B-Tree
B-Tree – A method used by application storage engines for writing, reading and indexing data optimised for reading. One way of writing data is just to append it to existing...
Binary Number
Binary number – a number written in base 2 notation which uses only the numerals 0 and 1. The binary numbers are written as 8-bit bytes and here is a...
Backup
Backup – A copy of data, a file or database, used for data protection against loss, damage or deletion. It is stored separately from the original data and used to...
Azure
Azure – This is Microsoft’s public cloud offering and provides application, compute, storage and system application services. It is the second largest public cloud after AWS and the second largest...
AWS
AWS – Amazon Web Services. This is Amazon’s public cloud offering and provides application, compute and storage services plus system application services. It is the world's largest public cloud and...
Autoloader
Autoloader – A tape storage devce with a drive and slots for holding tape cartridges. These are automatically loaded into the drive and removed from it by some kind of...
ATA
ATA – Advanced Technology Attachment. This is a class of protocols for attaching storage drives to host computers. PATA (Parallel ATA) and SATA (Serial ATA) are versions of this. There...
ASIC
ASIC - Application-Specific Integrated Circuit. This is often implemented as a chip and its use is specific to an application and not general purpose, like a computer processing unit...
ASCII
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange. This is a standard format for encoding letters, numerals, punctuation marks, characters and symbols as numeric strings when transmitting them in...
Web3
Web3 - decentralized storage (dStorage), and computing. Such dStorage is based on capacity being provided by a global peer-to-peer network of providers whose trustworthiness is verified by blockchain technology...
GCRAM
GCRAM - Gain-Cell Random Access Memory. The requires 3 transistors to store a bit of data, as opposed to the 6-8 transistors needed for SRAM-based highest-density memory technology. When used...
Archive
Archive – A storage repository for little-accessed data that needs to be retained for a long time. The key difference from a backup is that a backup is a copy of...