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Question | Answer |
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Internet Service Provider (ISP) | An organization that maintains a gateway to the internet and rents access to customers on a per-user or subscription basis. |
Voice over IP (VoiP) | A technology that converts voice into data packets for transmission over a packet-switched IP network. Allows the use of internet for real-time voice and video traffic |
uniterruptible power supply (UPS) | a device that contains a battery to provide power during a power outage |
unified communications (UC) | a business trend that seeks to simplify and integrate all forms of communication. also a set of technologies that enable voice to be converted into text and vice verse. |
presencing | The ability for a device to automatically track and report the users location and attainability |
front end | a client that acts as an interface to a collection of servers. a web browser is typical front end client |
back end | A series of systems that fulfill requests made by a client. Back-end systems can include mainframes and servers containing information databases. |
cloud computing | Software, infrastructure and platform services that are hosted by a remote data center and provided to organizations or individuals over the Internet. |
client | An individual computer connected to a network. Also, a system or application (such as a Web browser or user agent) that requests a service from another computer (the server) and is used to access files or documents. |
server | A computer in a network that manages the network resources and provides, or serves, information to clients. |
bottleneck | A point in network communication at which information is processed more slowly. Also, any element (a hard drive, I/O card or network interface card) that slows network connectivity rates |
data | information being stored, usually in a database |
Hadoop | An open-source software platform that allows the storage, processing and analysis of massive amounts of unstructured data; used primarily for cloud applications |
legacy model | A model that, because of its age, may not support modern technological without manipulation or upgrades |
business logic | the coding necessary to create relationships in the data stored in a database |
presentation responsibilities | The forms in which the data and business logic are presented on your screen. Presentation responsibilities include HTML forms and app-specific interfaces such as Web browsers. |