Relative Distinquished Name (NetWare). RDO - Remote Data Objects. A Microsoft remote data access technology with a complex multi-level object model, introduced for use with programming languages like Visual Basic. Now superceded by ADO. RDS - Remote Data Service. A Microsoft technology that provides a persistent and automatic method for caching data from a server-side data source on the client, for use in a Web page or other application. rdsk - raw disk (Unix) - It is therefore more efficient when many bytes are transmitted. Block files names are found in /dev/dsk; raw file names are found in /dev/rdsk. RDT - Reliability Drive Test (IBM) Read-ahead Caching - A performance caching technique in which data is anticipated and read into the cache before it is actually requested. REALITY TEST - As far as I am concerned, a Reality Test = Sanity Test = Sanity Check = Smoke Test = Sniff Test are the same in most cases. REAP - Rational Early Adoption Program recordset - A set of records selected from a data source. Recovery Testing - Testing how well a system recovers from crashes, hardware failures, or other catastrophic problems. Red Hat - A version of Linux. more on Red Hat Linux Red Route - frequent or critical tasks (priority would be High). Red X - Data indicating characteristics which show a change between good and bad. Also known as a critical X Reengineering - Also called Business Process Quality Management or Process Management. The concept of defining macro and micro processes, assigning ownership, and creating responsibilities of the owners. Reengineering is about achieving dramatic, breakthrough improvements often by the application of new technologies. It is the opposite of Kaizen (many gradual improvements) and reflected a return to Western 'Macho' management ideas. The approach was developed by Hammer and Champy. Reference Testing - A way of deriving expected outcomes by manually validating a set of actual outcomes. A less rigorous alternative to predicting expected outcomes in advance of test execution. [Dorothy Graham, 1999] referential integrity - In database management, a set of rules that preserves the defined relationship between tables when records are entered or deleted. For example, enforcing referential integrity would prevent a record from being added to a related table when no associated record in the primary table exists. Reflection - Reflection lets Java code examine information about the methods and constructors of loaded classes as well as make use of those reflected methods and constructors. registered SCN - a switch function that allows notification to registered nodes if a change occurs to other, specified nodes. Regression - The relationship between the mean value of a random variable and the corresponding values of one or more independent variables. Regression Testing - Testing conducted for the purpose of evaluating whether or not a change to the system (all CM items) has introduced a new failure. Regression testing is often accomplished through the construction, execution and analysis of product and system tests. Some good automated test tools are: WinRunner, Quick Test Professional, SilkTest, Rational Robot. Testing that is performed after making a functional improvement or repair to the program. Its purpose is to determine if the change has regressed other aspects of the program [Glenford J.Myers, 1979] register - register will register all paths to a multi-path I/O enabled physical disk, by default. relational database - A method for organizing filkes in a database that prohibits linking files together. In non-relational systems (hierarchical, network), records in one file point to the location of records in another, such as customers to orders and vendors to purchasing. This links are set up ahead of time in order to provide fast daily processing. In a relational database, relationships between files are created by comparing data, such as account numbers and names. A relational system can take any two or more files and generate a new file from records that meet the matching criteria. In practice, a pure relational query can be very slow. In order to speed up the process, indexes are built and maintained on the key fields used for matching. Sometimes, indexes are created "on the fly" when the data is requested. RELATIONAL TERMS CONVENTIONAL TERMS table or relation file tuple record attribute field Release Candidate - A prelease version, that if it passes testing, will be released. Release Candidates are thought to be bug free, but must still be tested. Release Management - Release management is the process of managing software releases from development stage to software release. Release management - Wikipedia Reliability Testing - Verify the probability of failure free operation of a computer program in a specified environment for a specified time. remove secondary LU - admin turns secondary LU into normal LU. LU now can be made accessible to standby host data consistency depends on mirror state when secondary LU removed data on LU may need recovery (mirror data state in sync or consistent) data may be unrecoverable (sync in progress or out of sync) may cause primary LU to be inaccessible if number of secondary LUs below minimum required for primary LU in that event, mirror availability state set to attention repeaters - A device that repeats the input signal, usually to allow the signal to be broadcast to a further distance. Repetition Testing - involves doing the same operation over and over. This could be as simple as starting up and shuting down the program over and over. It could also mean repeately saving and loading data or repeatedly selecting the same operation. You might find a bug after only a couple repetitions or it might take thousans of attempts to reveal a problem. Replication Technology - DataDomain repository - The component for storing software testing project information about test planning, test execution, and defect tracking. resolve - The process of converting a hostname into a network address. A hostname is converted inot an IP number, for example. resource - In a DG/UX cluster, every resource has two classes: a sharing class and a connection class. Resource Editor - A tool that generates the resources for applications. Resource file - A file containing active resource information. The Emulator and Device Configurator interpret this file, in conjunction with image files. BREW Resources - Elements used in applications and/or libraries. In BREW, three types are supported: string, image, and dialog. REST - REpresentational Transfer State RESTful - Conforming to the REST constraints. Representational state transfer (REST) Representational state transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as WWW - Wikipedia RESTful Web Services - SUN 2009 JavaOne Conference: RESTful Web Services Made Easy RESTful Web Services - BOOK - O'Reilly Media Building Web Services the REST Way - Result Measurables - These are indicators which are tied directly to customer expectations. There is usually little direct control over result measurables. Resume PROM - DG standard layout EEPROM with manufacturing data RESV - Reservation (Message) Retina Network Security & Vulnerability Scanner - BeyondTrust's Network Security Scanner REXX - an IBM REstructured eXtended eXecutor - an interpreted programming language - REXX is disappearing fast, but still around. more The Rexx Language Association rez - resolution (video quality). See also RF - Radio Frequency RF4CE - A consortium to promote ZigBee wireless RF controls via 802.15.4. More on RF4CE RFC - Request for Comments, a series of notes about the Internet, started in 1969 (when the Internet was the ARPANET). The notes discuss many aspects of computing and computer communication focusing in networking protocols, procedures, programs, and concepts, but also including meeting notes, opinion, and sometimes humor. The specification documents of the Internet protocol suite, as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and its steering group (the IESG), are published as RFCs. Many of the TCP/IP protocols and PPP protocols are defined by rfc's. RF - Radio Frequency RF - ?? advanced warehousing including RF RFC - Request For Comments. RFC2507/2508 - network domain Header Compression - RFC 2507/2508 Header Compression RFC2516 - A Method for Transmitting PPP Over Ethernet (PPPoE) RFC2705 - Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) Version 1.0 RFC2897 - Proposal for an MGCP Advanced Audio Package RFC3064 - MGCP CAS Packages RFC3149 - MGCP Business Phone Packages RFE - Request For Enhancement RFH - MQ Rules and Formatting Header RFH2 - MQ Rules and Formatting Header 2 RFI - Request For Information RFI - radio Frequency interference (interference on wavelengths that can be picked up by radios, causing interference in radio signals. RFI EMI /RFI FAQ RFID - Radio Frequency Identification (RFID): A method of identifying unique items using radio waves. Typically, a reader communicates with a tag, which holds digital information in a microchip. But there are chipless forms of RFID tags that use material to reflect back a portion of the radio waves beamed at them. Glossary of RFID terms. RFP - Requests For Proposals. Hoe to Write an RFP RFX - Record Field eXchange. The mechanism by which MFC ODBC classes transfer data between the field data members of a recordset object and the corresponding columns of an external data source. RGB Connector - the standard VGA connector for computer monitors. VGA is being phased out as a computer monitor standard. Rhapsody - Rhapsody is a UML 2.0 based Model-Driven Development environment Rhapsody - Brocade Communications Systems Inc. may be getting more than just storage switching technology once it closes the books on its acquisition of Rhapsody Networks Inc. Rhapsody has struck a deal that will bring InterSAN Inc.'s storage area management (SAM) software to Rhapsody's line of storage switches. RHCE - Red Hat Certified Engineer RHCT - Red Hat Certified Technician RHEL - Red Hat Enterprise Linux. more on RHEL RHEV - Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Red Hat's standalone hypervisor (RHEV)goes beta - Jun 16, 2009 RHIT - Registered Health Information (RHIT) RHL - Red Hat Linux RHN - Red Hat Network RIA - (feature) Rich Internet Application. More info RIBS - Remote Interface Board for Servers. Communicate with their host systems and with peer RIBS cards to monitor the host's status. RID - resource identifier; Radio Interference Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks; Record IDentifier (DB2) RIF - Reduction In Force - LAYOFFS - Down-sizing RIF - Router Information Field; used in source route bridging to record a path traversed through the network. ring 0 - Kernel address space ring 3 - user address space (protected address space) RIP - Routing Information Protocol - layer 3/4 networking protocol ? A protocol defined by RFC 1058 that specifies how routers exchange routing table information. With RIP, routers periodically exchange entire tables. Because this is inefficient, RIP is gradually being replaced by a newer protocol called Open Shortest Path First (OSPF). Routing Information Protocol, maintains a database of network hosts and exchange information about the topology of the network (XNS). RIP - Pronounced rip, acronym for raster image processor. RIPv2 - Why ? Because of the installed base of RIP routers Provides VLSM support, authentication, multicasting, "wire-sharing" by multiple routing domains, tags to flag EGP/BGP routes. Format: fig 10.10 Uses reserved fields in RIPv1 header. Subnet mask field allows specifying VLSMs Authentication is done by using the first entry for authentication instead of specifying a destination-metric pair Wire-sharing: many subnets hanging off a single backbone (eg: FDDI Flaws in RIPv2 packet's authentication backbone in RPI) RIP2 - Routing Information Protocol, used by Berkeley 4BSD UNIX systems to exchange routing information. RIP2 derives from the Xerox protocol of the same name (TCP/IP). RIPX - Routing Information Protocol, used to collect, maintain and exchange correct routing information among gateways within the Internet (Novell). RITA - Research And Innovative Administration of ITS. RITA RJ45 - RJ45 is a physical interface often used for terminating twisted pair type cables. RL - Radio Link RLC - Radio Link Control RLCP - Radio Link Control Protocol RLIR - Register Link Incident Report rlogin - A network client program that provides the current terminal user access to another remote host as a terminal session across the Internet and interact as if their terminals are directly connected to the machines (TCP/IP). Xmodem Console Download Procedure Using ROMmon RLP - Radio Link Protocol. RLS - Read Link Status (Advanced, Troubleshooting) RM - Risk Management RM - Requirements management RM - Remote Mirror RM - Record Manager - implements byte granularity locking of portions of a file. RMA - Returned Material Authorization. more RMB - Remote Mirror Basic (Mirror View) RM Cells - Rate Management cells (ATM cells). RMD - Required Minimum Distribution (IRS mandated amount you MUST withdraw from your IRAs (starting at a certain age) ELSE get some BIG PENALTIE$ RMI - (JAVA) Remote Method Invocation. RMI lets Java objects have their methods invoked from Java code running on other Java sessions. RMI-IIOP - A version of RMI implemented to use with the CORBA IIOP protocol. RMI over IIOP provides interoperability with CORBA objects implemented in any language if all the remote interfaces are originally defined as RMI interfaces. RMS - Rack Mount Symmetrix (EMC) RMS - Remote Management Station; Resource Management Service RMTP - A Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol (Bell Labs) rmt - raw magnetic tape (Unix special file) RMW - Read-Modify-Write RNC - Radio Network Controller RND - name of a company which uses a proprietary protocol header(RND) to transfer LAN protocols via WAN. RNS - Radio Network Subsystem RNTI - Radio Network Temporary Identity RO - Read Only ROADM - Reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM). ROADM - Wikipedia roadmap - "A business road map is a planning tool that outlines a company's goals and its strategy for achieving them. It has a less formalized structure than a business plan." - Steps in a Business Road Map - eHow.com Robot - Rational (IBM) automated functional testing, including regression and smoke testing robustness - The property of being tolerant of bad inputs. Robust Test - A test, that compares a small amount of information, so that unexpected side effects are less likely to affect whether the test passed or fails. [Dorothy Graham, 1999] ROC - RAID On a Chip (hardware RAID on one chip) rock ridge - Rock Ridge is the second ISO compact CD format, and works much better for UNIX. - Volume descriptor, corresponds to unix superblock. - Has pointer to the directory entry for the root of the file system. - Some files are interleaved. - Rock Ridge is built on top of ISO-9660, so if your system does not support rock ridge, you can still mount the CD as ISO-9660. - Rock Ridge uses ssytem use fields off the normal data structures. These fields contain the extended attributes that UNIX systems need, such as upper/lower cases file names, permissions and symlinks. - DG/UX attempts to mount the highest level of interchange. ROCOF - rate of failure occurrence ROFL - Rolling On Floor Laughing RoHS - Restriction of Hazardous Substances ROI - Return On Investment role - Transaction Server security context. Roles are used to define the user accounts that can execute a component running under MTS. They simplify security management in DNA-based applications. Rolling Flare Upgrade - when a K10 is upgraded with a new Flare release, the two SPs are shut down and rebooted sequentially, so that they are not both down at the same time. rollup - the process of building, delivering to integration, integrating, sanity testing, and releasing a product through BIRT ROLPC - reverse outer loop power control ROM - Rough Order Magnitude ROMB - Raid On MotherBoard rommon - ROMmon develops easily deployable online network performance metric monitoring system for networking professionals. The system's emphasis are on data aggregation, high availability and high scalability. ROOS - ROOS is a keyword I invented at the request of a paranoid friend, "X". X wanted me to use a keyword on my Emails bearing attachments, to indicate that I, David Woodsmall, sent the virus-free attachment, and not some virus program. Since my wife and I had just returned from a month in Australia, we selected the keyword "ROOS" (short for kangaroos). I try to remember to include ROOS either in the message subject line, or the first line of the text, to indicate that the attachment was really sent by me, and is virus free. Complete COMPUTER SECURITY My COMPUTER SECURITY RECOMMENDATIONS Complete Computer Virus / Hoax / Trojan / Worm I ALWAYS download any new Norton virus-definition file BEFORE I read or send any Email, or visit any web sites. I also use a hardware firewall, free ZoneAlarm and AdAware to prevent getting any infestations. I also turn off my cable modem and computer when either is not in use. Lately, I often include the ROOS keyword with messages that have no attachments. Root Cause - An identified reason for the presence of a defect or problem. The most basic reason, which if eliminated, would prevent recurrence. ROT - Rule Of Thumb ROTS - Rotary Out-Trunk Switches. There may be another definition. rotors - ?? route poisoning - routing updates that explicity indicate that an address or subnet is unreachable. router - A piece of network equipment that routers packets from one network to the correct destination network that may or may not use the same protocol. router Switches / Routers / Hubs RP - Routing Protocol, distributes routing information among DECnet hosts || Role Playing RPC - Remote Procedure Call, TCP/IP protocol for client-server calls. Activates a function on a remote station and retrieves the result (Sun). RPE-LTP - Regular Pulse Excitation wiht Long-term Predictor RPM - Red Hat Package Manager - the "rpm" command works on some other flavors of Linux RPN - reverse Polish Notation RPO - Recovery point objectives RPQ - Request for Price Quotation RPS - read Port Status Block RPL - Read Port List RPTV - Rear Projection TVs RR - Radio Resources; Resource Reservation RRAS - Remote Routing and Access Service. The updated Windows 2000 version of the Routing and Access Service (RAS), which is used to provide remote users with access to a LAN or server. RRC - Radio Resource Control RRM - Radio Resource Management RRP - removed and replaced RRT - Regression/Reliability Test RSA - Public key cryptography method. A standard type of encryption technique designed by Rivest, Shamir and Adleman for securing data passing over a network or between components. RSCN - registered state change notification (Extended Link Service). The Registered State Change Notification (RSCN) is a Fibre Channel service that informs hosts about changes in the fabric. Hosts can receive this information by registering with the fabric controller (through SCR). Click for more info RSCN service requests - registered state change notification (RSCN) service requests are transmitted to all N_Ports or NL_Ports attached to the director or switch when the zoning configuration is changed. RSE - core Remote System Explorer (Eclipse) rsh - Remote SHell. A Unix command that enables a user to remotely log on to a server on the network and pass commands to it. It is similar to the rlogin command, but provides passing of command line arguments to the command interpreter on the server at the same time. Rsh can be used within programs as well as from the keyboard. RSIB - Remote Server Interface Board. Gathers system information, monitors and controls the system hardware. Communicates through a 10base2 LAN connection. Also handles VIO device emulation. RSM - Radio Subsystem Management; remote service Manager RSS - RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way. RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the weblogging community. Many weblogs make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them. RSS - IBM Retail Store Solutions Division RSSI - Received Signal Strength Indicator RSVP - Resource ReSerVation setup Protocol, designed for an integrated services Internet (TCP/IP). A protocol that is used to allocate bandwidth for particular applications over a network. RT - Real Time RTBH - Remotely-Triggered Black Hole RTBH (in computer routing Blackhole Filtering; results in packets being forwarded to a routers bit bucket). RTC - Rational Team Concert - a software development team collaboration too (IBM bought Rational Tools) IBM Rational Team Concert - Wikipedia IBM Rational Team Concert – Features & Benefits Rational Team Concert - IBM RTC-Tools | LinkedIn RTC - Real-Time Computing RTC - like the FTC, the Reverse Traffic Channel is a variable rate channel capable of carrying voice data, control data or both. RTCI - Run Time Class Information (Windows). RTCP - The RTP control protocol (RTCP)(RFC 3550 [was 1889]) is based on the periodic transmission of control packets to all participants in the session, using the same distribution mechanism as the data packets. The underlying protocol must provide multiplexing of the data and control packets, for example using separate port numbers with UDP. Also called: Real-Time Transport Control Protocol RTCP: RTP Control Protocol Overview (RFC 3550) See also H323 Protocol RTDM - Real-Time Data Management (NetWare) RTF - Run To Fail RTFM - Read The F*cking Manual RTM - Requirements Traceability Matrix ;; Released To Manufacturing (start the manufacturing process) RTM - Remote Magnetic Tape (Unix command) RTM - Response-Time Monitor RTO - recovery time objectives RTMP - Routing Table Maintenance Protocol, manages routing information for AppleTalk networks. RTOS - Real Time Operating System RTP - Real-time Transport (RTP) Protocol. See also RTP Control Protocol RTP - Routing Update Protocol, used to distribute network topology (Banyan). RTP - Research Triangle Park, NC - similar to Silicon Valley in California. - a location for High Tech Companies. RTR - Right to Represent. If a headhunter is submitting you for a job, he/she may ask you to sign an RTR form, giving him the right to submit you for the specified jog at a specified rate at a specified company. NEVER Sign anything giving anyone the exclusive right to represent RTS - Return to Service ( RTSP - RFC 2326 - Real-Time Streaming Protocol - IETF RTTI - Run Time Type Information (Windows). Rubric - In education terminology, scoring rubric means "a standard of performance for a defined population". - Rubric (academic) - Wikipedia a name or heading under which something is classified. an explanation or a set of instructions at the beginning of a book, a test, etc. Ruby - A dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write. more on Ruby RUDP - Reliable UDP. RUI - LUA Request Unit Interface runable thread grp - thread group where at least one local thread is not blocked runbook - a compilation of the procedures & operations to start, stop & supervise the system. A runbook should explain all of the steps necessary to normal and abnormal operations. Run Chart - A performance measure of a process over a specified period of time used to identify trends or patterns. RUP - Rational Unified Process - Identify Essentials First Rational Unified Process - RUP version 2002, from Rational Unix RUP - rup - remote status display Agile / Extreme Programming / Development RV - Rotational Velocity. inite element modeling of the rotational motion sensor that uses Coriolis effect RVM - Remote Volume Mirroring (IBM) RVP - Remote Voice Protocol. RVP - Read with Verify Parity - Panasas. Network Parity, (also known as Read with Verify Parity or RVP), is an end-toend data integrity measure designed to detect data damage errors that occur when reading data. RVP can detect errors introduced anywhere in the path between the disk and the client, including errors caused by faulty network components or faulty client device drivers. RVP is enabled through the DirectFLOW --rvp mount option on the client. S3 - Service, Support, and Solutions S3 Client - Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). More S3 information Web definitions for S3 New Amazon S3 Client for Windows – CloudBerry Explorer Amazon S3 tools: s3cmd : command line S3 client - s3tools ORG S3 Browser - Amazon Freeware S3 Client for Windows. User Interface Amazon Web Services Developer Community - Fully functional S3 .NET S3 Client - Get .NET S3 Client at SourceForge.net Amazon S3 UI Client Bucket Explorer s3e - Project Hosting on Google Code S3 video - S3 Graphics. Welcome to S3 Graphics - Create world-class graphics and video cores S3 Graphics Drivers S3 Video Card Help S40 - Symbian series 40 S60 - Symbian series 60 S/MIME - Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension. A version of MIME that allows the contents of the message and attachments to be digitally signed and encrypted, using standard public key ciphers, hash functions and certificates. SA - Security Association (with IPsec) SA (HP's) - Server Automation software. Server Automation Software - HP Official Site SA - Systems Analyst ;; Systems Administrator SA - source address ;; Supermarket Applications ;; Service Agent (with SLP) SaaS - Software as a Service. SaaS - Wikipedia SA-CMM - Software Acquisition Capability Maturity Model SAA - IBM’s System Application Architecture SAAJ - SOAP with Attachments API for Java SAAL-NNI - Signaling ATM Adaption Layer - Network Node Interface SaaS - Software as a Service SAC - System And Commands - a wrapper for the RCS source code control system SAC archives - the source archives for the SAC BE sacadm - SAC BE administrator = Email: sacadm@dg-rtp.dg.com 7/12/00 SACC - Seasonally