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...
Anisotropy
Anisotropy - the feature of a material having different directions with different properties when measured on some dimension, such as magnetism with its north and south poles, conductivity, refractive...
Air Gap
Air Gap – The physical separation between a storage device and an IT network so that there is no electrical signal connection whatsoever between the two, meaning that the...
RDMA
RDMA - Remote Direct Memory Access. A technique to load data directly into the memory of a remote device without transiting the source or destination device's storage IO system....
RNIC
RNIC - RDMA Network Interface Controller, with RDMA meaning Remote Direct Memory Access. An RNIC is a network I/O adapter or embedded controller with support for the Wide Area...
Zoned SSD
Zoned SSD – A zoned SSD has its capacity divided into separate namespace areas or zones which are used for data with different IO types and characteristics – read-intensive, write-intensive,...
AFA
AFA – All-Flash Array, as opposed to an all-disk drive or hybrid SSD/HDD storage array. An all-flash array is a storage array composed solely from SSDs or other...
KVCache
KVCache - Key-Value Cache is a mechanism used to store past Gen AI large language model (LLM) layers' activations (keys and values) during the inference phase. It allows LLMs...
Parquet
Parquet - A columnar data table format optimized for use with big data processing frameworks such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, and others, and designed to allow complex data...
MCP
MCP - Model Context Protocol, recently (March 2025) announced by Anthropic, is a standard model for how applications and services can be discovered and interacted with in a universal...
SCADA
SCADA - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition - a control system architecture comprising computers, networked data communications and graphical user interfaces for high-level supervision of machines and processes. In...
Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka - open source distributed event streaming software built for large-scale, real-time data feeds used in processing, messaging, and analytics. Data in Kafka is organized into topics. These are...