- Industry: Computer
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Sometimes referred to as “Big Blue” IBM is a multinational corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York. It manufactures computer hardware and software and provides information technology and services.
A form of storage array in which two or more identical copies of data are maintained on separate media.
Industry:Software
A communication protocol used in the Internet and in any network that follows the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards for internetwork protocol. TCP provides a reliable host-to-host protocol in packet-switched communication networks and in interconnected systems of such networks. See also Internet Protocol.
Industry:Software
A contiguous portion of the Internet over which a consistent set of Differentiated Services policies are administered. A Differentiated Services domain can represent different trust regions, different network technologies (such as cells or frames), different hosts, or even different routers.
Industry:Software
A data structure that represents the linguistic capabilities available within multiple language dictionaries, and allows searching for appropriate dictionaries.
Industry:Software
A form of synchronous I/O that writes the file data to disk, updates the inode times, and writes the updated inode to disk. When the write returns to the caller, both the data and the inode have been written to disk.
Industry:Software
A communication technique in which data is transmitted from the memory of one computer to that of another without passing through a processor. RDMA accommodates increased network speeds.
Industry:Software
A contiguous sequence of 32 bits (four bytes) or characters that can be addressed as a unit. See also halfword.
Industry:Software
A data structure that uniquely identifies a specific communications end point. It also specifies the protocol family. For example, a TCP/IP socket address consists of a port number and a host address.
Industry:Software
A form of user journal containing copies of the tie-up records written to forward recovery logs. It provides a summary of which recoverable Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) data sets the Customer Information Control System (CICS) has used, when they were used, and to which log stream the forward-recovery log records were written. The log of logs is written by CICS to provide information to forward recovery programmes such as CICS VSAM Recovery (CICSVR).
Industry:Software
A communications common carrier network that provides voice and data communications services over switched lines.
Industry:Software