Adjusted Cooling Capacity, or SACC, a Department of Energy calculation that represents the weighted average performance of a portable air conditioner in a number of test conditions. The SACC metric measures not only cooling capacity but also how the unit performs on muggy days or hot and dry days, and even accounts for the effect of heat radiating back into the room from the unit’s vent. SACC is expected to replace the less comprehensive Btu rating as the standard measurement for AC power output, but most air conditioners are still described in terms of Btu, so we considered both stats. We also factored in the energy-efficiency ratio (EER), measured in Btu per watt, and dismissed anything less than a 9.0 out of possible 12.0. This rating isn’t as comprehensive as SACC, so we didn’t concern ourselves too much about the specific numbers as long as an AC reached our minimum efficiency threshold. - WIRECUTTER https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/the-best-portable-air-conditioner/ SACCH - Slow Associated Control Channel SACD - Super Audio CD is a high-rsolution audio format developed by Phillips and Sony. SACD is capable of a frequency response to 100 kHz and has a dynamic range of 120 dB. Documentation is in the scarlet book. SACD seems to be disappearing. SAM - Security Accounts Manager. The registry-style database in Windows NT that stores all the security details for all users. Unlike the registry, even an Administrator cannot view the contents directly. HP/UX Sysadmin GUI; Society of the Advancement of Management. SAM - Senior Account Manager (sales) SAM - SCSI Architectural Model SAM2 - SCSI Architectural Model 2 SAMATE - Software Assurance Metrics and Tool Evaluation (at NIST) (Assessment, auditing and Acceptance) SAMBA - SAMBA is an implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, which is the heart of Windows Networking. Any computer capable of exchanging SMBs with other computers can participate in a Windows network. SAMBA security issues SAML - Security Assertion Markup Language Security Assertion Markup Language - Wikipedia SAML 2.0 - Wikipedia SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) Service for Google Apps - Google Apps SAML Tutorial - SAML 2.0 - Ping Identity SAN - Storage Area Network; a network linking servers or workstations to disk arrays, tape backup susbsystems, and other devices, typically over gigabit transports such as Fibre Channel or Gigabit Ethernet. BLOCK ORIENTED. see also: SAN in Complete SAN / NAS / SATA / CIM / Computer Storage Sanity Testing - typically an initial testing effort to determine if a new software version is performing well enough to accept it for a major testing effort. For example, if the new software is often crashing systems, bogging down systems to a crawl, or destroying databases, the software may not be in a 'sane' enough condition to warrant further testing in its current state. Often used by QA groups - if the software does not pass the sanity test, QA will not accept it. Same as a Sniff Test Sanity Testing is a cursory testing,it is performed whenever a cursory testing is sufficient to prove the application is functioning according to specifications. Sanity Testing is usually a sub-set of Regression Testing. SANlets - small SAN configurations SANLUN - shows what LUNs are exported (NetApp) SANtinel - part of NetApps Resource Manager Suite SANtricity - NetApp's SAN Storage Management Software. See also: SANtricity SAP - SAP is the world's largest business software company SAP Business Solutions - SAP.com SAP AG - Wikipedia SAP - Session Announcement Protocol; Service Access Point; System Area Pointer SAP - Novell's Service Advertising Protocol, provides information about what servers are available on the network. SAP console - some kind of system administrator console port on NUMA? systems SAPI - Speech Application Programming Interface. Speech Application Programming Interface or SAPI SAPI - Service Access Point Identifier. SAR - System Activity Report/Reporter SAR - Sementation and Reassembly (sublayer) - ATM SAS - Serial Attached SCSI. See also See also SFF 84xx connectors SAS - Secure Authentication Services SAS - SAS Business Analytics software - Cary, N.C. SATA - Serial ATA. See also. Also called: S-ATA See also: ATA SAX - Simple API for XML. An event-driven, serial-access mechanism for accessing XML documents. SBA - SCSI Bus Adapter SBAR - Serial crossbar (Mc) SBB / SBB2 - Storage Bridge Bay click here for more SBB information SBBS - Scalable Building Blocks SBC - Single Board Computer SBIT - H261 Start bit. (3 bits) Number of most significant bits that are to be ignored in the first data octet. SBLIM - Standards Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability. SBM - Supply Base Management SBMT - Supply Base Management Technical SBOD - Switched Bunch of Disks SBus - SBus was originally developed by Sun Microsystems. To encourage its widespread adoption Sun used a "feeless" licensing strategy and put the specification in the public domain. It was later adopted as IEEE standard P1496. SC - the Sync Channel provides the mobile telephone with critical time synchronization data. The message on the SC contains information necessary for the mobile tgelephone to align its timing with the system's timing. The SC also contains information about the network air interface revision, system data, and paging channel data rate. (3G) SC - Service Center (or message center) for SMS. This is the store-and-forward machine which keeps the message until it can be delivered. SC - Snap Copy SC - Subscriber connectors. SC - Storage Centric [EMC] SCA - stream control agent (for VOD). SCADA - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (Systems) Scalability Testing - Performance testing focused on ensuring the application under test gracefully handles increases in work load (can scale up). scalding - Scalding is a burning from heated fluids such as boiling water, steam, or home hot water heating systems. Children are the most likely to be scalding by hot water. Scalding can cause dangerous or even fatal burns. Hot Water FAQ scale out - signifies that an array can easily connect to additional units to add capacity. Most systems can either scale out or scale up fairly well, but not both. scalers - electronic circuit usually capable of converting video picture (vertical) resolution (up or down). Many video devices are often capable of de-interlacing or inter-lacing, and coverting the display ratio (picture dimensions). scale up - means that a single array can add capacity without adding more hardware. SCAM - SCSI Configured AutoMatically. See also SCAP - Security Content Automation Protocol (DoD) SCC - SCI Coherency Controller. ASIC that contains the MIU and BIU. SCCH - Synchronization Control Channel SCCM - Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager. "System Center Configuration Manager (CM12 or CM07 or ConfigMgr or Configuration Manager), formerly Systems Management Server (SMS), is a systems management software product by Microsoft for managing large groups of Windows-based computer systems. Configuration Manager provides remote control, patch management, software distribution, operating system deployment, network access protection, and hardware and software inventory." - Wikipedia SCCP - Signalling Connection Control Part, offers enhancements to MTP level 3 to provide connectionless and connection-oriented network services, as well as to address translation capabilities (SS7). Source Code Control Program SCCPCH - Secondary Common Control Physical Channel SCF - Stream Controll Factory - creates a stream control agent for each client's request for each video/audio file's play back or recording. SCH - Synchronization Channel SChannel - Secure Channel. A security service provider module that sits on top of the Microsoft CryptoAPI, and implements the public key encryption between a client and the server. SCI - Scalable Coherent Interface, coaxial interconnect specification. Provides: 1) A globally viewable cache coherent memory 2) A physical medium for initiating cross-node programmed I/O operations 3) A medium for passing cross-node interrupts. SCI - Sensitive Compartmented Information. some classified information is so sensitive that even Top Secret is not good enough. SCI - synchonized capsule indicator. (3G). SCI - System Call Icing - orchestrates operations of systems calls. SCI Ring - Copper cable providing a uni-directional high speed bus connection using the IEEE Scaleable Coherent bus protocol. SCIFI - SCI Fabric Interconnect board - Connects blocks into A larger VCS (virtual computer system). SCIFI-0 - SCI Fabric Interconnect Zero Board - Connects 2 blocks in A frame into an 8 processor system max without SCI cables. SCIFI-4 - SCI Fabric Interconnect Four Board - Connects 3-16 Block together on SCI rings as a VCS. SCIP - Simple Conference Invitation Protocol SCI switch - SCI router/Hub device which allows SCI rings to be Interconnected in a hierarchical topology for higher Reliability and throughput. SCM - Software Configuration Management ;; Supply Chain Managment More on SCM SCM - System Control Manager (PROM based) SCO - asynchronous amd synchronous (links) - SCO (Santa Cruz Operations) Xenix (UNIX) - so old and outdated, I'd advise not working for a company that is asking for SCO experience (MY PERSONAL OPINION). "SCO OpenServer has primarily been sold into the Small and Medium Business market (SMB). Prominent SCO OpenServer customers include McDonalds, Taco Bell, Big O Tires, Pizza Hut, Costco pharmacy, NASDAQ, The Toronto Stock Exchange, Banco do Brasil, many banks in Russia and China, and the railway system of India" - around 2010 - Wikipedia The SCO Group went bankrupt in 2011, after a long series of legal battles. scope - a group of TCP/IP addresses that want the DHCP server to assign to the controllers. SCP - Signal/Service Control Point Switching Control Point Session Control Protocol, manages logical links for DECnet connections. SCP - Secure Copy Protocol SCPD - Service Control Point SCR - Software Change Request Screen object attributes - Attributes pertaining to a screen object, such as pixels per row, pixels per column, and physical width and height. Screened Subnet - Microsoft's name for a DMZ Scrubbing - The background process of reading, checking the error correction bits, and writing corrected data back to the source. SCRUM - Scrum is an incremental process of software development. more SCRUM S-CSCF - Serving-Call/Session Control Function SCSI - Small Computer Systems Interface SCSI-FCP - The term used to refer to ANSI Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI document (X3.269-199x) that describes the FC-F protocol mappings and the definition of how the SCSI protocol and command set are transported using a Fibre Channel interface. SCSI Initiator - A device that begins a SCSI transaction by issuing a command to another device (the SCSI target), giving it a task to perform. Typically, a SCSI host adapter is the initiator, but targets may also become initiators. SCT - Slowly Changing Dimension (Database Table). SCTP - Stream Control Transmission Protocol. SCU - Single Controller Unit SD - Standard Definition (DVD) - 480i. sd - SCSI Disk and ATAPI/SCSI CD-ROM device driver - see Unix "man sd" SD-WAN - Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) is an approach to designing and deploying an enterprise wide area network (WAN) that uses software-defined networking (SDN) to determine the most effective way to route traffic to remote locations. SDB - Switched Digital Broadcast. a method to increase effective bandwith for delivering digital signals. Click here for more information about SDB SDCCH - Stand-alone Dedicated Control Channel SDCE - Software Development Capability Evaluation SDCP - Synchronous Data Link Control protocol, developed by IBM to be used as the layer 2 of the SNA hierarchical network. SDD - System Design Document. ;; Subsystem Device Driver SDE - (BMC's Service Desk Express suite - being discontinuted in 2017 (BMC) Service Desk Express Suite SDE - Software Development Environment - used in DG/UX to determine the executables & libraries needed. similar to "make". Also used at Ericsson (not in DG/UX). SDE - Software Development Engineer SDET - SDET stands for Software Development Engineer in Test (or Software Design Engineer in Test). I believe this title was originated at Microsoft (but have not researched this). It is also used at Amazon.com and Google. The SDET role can be compared with that of the SDE (Software Development Engineer) role. What is an SDET? - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/seliot/2010/04/18/what-is-an-sdet/ "SDET is a benchmark used in the systems software research community for measuring the throughput of a multi-user computer operating system. Its name stands for SPEC Software Development Environment Throughput (SDET), and is packaged along with Kenbus in the SPEC SDM91 benchmark." - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDET SDF - Standard Data Format SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy - SONET and SDH are a set of related standards for synchronous data transmission over fiber optic networks. Synchronous Digital Hierarchy IEC: On-Line Education: WPF: Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) What is SDH TechFest - SONET/SDH Technical Summary Cisco ONS 15454 SDH Multiservice Provisioning Platform (MSPP ... SDH - ?? OC/SDH SDH - SPATIAL DATA HANDLING SDI - Single Document Interface. A UI architecture that allows a user to work just one document at a time. SDK - Software Developer's Kit. A set of documentation, samples and tools that provide programmers with the information required to work with a technology - for example the IE4 SDK for Internet Explorer 4. SDL - Security Development Lifecycle (Microsoft). OPINION: Pigs Fly! Microsoft Leads in Security Black Hat: Microsoft Enhances SDL Offerings - 2/4/2010 SDL - Specification and Definition Language SDLC - (2) Acronym for System Development Life Cycle SDLC is the process of developing information systems through investigation, analysis, design, implementation and maintenance. SDLC is also known as information systems development or application development. SDLC is a systems approach to problem solving and is made up of several phases, each comprised of multiple steps: * The software concept - identifies and defines a need for the new system * A requirements analysis - analyzes the information needs of the end users * The architectural design - creates a blueprint for the design with the necessary specifications for the hardware, software, people and data resources * Coding and debugging - creates and programs the final system System testing - evaluates the system's actual functionality in relation to expected or intended functionality. (1) Acronym for synchronous data link control, a protocol used in IBM's SNA networks. SDLC is similar to HDLC, an ISO standard. SDLC - Software Development Life Cycle - Woodsmall Software development process - Wikipedia SDM - Security Device Manager (Cisco?) SDN - Software Defined Networking. Software Defined Networking (SDN) - Wikipedia Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Definition - opennetworking.org What's Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? - SDNCentral Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Overview - Brocade Software-Defined Networking: Why We Like It and ... - PDF - Cisco 7 Essentials Of Software-Defined Networking - NetworkComputing SDP - Session Description Protocol - RFC 2327 - IETF SDPng - SDP next generation SDR - Software Defined Radio SDS - System Design Specifications SDSL - The S in SDSL stands for Single line DSL. SDSL needs just one twisted pair (line), whereas some other earlier DSL standards needed two, or even three pairs. In addition, it is useful to remember that this standard is symmetric, ie, the maximum data rate both upstream and downstream is the same. Compare this to ADSL (which also needs just one line). SDT - Software development toolkit SDTV - Standard definition television (SDTV) is a digital television (DTV) format that provides a picture quality similar to digital versatile disk DVD) but lower in quality. SDU - Systems Development Unit / Service Data Unit SDV - Switched Digital Video. a method to increase effective bandwith for delivering digital signals. Click here for more information about SDV SDV - System Design Verification (IBM)(similar to DVT [EMC]) ;; Switched Digital Video SE - Software Engineer; Systems Engineer SE-CMM - Systems Engineering Capability Maturity Model SECAM - Systems Engineering Capability Assessment Model SECM - Systems Engineering Capability Model Secondary LU - An LU owned by an SP on the array that mirrors data from a primary LU. A secondary LU must be the same size as its corresponding primary LU but can be any supported RAID type. Secondary LUs are inaccessible to hosts. Remote Mirroring. LU that has been designated as a mirror secondary copy. data contained in primary LU is replicated on each secondary LU. secondary LUs are inaccessible to hosts (not exported) secondary LU must be exact size of corresponding primary LU. secondary LU can be any RAID type as long as size matches. Secondary SP - A peer SP to the controlling SP for primary LU or secondary LU. Remote Mirroring uses this SP if the controlling SP is unreachable or unavailable. secure connections - Please see: Secure Connections SED - Self-encrypting drives (SEDs) segment - a single cable run. a portion of computer memory. segment, TCP - A TCP message segmented E_Port - E_Port that has ceased to function as an E_Port within a multiswitch fabric due to an incompatibility between the fabrics that it joins. See also expansion port. SEI - SEI is a federal research center whose mission is to advance the state of the practice of software SEI-CMM - Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Mode SEL - System Event Log; System error light. sender - can be a person, an organization, and a division. It is the entity that ultimately owns the content. (WMS) sense code - Usually means "SCSI Sense Code". Click here for more Information SEO - (Internet) Search Engine Optimization SEP - Signaling End Point (telephony). STP vs SEP SEP - System Enablement Pack (IBM) Sequence Diagram - in UML, this digram shows actors across the top, owning columns of space, and interactions as arrows between columns, with time flowing down the page. It is useful when showing one scenario graphically. SER - Serialization packet, ensures that a single version of NetWare is not being loaded on multiple servers. SerDes - serialing/deserializing circuit; a circuit that converts a serial bit stream into parallel data characters, and parallel into serial. More about SerDes serialization - Or object persistence. In MFC, the process of writing or reading an object to or from a persistent storage medium, such as a disk file. The basic idea of serialization is that an object should be able to write its current state, usually indicated by the value of its member variables, to persistent storage. Later, the object can be re-created by reading, or deserializing, the object's state from storage SERP - A search engine results page server - receives requests from client in client-server relatiionship. A computer or device on a network that manages network resources. For example, a file server is a computer and storage device dedicated to storing files. server platforms - various Operating Systems and related hardware. For example a Windows 2008 computer system, and an IBM system Z computer system. service action allowed - device is ready to be removed (IO has been stopped) service request - a request to TSG servlet - Java server-based executable. An executable program written in Java that runs on a Web server in response to a request. Can be a simple replacement for a Perl script, or as complex as a business object or other component. SES - SCSI-3 Enclosure Services. SCSI Enclosure Services. SET - Secure Electronic Transaction. A protocol for implementing secure electronic transactions over the Internet. Particulary aimed at financial institutions for handling credit card and related information. setuid - This is the Unix feature where the execution of an executable can be performed under a different userID than the account the user is logged on as. setup script - SF - Spreading Factor; Stealing Flag SFDC - SFDC = SalesForce dot com = www.SalesForce.com = CRM company SFDC stands for Salesforce.com. This definition appears very rarely. Salesforce.com is an on-demand CRM tool. Today, hosted CRM — also known as online CRM or web-based CRM — is offered as a subscription. You pay to use this software as a service (SaaS) and access your CRM applications online, making it cost effective, easy to use, and quick to deploy. what is sfdc? - Question - Customer Community - Salesforce.com Salesforce.com - Wikipedia Community - SFDC automation testing Salesforce and soapUI – Testing WebServices directly ... How to study for the Salesforce.com Certified Admin Exam Learn more about the Administrator exam SFF - Small Form Factor. Also 2 1/2 inch disk drives. Click for more information SFE - SCSI Front End (some component typically found in Flare 10, but NOT in the K10 driver, as K10 uses FC) SFF 8482 - SAS form factor physical connector compatible with SATA SFF 8484 - SAS hi-density internal connector for connecting up to 4 devices SFF 8470 - SAS hi-density external physical connector (Infiniband type) for connecting up to 4 devices SFHA - (Symantec) Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions (SFM, VIAS, VOS) SFM = Storage Foundation Manager VIAS = Veritas Installation Assessment Service VOS = Veritas Operations Services SFM - Storage Foundation Manager (Veritas) SFM - Streams File Manager - the SFM also has MCRINs available for setting record locks. SFN - System Frame Number SFP - Small form factor pluggable (SFP) optical transceiver. Click for more information SFTP - Secure File Transfer Protocol. Click here for more SFTP protocols: See also: SSH See also: FTP over SSH (NOT SFTP) SG - Scatter Gather list. Phsically this is an array of BM_SG_ELEMENT (count, address) structures lists are always terminated with a NULL in the count filed of the last BM_SG_ELEMENT. SG - Signalling Gateway SGA - Automatic Shared Memory (Oracle).Oracle also makes extensive use of shared memory. A generic 2.4.x kernel would only allow up to 1.8GB of SGA. But enhancements to the Advanced Server release of the Linux kernel would allow larger SGA sizes. A large SGA and a big database instance would produce a lot of page table entries in the kernel that would severely limit the number of users supported and may lead to extremely slow performance and even crash. There has been considerable work done to overcome those limitations and show a graceful degradation under heavy stress. SGCP - Simple Gateway Control Protocol SGL - Scatter Gather List SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language. A root language for the formal defininition of other markup languages, and not directly used for programming. Designed to provide portability and flexibility between markup languages based on it. SGSN - Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) The SGSN can be viewed as a "packet-switched MSC;" it delivers packets to mobile stations (MSs) within its service area. SGSNs send queries to home location registers (HLRs) to obtain profile data of GPRS subscribers. SGSNs detect new GPRS MSs in a given service area, process registration of new mobile subscribers, and keep a record of their location inside a given area. Therefore, the SGSN performs mobility management functions such as mobile subscriber attach/detach and location management. The SGSN is connected to the base-station subsystem via a Frame Relay connection to the PCU in the BSC. "GGSNs and SGSNs (collectively known as GSNs) listen for GTP-C messages on UDP port 2123 and for GTP-U messages on port 2152. This communication is direct within a single network, or in the case of international roaming, via a GPRS roaming exchange (GRX).- Wikipedia SHA - Secure Hash Algorithm. A software algorithm that creates a digest for a message or other streams of data. SHA can generate keys of to 160 bits. The digest is unique, and the original data cannot be recreated from it. SHA1 - Secure Hashed Algorithm version 1. Click here for more info SHA2 - Secure Hashed Algorithm version 2 SHA-224/256/512 ShareFile - By CrunchBase, in RTP NC. Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, ShareFile allows businesses to create a custom-branded, password-protected area where files can be exchanged with clients easily, securely, and professionally. Citrix Acquired ShareFile, October 13, 2011. SH LIB Data - File object type - FFF, then Anonymous - Private SH LIB Text - file object type - get from File - Shared shell - A UNIX shell is an interface between the user and the operating system. Also applies to Windows. SHM - SHared Memory - file object type - Anonymous and Private storage shoe-shining - "shoe-shining" occurs during read/write if the data transfer rate falls below the minimum threshold at which the tape drive heads were designed to transfer data to or from a continuously running tape. In this situation, the modern fast- running tape drive is unable to stop the tape instantly. Instead, the drive must decelerate and stop the tape, rewind it a short distance, restart it, position back to the point at which streaming stopped and then resume the operation. If the condition repeats, the resulting back-and-forth tape motion resembles that of shining shoes with a cloth. Shoe-shining decreases the attainable data transfer rate, drive and tape life, and tape capacity" - shoe-shining - Technical problems - Wikipedia Shoe-shining problems are almost never seen on modern tape drives. SHV - Standard High Volume (aka commodity item). SHVERA - (FCC) Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act of 2004 SI - International System of Units SID - The NGOSS Shared Information/Data (SID) model. More Info SID - Security Identifier. A non-volatile hidden GUID that identifies a user account in Windows NT. When accounts are deleted and recreated, a new SID is applied to them. The SID is passed between applications running under NT, instead of the username. SID - SCCS identification number, assigned to each version of a source code file. SIEM - Security Information and Event Management. see also SIEM / SIM / SEM Security information and event management (SIEM) is an approach to security management that seeks to provide a holistic view of an organization's information technology (IT) security. The acronym is pronounced "sim" with a silent e. What is security information and event management (SIEM ... ) SIF - The SONET Interoperability Form (SIF) was formed in 1994 to identify SONET interoperability issues. SIEM - Security Event and Information Management Sigma - The Greek letter s (sigma) refers to the standard deviation of a population. Sigma, or standard deviation, is used as a scaling factor to convert upper and lower specification limits to Z. Therefore, a process with three standard deviations between its mean and a spec limit would have a Z value of 3 and commonly would be referred to as a 3 sigma process. Sigma Level SIGSEGV - Signal for a Segment Violation (user space invalid reference). SIGKILL - 9 - go down hard SIGTERM - 15 - go down gracefully, closing files,... SIIA - Software & Information Industry Assocation SILK - Seque SILK - a software package for automating tests. see also: SILK SILK was aquired by Borland and then by Micro Focus International. silkworm - Brocade Switch - 2nd quarter calendar 99 silkwormII - Brocade Switch Model 1600 - 16 ports silkworm2000 - Brocade Switch Model 2400 - 8 ports silkworm2000 - Brocade Switch Model 2800 - 16 ports SIM - Subscriber Identity Module (CARD). A removable card that holds the (mobile / wireless) phone customer's indentity information (the service-subscriber key (IMSI) for a GSM phone. Information on the SIM is encrypted. A modern cell phone will not work unless it contains a valid SIM card. SIM cards come in many different sizes, however, there are 3 that are most common: Mini SIM: This is the most common size and used in most GSM phones = 25mm x 15mm. This is Form Factor (size) 2FF. We call this the NORMAL size. Micro SIM: Smaller than the Mini SIM, and becoming more prevalent as it is used in popular phones like the iPhone 4/4S = 15mm x 12mm. This is Form Factor FF Nano SIM: This is the smallest of the common SIM sizes, and is used newer phones like the iPhone 5 = 12.3mm x 8.8mm. Combi-card - 2FF/3FF Different SIM card sizes SIM-ME - Subscriber Identity Module - Mobile Equipment. Described in TS 51.011. TS 51.011 - Specification of the Subscriber Identity Module - Mobile Equipment (SIM-ME) interface Next Generation SIM - White Papaers SIMPLE - SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions SIMS - "Games" that let you create and interact with Simulated worlds. more info Simulink - Simulink - Simulation and Model-Based Design Simulink - Wikipedia SIMULINK TUTORIAL by T. Nguyen Single Block System - Frame with one block, no SCI support. single mode - a fiber-optic cabling specification that provides as much as 10 km between devices SIO - Simulator I/O (Load Generator) - Network Appliance. A tool to generate artificial I/O workloads against any device Supports numerous configuration variables (reads vs writes, etc). Supports multiple devices and multiple threads. Collects a wide variety of statistics on I/O client machines and/or I/O servers. SIP (VoIP) - SIP, the Session Initiation Protocol, is a signaling protocol for Internet conferencing, telephony, presence, events notification and instant messaging. SIP Forum SIP was developed around the same time as H.323, but was modeled after HTTP. Over the years many of the features of H.323 were added - in a much better way I have to say, and today it pretty much can do everything H.323 can do and more - the few missing gaps are being fixed as we speak in the IETF. - Session Initiation Protocol. This versatile signaling protocol can help you set up collaborative multimedia conferencing and voice-enabled e-commerce. SIP, like HTTP, is versatile and simple to use. It can set up collaborative multimedia conferencing and voice-enabled e-commerce. SIP is expected to become the norm for VoIP implementations within a couple of years, though today just about all enterprise VoIP vendors would rather keep you locked into their proprietary signaling solutions. The IETF published the first version of SIP, RFC 2543, in 1999 and the most recent version, RFC 3261, June 2002. Illustration of RFC3261 SIP example More info about SIP SIP - SMDS Interface Protocol, three-level protocol that controls access to the network. SIR - Signal-to-Interference ratio SIS - Single Instance Storage SiSBU - SAN/iSAN Business Unit (NetApp) SISL - Stream Informed Segment Layout. more info Stream-Informed Segment Layout (SISL) SIT - System Integration Test (IBM) site - A Group of Computers. Several computers (often domain controllers) that have fast reliable access bewteen them. Used in applications and services like Microsoft Exchange, Message Queuing and Active Directory. Six Sigma - attempts to reduce the variation in process to a very small number. Focuses on improvements and measures that will lower the cost of doing business. sj - SCSI Jukebox - see "man sj". SK - secret key in a PKC. See also: Cryptology / Encryption SKb - secret bank key in a PKC. See also: Cryptology / Encryption SKc - secret customer key in a PKC. See also: Cryptology / Encryption skinny - Skinny Client Control Protocol (SCCP). SKu - secret universal key in a PKC. See also: Cryptology / Encryption SKU - Stock Keeping Unit. See also Skype - an Internet Telephony software package - can also pay for a VoIP to land-line phone connection. SLA - Service Level Agreement - A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a contract between an ASP and the end user which stipulates and commits the ASP to a required level of service. An SLA should contain a specified level of service, support options, enforcement or penalty provisions for services not provided, a guaranteed level of system performance as relates to downtime or uptime, a specified level of customer support and what software or hardware will be provided and for what fee. SLA - Wikipedia slab allocator - contains groups of cache. More Info SLAC - SLAC is an AMD registered (telephony) trademark, and a SLAC device connects to its host processor through a three-pin serial interface, the SLAC interface is used mostly to initialize a SLAC device, it can be used to monitor several critical SLIC functions. SLED - (Novell's) SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. Click for more information SLES - (Novell's) SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. Click for more information SLI - Scalable Link Interface. Used in NVidia's nForce4 SLI graphics card Allows connecting two graphics cards. SLI - LUA Session Level Interface SLIC - SLIC - Serial Link and Interrupt Controller, Session Layer Subscriber Line Interface Circuits (SLIC) slice - Another word for partition. is composed of a single range of contigous blocks on Solaris disks A disk can have up to eight (8) slices, named s0 thru s7. It is uncommon to use partition (slice) 2 (s2) as a file system. A] Each disk slice holds only one file system. B} No file system can span multiple disks C] After a file system is created, its size cannot be increased or decreased without repartitioning the entire disk and restoring all data from a backup. D] Slices cannot span multipe disks; however, multiple swap slices on separate disks are allowed. slice2 - represents the entire disk SLM - Service level monitoring SLO - Service Level Objective. Service level objective - Wikipedia The term SLO is deprecated in ITIL V3 to Service Level Target, not to be confused with Service Level Requirement defined in the service design - Wikipedia Slot-1 - Fits Pentium II processors. Supports a 66 or 100 MHz bus and is limited to the amount of L2 cache supported. Slot 1 chips are mostly for volume mainstream markets. Slot-2 - Fits Pentium II Xeon. Supports 100 MHz bus and up to 2MB of L2 cache. Slot-M - Fits the Merced Processor. SLP - Service Location Protocol - provides service discovery for IP-based networks. SLPv2 - specification contained in RFC 2608. SLS Tests - System Level Serviceability (IBM) SLV - Symmetrix Logical Volume (EMC) S.M.A.R.T. - Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology Drives equipped with this feature report predicted failures based on threshold values determined by the manufacturer. This allows the network manager to replace a drive before it fails. SM - Short Message; Storage Management SM - Switch Module SMagent - Storage Manager 8.4 Agent SMASH - Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware SMB - small to midsized businesses SMB - Server Message Block, Microsoft presentation layer protocol providing file and print sharing functions for LAN Manager, Banyan VINES and other networking operating systems. SMC - State Machine & Content - wms SMDS - Switched Multimegabit Data Service, broadband networking technology developed by Bellcore. SME - Subject Matter Expert || Storage Media Encryption (EMC) SME - (1) (Small and Medium Enterprises) Refers to organizations that are larger than SOHOs and smaller than the Fortune 1000. The size is subjective ranging from approximately 25 to 500 employees. See SOHO. (2) (Subject Matter Expert) An individual that is well-versed in the policies and procedures of a particular department or division. Such people are used to derive the business rules for the organization. See business rule. (3) (Sun Microelectronics) The unit within Sun that develops its chips. SMG - Special Mobile Group SMI - Storage Management Initiative, created by SNIA, to create a single standard interface for storage management, hopefully, to be used by all Vendors. SMI is based on both WBEM (Web-Based Enterprise Management)and CIM (Common Task Management), sponsored by Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). SMI - Shared Memory Interface. A block of RSIB DRAM and the protocol used to transport messages across it. Used for the transport of VCS test, configuration information between the VCS BIOS and the RISB, and error messages (MICALLS, PROMCALLS, etc.). SMIL - Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language S/MIME - Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions SMI-S - Storage Management Initiative Specification (DMTF) SMISHING - SMiShing is a security attack in which the user is tricked into downloading a Trojan horse, virus or other malware onto his cellular phone or other mobile device. SMiShing is short for "SMS phishing." SMM - System Management Mode. See also SMM Rootkits SMM - Server Management Module. Smoke Test - Almost a Sanity Test or Aceptance Test to determine if core functionality works and whether or not the product is solid enough for further testing to take place - the crucial functions work, the finer details are ignored. Often QA will have the developers run the Smoke Test, and QA will not accept the software for testing unless it passed the Smoke Test. Smoke Testing is non-exhaustive Sanity Testing is a cursory testing,it is performed whenever a cursory testing is sufficient to prove the application is functioning according to specifications. Sanity Testing is usually a sub-set of Regression Testing. SMP - Serial Management Protocol (for SAS). SMP - Symmetrical Multiprocessing. Two or more processors connected via a high bandwidth link and managed by an OS where each processor has equal access to I/O devices. Applications can run on any or all of the processors interchangeably. The CPUs in an AViiON SMP system are seen by user programs and the DG/UX operating system as equivalent. SMPP - Short Message Peer-to-Peer SMS - Short Message Service SMS or Short Message Service has been a booming business for the past 2 years (6/02). After free SMS services, SMS chat and dating, companies are discovering inventive ways to use this technology to communicate faster and better. Recent changes in billing possibilities offered by operators allow of new SMS based business models. Reverse billing gives content providers the possibility to charge end users for receiving SMS messages. This new possibility also offers great ways to use SMS as a micropayment solution. In other words, internet users could use SMS to pay small amounts for services, e.g. access to a research report, or products online. Mobile (CNN) SMS - System Management Server (Microsoft) - System Center Configuration Manager, formerly Systems Management Server (SMS). SMS - Storage Management Services (Novell) SMS - Systems Management Service - Microsoft SMS-GMSC - SMS Gateway MSC SMS-IWMSC - SMS Interworking MSC SMS-SC - Short Messenging Service Center SMSAP - NetApp's Snap Manager for SAP SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, mail service modeled on the FTP file transfer service (TCP/IP). The first email transfer protocol for the Internet. Still used to transmit simple mail messages, but slowly being replaced by POP3. SMutil - Storage Management 8.4 Utility SN - sequence number SNA - Systems Network Architecture, introduced by IBM to provide a framework for joining together many mutually incompatible IBM products for distributed processing. SNA - IBM Systems Network Architecture - Wikipedia Introduction to SNA - Yale SNACK - Sequence Number Acknowledgement; used by iSCSI to solicit retransmission of specified packets within a sequence. SNACP - SNA PPP Control Protocol, responsible for configuring, enabling and disabling SNA on both ends of the point-point link (PPP). SNADIS - SNA Server’s SNA Device Interface Specification SnapDrive - SnapDrive software offers a rich set of capabilities to virtualize and enhance storage management for Microsoft Windows environments. It is tightly integrated with Microsoft NTFS, providing a layer of abstraction between application data and physical storage associated with that data. It facilitates creation and management of virtual devices on the filer, and allows the creation and management of snapshots either from the Microsoft MMC or via a command line interface. Storage managed by SnapDrive logically appears to the Windows host as locally attached storage. In reality, the capacity comes from a centrally managed pool of networked storage equipped with enhanced attributes. SnapDrive runs on a Windows 2000 host and complements native NTFS volume management with virtualization capabilities. It allows administrators to easily create virtual disks from pools of storage that can be distributed among several storage appliances. SnapDrive is included at no additional charge with the NetApp Windows Host Attach Kit 1.0. SnapLock - Data Persistence (write-once, non-erasable) - NetApp - More info NetApp SnapMirror - asynchronously transfers volumes or qtrees from a source filer to a destination filer or NearStore. This involves an initial baseline transfer, and then block-level incremental updates thereafter. As a result, SnapMirror works very well in LAN and WAN environments where bandwidth is limited. SnapRestore - will revert a LUN or an entire volume containing LUNs to a previous state in only a few seconds, regardless of size or utilization. Furthermore, the SnapRestore operation takes effect immediately, without requiring a reboot of the filer. When SnapRestoring a single LUN, it must be taken offline or unmapped prior to recovery if the LUN has not been destroyed. Snapshot - Point-in-time copy (a snapshot) - NetApp & Others - More info NetApp Snapshot LU - A phantom logical unit that is associated with a specific SnapView Source LU for the purposes of presenting a specific point in time view of the SnapView Source LU. This logical unit is created via Navisphere (IBM) and appears to connected hosts as a copy of a Source LU. The Snapshot LU is "off-line" to connected hosts until a SnapView Session is started. SnapVault - software builds on the asynchronous, block level incremental transfer technology of SnapMirror by providing archival technology. This allows data to be backed up via Snapshots on a filer and transferred on a scheduled basis to a destination filer or NearStore appliance. These snapshots can be retained on the destination for many weeks or even months allowing recovery operations to occur nearly instantaneously from this destination system to the original filer. SnapView - Instaneous LU frozen view feature - Paul McGrath, Brandon Myers, Rajat Gupta Snap View Cache - The disk storage used to hold the original data from a source LU that has been modified since the start of a SnapView session. This storage is pre-allocated and used exclusively for SnapView purposes. The SnapView Cache can consist of multiple logical units; the logical units are then managed as a pool of space. In Longbow phase 1 for each SP, the SnapView feature allows independent, different sized, SnapView caches to be defined. Snap View Cache LU - A logical unit that is assigned to the SnapView Cache. SnapView Chunk size - Refers to the unit of measure that SnapView cache uses to store and allocate blocks of information. All OCFW IO is done in chunk-sized IOs. The default SnapView chunk size (Phase 2) is 64KB and is user configurable. Snap View Session - A SnapView session starts when a snapshot is taken (not when the snapshot is created via Navisphere) of a source LU. A snapshot can be taken via Navisphere Manager. A SnapView session can be scripted from a host using the admsnap command or the Navisphere CLI. The session can be stopped in a similar manner when the snapshot LU is no longer of any use. There is only one active session on a snapshot LU at any given time. There can be many concurrent active sessions, on different snapshot LUs, bound by the array memory resources allotted to the SnapView feature. SnapView Source LU - A logical unit (LU) is one or more disk modules bound into a single entity. The LU is accessible to connected hosts by a logical unit number (LUN), a hexidecimal number that becomes part of the disk unit device name. A LU becomes known as a SnapView Source LU when the administrator indicates that the data on the LU will be part of a SnapView Session. SNDC - Sub-Network Dependent Convergence SNDCP - Sub-Network Dependent Convergence Protocol (SNDCP): the protocol that maps a network-level protocol, such as IP or X.25, to the underlying logical link control. SNDCP also provides other functions such as compression, segmentation and multiplexing of network-layer messages to a single virtual connection SNIA - Storage Networking Industry Association SNIFF TEST - a Reality Test to determine if the product/idea/venture works sufficently well to merit further testing. More info SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol, developed by the Internet community to allow diverse network objects to participate in a global network management architecture. A standard for remote management of devices such as routers and other services over a TCP/IP network. Also provides monitoring services for a network. SNOC - Security Network Operation Center Snoop RAM - ?? SNP - security negotion phase SNS - simple name server; a service provided by a fabric switch that simplifies discovery of devices SNW - Storage Network World. Storage networking conferences sponsored by SNIA and Computerworld SO - Socket subsystem - defines interface for all sockets,... SOA - Service Orientated Architecture more info about SOA SOA - Sarbanes-Oxley Act - officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act. Sarbanes-Oxley Act Soak Testing - testing a system with a significant load extended over a significant period of time, to discover how the system behaves under sustained use. Also Known as RECOVERY testing or RELIABILITY TESTING - will the product recover to a sane state if subjected to abnormal input (or is the customer out-to-lunch)? SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol (UPnP). SOAP is a simple XML based protocol to let applications exchange information over HTTP. SOC - Switch On a Chip SoC - (computer) System on a Chip. See System-on-a-chip for more information socket - An endpoint in network communications. Creates a Channel Table and gets an object pointer. SOCKS - SOCKS Protocol Version 5 This protocol provides a framework for client-server applications in both the TCP and UDP domains to conveniently and securely use the services of a network firewall. The protocol is conceptually a "shim-layer" between the application layer and the transport layer, and as such does not provide network layer gateway services, such as forwarding of ICMP messages. SOCKS Version 4 provides unsecured firewall traversal for TCP-based client-server applications, including TELNET, FTP, and protocols such as HTTP, WAIS and GOPHER. This version of SOCKS extends the SOCKS Version 4 model to include UDP, and extends the framework to include provisions for generalized strong authentication schemes. It also adapts the addressing scheme to encompass domain-name and V6 IP addresses. The implementation of the SOCKS protocol typically involves the recompilation or relinking of TCP-based client applications to use the appropriate encapsulation routines in the SOCKS library. SOD - A separation of duties (SOD)- assessment is an internal control which provides management with reasonable assurance that no one individual has responsibilities or accesses that would allow employees to misuse or divert company assets. SOE - SCSI Command Offload Engine (like TOE for SCSI) SoE - SCSI over Ethernet SOF - Start Of Frame; a field used to deliniate the beginning of a frame. SOFD - Staged Online Firmware Download (IBM) Software development process - A software development process, also known as a software development life-cycle (SDLC), is a structure imposed on the development of a software product. Similar terms include software life cycle and software process. It is often considered a subset of systems development life cycle. There are several models for such processes, Software development process - Wikipedia Software Inspection Software Inspection Plan software-testing methodology - an example: 1] Creating a test strategy 2] Creating a test plan/design 3] Executing tests. soft zoning - is accomplished in switches by reading trasmission frames as they enter the switch and determining whether of not the destination and source addresses in the frame belong to the same zone. If both address are not in the same zone, the frame is discarded with or without an error message, depending on the specific implementation. soft zoning is in contrast to hard zoning. SoIP - Storage over IP. Storage over IP (SoIP) is a concept that combines the features of SANs, which provide high availability and performance, with features of IP networks. This technology provides product compatability, with familar technology and network scalability similar to iSCSI, except that it focuses on the the use of UDP protocols versus TCP/IP. SoIP technology enables traditional storage system interfaces, such as SCSI, Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop, and InfiniBand interfaces, to connect to a standard IP infrastructure. It uses exisiting networking standards, such as OSPF, MPLS and SNMP, along with IP and Gigabit Ethernet. SoIP is a framework for deploying native IP storage solutions. It is designed to support transparent interoperability of storage devices based on Fibre Channel, SCSI and Gigabit Ethernet storage devices. The object is to enable any existing Fibre Channel or SCSI device, such as servers with host bus adapters (HBA) or storage subsystems, to be included in an SoIP storage network without modifcation. SoIP could also be connected to native IP Gigabity Ethernet storage devices by means of devices such as SoIP adapters. SOL - Shutdown On LAN SONET - Synchronous Optical NETwork - SONET and SDH are a set of related standards for synchronous data transmission over fiber optic networks. SOP - Standard Operating Procedure || Serialized OPeration SoSaaS - Same old Software, as a Service. Considered unworthy of the name of on-demand. Southbridge - The Southbridge, also known as an I/O Controller Hub (ICH) or a Platform Controller Hub (PCH). Southbridge (computing) - Wikipedia SOW - Statements of Work - "Assist business development in creating the engineering SOW". SOX - Simple Outline XML. SOX is an alternative to XML DTDs and can be used to define the same class of document types (with the exception of external parsed entities). SP - Storage Processor SP - Statistical Programming spac - PTC - Systech's asynchronous terminal I/O controller that connects to a number of terminal lines (syac for m88k). Supports telnet, rlogin, tcp and call-out connections. The only supported spac controller model is: PTC/1024. spanning explorer packet - Follows a statistically configured spanning tree when looking for paths in an SRB (Source-Route Bridging) network. Also known as a limited-route explorer packet or a single-route explorer packet. Spanning forest - A set of multiple spanning trees in a single catenet. Traffic for any give VLAN propogates over a single spanning tree in the forest. spanning tree - Loop-free subset of a network topology. spanning tree - groups of interlinked segments (ethernet topology) spanning tree algorithm - Algorithm used by the Spanning-Tree Protocol to create a spanning tree. Sometimes abbreviated as "STA". Spanning Tree Protocol - SPANS - Simple Protocol for ATM Network Signalling, developed by FORE Systems for use in ATM networks. sparse mode multicast - multicasts NOT to every router and node, as