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...
5G
5G – Fifth generation wireless networking. This is up to 100 times faster than the current 4G broadband cellular network standard used by mobile phones. 5G has been designed...