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AT&T

Desire Athow — Thu, 09 Oct 2008

AT&T Inc. is the largest provider of both local and long distance telephone services, DSL Internet access and wireless service in the United States with 71.4 million wireless customers and more than 150 million total customers

Service oriented architecture

Desire Athow — Thu, 25 Sep 2008

It is a method for systems development and integration where functionality is grouped around business processes and packaged as interoperable services

Server

Desire Athow — Thu, 25 Sep 2008

It is a computer dedicated to providing one or more services over a computer network, typically through a request-response routine

Multiprocessing

Desire Athow — Mon, 15 Sep 2008

It is the use of two or more central processing units (CPUs) within a single computer system

Backup storage

Desire Athow — Fri, 25 Jul 2008

In information technology, backup refers to making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event

Serial Storage Architecture

Desire Athow — Thu, 17 Jul 2008

Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) is a serial transport protocol used to attach disk drives to servers

Remote backup

Desire Athow — Tue, 15 Jul 2008

A remote, online, or managed backup service is a service that provides users with an online system for backing up and storing computer files

Recovery time objective

Desire Athow — Mon, 14 Jul 2008

The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the duration of time and a service level within which a business process must be restored after a disaster in order to avoid unacceptable consequences associated with a break in business continuity

Network-attached storage

Desire Athow — Thu, 10 Jul 2008

Network-attached storage (NAS) is file-level computer data storage connected to a computer network providing data access to heterogeneous network clients

Hardware Security Module (HSM)

Desire Athow — Wed, 09 Jul 2008

It is a plug-in card (PCI) or external device (RS232/SCSI/IP/USB/PCMCIA) for a general purpose computer and may even be an embedded system itself

Hierarchical Storage Management

Desire Athow — Mon, 07 Jul 2008

Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) is a data storage technique which automatically moves data between high-cost and low-cost storage media

Disaster recovery

Desire Athow — Fri, 04 Jul 2008

Disaster recovery is the process, policies and procedures of restoring operations critical to the resumption of business, including regaining access to data

Authentication server

Desire Athow — Thu, 26 Jun 2008

They are servers that provide authentication services to users or other systems. Users and other servers authenticate to such a server, and receive cryptographic tickets

XSRF

Desire Athow — Wed, 25 Jun 2008

Cross-site request forgery, also known as one click attack, sidejacking or session riding and abbreviated as CSRF (Sea-Surf[1]) or XSRF, is a type of malicious exploit of websites

WS-Trust

Desire Athow — Tue, 24 Jun 2008

It is a WS-* specification and OASIS standard that provides extensions to WS-Security, specifically dealing with the issuing, renewing, and validating of security tokens, as well as with ways to establish, assess the presence of, and broker trust relationships between participants in a secure message exchange.

Windows Genuine Advantage

Desire Athow — Mon, 23 Jun 2008

Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) is an anti-piracy system created by Microsoft that enforces Microsoft Windows online validation of the authenticity of several recent Microsoft operating systems when accessing several Microsoft Windows services, such as Windows Update, and downloading Windows components from the Microsoft Download Center.

WikiScanner

Desire Athow — Fri, 20 Jun 2008

WikiScanner (also known as Wikipedia Scanner) is a tool created by Virgil Griffith and released on August 14, 2007, which consists of a publicly searchable database that links millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to the organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on the owners of the associated block of IP addresses

Semantic Web

Desire Athow — Thu, 19 Jun 2008

It is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.

Volume Testing

Desire Athow — Wed, 18 Jun 2008

It belongs to the group of non-functional tests, which are often misunderstood and/or used interchangeably

Computer security

Desire Athow — Tue, 17 Jun 2008

It is a branch of technology known as information security as applied to computers