there are many missing nodes or nodes that we do not with to receive multicast messages. sparse writing style - The Difference Between Voice and Style in Writing Could you define the difference between a writer’s voice and style in creative writing? Here’s the breakdown: Voice is your own. It’s a developed way of writing that sets you apart from other writers (hopefully). It’s your personality coming through on the page, by your language use and word choice. When you read a Dave Barry column, you know it’s his. Why? He’s developed a distinct writing voice. Style is much broader than voice. Some writers have a writing style that’s very ornate—long, complex and beautiful sentences, packed with metaphors and imagery (think Frank McCourt and John Irving). Others have a more straightforward style —sparse prose, simple sentences, etc. Here’s one way to think about it: WD tries to have all its articles fit a similar style—conversational yet straightforward. But between the covers, each piece is written by a different author whose own voice colors his particular piece. So the continuity of the magazine stays together, but each piece is still different. SPC - Storage Performance Council. A group comprised of companies predominately in the data storage and server business, formed to develop industry-standard benchmarks for storage networks. SPC-1 - Storage Performance Benchmark 1. Represents a workload that is both throughput and response time sensitive. It is developed by studying the workload of transaction processing systems that require small size, mostly random, read and write operations (for edample, database systems, OLTP systems, mail servers). SPC - Statistical Process Control SPDC - Self-Protecting Digital Content. Click here for more SPDC information S/PDIF - The Sony/Philips digital interface, employed as a 75 Ohm RCA-type digital output on transports or CD/DVD players. Click for similar information SPE - Service Processor Enclosure (EMC) SPEC - Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. An industry consortium, which develops and publishes benchmarks for the evualtion of computing systems. SPEC has a broad range of benchmarks from CPU benchmarks to Web server benchmarks. Specification-based test - A test, whose inputs are derived from a specification. SPF - Shortest Path Forware algorithm. Routing algorithms that iterates on length of path to determine a shortest-path spanning tree. Commonly used in link-state routing algorithms. Sometimes called Dijkstra's algorithm. SPF - Sender Policy Framework - an anti-spam initiative which verifies email sender domains against IPs to prevents email address forgery, a common spammer technique, is closing in on becoming an RFC. How do I implement SPF. SPI - Stateful Packet Inspection. A simpler, yet more rigorous method of access control is to implement a firewall like a Stateful Packet Inspection Firewall (SPI) that analyzes packets in terms of sessions. How the SPI Firewall works is it will examine all incoming data transmission – if a packet is deemed a legitimate reply to a previous request from within the network, the SPI Firewall would permit its passage through. Otherwise, access is denied. Such an approach allows relatively unrestricted transmission from within the network, and selective but flexible access from the outside. The SPI Firewall also uses a monitoring algorithm to track individual connections and it is also enabled to grant open temporary access in the firewall under appropriate conditions. For example, packets are allowed to pass only if associated with a valid session initiated from within the network. Now being superceded by DPI. Stateful firewall - Wikipedia stateful inspection Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) Comparing NAT, Static Content Filtering, SPI, and Firewalls - NetGear SPI - Serial Peripheral Interface SPI - SPI = serial flash chip using the SPI bus/interface (basically a FWH with less pins) FWH are SPI are typically thought of as chips (some insist it's a hub). This is used to store the BIOS firmware/codes. For example, the Phoenix/Award BIOS or AMI BIOS (or other equivalent BIOS) codes are stored in this FWH or SPI serial chip. See also: Embedded / Firmware / Real-Time SPI-2 - SCSI Parallel Interface 2. SCSI transport protocol over parallel SCSI. SPID - Service profile identifier. A number that some service providers use to define the services to which an ISDN device subscribes. SPID - SP ID driver - determines the unique SP ID for K10 CMI. SPIM - SPAM via Instant Messenger Spirla model - (spiral lifecycle model) - a SW development process that combines elements of both design and prototyping-in-stages (combines top-down and bottom-up concepts). more SPKM-1 - Simple Public Key Mechanism version 1 SPKM-2 - Simple Public Key Mechanism version 2 SPL - November 3, 2006, Oracle announced that it has acquired SPL WorldGroup (SPL), a leading provider of revenue and operations management software. packaged revenue and operations management solutions for utilities to meet unique industry needs SPL was bought out by Oracle about 2-3 (from 5/2009) years ago. Their billing system is now called Oracle CCB or Customer Care and Billing. SPL - StandardPHPLibrary. Home of SPL SPL - On November 3, 2006, Oracle announced that it has acquired SPL WorldGroup (SPL), a leading provider of revenue and operations management software for the utilities industry. split brain - The partitioning of a cluster due to a failure. Splunk - Splunk Enterprise collects, indexes and harnesses all of the fast-moving machine data generated by your applications, servers and devices—physical, virtual and in the cloud. SPM - Storage partition Management SPMA - Server Provided MAC Address (an addressing approach suggested for FCoE). Mapped MAC Addresses See also: FPMAs for VN_Port to VN_Port Virutal Links - PDFFPMAs for VN_Port to VN_Port Virtual Links See also: SPMA and FPMA with FLOGI/FDISC 08-470v0 - PDF FC-BB5: Multiple Fabric support via FIP (for FPMA) - PDF See also: FCoE: Distributed FCF Functionality - PDF End-to-End FCoE - Adding details to the Idea - PDF - October 2009 End-to-End FCoE - PDF See also: FPMA - Fabric Provided MAC Addresses SPMP - Software Project Management Plan - a description of the management approach for a project. SPNEGO - Simple and Protected GSS API Negotiation Mechanism spoof - To fool. In networking, the term is used to describe a variety of ways in which hardware and software can be fooled SPP - Sequenced Packet Protocol, provides reliable transport delivery with flow control (XNS). SSP - ServerProven Plan - product already tested wirh Servers, so basic functionality has been proven SPR resolution - ways of "fixing" an spr- either by an actual change to the product, a rejection of the problem, or as a duplicate of another spr which may have its own resolution. Spring Framework - The Spring Framework is designed to make it easier to develop server-side applications with Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Spring Framework 2 - version 2, (see above) SpringSource - open-source SpringSource is a more lightweight alternative to J2EE SPS - Standby Power Supply (EMC) Note that SPS for DAE and RMS are identical (subject to possible change) SPS - service provisioning system (SUN) SPS - Secondary Power Supply SPs - storage processors SPSS - Statisical Pacakage for Social Sciences - Statistical Analysis software SPT - Special Projects Team (NA) SPX - Sequential Packet Exchange, Novell's version of Xerox SPP. It is a transport layer protocol, based on IPX, providing a packet delivery service for third party applications. Gone out of favor, usually replaced by TCP/IP. Spyware - Spyware is a generic term typically describing software whose purpose is to collect demographic and usage information from your computer, usually for advertising purposes. The term is also used to describe software that 'sneaks' onto the system or performs other activities hidden to the user. Spyware apps are usually bundled as a hidden component in mis-labeled "freeware" and shareware applications1 downloaded from the Internet--a spyware module may be active on your computer at this moment without your knowledge. These modules are almost always installed on the system secretively, suggesting that spyware companies know how users feel about such software and figure that the best/only way to ensure its widespread use is to prevent the end-user from discovering it. It is often combined with Adware. SQ - Sync Queue SQA - Software Quality Assurance SQA - Scottish Qualifications Authority SQE - Software Quality Engineer SQL - Structured Query Language. A standard language for accessing data in relational databases. ANSI provide a base definition but many vendors have added extra proprietary features and extensions. SQL - Wikipedia SQL/J - A set of standards that includes specifications for embedding SQL statements in methods in the Java programming language and specifications for calling Java static methods as SQL stroed procedures and user-defined functions. An SQL checker can detect errors in static SQL statements at program development time, rather than at execution time as with a JDBC driver. SQR - SQR is an SQL-based programming language that includes an unique blend of procedural and structured programming constructs designed specifically for report writing and database program development. SQR, from Brio Software, Inc. (formerly Brio Technology), is the only enterprise reporting solution with native access to over 125 combinations of databases and operating environments. SRA - Systems Requirements Analysis SRB - Source Routing Bridging, proprietary header of Bay Networks which passes Token Ring information over WAN lines. SRBP - Signaling Radio Burst Protocol SRD - System Requirements Document SRDF - Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (EMC) SRDF-ED - Symmetrix Remote Data Facility - Extended Distance (EMC) sRGB - An agreement to standardize how to handle colors, originally for Monitors, but now for any monitor, printer, scanner, or camera. Click here for more info SRLP - Signaling radio Link Protocol SRM - VMware's VCenter Site Recovery Manager. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager - VMware SRM - System Resource Manager or Storage Resource Manager; also an IBM product for z/OS SRNC - Serving Radio Network Controller SRNS - Serving Radio Network Subsystem SRP - secure remote password SRR - System Requirements Review SRS - Software Requirement Specification SRTP - Secure Real-time Transport Protocol. Secure Real-time Transport Protocol - Wikipedia srv - virtual file manager - performs local file operations on behalf of remote NFS clients. SS - Storage Server SS7 - Signaling System 7, a common telephony channel signaling system. See also SSA - Serial Storage Architecture (IBM) - A high speed serial loop-based interface developed as a high speed point-to-point connection for peripherals, particularly high speed storage arrays, RAID and CD-ROM storage by IBM. Click for More info SSC - Spread Spectrum Clocking (used in SATA interfaces to reduce EMI). SCCM - Microsoft System Center - Configuration Manager SCCM 2012 - Microsoft System Center 2012 - Configuration Manager SCCM 2007 - Microsoft System Center 2007 - Configuration Manager SSD - Solid State Disks. SSD - Wikipedia (SSD) native command Queuing Native Command Queuing (NCQ) is an extension of the Serial ATA ... Windows 7's AHCI enables not only NCQ but also TRIM support on SSD. TRIM command See also: NCQ SSD command prompt SSD command queueing SSD command set SSD smart command format SSD command prompt For MORE SSD information, Please Click HERE SSDP - Simple Service Discovery Protocol SSE2 - Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 - extends the MMX technology and SSE technology with the addition of 144 instructions that deliver performance increases across a broad range of applications. The SIMD integer instructions introduced with MMX technology have been extended from 64 to 128 bits, doubling the effective execution rate of SIMD integer type operations. SSE3 - Intel's instructions set introduced in early 2004 with the Prescott Pentium IV. Code named PNI (Prescott New Instructions). includes 13 additional SIMD instructions over SSE2. The 13 new instructions in SSE3 are primarily designed to improve thread synchronization and specific application areas such as media and gaming. Intel's SSE3, also known by its Intel code name Prescott New Instructions or PNI ChipGeek Feature on Intel's upcoming SSE3 extensions SSE3 Instructions - volumes 2a and 2b for the instructions SSE4 - Information on SSE4 including some whitepapers SSE4 Instructions - volumes 2a and 2b for the instructions SSG - Storage Subsystems Group - IBM ssh - secure shell. For more information see SSH Secure Shell - Wikipedia The original SSH is now called SSHv1 and IS NOT SECURE - USE SSHv2 SSH - Secure Shell. Secure Shell - Wikipedia Use SSHv2, NOT SSHv1 SSHv1 can now be decoded in real time with the program Ettercap. SSHv1 - SSHv1 or SSHv2? - The Cisco Learning Network SSHv2 - Secure Shell version 2. SSHv2 - Information Security Magazine - TechTarget Battle of the SSH Protocols: SSHv1 v SSHv2 Configuring SSHv2 and Telnet - Cisco SSHv2 -Information Security Magazine - TechTarget What's the difference between versions 1 and 2 of the SSH Shell version 2 (SSHv2) and Secure Copy (SCP) - Brocade AES Encryption for SSHv2 Where to turn SSHv1 protocol and SSHv2 protocol on and off in RHEL 3 SSH tunneling.pdf - Palo Alto Networks Live SEE also ENCRYPTION - click HERE SEE also ENCRYPTION BOOKS - click HERE Also See ALL of my RECENT TECHNICAL BOOKS - Click HERE SSI - Server-side Include. An instruction within a Web page or script that causes the Web server to execute a program, or insert a file or other information into the HTML stream sent to the client. Synchronous Serial Interface Single Sign In Single-system image (a computer cluster) SSID - session ID SSL - Secure Sockets Layer. A technology originally developed by Netscape to provide client and server verification, and secure communication between a Web browser and server. Uses public key and secret key encryption. Although SSL was designed for browsers and web servers, it has been widely used in many other applications. Basically, it is used to provide a secure communication channel for administration, authentication, and data transfer. SSL2 - SSL3 - Netscape's proposed SSL3. SSMA - SQL Server Migration Assistant (Microsoft) SSO - single signon (instead of multiple login/password entries) Single sign-on - Wikipedia SSOP - Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures. Click here for more information about SSOP SSP - Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP) for SAS. SSP - Service Switching Point SSP - Security Support Provider. A software library that manages a set of security functions. Multiple SSPs can be installed, each from a different vendor if required. See SSPI. SSP - Storage Service Provider. SSP - system services processor (McDATA) SSPI - Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI). SSPI defines the mechanics of authenticating a user - of verifying that he is who he claims to be SSPI (Windows) Security Support Provider Interface - Wikipedia, How to troubleshoot the "Cannot generate SSPI context" error message - Microsoft SSRC - Identifies the synchronization source (H323). This identifier is chosen randomly, with the intent that no two synchronization sources within the same RTP session will have the same SSRC identifier. SSRS - SQL Server Reporting Services (Microsoft) SSRS - Wikipedia Reporting Services (SSRS) - MIcrosoft tutorials for SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services - Microsoft SSSAR - ATM Domain Adaptation Layer, some thing SSU - Intel's System Sizing Utility - A DOS-based program that Is run stand-alone to reconfigure interrupts and other System variables within a single block. st - SCSI Tape - see "man st" ST - Same Time (IBM's instant messenger) STA - Spanning Tree Algorithm STaaS - Storage as a Service Storage as a service - Wikipedia Staggered Spin-Up - With staggered spin-up, disks can be powered up separately to avoid high current demand. Stakeholder - People who will be affected by the project or can influence it but who are not directly involved with doing the project work. Examples are Managers affected by the project, Process Owners, People who work with the process under study, Internal departments that support the process, customers, suppliers, and financial department. Alternative definition: People who are (or might be) affected by any action taken by an organization. Examples are: Customers, owners, employees, associates, partners, contrators, suppliers, related people or located near by. Alternative definition: any group or individual who can affect or who is affected by achievement of a firm's objectives. Standard - A definition or that has been approved by a recognized standards organization or is accepted as a by the industry. Standards exist for programming languages, operating systems, data formats, communications protocols, and electrical interfaces. From a user's standpoint, standards are extremely important in the computer industry because they allow the combination of products from different manufacturers to create a customized system. Without standards, only hardware and software from the same company could be used together. In addition, standard user interfaces can make it much easier to learn how to use a new application. DAVE's Standards, MISC. MENU ** DAVE's Standards ORGANIZATIONS Protocols Standard Deviation - A statistic used to measure the variation in a distribution. Sample standard deviation is equal to the square root of (the sum of the squared deviations of the mean divided by the sample size minus 1). Where the whole population is known, the minus 1 "fudge factor" should be omitted. Standards based tests - Standards based tests - Wikipedia Standby Host - Server where customer applications run if a disaster occurs. This host cannot access primary data on the production host unless an administrator grants access due to a disaster. A Standby host can be idle or serve another purpose. State-based Testing - Testing with test cases developed by modeling the system under test as a state machine [R. V. Binder, 1999] State Transition Testing - Technique in which the states of a system are fist identified and then test cases are written to test the triggers to cause a transition from one condition to another state. [William E. Lewis, 2000] static model - The state of a simulation model, where the time is not a variable in the model. static routing - not really a protocol Static Routing vs. Dynamic Routing Static Routing Tutorial | WebProNews Static Testing - (Dry Run Testing) Source code analysis. Analysis of source code to expose potential defects. What is the difference between static and dynamic testing? Static Testing Vs Dynamic Testing - Qastation Static testing - Wikipedia List of tools for static code analysis - wikipedia Statistical Testing - A test case design technique in which a model is used of the statistical distribution of the input to construct representative test cases. [BCS] STB - Set Top Box (usually some kind of TV signal converter) STCC - Client Specific Test Case - WMS STCCS - Client/Server Specific test case - WMS STCS - Server Specific Test case - WMS STCG - General Test case - WMS STCU - Test Case for HLD Use Case - WMS STD - Standard STD - State Transition Diagram - a notation for behavioral view modeling. STE - Software Test Engineering steady state - The state of a simulation model execution after its outputs settle down around a mean value. STEM - science, technology, engineering, and mathematics STest - a NetApp test that is more command line friendly (takes commands from command line, not Environmental Variables) STIG - DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides Stimuli - The Article being examined for testing STK - SAC Toolkit STL - Standard Template Library (C++) STLC - Software Testing Life Cycle Software Testing Life Cycle STLC - Guru99 SDLC vs STLC - SlideShare Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) - Software Testing Fundamentals Click here for SDLC information STMT - Strategic Transformation Measurement Tool (IBM) storage - computer storage systems, for storing data storage hierarchy - Layers of storage devices, where the layers below have higher capacity, but slower performance than the layers above. storage NIC - a network interface card with optimized logic for TCP and serial SCSI-3 processing. Storage Partitioning - IBM's LUN Masking storage provisioning - The process of assigning storage resources to the users and applications, as they need it, statically or dynamically storage router - Specialized routers that connect two different storage interconnect types. Might or might not have virtualization capabilities. Store and Forward - a switch's incoming frame is completely received and stored before any of the frame is sent out. This method is the opposite of cut-through switching. stored procedure - A stored procedure is a subroutine available to applications that access a relational database system. A stored procedure (sometimes called a proc, sproc, StoPro, StoredProc, sp or SP) is actually stored in the database data dictionary. STP - Signaling Transfer Point (telephony). STP vs SEP STP - Straight Through Processing, banking term where a financial transaction is automatically completed without manual intervention (courtesy of Wikipedia) STP - Serial Management Protocol (SAS) STP - Spanning Tree Protocol, prevents the formation of logical looping in the network (DECnet). STR - Signal Transfer Point. Software Trouble Report stream - In the socket context: A stream socket is a connection-orientated socket. This is different from a datagram socket, which is connectionless. In the standard I/O context: a stream represents a FILE control block that is open for reading or writing. Stress Testing - The opposite of Load Testing. With stress testing you starve the software; with load testing, you feed the software all it can handle. Running the software under less-than-ideal conditions - low memory, low disk space, slow CPUs, slow modems, and so on. Look at your software and determine what external resources and dependancies that it has. Stress testing is simply limiting the resources to their bare minimum. Your goal is to starve the software. Does this sound like BOUNDARY CONDITION TESTING? - IT IS Stress/Load/Volume test - Tests that provide a high degree of activity, either using boundary conditions as\ inputs or multiple copies of a program executing in parallel as examples. stretch blt - An enhanced type of bitblt used for resizing video images. The function expands or contracts the number of bits while moving them from main memory to the display memory. See bitblt. stripe - A logical storage space comprising a portion (or "strip") of a number of physical didks. A stripe set is the array of stripes that form a striped RAID volume. Striping is generally used because it speeds up disk I/O. Data from stripes is stored and retrieved more uniformly than in the case with concatentation. In other words, data may be retrieved from a number of stripes simultaneously, resulting in a decrease in how much time the I/O operations takes to complete. Click for more info stripe unit - (also: stripe depth) The amount of data written on a disk before successive data is written to the next disk, while striping data. Striping - Also known as RAID 0. Two or more drives store and retrieve data in parallel, accelerating performance. Click for more info StrongARM - Intel's Advanced RISC Machines Structural Testing. (1)(IEEE) Testing that takes into account the internal mechanism [structure] of a system or component. Types include branch testing, path testing, statement testing. (2) Testing to insure each program statement is made to execute during testing and that each program statement performs its intended function. Contrast with functional testing. Syn: white-box testing, glass-box testing, logic driven testing. struts - Struts is an open source framwork for building web applications. stsm - senior technical staff member stub - Software connection component. A software component within an application that links to a corresponding proxy elsewhere, and handles the communication of data between them. May be running in a separate environment from the proxy, or just on a different execution thread. Style - is much broader than voice. Some writers have a writing style that’s very ornate—long, complex and beautiful sentences, packed with metaphors and imagery (think Frank McCourt and John Irving). Others have a more straightforward style — sparse prose, simple sentences, etc. SU - Streams Utilities (see also SFM). Subversion - An open-source revision control system (SVN) subnet - organization of secondary groups of hosts within an IP network by manipulating network and hosts components of an IP address range. Subscription - is the agreement between the content provider and the end user to receive content. Subscription Unit - is the description of services to which the end user subscribes. Subscription Unit ID - is the identifier for the subscription unit. Subject - is the description of the content. SuD - System under Discussion (Use Cases) SUDU - sudo allows (Linux / UNIX) a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user. sudu Manual sum - software that creates the 32-bit checksum used in AV/Alert documentation sundry drives - 3 out of every 10 FAStT drives (Storage Manager) contain sundry information for the working (storage) configuration. SUP - System Update Package (IBM) super - referes to a class's base class (used in a method or class constructor). superblock - Contains file system identifier, geometry values (such as DAR), size, # of file nodes,... Super MVA - The conventional multi-domain vertical alignment (MVA) technology has smaller viewing angle in the azimuth angle of 45 degree. The viewing angle of MVA LCD is increased to 80 degree in all azimuth angle by CMO' Super MVA technology. In layman's term, MVA equal wider viewing angle from the both sides of LCD. Super XGA+ - 1400 x 1050 pixels. 16M colors. 8 MB video RAM required. SUS - Striping Unit Size (Raid striping). SuSE - A version of Linux, now owned by Novell. more on SuSE SV - Snap View SV&V - Software Verification and Validation. SVC - Switched Virtual Connection - a temporary Virtual Circuit SVC - SAN Volume Controller (IBM) svcd - main AV/Alert process - opens /dev/fru, does its own inventory, does the "mesh" SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics (Adobe). Click here for more SVG information The difference between the Macromedia Flash and Shockwave Players SVGA - A display with 800 x 600 pixel resolution. Click here for more info SVGB - SVG Basic - suitable for cell phones SVGT - SVG Tiny - suitable for PDAs SVID - System V Interface Definition SVN - Subversion - version control software SVR - this prefix to the development item number indicates a server specific design requirement - wms SVT - System Validation Testing; System Verification Test (IBM) sw - software sw - session-wide software swab - /swob/ [From the mnemonic for the PDP-11 `SWAp Byte' instruction, as immortalized in the dd(1) option conv=swab (see dd)] 1. vt. To solve the NUXI problem by swapping bytes in a file. 2. n. The program in V7 Unix used to perform this action, or anything functionally equivalent to it. See also big-endian, little-endian, middle-endian, bytesexual. SWAN - Storage Wide Area Networks SWaP - Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP). SWap - thefreedictionary SWAP-C - Size, Weight, Power and Cost (military and aerospace) SWaP-C - Size, Weight, Power and Cooling SWaP-C - thefreedictionary SWB - Switched Broadcast. a method to increase effective bandwith for delivering digital signals. Click here for more information about SWB SWF - Adobe Macromedia Flash file format (SWF). Click here for Flash Player The difference between the Macromedia Flash and Shockwave Players SWG - Software Group SVI - Switched Virtual Interfaces Swift - OpenStack Object Storage (code named Swift) OpenStack Swift Architecture - SwiftStack Welcome to Swift's documentation Swift - OpenStack.org Swing - GUI support subset of the JFC. introduced with JDK1.2 to give additional GUI programmability and pluggable look and feel (PLAF) functionality to Java. SWIT - System Integration and Test Switched Digital Broadcast - a method to increase effective bandwith for delivering digital signals. Click here for more information about SWITCHED DIGITAL BROADCAST Switched Fabric - SAN Switched Fabric Switched Fabric switches - An efficient type of hub that sends packets only to the port that is connected to the packet's recipient rather than sending packets to all of the ports, as a simple hub does. Switches / Routers / Hubs swizzle - Pointer Swizzling - To convert external names, array indices, or references within a data structure into address pointers when the data structure is brought into main memory from external storage. See also swizzled - bamboozled SWOT - SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) Swouter - A combination of a Bridge and a Router. Also called a Brouter SXGA - A display with 1280 x 1024 pixel resolution. 16M colors. 8 MB of video RAM required. SYAC - a streams device driver Sybil - Thermal Chambers (can run hot and cold) SYM - Symmetrix, an EMC data storage system Symm - Symmetrix, an EMC data storage system symmetric cryptography - Uses a single key - ncludes the AES algorithm. See also Complete Encryption, Compression, RFID, Smart Cards & Fuzzy Logic Symmetrix - EMC family of computer storage. SynchML - An open synchronization platform, which recognizes the need for a single data synchronization protocol. Telecommunication Glossary-Basics in Telecom that a Mobile Apps Tester Should Know sync secondary LU - operation will checkpoint progress and restart from known point in event of failure of primary array. mirror sync throttled to avoid consuming array I/O bandwidth (slow throttle increases data vulnerability). I/O to primary LU allowed while secondary LU(s) are synchronizing. synchronized - specifies critical sections or methods in multithreaded code. SYS: - during installation, NetWare automatically creates the first NetWare Volume on your server as volume "SYS:". NetWare 6 requires a minimum SYS: of 350 MB. Size is in MB. (1 GB is suggested, instead of the minimum 350 MB). System Testing - Black-box type testing that is based on overall requirements specifications; covers all combined parts of a system. Systems Engineering Capability Model Electronic Industries Association 731 (an EIA CMM) SYSX - System or Backend Exerciser sz - Zero-terminated string - Windows header file Hungarian notation t Test - The t test employs the statistic (t), with n-1 degrees of freedom, to test a given statistical hypothesis about a population parameter. Usually used with small sample sizes (<30). It is used when population standard deviation is unknown. T-SQL - Microsoft's and Sybase's proprietary extension to SQL. Click here for more T-SQL INFORMATION T3 - a serial communications link supporting 45 Mbps T.38 - The T.38 IP-based fax service maps the T.30 fax protocol onto an IP network. Both fax and voiced data are managed through a single gateway. T.38 uses 2 protocols, one for UDP packets and one for TCP packets. Data is encoded using ASN.1 to ensure a standard technique. It allows users to transfer facsimile documents between 2 standard fax terminals over the Internet or other network using IP protocols. H.323 can be used here in the same way that it is used to support Voice over IP. TCP messages The T.38 data (Internet Fax Protocol) is contained in the payload of the TCP or UDP messages. The T.38 packet provides an alert for the start of a message. An ASN.1 Application tag identifies it; if this tag is not present the session is aborted. UDP messages T.38 messages may also be sent over the UDP transport layer. The UDP header is followed by the UDPTL payload which consists of sequence number and a payload. T.120 - shared whiteboard T.125 - The T.120 family of protocols describe protocols and services for multipoint Data Conferencing including multilayer protocols which considerably enhance multimedia, MCU and codec control capabilities, permitting greater MCU operational sophistication beyond that described in H.231 and H.243. T.125 describes the Multipoint Communication Service Protocol (MCS). It defines: Procedures for a single protocol for the transfer of data and control information from one MCS provider to a peer MCS provider. The structure and encoding of the MCS protocol data units used for the transfer of data and control information. Procedures may be: Interactions between 2 parallel MCS providers by exchanging MCS protocol data. Interactions between MCS providers and users by exchanging MCS primitives. Interactions between an MSC provider and a transport service provider by exchanging transport service primitives. The MCS provider communicates with MCS users through a MCSAP (MCS Service Access Point), by means of MCS primitives defined in T.122. MCSPDU (MCS protocol Data unit) exchanges occur between MCS providers that host the same MCS domain. The MCS provider can have multiple peers; each reached directly by a different MCS connection or indirectly through a peer MCS provider. An MCS connection is composed of either one MAP connection or one or more transport connections. The protocol exchanges are preformed using the transport layer using a pair of TSAPs (Transport Service Access Points). The MCS PDU is the MCS protocol data unit. This is the information exchanged in the MCS protocol consisting of control information transferred between MCS providers to coordinate their joint operation and possibly data transferred on behalf of MCS users for whom they provide service. Each MCSPDU is transported as one TSDU (Transport service data unit) across a TC (Transport connection) belonging to an MCS connection. Connect MCSPDUs are unlimited in size. Domain MCSPDUs are limited in size by a parameter of the MCS domain. The structure of Version 2 and Version 3 MCSPDUs is defined in ASN.1 and appears as text or numeric messages. Table Testing - Test access, security, and data integrity of table entries. [William E. Lewis, 2000] TAC - Technical Assistance Center; Technical Advisory Council TAC - Technical Adaptation Committee (WEEE) TAC - Traffic Acquisition Cost. Tachyon TS - (TachLite) - a Fibre Channel controller chip, manufactured by Hewlett Packard. Tachyon XL2 - a Fibre Channel controller chip manufactured by Hewlett Packard. TAD - Telephone Answering Device TADA - Test Analysis, Development Automation (NA) TADS - a protected area on the FISH would be reserved for Task Automation Data Structures, a UMTA-proprietary sector reserved for automating tasks between devices. TADS will also support data encryption in the future; the association hopes to hammer out a final security spec this quarter (Q104). FISH can also be write-protected via a switch, similar to other USB cards. TAG - An RFID tag chip. See also RFID information Tag-aware domain - A region of a virtual bridged network in which all devices are tag-aware Tag-awareness - A property of a device that supports and can use VLAN tags. Tagged Command Queuing - A feature in SCSI that enables disk drives and I/O adaptors to send multiple commands prior to completion of a given command. Tagged frame - A frame that includes a VLAN TAG. tags - In HTML, tags are the codes that determine the structure of information, and its presentation, within a document. tag switching - TAITRA - the Taiwan trade authority TALI - Transport Adapter Layer Interface. TAM - Trivoli (IBM) Access Manager TAM - Technical Account Manager ;; Telephone Answering Machine TAN - Technical Application Note Tanner - Slot 2 32-bit chip using Katmai New Instructions. TAP - Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol TAPCON - A brand name for connectors of all types, often used to mean any connector (like Xerox has become a generic term for "copy"). TAPCON is often used to refer to the connector on an electric cable into which a WHIP from an electric device, such as computer storage is plugged, TAPI - Telecommunications Application Programming Interface. A set of standard programming functions that can be implemented by applications that interface with telecommunications equipment, i.e. telephones, exchanges, fax machines, voice mail, etc. Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI) see also: Complete Network, USB, BUS & Telephony Info target - typically a disk array or tape subsystem on a storage network (SCSI) Target x Driver - Transmit Data. (TxD) (K10). TB - Terabytes - approximately one trillion bytes (1,024 GB). TCAP - Transaction Capabilities Application Part, enables the deployment of advanced intelligent network services by supporting non-circuit related information exchange between signalling points using the SCCP connectionless service (SS7). TCB - Trusted Computing Base. The TCB software consists of the following elements: a) the operating system kernel, including device drivers & strams modules b) all programs that are intended are allowed to run with any process privileges c) programs that while not intending to run with privileges, handle sensitive information that could compromise the security of the system, e.g., administrative commands. d) add data files that a TCB program relies upon to make decisions affecting the enforcement of system securoty policy. TCB - Transaction and Control Buffers. The central CDC resource that manages storage and forwarding of address and data within the chip, taking into consideration address collision and ordering issues. Task Control Block TCC - TCC is a WWW tool to carry out thermochemical calculations for ideal gas mixtures. It makes use of Chemkin, and includes a database of properties for many ... TcD - the Target Class Driver (K10) connects the Target Enhanced Miniport to the actual storage, and implements most of the basic SCSI protocols. TCD - Transport Class Driver (as in K10) - a Front End driver TCG - Trusted Computing Group. Security is built into an increasing number of general purpose ICT products, and security standards are fundamental to the integrity and sustainability of the global ICT infrastructure. The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) believes that open, interoperable, and internationally vetted standards are critical for the success of trusted computing, and that the multilateral approach to creating such standards is most effective. Trusted Computing Group - Home Page Tcl - Tool Command Language. Tcl is both a scripting language and an interpreter for Tcl. TCMP - Internet Control Message Protocol. An extension to IP that permits extra control, test and error messages to be incorporated into the packet stream. TCO - Total Cost of Ownership TCO - Temporary Change Order TCP - Transmission/Transport Connection/Control Protocol, provides a reliable stream delivery and virtual connection service to applications through the use of sequenced acknowledgement with retransmission of packets when necessary (TCP/IP). See also TCP TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol. TCP/IP structures are ALWAYS big endian. Passes data in routable packets between servers, and supports high-level protocols like HTTP, FTP, etc. See also TCP/IP TCP/IP Protocol Suite - MIL-STD-1777 Internet Protocol (IP). Provides a connectionless service for end systems to communicate across one or more networks. Does not assume the network to be reliable. MIL-STD-1778 - Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)- A reliable end-to-end data-transfer service. Equivalent to the OSI transport protocol. MIL-STD-1780 - File Transfer Protocol (FTP) MIL-STD-1781 - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol - SMTP MIL-STD-1782 - TELNET TCS - Tata Consultancy Services (India). TCS – Tata Consultancy Services TCS - Technical Concept Summary tcsd - tcsd is a user space daemon that should be (according to the TSS spec) the only portal to the TPM device driver. At boot time, tcsd should be started. tcsd - die.net TCS - Tata Consultancy Services (Indian [Asia] Software Company) TD-CDMA - Time Division - Code Division Multiple Access TDA - Transition Data Analysis, also known as event history analysis, survival data analysis or analysis of failure time data. TDC - Tabular Data Control. An ActiveX control, part of the MDAC Universal Data Access components package, that provides client-side access and caching over HTTP for data stored in text format. TDD - Test Driven DevelopmentTest-driven development (an Agile testing philosophy) Continuous Integration Vs TDD(Test Driven Development) (Agile) Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration for Mobile Applications - Microsoft Practicing CI or TDD does not make you agile - mattberther.com Android TDD & CI - SlideShare The CI, TDD and OO Love Triangle - Exploring the Meaty Bits Continuous Improvement Model - Learning Resources - ASQ.org DevOps Leadership: Ryan Martens Ex #5: TDD, CI and CD - BMC “It is difficult to do TDD & CI” - Exploring the “Why” in a large company Fighting the Software Uncertainty principle. SCRUM+TDD+CI+SELENIUM+cfEngine TDD - Target Disk Driver (K10), implements SCSI disk semantics. Its primary purpose is to implement Disk Logical Unit objects. It is an intermediate driver. Each DLU object sits on top of a standard (or CLARiiON extended) Disk Class object presented by lower level driver, and is referenced by one or more VLUs. The TDD will examine all incoming commands, and either service them (e.g., reservations) or delegate them to the underlying Disk Class object. TDD - Transport Device Driver. TDM - Time Division Multiplexing TDMA - Time Division Multiple Access TDMS - Transition Minimized Differential Signaling (HDMI 1.4) TDP - Tag Distribution Protocol, a two party protocol that runs over a connection oriented transport layer with guaranteed sequential delivery. Tiered Data Protection The thermal design power (TDP) TeamTest - Rational (IBM) TeamTest extends Rational's functional and regression testing solution with complete load testing capabilities, defect and change tracking, and test management. This comprehensive approach reduces the risk of deploying faulty applications. The technology in Rational TeamTest is also included in Rational Suite TestStudio. TEI - Text Encoding Initiative. A standard that has been under development since 1987 providing guidelines for the preparation and interchange of electronic texts for scholarly research and general projects. Work to convert it for access through XML is underway. Telcordia Technologies - formerly Bell Communications Research, or "Bellcore" telephony - pertaining to telephone and even wireless phone software and hardware. Includes subjects such as SS7, CSS7, SONET, IDSN, X.25, xSDL, switches,... For more information on specific Wireless telephony subjects, Click Here For more information on other specific telephony subjects, Click Here TELNET - Terminal emulation protocol of TCP/IP. For more information TEN - Test Execution Notes (IBM) tenancy - possession of an arbitrated loop by a device to conduct a transaction Teradata - vendor specializing in data warehousing and analytic applications. Teradata Load & Unload Utilities Teradata TES - Test Engineering Support Test Bed - An environment containing the hardware, instrumentation, simulators, software tools, and other support elements needed to conduct a test [IEEE 610]. Test Case - A set of test inputs, executions, and expected results developed for a particular objective. TM - TruMotion. LG TruMotion Technology - LG.com Fake refresh rates: Is your TV really 120Hz? - C/NET What is LG Trumotion? - Yahoo Answers Test Coverage - The degree to which a given test or set of tests addresses all specified test cases for a given system or component. Test Criteria - Decision rules used to determine whether software item or software feature passes or fails a test. Test Director - (Mercury Interactive, now HP). TestDirector, the industry’s first global TEST MANAGEMENT solution, helps organizations deploy high-quality applications more quickly and effectively. Its four modules—Requirements Manager, Test Plan, Test Lab and Defects Manager—are seamlessly integrated, allowing for a smooth information flow between various testing stages. The completely Web-enabled TestDirector supports high levels of communication and collaboration among distributed testing teams, driving a more effective, efficient global application-testing process. Test Documentation - (IEEE) Documentation describing plans for, or results of, the testing of a system or component, Types include test case specification, test incident report, test log, test plan, test procedure, test report. Test Driver - A software module or application used to invoke a test item and, often, provide test inputs (data), control and monitor execution. A test driver automates the execution of test procedures. Test Harness - A system of test drivers and other tools to support test execution (e.g., stubs, executable test cases, and test drivers). See: test driver. Test Schedule - schedule that identifies all tasks required for a successful testing effort, a schedule of all test activities and resource requirements - Team Foundation Server - TFS is a Microsoft product which provides source code management (either via Team Foundation Version Control or Git. Team Foundation Server - Wikipedia Team Foundation Server 2013 - Microsoft THX - THX Surround EX. The THX Surround EX format is jointly developed by Lucasfilm THX and Dolby Laboratories, and is the home theater version of "Dolby Digital Surround EX", an Extended Surround sound format used by state-of-the-art movie theaters. Click here for more info Test Item - A software item which is the object of testing.[IEEE] TiO - Turn It On (TiO), a division of Anuva Automation, announced this week (1.2015) that it is now shipping their TouchLite 4 Lighting Control pad. TKLM - Tivoli Key Library Manager TKLM - IBM’s Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager Test Log - A chronological record of all relevant details about the execution of a test.[IEEE] Test Plan - A high-level document that defines a testing project so that it can be properly measured and controlled. It defines the test strategy and organized elements of the test life cycle, including resource requirements, project schedule, and test requirements Test Procedure - A document, providing detailed instructions for the [manual] execution of one or more test cases. [BS7925-1] Often called - a manual test script. Test RealTime - Rational's )IBM's) is a complete solution for the component testing and runtime analysis of embedded, real-time and other cross-platform applications. IBM Rational Test RealTime automates testing on both the host and the target. It provides memory leak detection, memory and performance profiling, code coverage analysis, and runtime UML tracing. Rational Test RealTime lets you fix your code before it breaks in its operational environment. Test Status - The assessment of the result of running tests on software. Test Stub - A dummy software component or object used (during development and testing) to simulate the behaviour of a real component. The stub typically provides test output. Test Suites - A test suite consists of multiple test cases (procedures and data) that are combined and often managed by a test harness. Test Tree - A physical implementation of Test Suite. [Dorothy Graham, 1999] Testability - Attributes of software that bear on the effort needed for validating the modified software [ISO 8402] Testing - The execution of tests with the intent of providing that the system and application under test does or does not perform according to the requirements specification. TestManager - Rational (IBM) TestManager provides control, management and reporting of all test activities – including manual testing – from a single, central point. It lets testers know immediately when a requirement has changed that impacts test cases, and improves team productivity by making test results and progress toward goals immediately available to all team members. Available separately and included in all Rational Suite products, Rational TeamTest and Rational Robot. TestMate - Rational (IBM). provides an extension to IBM Rational Apex for automating Ada software testing. IBM Rational TestMate supports a variety of different testing paradigms such as system, integration, module, black box, or white box testing. It provides developers and/or testers with an integrated Ada testing environment that automates testing, provides test management and allows tests to be developed on the host system and run on the target platform. Testopia - a test case management extension to the Bugzilla bug tracking system. See also: TESTOPIA TEXT - File Object Type - get from File (EXE) - Shared. TF - TEST FACTORS - WMS TF01 - Reliability - WMS TF02 - Authorization - WMS TF03 - Database/File?memory Integrity - WMS TF04 - Audit Trail (inc. Change Control) - WMS TF05 - Continuity of Processing - WMS TF06 - Access Control ?? - WMS TF07 - Methodology - WMS TF08 - Correctness - WMS TF09 - Ease of use - WMS TF10 - Maintainable - WMS TF11 - Portable - WMS TF12 - Coupling - wms TF13 - Performance - WMS TF14 - Documentation - WMS TF15 - Volume - WMS TF16 - Resource Usage - WMS TFIM - Trivoli (IBM) Federated Indentity Manager TFTP - Trivial File Transfer Protocol, supports file writing and reading (TCP/IP). TGCP - PacketCable PSTN Gateway Call Signaling Protocol Specification (TGCP) THARN - Test HARNess, precursor to NATE (NetApp) THDR - Transport Layer Header, used by RTP endpoints to provide correct processing of the packet (SNA). theme - A Theme is a ringtone, screen saver and wallpaper - all downloaded as a single bundle! Choose a theme that expresses what you feel most passionate about…your favorite sports team, cartoon character, or musical preferences. Many are available with a matching convertible covers for your phone! this - Refers to the current object in a method or constructor. .thpl - THARN test cases (file suffix for)(NA) thread - is an abstraction of the concept of execution in a shared space. The unit of Local sheduling A sequence of instructions that are executed as an independent entity, and are scheduled by system software. A sequence of instructions and associated private resources (e.g., registers & stack). If system scheduling is desired, a thread is created "bound". Names of similar constructs include: "execution entity", "light weight process", "schedule entity", and "executable object". thread group - the unit of Global Scheduling (one or more threads, grouped together) thread-of-control - thread Thread Testing - A testing technique used to test a specific funtionality from start to finish, in much the same way that the actual user will interact with the system. throw - Creates an exception throws - Indicates what exceptions may be thrown by a method. THX - The THX Surround EX format was jointly developed by Lucasfilm THX and Dolby Laboratories, and is the home theater version of "Dolby Digital Surround EX, an Extended Surround sound format used by state-of-the-art movie theaters. Click here for more info Tibco messaging - TIBCO - Messaging Software. TIBCO | Mainframe Messaging TIA - Telecommunications Industry Association TIC - Trusted Internet Connections (US government mandate). The TIC initiative mandates that officials develop plans for limiting the number of Internet connections into their departments and agencies. ticket - Kerberos Access Object. A ticket is granted to users by the Kerberos security system to allow them to access a specific resource. It contains information about the user, and has a pre-determined expiry time. ticket system - the system used by TSG to track service requests TID - Target Identifier (Clariion/K10). TIE - Tray Identifier Enable TimeFinder - Product: EMC TimeFinder/Clone - Essentially a data "snapshot" Timeplex (BRE2) - Bridge Relay Encapsulation, proprietary Ascom Timeplex protocol that extends bridging across WAN links by means of encapsulation (Frame Relay). TIP - (computer) Tablet Input Panel TIPS - Treasury Inflation Proected Securities TiVo - A sophisticated TV recorder using a hard drive for storage. TiVo has the best interface of all PVR/DVRs. Click here for more info TKIP - Temporal Key Integrity Protocol. See also TL1 - Telecom Management Protocol. A subset of ITU-T's MML from Bellcore, with simpler syntax. TL1 is similar to USL. The GR-831 specification imposes syntax, semantics, information structure, and other rules for uniform construction of TL1 messages. TLA - Top Level Assembly ;; Tax Lot Accounting TLA - Three Letter Acronym. A recursive definition designed to make fun of the way the industry tends to name its products and services. TLB - Translation Lookaside Buffer TLC - Testing Lifecycle TLD - Top-Level Domain. Describes the element of the DNS hierarchy at the topmost level. In Internet terms, these are .com, org, .uk, .it, .edu, etc.. TLI - Transport Layer Interface TLIB - Pthread Library TLS - IETF's well-known Transport Layer Security (TLS) standard. Transport Layer Security - Wikipedia What is Transport Layer Security (TLS)? - SearchSecurity Transport Layer Security (tls) - Charter - IETF TM - Time Management ?? n Disable Depth tmap - Contains architectureal specific address spacve information, mainly to locate pages TME - Technical Marketing Engineer TMF - eTOM, SID and other CIM models. TMN - Telecommunications Management Network M.3010) it's implementation architecure is based in ITU-T's Recommendation X.720. Introduction to TMN TMS - Transport Management Systems TN - Bistable Twisted Nematic (TN) LCDLCDs TN - Telephone Network TNC - transnational corporation more TOAD - An environment that allows monitoring and testing of applications written for thin clients (IBM internal)) TOAD - Tool For (Database) Application Developers. By: ToadSoft TOE - TCP/IP Offload Engine. See also TOE TOGAF - Open Group Standard TOGAF - main page An enterprise architecture Standard. toggle - vt. To change a bit from whatever state it is in to the other state; to change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1. This comes from `toggle switches', such as standard light switches, though the word `toggle' actually refers to the mechanism that keeps the switch in the position to which it is flipped rather than to the fact that the switch has two positions. There are four things you can do to a bit: set it (force it to be 1), clear (or zero) it, leave it alone, or toggle it. (Mathematically, one would say that there are four distinct boolean-valued functions of one boolean argument, but saying that is much less fun than talking about toggling bits.) TOI - Transfer Of Information (any NetApp meeting for this purpose) Token Ring - LAN protocol where all stations are connected in a ring and each station can directly hear transmissions only from its immediate neighbor (IBM). tomcat - Tomcat is the reference implementation for Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSP). Apache Tomcat - Wikipedia Apache Tomcat - Welcome! - apache.org Top-Down - "A top-down approach (is also known as step-wise design) is essentially the breaking down of a system to gain insight into its compositional sub-systems." - See also: Top-down and bottom-up design - Wikipedia As contrasted to: Bottom-Up design Topic Maps - When XML is introduced into an organization it is usually used for one of two purposes: either to structure the organization's documents or to make that organization's applications talk to other applications. These are both useful ways of using XML, but they will not help anyone find the information they are looking for. What changes with the introduction of XML is that the document processes become more controllable and can be automated to a greater degree than before, while applications can now communicate internally and externally. But the big picture, something that collects the key concepts in the organization's information and ties it all together, is nowhere to be found. This is where topic maps come in. With topic maps you create an index of information which resides outside that information topology - the physical or logical arrangement of devices in a networked configuration ToS - Type Of Service, this field in the IP packet header that was intended to provide a hint of the preferred routing policy or packet-routing preference. routing protocols that are ToS-capable are able to make routing decisions based in bits in the ToS Field of the IP Header. TP - Transaction Processing tpage - The tpage script is a simple wrapper around the Template Toolkit processor. [Properties (by Name)] [Methods (by Name)] [Events (by Name)]. TPC - Tivoli Productivity Center TPC - Transaction Processing Council. TPC-C - Compute intensive benchmark resultr. TPC-D - Data processing benchmark result, expressed in units per Second. TPGT - target portal group tag TPI - Transport Provider Interface - too complex to be recommended for general application use. TPM - Trusted Platform Module - both the name and the specification detailing a secure cryptoprocessor that can store cryptographic key. See also: TPM TPM 2.0 is the latest version (2/2023) What is the TPM on a motherboard? - Intel A TPM, or a trusted platform module, is a physical or embedded security technology (microcontroller) that resides on a computer's motherboard or in its processor. TPMs use cryptography to help securely store essential and critical information on PCs to enable platform authentication. TQM - Total Quality Management - A company commitment to develop a process that achieves high- quality product and customer satisfaction. TR - Technical Report TRADACOMS - A European EDI standard developed by the Article Numbering Association. TRADACOMS has been mostly used by the retail industry in the U.K. See EDI. Transfer - will be used in the code to replace “Messaging” name space. transient data - kernel resources neccessary for a thread to execute in kernel space Transit networks - interconnect multiple OSPF routers. transitive vector - essentially a group of modification timestamps tray ID - drawer number (shelf number) of a FAStT storage system tree - Windows 2000 Domain Structure. A group of Windows 2000 domain controllers and other servers and clients that for a contiguous namespace, i.e. share a common root domain name. Tree Diagram - Breaks down or stratifies ideas in progressively greater detail. The objective is to partition a big idea or problem into its smaller components, making the idea easier to understand, or the problem easier to solve. Trespass - The act of taking ownership for a LU. This can be done in the case of an SP failure, an overt action by the system administrator, or automatically upon access via the non-owner. triage - A process in which things are ranked in terms of importance or priority Trident - Clariion disk with Fibre Channel connection, SCSI backend TRIM command - A Trim command (commonly typeset as TRIM) allows an operating system to inform a solid-state drive (SSD) which blocks of data are no longer considered in use and can be wiped internally. When software-based disk encryption is in use, using the Trim command reveals information about which blocks are in use and which are not. TRIM command - Wikipedia Make Sure TRIM Is Enabled for Your Solid State Drive How to enable TRIM - SSD - Storage - Tom's Hardware (SSD) native command Queuing For more TRIM information, please Click HERE triple-play - Any device that works with, or integrates voice, data and video. tripwire - A program that builds and maintains a database of MD5 digital signatures for all or a set of files and directories on the system. Its purpose is to detect unauthorized changes. trit - trit/ n. [by analogy with `bit'] One base-3 digit; the amount of information conveyed by a selection among one of three equally likely outcomes (see also bit). Trits arise, for example, in the context of a flag that should actually be able to assume three values -- such as yes, no, or unknown. Trits are sometimes jokingly called `3-state bits'. A trit may be semi-seriously referred to as `a bit and a half', although it is linearly equivalent to 1.5849625 bits (that is, log2(3) bits). Tivoli - IBM Tivoli provides Integrated Service Management software to help manage business value of your IT infrastructure. Tivoli - IBM TRR - Test Readiness Review trunks - switch to switch connections are called trunks. try - starts a block of code that will be tested for exceptions. TS - Top Secret. The Three catagories for Classified Information are (low to high): Confidential Secret Top Secret TS - Technology Specialist (a Microsoft term) TS - Time Sharing ; Transmission State - wms TS 51.011 - TS 51.011 - Specification of the Subscriber Identity Module - Mobile Equipment SIM-ME interface TSA - Total Service Agreement || Tivoli Standard Achitecture TSA - Transportation Security Administration TSAPI - Telephony Services Application Programming Interface. A standard developed by Novell for Netware-based applications that interface with telephones and associated equipment. TSB - exTended Service Board TSE - Technical Support Engineer TSF - Technical Support Form - used by the IBM One-Stop-Shop system for xSeries releases. TSG - Technical Support Group TSID - in iSCSI, a target session identifier used to monitor transactions TSIH - target session indentifying handle TSM - Tivoli Storage Manager (developed under IBM) - used for backups,... TSNM - Trivoli Storage Network Manager TSP - Team Software Project TSP - Thrift Savings Plan TSQL - Transact SQL. A set of extensions to SQL implemented in MS SQL Server, which allow (amongst other things) more complex queries to be created and compiled as stored procedures within the database. TSY - Telephony Modules (ie., for Symbian,...) TTA - Telecommunications Technology Association - Korean standards organization TTC - Telecommunications Technology Committee - Japanese standards organization TTCN - TTCN is a standardised language for describing 'black-box' tests for reactive systems such as communication protocols and services. It allows the definition of testing configurations, points of control and observation and complex behaviour interactions. The integration of TTCN and ASN.1 means that there are powerful constructs for describing data as well as behaviour. Originally intended as a generic notation for specifying conformance tests of OSI protocols TTCN has been widely embraced by the telecommunications industry and other industrial users. ETSI has been an extensive user of TTCN since 1992. The language allows the specification of complex tests in a manner that is independent of the test systems which will eventually execute them, making it an ideal language for standardised test suites. TTM - Time To Market TTS - Transaction Tracking System (Novell) TTT - Test Tracking Tool (IBM).Test Project Management, Test Planning, Test Preparation, Integration Test, Interface Testing, System Test, Systems Integration Test, Acceptance Test, Product Test. TTT - Text Translation Tool (IBM). TTT - Things That Talk ;; target transfer tag (SCSI/iSCSI) TTLS - Tunneled Transport Layer Security (TTLS) A Technical Comparison of TTLS and PEAP - O'Reilly tty - teletype (Unix special file) TTYL - talk to you later TUF - TCP Upper-Level-Protocol Framing tunneling - encapsulation of entire frames of a protocol for transport through an IP network - i.e., carrying one protocol in another protocol. TUP - Telephone User Part Tuxedo 7.1 - An e-commerce transactions platform for building high-performance, mission-critical, and reliable distributed applications. Twin Block System - Frame with two blocks running independently, no SCI Support or connection. TWS - Technical WorkStations TWP - Truely Worthless Page - Private, anonymous objects are TWP if their owner goes away Tx - Transmit - Transmission TxD - Transmit Data UA - User Agent (with SLP) UAC - Windows Vista and Windows 7 User Account Control UAC - User Agent Client UAP - User Area Pointer - for the process's hardware dependent page tables. UAS - User Agent Server UAT - User Acceptance Test. UAT also is called beta testing, end-user testing or application testing. It is a test usually performed by the customer, or at least in a simulated customer lab environment, using real world tests scenarios. Normally, if the product passes the UAT, and all deliverables are provided, the customer accepts the product. UAV - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UBR - Unspecified Bit Rate UC - unified communications Unified communications - Wikipedia Unified Communications - Products and Services - Cisco Microsoft Pushes Its Way Into Crowded Unified ... - CIO.com Cisco declares war on Microsoft unified communications Cisc UC540 Quick Start Guide - PDF UC - microcode - doesn't really exist on DG/UX anymore. Closest thing to BIOS. For machine dependancies UCB - Unit Control Block - a Mainframce operating system representation of a storage volume. UCF - Universal Communications Format - used by a lot of programs that allow users to share the same computer screen for conference calls. UDA - Universal Data Access. A Microsoft strategy for providing access to all types of information across the enterprise. UDA provides high-performance access to a variety of information sources. UDDI - Universal Description, Discovery and Integration UDP - User Datagram Protocol, added above the Internet Protocol Suite used for packet transmission. User Datagram Protocol, provides a simple but unreliable message service for transaction-oriented services (TCP/IP). UDSL - Universal Digital Subscriber Line. Sometimes called DSL Lite, this is a less powerful and less expensive version of ASDL, primarily aimed at home users. It is also easier to install. UDT - UDP-based Data Transfer. Click fore more UDT info UE - User Equipment (3G, called ME or MS in 2G) UEFI - United EFI. An open source version of Intel's EFI. United Extensible Firmware Interface - a specification detailing an interface that helps hand off control of the computer system to an operating system. Created by Intel's UEFI Consortium - members include: Intel, Microsoft, AMD, Dell, IBM and HP. UEM - User Experience Managment UFIA - a file managment subsystem UFID - Unique File IDentifier UFL - upper functional layer UFM - Unified File Manager - unifies Inode management for the local file system. understands the format of local file system directories. UFS - Unix File System, which is based on the BSD FAT Fast file system (the traditional UNIX file system). The UFS file system is the default disk-based file system used in Solaris. UFT - Unified Functional Testing. For more UFT information, Click here HP Unified Functional Testing software - Hewlett Packard UHAPI - Samsung-Philips Universal Home API UHD - Ultra High Definition (UHD) is the resolution 3840x2160P UHTTP - Unidirectional Hypertext Transfer protocol. A protocol designed to allow the multicasting of IP packets over the Internet or other network, in order to provide a combination of Internet content and ordinary broadcast television. UI - User Interface - may or may not be a GUI. UIRAs - Unscheduled Incident Repair Actions (IBM) UI thread - User Interface thread UIQ - a pen-based graphical user interface for Symbian OS phones. More on UIQ UL - UDP Listener thread (ATM) - wms ULP - Ultra Low Profile (memory - often DDR2 for Blade Servers) ULP - upper-layer protocol or upper level protocol Ultra HD - Previously called 4K HD. more on Ultra HD It's official! CEA's Board of Industry Leaders voted this week (1018/2012) to call the next generation of 4K HD "Ultra High Definition" or "Ultra HD." Ultra XGA - 1600 x 1200 pixles. 16M colors. 8 MB video RAM required. UMA - Uniform Memory Access UML - Unified Modeling Language. A specification from the Object Management Group aimed at providing a common language for specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting distributed objects and business models for application developers. UML 2 - Defines 13 UML basic diagram types. Sparx Systems - UML 2 Tutoria UMPC - Ultra-Mobile PC. Intel's new chip (5/2007). For more info, click here UMTS - Third Generation Cellular Networks (commonly referred to as 3G) represent the next phase in the evolution of cellular technology, evolution from the analog systems (1st generation) and digital systems (2nd generation). 3G networks will represent a shift from voice-centric services to converged services, including voice, data, video, fax and so forth. UMTS is the dominant 3G solution being developed, representing an evolution from the GSM network standards, interoperating with a GSM core network. The 3G will implement a new access network, utilizing both improved radio interfaces and different technologies for the interface between the access network and the radio network. UMTS is the term for 3G systems most widely used in Europe (the term "UMTS"). UMTS uses Code-division multiple access (CDMA) for the air interface. UNC - Universal Naming Convention. The standard format for naming resources throughout a network. A combination of server name and resource path and name which identifies a resource on a local or wide-area network. Common UNCs start with the double-backslash, such as \\sunspotCdocumentsmyfile.doc. UNI - User Network Interface, an interface point between ATM end users and a private ATM switch, or between a private ATM switch and the public carrier ATM network. unicast - Communication between a single sender and a single receiver over a network. Compare to multicast and anycast (communication between any sender and the nearest of a group of receivers). unicast discovery protocol - allows JINI clients and services to contact a lookup service whose location is already known. Unicode - international character encoding system. 2 byte character encoding that supercedes ASCII to enable encoding of non-Roman character sets such as CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean). Uniface - a (Compuware) development enviroment designed to help you deploy large and complex applications. unit_spec - The SCSI ID and Unit number of the physical device which is the target of the request. Unit Testing - Testing performed to isolate and expose faults and failures as soon as the source code is available, regardless of the external interfaces that may be required. Oftentimes, the detailed design and requirements documents are used as a basis to compare how and what the unit is able to perform. White and black-box testing methods are combined during unit testing. universal Xport Device - access logical drive - the host agent requires a special logical drive, called an "access logical drive", to communicate with the controller in the storage subsystem - therefore, you are limited to configuring one fewer logical drives than the maximum number. UNT - Username Token Untagged frame - A frame that does not include a VTAG. UP - single (computer) processor, as opposed to SMP. UPG - unix product group- the directorate at RTP the produces and tests DG/UX UPM - Universal Port Module (McData) UPM card - Each fiber port module card provides four Fibre Channel connections through duplex small form factor pluggable (SFP) fiber-optic transceivers. 1 or 2 gigabits per second enabled. (McDATA) UPnP - Universal Plug-and-Play. Based on XML and HTTP, UPnP provides an easy-to-exercise protocol to find out what is on your network (device discovery). UpperCamelCase - CamelCase with the first letter is also capitolized What is UpperCamelCase? - Whatis Upper Camel Case UpperCamelCase - Search Web Services Wiki Use of Camel Case for Naming XML and XML-Related ... - Coverpages FYI - UpperCamelCase == PascalCase :: JetBrains Developer Community C++: UpperCamelCase or lowerCamelCase? - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums Upper Camel Case « Shell Scripts UPS - Uninteruptable Power Supply - this is supposed to comprise of battery backup, but this term is often mis-used these days. More UPS information upscaling - taking a video signal, of say, 480i, and using computer technology to generate video lines in-between existing video lines, that match the color and shape of the two (real) adjacent lines. The effect to the eye is that you have a video picture with more content. Also called upconverting. All HDTVs have a "native" resolution (or "native rate" resolution). Internally, all video signals are converted to this resolution, if neccessary, before being manipulated to produce the requested resolution and picture size. Native Rates for most LCDs, DLPs and Plasmas is often around 720p (12/2005). URB - unix review board URC - Uniform Resource Citation (or Characteristics). A set of attribute/value pairs describing a resource. Some values may be URIs of various kinds. Others may include, for example, authorship, publisher, datatype, date, copyright status, etc. URE - Unrecoverable Read Errors (UREs). How to protect yourself from RAID-related Unrecoverable Read Errors (UREs) URG bit - A TCP protocol header bit that indicates urgent data is present. URI - Uniform Resource Identifier. The generic set of all name/address pairs that are short strings that refer to resources in a URC. A URI is either a URL or URN. URLs and URNs are concrete entities that actually exists; a URI is an abstract superclass. URL - Universal/Uniform Resource Locator. A combination of a protocol, host name, (optional) port, path and resource name. Uniquely identifies a resource on the Internet. For example: http://www.wrox.com:8080/books/index.htm. http://www.woodsmall.com URL - wikipedia URL Normalization URN - Uniform Resource Name. A scheme currently under development by IETF to provide resolution of names having greater persistence than currently associated with Internet host names or organizations. When complete a URN will be an example of a URI. URS - ??? (IBM) Usability Test - evaluate a product by testing it on users. Two common metrics are success rate and time on task. Usability testing Seven Common Usability Testing Mistakes Usability Testing USB - (computer) Universal Serial Bus. See also USB USB-OTG - USB On-The-Go. See also USB-OTG USB Key - USB Stick = Thumb Drive = USB Flash Drive = USB Memory Key = Geek Stick - May or May NOT be Bootable USD - Unix Software Development - a "department" of 3 departments within UPG responsible for DG/UX development Use Case - A Use case expresses the behavioral portion of a contract between the stakeholders of a system. It describes the system's behavior and interactions under various conditions as it responds to a request on behalf of one of the stakeholders, the Primary Actor, showing how the primary actor's goal gets delivered or fails. The use case gathers the scenarios related to the primary actor's goal. IBM's Use Cases - definition of Use Case Diagram - in UML, this diagram shows the external actors, the system boundary, the use cases as ellipses, and arrows connecting sctors to ellipses or ellipses to ellipses. It is primarily useful as a Context Diagram and table of contents. user - refers to the end user who subscribes to a service that interfaces with the WMS SDK. WMS User Binary - DG-written extensions to the Intel BIOS that allow Us to configure memory maps, interrupts, etc to support Our NUMA architecture. USIM - Universal Subscriber Identification Module (the "SIM" card for European UMTS wireless). The USIM uses a redesigned security module (differs from SIM). From the smart card perspective, the main difference between GSM and UMTS is the security module in the USIM (verses the one in a SIM). USN - Unique Sequence Number. A 64-bit number used by Active Directory to indicate the order that entries were created in a distributed AD structure, so that updates are performed correctly. USPV - (Hitachi) Universal Storage Platform V (high-end virtualizing storage system). Hitachi's Universal Storage Platform V is virtually huge UT - Unit Test UTE - Unit Table Entry for the device that is the target of the operation UTF - Universal Transformation Format UTM - Unified threat management Unified threat management - Wikipedia UTP - Unshielded Twisted Pair UTRAN - UMTS radio access network. See also: UTRAN UUID - Universally Unique IDentifier Universally Unique Identifier - a 32 digit (128-bit) number. U-Verse - SBC's brand of IPTV, due out in 2006 UUV - Unmanned Undersea Vehicles More info UCS - Cisco's Unified Computing System. "The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is an x86 architecture data center server platform composed of computing hardware, virtualization support, switching fabric, and management software introduced in 2009" - UCS - Wikipedia UX - User Experience. More UX information - User Experience - User experience (UX) designers optimize any experience where humans interact with objects, such as board games, ATMs and cars. UXGA - Ultra XGA. A display with 1200 x 1600 pixel resolution. UXWGA - Wide Ultra eXtended Graphics Array. 1920 horizontal pixels by 1200 vertical pixels A display that can handle 1920 x 1080i pixel Resolution. UWB - ultrawideband - an Intel sponsored de facto wireless standard that will probably render Bluetooth obsolete. V - Value (added) V&V - Verification and Validation (V and V). See also: Complete QA and Testing Information V dot - Refers to the ITU standards for communications that are named starting with a V and followed by a period; for example, V.32bis and V.34. V5.2 - The V5.2 Protocol defines the switching and signalling protocol between Access Network and the Local Exchange for the support of: * Analog Telephone Access * ISDN (BRI and PRI) Access * Other Digital or Analog access for Semi-permanent connections The V5.2 Protocol Software includes the following features: * Concentration Capability * Protection for Link Failures * Call Control Responsibility with LE V.90 - An ITU standard (1998) for a modem that communicates at 56 Kbps downstream and 33.6 Kbps upstream. It is intended for use only with ISPs and online services that are digitally attached to the telephone system. Most service providers are typically connected with high-speed digital T1 or T3 circuits. In practice, the downstream link isn't generally faster than 45 Kbps in these PCM modems, so called because they use pulse code modulation downstream and standard V.34 upstream. Initially, two incompatible technologies competed in this arena: x2 from U.S. Robotics and K56Flex from Rockwell and Lucent. Such modems can be upgraded to V.90 if they contain software-upgradable memory chips. See V.92, V.34 and channel bonding. V.92 - An improved version of the V.90 modem that boosts the upstream rate from 33.6 Kbps to 48 Kbps. Introduced in 2000, V.92 reduces connection time (handshaking) by remembering the previous settings negotiated when dialing the same telephone number. It also supports call waiting by allowing the data session to be put on hold while a voice call is taken. See V.90. VA - Validation Authority (PKI) VAJ - VisualAge for Java - a development IDE validation - validation physically ensures that the system operates according to plan by executing the system functions through a series of tests that can be observed and evaluated. validation addresses: "Did we build the system right?" Van Jacobson - compressed TCP protocol which improves the TCP/IP performance over low speed serial links. Vantive - Vantive Call Tracking System Variance - The sum of the squared deviations of n measurements from their mean divided by (n-1). The deviation from what was expected. Deviation from process mean ie, away from the target which often results in extra cost to revert back on target/mean. variant - in Automation, an instance of the VARIANT datatype that can represent values of many different types, such as integers, floats, Booleans, strings, pointers, and so on. VARP - VINES Address Resolution Protocol, used for finding the node Data Link Control address from the node IP address (Banyan). VAS - value-added services vaulting - archieving tape backups, typically via remote tape backup over a WAN VB - Visual Basic VBA - Visual Basic Applications Vblock - Fill out the form to receive your FREE IDC White Paper Cloud Computing with VCE More Productivity, Less Cost Vblock Systems - built on Cisco servers with Intel® Xeon® processors, EMC storage and virtualization from VMware. made by VCE. VBR - Variable Bit Rate. See also http://www.woodsmall.com/DIGITAL.htm VC - Volume Copy VC - Venture Capital VC++ - Microsoft's Visual C++ VCE - VCE (company), formed by Cisco Systems and EMC Corporation with investments from VMware and Intel VCE builds and assembles Vblock Systems using EMC storage, Cisco servers and networking, and VMware virtualization technology. It bundles and tests these systems before shipping them to customers Voltage across Collector Emitter, in a transistor Video Codec Engine, an AMD hardware video encoding and decoding technology Virtual customer environment, a web-based forum VCD - Video Compact Disk, a CD containing moving pictures and sound. VCI - Virtual Channel Identifier. VCP - VMware Certified Professional. Click HERE for information about VMware VCS - Veritas Cluster Server. Veritas Cluster Server - Symantec Lots more information of Computer STORAGE & Virtualization VCS - Virtual Computer System. A collection of nodes capable of communicating with each other via the fabric through their shared address map, and share a common view of the global shared memory. NOTE: There may be multiple VCSs per fabric. VCS BIOS - Run after host's BIOS and XDIAG programs have run. Once it completes there is a single copy of the OS running on the BSN. VCSEL - Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser VD - Virtual Device - could be a LUN (LSI) VDD - Virtual Disk Driver VDI - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VMware). wikipedia These days, many companies are selling VDI, vdisk - array VDIT - Virtual Device Information Table (DIT). The VDIT size must be a multiple of 16 blocks. the default VDIT size (R4.20) is 16 blocks per GB of physical disk space. VDL - Vienna Definition Language VDM - Virtual Disk Manager - sits between the parts of the kernel that do I/O and the disk device drivers. VDMT - Debugging tool for the VDM VDS - virtual disk service (IBM / Microsoft) VDSL - Very high bit-rate DSL. VDSL offers the highest speeds, but is only in limited commercial use. See also VE - Verifying Implementation (one of the Common features in a CMMI PA). Veeza - Philips' new CD-R patent licensing scheme, Veeza. VEIL - Video Encoding Invisable Light - A means of plugging the analog hole (a means whereby anlog equipment could be used to process HD content), regardless of the use of HDCP. verification - The comparison between the actual characteristics of something (e.g. a product of a software project and the expected characteristics).Validation is checking that you have built the right system. The comparison between the actual characteristics of something (e.g. a product of a software project) and the specified characteristics. Verification is checking that we have built the system right. A tester uses verification methods to ensure that the system (software, hardware, documentation, and personnel) complies with an organization's standards and processes, relying on review or no-executable methods. Verification answers the question: "Did we build the right system?". vertical slice - where the engineer works on a feature from the top-level management interface (e.g. command line and/or SNMP), through the application code, down to the device driver VESA - Video Electronics Standards Association. VFM - Virtual File Manager VFS - Virtual File System vg - volume group. To create a volume group from one or more physical volumes, use the vgcreate command. The vgcreate command creates a new volume group by name and adds at least one physical volume to it. When physical volumes are used to create a volume group, its disk space is divided into 4MB extents, by default. This extent is the minimum amount by which the logical volume may be increased or decreased in size. Large numbers of extents will have no impact on I/O performance of the logical volume. Redhat. VGA - A display with 640 x 480 pixel resolution. Video Graphics Array, video standard. Click here for more info VGAC - VGA Controller. VGA Connector - a 15 pin VGA connector - The standard VGA connector for computer monitors. Also called: an RGB Connector and D-sub 15, There is even a mini sub D15 connector. VGA is being phased out as a computer monitor standard. VGCS - Voice Group Call Service. VGE - Virtual Global Entities - either a VPS or a VP VHDL - VHDL is an acronym which stands for VHSIC Hardware Description Language. VHSIC is yet another achronym which stands for Very High Speed Integrated Circuits. VHDL is a standard (VHDL-1076) developed by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). Emacs VHDL Mode. VHDL Mode is an Emacs major mode for editing VHDL code. VI - Virtual Interface VIAS - Veritas Installation Assessment Service VID - Virtual Identifier. A reference tag that is used to gain access a virtual driver. VIDD - Virtual Interrupt Disable Depth -#times VP disabled software (virtual) interrupts video - "video" usually refers to related types of carrier formats. see also VIDT - Virtual Disk Information Table (contains info about instances on given phys disk) VIEN - Virtual Interrupt Enable view - A window object through which a user interacts with a document. "A viewpoint can be thought of as a combination of the idea of an “actor”, "Knowledge source”, “role” or “agent” in the development process and the idea of a “view” or “perspective” which an actor maintains." It is often used to choose the proper view of the entire project for a particular Actor. In database theory, a view consists of a stored[clarify] query accessible as a virtua table in a relational database or a set of documents in a document-oriented database composed of the result set of a query or map-and-reduce functions. Unlike ordinary tables (base tables) in a relational database, a view does not form part of the physical schema: it is a dynamic, virtual table computed or collated from data in the database. Changing the data in a table alters the data shown in subsequent invocations of the view. In some NoSQL databases views are the only way to query data. VIEx - Vector Image Exchange VIO - Virtual IO VIP - Virtual IP. More info VIPS - Verizon Information Processing Services viral - these days, it means some internet joke/article/video that is so popular, that it spread all over the world, very quickly (like a virus). viral effect - Improper handling or use of certain OSS code (E.G., GLP code) within Company A's proprietary code may necessitate that Company A distribute it's proprietary source code under the terms of the GPL. Virtual Circuit - Usually a connections between two hosts in a packet-switching network - the coonection seems direct and permanent to the user, but it is temporary and may be circuitous. An X.25 connection is an example of a virtual circuit. Virtual Ethernet - just what it sounds like. More info virtual functions - A member function of a base class, where the function is declared with the keyword virtual. If a base class contains a virtual function and a derived class defines the same function, the function from the derived class is invoked for objects of the derived class, even if it is called using a pointer or reference to the base class. virtual lanes - defined by InfiniBand to enable concurrent transactions over a single link virtualization - in storage networking, a technology that makes multiple physical disks or tape resources appear as a single logical resource to an initiator. More info VIRTUALIZATION Terms - Global Knowledge VIST - Virtual Interrupt Status. Visual Basic - A programming language and environment developed by Microsoft. Based on the BASIC language, Visual Basic was one of the first products to provide a graphical programming environment and a paint metaphor for developing user interfaces. Visual Test - (Rational). Rational Visual Test 6.5 software is a functional testing tool that assists testers in creating tests for Windows applications. Rational Visual Test is integrated with Microsoft Developer Studio, a desktop development environment, and has extensive integration with Microsoft Visual C++. Rational Visual Test makes developers and testers more productive and makes it easier for organizations to deploy applications of virtually any size for the Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98,Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems and for the World Wide Web. ViVID MPOA - proprietary protocol of Newbridge which provides bridged LAN Emulation and routed LAN Emulation functionality. VIVO - An acronym for Video In, Video Out VJS - Visual JavaScript. A Netscape tool for rapid crossware development, providing an array of components and services together with a HTML page designer. VL - virtual lane VL bus - VESA Local bus, 32-bit 40/66MHz bus w/bus mastering, archaic. VLAN - Virtual LAN (Virtual Local Area Network). A subset of the stations, applications, and/or links within a catenet, as defined by their logical relationship rather than their physical connectivity. 802.1Q. More info VLAN THIS IS MORE COMMON: Click here for more VLAN Information VLAN tag - A field inserted into a frame that provides an explicit indication of the VLAN association for that frame. 802.1Q same as VLAN Tagging VLAN TAGS are Four bytes in the VLAN Frame. VLANS are roughly equivalent to Fibre Channel zoning, but they are different. For VLAN TAGs to work, all impacted switches in trhe network will all have the sam VLAN identified and configured. VLAN is a defined industry standard. Fibre Channel Zoning is NOT yet an industry standard VLAN tags can also be used to assign priorities. VLAN tags have the capability to determine VLAN membership from information within the Frame, itself. - Building Storage Networks. Second Edition VLAN tagging - same as VLAN tag - setting a 12-bt identifier in an Ethernet frame to designate 1 of 4,096 possible VLANs VLDB - Very Large Data Base VLM - Very Large Memory (> 4GB memory) VLM - Virtual Library Manager - Neartek Virtual Library ManagerTM (VLM) addresses the increasing costs and efforts of managing mission-critical data and tape resources in enterprise computing and emerging storage area network (SAN)environments. VLM provides enterprise-wide information protection, consolidation, sharing and management capabilities for Midrange and Open Systems. VLM - Virtual Loadable Module VLP - Very Low Profile (memory - often DDR2) VLSM - variable-length subnet masking; a technique for creating subsets of IP hosts within a single network address space. VLU - Virtual Logical Unit (VLU) (K10) objects representing a logical unit from the initiator's point of view. It also builds a mapping for (bus, initiator, target, LUN) to VLU. This is a one to one mapping. Each VLU is attached to one xLU object presented by the Target x Driver (TxD), where x is depends on the type of target. Since the only planned type is disk, this will be a Disk Logical Unit (DLU) implemented by the Target Disk Driver. Each VLU contains the following type of information: last request sense data, Unit Attention state, reserved IRPs. VM - Vulnerability Management VM - Virtual Machine; More info Voice Mail (VOX) VM - Virtual Memory - is the buffer provider for user data. The address space handler VMAX - Currently, 1/2012, the largest, most expensive, most capable computer storage system produced by EMC. (SYMMETRIX) VMAX – Enterprise Storage, Virtual Data Center - EMC VMC - VMware Certified Professional VMC - Virtual Memory Core (code) VMC - Voltage Monitor Controller - There are two on each Intel CPU board. These are ISP parts that control voltage Monitoring sensors in the server management scheme. VME - An older, slower 24-bit and/or 32-bit bus used by the same industries as the VXI bus. Often on Motorola systems. VMFS - Virtual Machine File System (VMware) - holds virtual disk files of virtual machines. There are two versions of VMFS - VMFS=1 and VMFS-2. VMFS-2 file systems can span multiple disk pattitions and can be expanded over new disk partitions at a later time. more VMFS - Virtual Memory File System - provides demons (called BIODs) to clean pages from VM cache. VML - Vector Markup Language. A submission for a proposed language that defines a format for the encoding of vector information, together with additional markup to describe how that information may be displayed and edited. VMM - Virtual Machine Monitor. More info VMM - Each TL1 message has a command code, referred to as the VMM. A VMM or command code has the following format: verb-[modifier1[-modifier2]] V-Model - An extension of the (agile) waterfall model. more VMRC - VMware Remote Console. more VMVD - H.261. Vertical motion vector data (VMVD). (5 bits) Reference vertical motion vector data (MVD). Set to 0 if V flag is 0 or if the packet begins with a GOB header, or when the MTYPE of the last MB encoded in the previous packet was not MC. VMVD is encoded as a 2's complement number, and `10000' corresponding to the value -16 is forbidden (motion vector fields range from +/-15). VMware - popular virtualization software. more VNA - Vendor-Neutral Archive VNX - As of 2011 the Clariion and Celerra products have been replaced by the new VNX series of unified storage disk arrays. Internally the VNX is labeled the CX5. VOC - Volatile Organic Carbon (VOC) emissions testing Vocoder - Voice Encoder/Decoder. Speech coding compresses the voice data samples into 20-msc variable rate frames. The data rate is based on speech activity. VOD - Video On Demand (streaming feature) Voice - Voice is your own. It’s a developed way of writing that sets you apart from other writers (hopefully). It’s your personality coming through on the page, by your language use and word choice. When you read a Dave Barry column, you know it’s his. Why? He’s developed a distinct writing voice. VoIP - Voice Over IP. The technique of digitizing voice signals and transmitting them over an IP-based network such as the Internet. Provides an alternative to the traditional PSTN. VOL - Volatile Organic Chemical (testing) volatile - Indicates that a variable may change asynchronously. Volume Based vs Qtree - Volume will not show LUNs until the mirror is broken @ which time one will need to map the LUNs to igroups, and put them online versus Qtree which will be viewable, but not be online when the mirror is broken. One can take a snapshot of the volume that has a Qtree SnapMirror on it and have a secondary protection method as well as having volume snapmirror available Qtree snapmirrored luns will only need to be onlined if the igroups from the source also exist on the target. The igroups have to be identical on both the source and the target. All snapmirrors must be non-scheduled and executed from the target via a script and a scheduled (cron) job based on the customer’s schedule. VORTEK - DOS-based single-block memory, CPU, and bus diagnostic And exerciser. Written by DG. Supplied to our FE's (whom are now called AE's). VOS - Veritas Operations Services VOS - Virtually On Site VOX - Voice Mail VP - Virtual Processor - by default, a process has one VP. Scheduled locally. VP - Verify Process (a component of a Raid driver). VPD - Vital Product Data vPars - Virtual Partitions (up-ux, only supported on HP-UX 11i, so far [5/2005]) VPD - Vital Product Data VPI - Virtual Path Identifier. VPLS - Virtual Private LAN Services (VPN) VPN - Virtual Private Network. The use of special encryption and protocol management software at each end of a network connection that allows a private virtual connection to exist. Useful on unsecured networks such as the Internet. more info VPS - Virtual Processor Set - scheduled globally in the system. VPSR - VP Status Register - Virtual Processor Status Register VR - Video Recording.The VR mode has better options for editing (than does Video) — you can add or delete chapter markers on a recorded disc—but discs recorded in VR mode won't generally play in other DVD players. VRAM - Veil Rights Assertion Mark. More info VRM - VRMs (CPU Power Regulators) - Voltage Regulator Modules. Plugs into the CPU boards to Convert +12V to the processor or cache voltages. VRML - Virtual Reality Modelling Language. A strandardized programming language that allows moving 3D-style effects to be created within HTML applications. VRRP - Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol VRS - Kofax VirtualReScan - $500 scanning software that figures out the best method of knocking- out colored and gray-shaded backgrounds while increasing the legibility of text. Can now be bought bundled with scanners under 500 (software is still $500+, standalone). VRTX - a Motorola Real-Time OS VRU - Voice Response Unit VSA - Virtual Storage Appliance (LeftHand networks) VSA - Virtual Serial Adapter. More info VSELP - Motorola's Vector Sum Excited Linear Predictors - used for voice compression and QAM modulation (delivers 64 Kbps over a 25 KHz channel). VSMP - Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessor VSP - Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. Please Click here for more info on VSP VSS - Microsoft's Visual SourceSafe source code control software VSS - Volume Shadow-copy Service (Microsoft) VTC - Virus Test Center VTL - Virtual Tape Library. A VTL is a virtual (disk-based backup) system designed to have the look-and-feel of a tape-based backup system. Virtual tape library - Wikipedia NetApp - Products - Storage Systems - NetApp VTL - NetApp VTL NetApp VTL datasheet (PDF). Data Domain Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Software VTOC - Volume Table Of Contents - usually refers to a file system or large document index. VTP - VLAN Trunking Protocol. VLAN Trunking Protocol - Wikipedia VTS - Virtual Tape Server VVM - Veritas Volume Manager(also called VxVM). VxFS - Veritas Journaled File System. A journaled file system for various Unix systems from VERITAS Software Corporation, Mountain View, CA (www.veritas.com) that provides high performance on large volumes of data and fast recovery from system failure. VxVM - Volume Management software - Veritas -(on Unix [Solaris]) VXI - The most popular bus currently in use for new "big" computer hardware systems. A 32-bit bus used extensively in the process-control, automation, and test industries. Alternatively called the EuroBus. It's almost as fast as the PCI Bus. more information VxVM - Veritas Volume Manager(also called VVM). w - WORD - Windows header file Hungarian notation W-CDMA - Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access W3C - World Wide Web Consortium. The main body responsible for managing and ratifying standards for the Internet, especially the World Wide Web (WWW). WAAS - Wide Area Application Services - Cisco WAAS - The Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) is an air navigation aid developed by the Federal Aviation Administration to augment the Global Positioning System - WAAS - Wikipedia What is WAAS? - Garmin GPS systems using WAAS < 3 meters accuracy: Typical WAAS position accuracy. WAC - Web Authoring Center; Weekly Activity Checklist WAE - Wireless Application Environment WAF - Web Application Firewall WAFL - The Network Appliance (NetApp) Write Anywhere File Layout, supports NA Snapshots. WAFL - NetApp's Write Anywhere File Layout - Wikipedia ZFS - (Solaris) ZFS has been based in part of NetApp's write Anywhere File Layout (WAFL) system. It evolved quite a bit from WAFL and now has many differences. WAH - Working At Home WAM - Web Application Manager. A sub-system component of IIS that is used to control applications that run in a separate area of memory (i.e. out of process) from the Web server. WAMP - WAMPs are packages of independently-created programs installed on computers that use a Microsoft Windows operating system. WAMP - Wikipedia WAMP tutorial WAN - Wide Area Network. A series of machines or networks that are outside the limits of normal network cable length limits. Usually connection is via phone lines or fibre optic cables, radio or satellite links, or the Internet. WAN - wikipedia. Want - Want is (was?) a Delphi-friendly build management tool. WAP - Wireless Application Protocol. An industry-wide protocol for use over wireless communication networks. Supported by most major mobile equipment manufacturers and many software companies including Microsoft. WAPT - web application performance tool WAR file - Web Archive file. A JAR archieve that contains a Web module. War-nibbling - driving around looking for Bluetooth signals to attack WAS - WebSphere Application Server (IBM's) WAS - Web Application Server WAS - Web Application Scanning (WAS) Waterfall model - Please see: Waterfall Model Watermarking - Watermarking is a means of embedding hidden but detectable data. Watermarking Water Meter - A device used to measure the amount of water usage. More info WAV - Waveform WBE - Web Dased Education WBEM - Web-Based Enterprise Management. A platform-independent standard for management and information-sharing activites in a networked environment. In Windows 2000, accessed via Active Directory and through WMI. Created by the Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF). Often uses CIM - Common Information Model (DMTF). For more information, see: WBEM WBS - Work Breakdown Structure Work breakdown structure - Wikipedia Work Breakdown Structure Template (WBS) - projectmanagementdocs WBS Chart Pro - Critical Tools Work Breakdown Structure - NetMBA WBT - Model Based Testing WC - Walsh Codes (Orthagonal codes for spread spectrum encoding). Used by IS-95 CDMA,... WCCP - Web Cache Coordination Protocol. WCD - Wireless Content Delivery - follows the publish-subscribe model WCF - Windows Communication Foundation (previously codenamed "Indigo") WCM - Web CM (Web Content Manager) WCS - Cisco Wireless Control System WDM - A WDM system uses a multiplexer at the transmitter to join the signals together, and a demultiplexer at the receiver to split them apart. WDM systems are divided into different wavelength patterns, conventional/coarse (CWDM) and dense (DWDM). Conventional WDM systems provide up to 8 channels in the 3rd transmission window (C-Band) of silica fibers around 1550 nm. Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) uses the same transmission window but with denser channel spacing - Wavelength-division multiplexing - Wikipedia WDOG - Watchdog protocol, provides constant validation of active workstation connections and notifies the NetWare operating system when a connection may be terminated as a result of lengthy periods without communication (Novell). Web 2.0 - Web 2.0 (or Web 2) is the popular term for advanced Internet technology and applications including blogs, wikis, RSS and social bookmarking. The two major components of Web 2.0 are the technological advances enabled by Ajax and other new applications such as RSS and Eclipse and the user empowerment that they support. Web 2.0 - Wikipedia What is Web 2.0 (or Web 2)? - Definition from WhatIs.com Wikis, Blogs & Web 2.0 technology What is Web 2.0 - PDF What Is Web 2.0? - CBS News Web farm ?? - A Group of Computers. Several computers connected together (usualy through a special router) that share the workload of providing Web server services for high volume sites. Webinar - Online Seminar Weblogic - from Oracle (BEA) - application server - application infrastructure for developing, integrating, securing, and managing distributed Java applications. WebLogic Suite | Oracle Weblogs - A Weblog allows you to easily publish a wide variety of content to the Web. You can publish written essays, annotated links, documents (Word, PDF, and PowerPoint files), graphics, and multimedia. You don't have to be a programmer. A weblog is, literally, a 'log' of the web - a diary-style site, in which the author (a weblogger, or 'blogger') links to other web pages he or she finds interesting. A weblog is personal -- it's done by a person, not an organization. Web Services - Looking back over the last six years, it is hard to imagine networked computing without the Web. The reason why the Web succeeded where earlier hypertext schemes failed can be traced to a couple of basic factors: simplicity and ubiquity. From a service provider's (e.g. an e-shop) point of view, if they can set up a web site they can join the global community. From a client's point of view, if you can type, you can access services. From a service API point of view, the majority of the web's work is done by 3 methods (GET, POST, and PUT) and a simple markup language. The web services movement is about the fact that the advantages of the Web as a platform apply not only to information but to services. By "services", I don't mean monolithic coarse-grained services like Amazon.com, but, rather, component services that others might use to build bigger services. Microsoft's Passport, for instance, offers an authentication function exported on the Web. So hypothetically, an electronic newspaper like the Washington Post can avoid creating its own user authentication service, delegating it to Passport. WebSphere - IBMs Websphere Studio Application Developer WEC - same definition ?? A Group of Computers. Several computers connected together (usualy through a special router) that share the workload of providing Web server services for high volume sites. WEEE - Waste (from) Electrical and Electronic Equipment Wellfleet BOFL - Wellfleet Breath of Life, used as a line sensing protocol. Wellfleet SRB - Source Routing Bridging, proprietary header of Bay Networks (now Nortel) which passes Token Ring information over WAN lines. WEP - WEP stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy and adds encryption as a way of preventing others from seeing your data as it is transmitted over the air. WEP uses either 40 or 128 bit keys that must match between mobile device and AP. To operate correctly, WEP security must be enabled on both the Access Point and the Socket (or other brand) WLAN Card. See also WEP2 - Ciscos enhancment to WEP. WEP2 WEPplus - WEPplus WESB - IBM - WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus IBM - WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus WFH - Working From Home WfM - Wired for Management (Intel) ; Withdrawn From Market WG - working group WGA - Microsoft's "Windows Genuine Advantage" program whatsapp - WhatsApp Messenger is a proprietary, cross-platform instant messaging application for smartphones. In addition to text messaging, users can send each other images, video, and audio media messages. The client software is available for Android, BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry 10, iOS, Series 40, Symbian (S60), and Windows Phone. - WhatsApp - Wikipedia WhatsApp uses your 3G or WiFi (when available) to message. WhatsApp - Home WhatsApp - Download WhatsApp Messenger WhatsApp Launches Voice Messaging, Hits 300M Monthly Active Users - 8/6/2013 whip - an Electrical WHIP is usually an outdoor rated, short lectric cord that connects a device to a power source. Power Whip: Industry slang for a power source that connects the building's electricity to the systems device, furniture or cubicle White Box Testing - (glass-box). Testing is done under a structural testing strategy and require complete access to the object's structure - that is, the source code.[B. Beizer, 1995 p8]. Synonyms: Glass Box Testing, Logic Testing and Structural Testing. White Noise - A uniform distribution of frequency components spanning a wide spectrum of frequencies (cycles / sec.) Sources of variation which are random or 'natural' - a change in the source will not produce a predictable change in the response. WHQL - Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Labs (tests for participation in the Windows Logo Program. Successful passage of the WHQL tests results in both the "Designed for Windows" logo for qualifying Intel Server Building Blocks and a listing on the Microsoft Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). WID - WebSphere Integration Developer Wide SCSI - a SCSI parallel cable interface with 16 data lines. Wide string - A character string composed of 16-bit characters. Wide strings are used for character encodings, such as Unicode that require more than 8 bits per character. WiDi - Intel's Wireless Display. See WiDi for more information WIDL - Web Interface Definition Language. A proposal for a set HTML extentions designed to allow interactions with Web servers to be defined as functional interfaces that can be accessed by remote systems over standard Web protocols, using Java, C/C++, COBOL, and Visual Basic Wi-Fi - The Wi-Fi logo signifies that a product is interoperable with wireless networking equipment from other vendors. A Wi-Fi logo product has been tested and certified by the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance (WECA). The Socket Wireless LAN Card is Wi-Fi certified, and that means that it will work (interoperate) with any brand of Access Point that is also Wi-Fi certified. Uses 802.11 WIIFM - What's In It For Me Wiki - Wiki comes from the Hawaiian term for "quick." And like a Web log, it's a fast and easy way to publish online. But unlike a Web log, which typically publishes a single voice, a Wiki is the collective work of many writers. wild socket address - An unspecified socket address, often used to allow the address to be dynamic. WiMax - 802.16 - could use for up to 30 miles WiMedia Alliance a sort of quasi-industry standards body, helping to coordinate efforts and ensure compatibility, much as the WiFi Alliance does in the WiFi/802.11 world. WIN - Microsoft Windows Operating Systems WinDbg - Microsoft's Windows Debugger Windows - Windows - ALL versions of Microsoft Windows WinHEC - Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference Windows Xpe - Windows XP Embedded Wine - enables Windows-only software to run on Linux. Open source code. Used by Disney to run Photoshop on Redhat Linux. CodeWeavers has improved Wine enough for Disney. See WINE for more information WinRunner - Mercury's (now owned by HP) test automation software tool for FUNCTIONAL TESTING WinRunner is an integrated, functional testing product for your entire enterprise. It captures, verifies and replays user interactions automatically, so that you can identify defects and ensure that business processes, which span across multiple applications and databases, work flawlessly the first time and remain reliable. WINS - Windows Internet Name Service. A protocol and corresponding service that maps textual addresses to the equivalent IP address in Windows-based networks. See also DNS WinSock - Windows Sockets. The software component that forms the connection to an IP-based network, and handles the transfer of data from the machine onto and off the network at the lowest level Wintel - Refers to the combination of the Windows operating system running on Intel microprocessors. WIP - Web Invoice Payment (Oracle) WIP - OCFS v2 ([WIP - Work In Progress]) - an Oracle module wired - NON-pageable wires - binds WireShark - A packet analyzer used for network troubleshooting. See also WIRESHARK for more information about WireShark and Ethereal WLAN - Wireless LAN WLCBS - Whole Loan Cost Basis Subledger WLM - Workload Manager (IBM, for Z/OS) WLS - Oracle's WebLogic Server. WMA - Windows Media Audio. See also WMB - WebSphere Message Broker (IBM) WMDS - Wireless Multimedia Delivery Service WMF - Windows Metafile WMI - Windows Management Instrumentation. WMI provides, for the first time, an integrated approach to hardware and software management for the Windows operating system. WMI - Workforce Management Initiative (IBM) WML - Wireless Markup Language. An industry-wide language for applications using wireless communication networks. Based on XML, and intended for devices with small displays, limited user input facilities, narrow-band network connections, and limited memory or computational resources. WMS - Warehouse Management Systems WMS - Workgroup Modular Storage (Hitachi). WMS - Provia’s RFID enabled ViaWare WMS (Warehouse Management Systems) solution offers full RFID compliance and RFID support for standard WMS activities, including receiving, put-away, picking... provia.com is delegated to two nameservers - PROBLEM WMS - Wireless Multimedia Solutions. See also WMS - Web Map Services WMS - Web Marketing Service WMS - Web Merchant Solutions WMS - Watershed Modeling System WMV - Windows Media Video - a Microsoft HD format. Needs a fast PC (12/2005). WNDCLASS - refers to classes registered with RegisterClass (MFC). Wolf Board - see Lt. Wolf WooW - a wow that is like a surprising but like confused kinda of expression. woow, im obsessed with dunes. WooW, its just another way to say sexy Work Cell - A logical and productive grouping of machinery, tooling, and personnel which produces a family of similar products. Each cell has a leader who manages the work flow, and is responsible for maintaining optimal quality and productivity. A key element in the Pi (TM) Perpetual Improvement system. WORM - Write Once, Read Many; A usually malicious program that replicates itself via a network. WOS - Workstation Operating System WOSA - Windows Open System Architecture. A range of APIs that allow programmers to access various Windows technologies in a uniform and standard way. Includes specifications for ODBC, MAPI, and TAPI. WOTS - Wireless Office Telephone System WPA - WI-FI Protected Access. See also WPA Also see WI-FI WPA2 - WI-FI Protected Access 2. See also WPA2 Also see WI-FI WPAR - Workload Partitioning in AIX. AIX WPAR concepts - IBM WPAR Power Workload Partitions - Wikipedia LPAR, DLPAR and WPAR - The UNIX and Linux Forums "While LPARs offer a significantly higher degree of workload isolation than do WPARs, WPARs might provide "good enough" isolation for your particular workloads, especially temporary ones such as development or test environments." - Gupta "Similarly, with LPARs, you can achieve a greater degree of control over the usage of resources—by allocating entire processors or precise fractions of processors to an LPAR, for example. With WPARs, you don’t have such fine control over resource allocations, but you can allocate target shares or percentages of CPU utilization to a WPAR (if have used the AIX Workload Manager." - Gupta Santosh Gupta's passion for AIX: Comparing WPARs with LPARs WPF - Windows Presentation Foundation WPR - Workplace Resources WPS - IBM's WebSphere Portal Server wrap plug - loopback plug writeback cache - Only write to RAM when we have to. A performance caching technique in which the completion of a write request is signaled as soon as the data is in cache. Actual writing to the disk occurs at a later time. write intent log - WIL - optional use on per primary LU basis. persistently stored - uses private LU. used to minimize recovery in the event of failure on/of primary array writethrough cache - Memory is also updated immediately WRS - Wind River Systems, makers of Tornado, wind microkernel and compilers. WSAD - IBMs Websphere Studio Application Developer - a development IDE WSAS - WebSphere Application Server WSB - Windows Server Backup. WSB Windows Server Backup (WSB) - TechNet - Microsoft Use Windows Server Backup to Back Up Exchange: Exchange 2013 WSD - Web Services Description WSDL - Web Services Description Language WSDM - Web Services Distributed Management WSH - Windows Scripting Host. A server-based script interpreter that allows automation of common administration tasks using scripting languages such as VBScript and JScript (Microsoft). WSM - Nortel Switch Module WSP - Wireless Session Protocol. WSRR - IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository WSS - Web Services Security (standard) WS-Security - Web Service Security WSSP - Web Services Security Policy WST - Web Services Trust (a security standard) WST - Workstation Security Tool WSUS - Windows Server Update Services (Microsoft). WSUS - microsoft.com Windows Server Update Services - Wikipedia WTC - Write-Through Cache WTF - What The F-ck WTL - Windows Template Library WTLS - Wireless Transport Layer Security WAP. WTP - Wireless Transaction Protocol. WTX - IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender WUDO - Windows Update Delivery Optimization WWN - World Wide Name, a registered, unique 64-bit identifier assigned to nodes and ports. WWNN - World Wide Node Name WWPN - World Wide Port Name WWSAN - World Wide Storage Area Network. See also WWUI - world-wide unique identifier; an identifier used by iSCSI, comparable with a Fibre Channel WWN WXGA - Wide XGA. 1,280 x 768 pixels. DVI handles WXGA, anlog uses 983,040 pixels WXGA defines a class of XGA displays that can create an aspect ratio of 16:9. A WXGA display has 1366 to 1280 horizontal pixels and 768 to 720 verical pixels. Click here for more info X - plaintext. See also: Cryptology / Encryption X - this item will not be incorporated in any release of this product - wms X.25 - CCITT's recommendation for the interface between a DTE and DCE over a PSTN. X.509 - Certificate format standard. The principal standard format definition for certificates that are used to provide encryption and authentication. X.75 - Signalling system which is used to connect packet switched networks (such as X.25) on international circuits. X12 - Also known as "ANSI X12" and "ASC X12," it is a protocol from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for electronic data interchange (EDI). X12 was the primary North American standard for defining EDI transactions. It merged with EDIFACT in 1997. See EDI. X12N - (ANSI X12 subcommittee N covers standards in the insurance industry, including health insurance; hence these are X12N standards.) X12N transaction standard - HIPPA Privacy X12N 837 - Health Care Claim, Dental X12N 837 - Health Care Claim, Professional X12N 837 - Health Care Claim, Institutional x2 - See V.90 x86_64 - AMD's 64-bit Opteron (as contrasted with: IA-64 - Intel's 64-bit Itanium/Itanium2 ) x file, dot x file - RPC definition files, term derived from filename.x exte x Series = IBM's x Servers Numbering scheme - Wikipedia * 100 series are entry-level tower servers * 200 series are tower servers * 300 series are rack-mount servers * 400 series are rack-mount scalable servers XA - X/Open transaction interface. The X/Open organization defined standard for communication between transaction managers and resource managers in a two-phase commit distributed transaction system. XACMCL - XML Access Control Markup Language XATM - XA Transaction Manager. A component included in MTS that allows transactions against data stores which use the XA interface to be integrated into MTS transactions. XBITS - (XML Book Industry Transaction Standards) is a Working Group of IDEAlliance that is designing standard XML (Extensible Markup Language) transactions to facilitate bi-directional electronic data exchanges between publishers, printers, paper mills, and component vendors. XBLA - Xbox Live Arcade. See also: Xbox Live Arcade - Wikipedia XBOX 360 - (Microsoft) gaming console. Click HERE for more XBOX 360 information Click HERE for XBOX 360 vs PS3 Information XBRL - a computer language of business reporting Extensible Business Reporting Language. XCBC - extended cipher block chaining XCCDF - The Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format. XCCDF - The Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format ... Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format - Wikipedia XCCDF Interpreter | Free System Administration software downloads - Sourceforge XDIAGS - External PCI Diagnostics, host based program. XDR - eXternal Data Representation - provides data abstraction for architectureal differences between hosts -- biased toward Big Endian, developed by Sun. xDSL - legacy versions of DSL: DSL, ADSL, G.lite, HDSL, RADSL, SDSL, UDSL, VDSL Xen - Xen is a hypervisor providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently. - Wikipedia Xen - a lot more information about Xen Xeon - Slot 2 Pentium II 32-bit designed for high end workstations and servers, Announced name for Deschutes processor. Xerces - an XML parser - uses DOM as a programming interface for XML documents. Xerces-C - XML parser written in C11 and is part of the Apache project. Xerces-J - a Java version of the Xerces XML parser. XES - XES XML (Extensible Markup Language) Encoded Source (computing) XForms - A new technology, XForms, is under development within the W3C and aims to combine XML and forms. The design goals of XForms meet the shortcomings of HTML forms point for point. XFP - The XFP multiservice agreement defines a fiber-optic transceiver module that features a Serial10G electrical interface called XFI. XFP MSA Group In other words, "a 10Gbps FSP". Note that while speed arbitration is part of the 10G standard, XFPs will NOT negotiate to a speed slower than 10 Gbps. XFUN - Cross Functionality XGA - A display with 1024 x 768 pixel resolution. Short for Extended Graphics Array, a high-resolution graphics standard introduced by IBM in 1990. XGA was designed to replace the older 8514/A video standard. It provides the same resolutions (640 by 480 or 1024 by 768 pixels), but supports more simultaneous color (65 thousand compared to 8514/A's 256 colors). In addition, XGA allows monitors to be non-interlaced. XHTML - EXtensible HTML. The combining of HTML 4.0 and XML 1.0 into a single format for the Web. XHTML enables HTML to be eXtended (the X in XHTML) with proprietary tags. XHTML is also coded more rigorously than HTML and must conform to the rules of structure more than HTML. See HTML. XID - XA Transaction Identifier. A unique identifier for a transaction process that is executing against an XA resource manager. XLF - Extensible Log Format. A proposal for an XML-based Web server log format, designed to be extensible and universal. Supported by over 50 participants from small and large companies, universities, government, and research institutes. XLink - XLink linkage language, an XML technology (linking in XML) XLL/XLink - Extensible Linking Language. A set of constructs for use in XML documents to describe links between it and other resources. Uses XML syntax to create structures that can describe both simple unidirectional hyperlinks and more sophisticated multi-ended and typed links. XLSFO - Extensible Styleshet Language Formatting Objects XMI - XML Metadata Interchange Format. A project designed to unifying XML and related W3C specifications with several object/component modeling standards to assist in defining, validating, and sharing document formats over the Web. XML - eXtensible Markup Language, based on HTML. Click Here for XML info A markup language based on SGML, and designed to remove the limitation imposed by HTML. Allows a page to contain a definition and execution plan for the elements, and well as their content. See also HTML XMLDSIG - XML Digital Signature XMLENC - XML Encryption XML Schema - The W3C XML Schema Definition Language is an XML language for describing and constraining the content of XML documents. W3C XML Schema is a W3C Recommendation. XMLSPY - Popular XML Editor and IDE including XML Schema designer, code generator, file converters, debuggers, profilers, support for XSLT, XQuery, WSDL, SOAP, ... Download free trial XMP - X/Open Management Protocols XNS - Xerox Network System protocols, provide routing capability and support for both sequenced and connectionless packet delivery. XOP - eXtended Operation. XOR - exclusive OR XOT - Cisco Systems' X.25 over TCP. XP - Exteme (Agile) Programming ;; Microsoft Windows XP operating system XPath - XML Path Language XPL/XPointer - Extensible Pointer Language. A set of constructs for use in XML documents to provide direct links to targets within the internal structure of specific elements, character strings, and other parts of XML documents. XPM - eXtended Peripheral Module (of a Nortel DMS-100 [large] switch) XQuery - XQuery is a powerful and convenient language designed for processing XML data. That means not only files in XML format, but also other data including databases whose structure -- nested, named trees with attributes -- is similar to XML. xSATA - The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) has developed xSATA, which extends the cable length of the external SATA cable, as well as ClickConnect, an improved connection scheme. Click for more info about xSATA XScale - Intel's wireless hardware platform XSD - XML Schema Definition XSDL - XML Schema Definition Language XSDL – Part I - Erik Wilde - UC Berkeley School of Information When XSDL hints are required in output Example using XSDL hints XSL - Extensible Style Language. An XML-based language for expressing transformations to elements and data, and for specifying formatting within XML documents. It describes how an instance of an object, by class, is transformed into part of an XML document for presentation. XSL Accelerator Service - XSL Proxy service - can perform XML parsing, XML schema validation, XML Path Language (XPath) routing, Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT), XML compression, and other essential XML processing with wirespeed XML performance. See also: XML ACCERATORS XSL-FO - W3C's XSL Formatting Objects. XSLT - XSLT is used to translate one XML document to another. more information on XSLT XSLT - the Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations - a W3C recommendation XSS - Cross-Site Scripting XTB - vi macro to list the contents of a Context Block XTP - X/open Transaction Processing committee XTSO - XTP Socket subsystem - a better TCP/IP, but it never really took off. xUnit or XUnit - refers to variations of, and includes, JUnit Y - initializing vector (synonymous with ICV). See also: Cryptology / Encryption Y Pb Pr - Component Video input used for wide screen formats on most DVD players and HDTV viewing. YP - Sun Yellow Pages protocol, known now as Network Information Service, is a directory service used for name look-up and general table enumeration. (NIS) YML - A research project that aims at providing tools for using global computing middleware such as GRID,... Click here for more YML home site yum - The Yellowdog Updater, Modified (yum) is an open-source command-line package-management utility for Linux operating systems using the RPM Package. z/Linux - (IBM) Linux on zSeries - Wikipedia z/VM - IBM: z/VM Operating System Zachman Framework - The Zachman Framework is an Enterprise Architecture framework for enterprise architecture The Zachman Framework - zachman.com Zachman Framework - Wikipedia ZAW - Zero Administration for Windows. A Microsoft initiative incorporated into NT5 which provides ways to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership in networked environments by providing automatic software installation and fixes, and other features. ZBR - Zoned Bit Recording Zephyr - Zephyr is aimed at creating, populating, and supporting API mechanisms to expose the capabilities of ONTAP for data management, SRM applications, and 3rd party applications. (NA) The outside world knows Zephyr as Manage ONTAP. ZFS - (Solaris) ZFS has been based in part of NetApp's write Anywhere File Layout (WAFL) system. It evolved quite a bit from WAFL and now has many differences. ZigBee - a wireless home control bus, of sorts. Click here for more ZigBee information ZIP - AppleTalk Zone Information Protocol, manages the relationship between network numbers and zone names. ZLID - ZoneLabs Integrity Desktop (Enterprise version of Zone Alarm) zLinux - Linux for mainframes ZML - An XML markup for the Z specification language. ZML - Rx4RDF Zombie Process - A process that has completed execution but still has an entry in the process table. Zombie process - Wikipedia Zombie processes can only occur in Unix or Unix-like operating systems. See also LINUX / UNIX Info zones - access zones - usually created by SAN switching to provide virtual networks to prevent some ports from accessing other ports. One purpose might be to limit some storage devices so that normally only Host 'C' can see them. Hubs do not provide zoning, as rings and their associated hubs do not have a natural mechanism to process frames (and thus get address or port number information). zone transfer - The process of copying an authoritative DNS name server's database of hostnames and IP addresses belonging to a contiguous section of a domain to a secondary name server. zoning - a function provided by fabric switches or hubs that allows segregation of nodes by physical port, name or address. FICON devices do not use the Fibre Channel name server, therefore name server-based zoning does not affect FICON connectivity. However, the name server does affect distribution of registered state change notification (RSCN) service requests to FICON devices. If a FICON device is not in the same zone as other devices, state changes are not properly communicated. All FICON devices must be included in the same zone to facilitate proper state change notification. Regardless of the director or switch operating mode, FCP devices must be zoned in the traditional fashion, and FICON devices must be zoned to provide isolation from the FCP devices. ****

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