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Sentient AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that think and feel like humans, possessing subjective experiences and emotions. Current AI,...
Sal Miah
Dynamic QR codes offer flexibility by allowing businesses to update their destination URLs after printing. They provide valuable tracking and...
2022 highlighted AI’s rapid expansion, with innovations like ChatGPT and Nvidia’s rising stock reflecting the tech’s increasing impact and the...
Sal Miah
AI is transforming industries and creating significant investment opportunities for businesses and individuals. Top AI companies driving innovation include NVIDIA,...
Tasho Tashev
Elon Musk’s brain chip company Neuralink is developing computer interfaces that connect to the humans brain. Neuralink aims to restore...
Tasho Tashev
Large language models are AI models mimic the human brain to generate human-like text. They use vast amounts of digital...
The shift to remote work has significantly increased the number of endpoints and created new security challenges, making endpoint cybersecurity...
Data security involves measures like encryption, access control, and backup to protect digital information from unauthorized access, alterations, or disruptions....
Sal Miah
Reddit is a large online community where users, known as Redditors, share and discuss content on various topics through subreddits. ...
Sal Miah
TikTok has exploded in popularity, especially among young people. Its massive user base has made it a cultural phenomenon, but...
Internet outages are often caused by human mistakes, infrastructure failures, cyber-attacks, or environmental factors. An internet crash can halt business...
Tasho Tashev
With a net worth of approximately $242 billion in 2024, Elon Musk is a cultural zeitgeist. His wealth, lifestyle, and...
Tasho Tashev
Cyber attacks have escalated significantly, with the global cost to victims projected to reach $9.5 trillion in 2024. The biggest...
Tasho Tashev
In 2024, the MOAB breach leaked 26 billion records, followed by the RockYou2024 password leak on July 4th, with nearly...
Why is Google Search Console Not Working? Google Search Console is an essential tool for webmasters and SEO professionals and...
    Your humble internet connection has a lot of jobs to do at once. In this article, we’ll talk...
  Latency in gaming refers to network lag, or ping, that causes your eGaming experience to slow down. Here, we’ll...
Kirsty Moreland
Picture this: you’ve made it to the final round of interviews for your dream job, and you’re anxiously chatting to...
QR codes are scannable symbols used to store data, which can be displayed on devices. You may find QR codes...
If you’ve encountered the dreaded “your IP has been temporarily blocked” pop-up, you are likely confused and even a little...
Aminu Abdullahi
In today’s business world, managed services are more critical than ever. They can help improve business operations. This type of...
Brenna Miles
Information technology (IT) due diligence is the process of investigating and understanding a company’s IT systems, most often before a...
Sam Ingalls
In an era where digital transformation is essential to maintaining a competitive edge, thousands of companies look to IT consulting...
Siji Roy
In the world of digital transformation, organizations are being compelled to integrate technology into their business strategies and operations to...
Siji Roy
In the world of digitalization, every business needs to invest in technology to achieve its business objectives cost-effectively. Implementing managed...
Olivia Chakraborty
Inventory management is the collection of strategies and tools that businesses use to manage their merchandise, as well as production...
PwC
Maheen Kanwal
PwC is one of the most prestigious groups of accounting firms that offers audit, assurance, tax, and advisory services. Beyond...
Olivia Chakraborty
KPMG is a professional services firm that helps its clients with a variety of financial, tax, business development, and technology...
Sam Ingalls
Burn up and burn down charts are visual representations of progress in the scope of a project, showing the amount...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is a global, edge-to-cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) company in the IT, internet, software, and services industry. It...
Amanda Scheldt
When changes need to be made to a project after the project has already been approved by the client, a...
Jenna Phipps
Container registry software is designed to store container images while inactive and offers automation features for container management. The software...
Brenna Miles
Accenture is a global professional services company that specializes in information technology (IT) consulting, strategy, and operations. Headquartered in Dublin,...
Organizations of all sizes can outsource their management of security devices and systems to a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP)....
Maheen Kanwal
Gartner is a world-renowned information technology (IT) consultancy and advisory firm that conducts research on different technologies and provides insights...
Olivia Chakraborty
As employees and customers alike have changed their IT usage habits as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, IT service...
Brenna Miles
Deloitte is a global professional services firm that offers auditing, consulting, advisory, and tax services to companies in a variety...
Amanda Scheldt
Stealth mode is a business term that is commonly used to describe taking on new business opportunities, projects, or company...
Alice Musyoka
A third-party application is an application provided by a vendor other than the device or operating system (OS) manufacturer. For...
Ali Azhar
Ernst & Young Global Limited, commonly known as EY, is a multinational professional services company with headquarters in London, England....
Sam Ingalls
Founded in 2005, Smartsheet is a leading cloud-based project management solution that offers robust features, workflows, and automations to help...
Siji Roy
Live streaming has grown in popularity due to the quick evolution of audiovisual and streaming technology over the past decade....
Jenna Phipps
A quality management system (QMS) is a centralized system for managing business processes. QMS systems support the goal of meeting...
Jenna Phipps
Apptivo offers web-based and mobile applications for sales, marketing, product, and service teams. Although it’s mainly known as a CRM...
Ali Azhar
Sentiment analysis—an audience analysis method that relies on text analysis, natural language processing (NLP), and other data mining methods—is increasingly...
Aminu Abdullahi
A product manager is someone involved in all areas of production, including setting strategies; developing products; and working with relevant...
Aminu Abdullahi
Companies looking for a business process management or customer relationship management (CRM) tool may wonder if Kintone is the right...
Shelby Hiter
A private 5G network is a private local area network (LAN) that utilizes 5G cellular technologies and edge device connections...
Brenna Miles
ClickUp is a cloud-based work and project management platform that enables teams to manage tasks, collaborate in real-time, gain insights...
Siji Roy
To become certified CCSK means that an IT professional has passed examinations for the Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK)....
Alice Musyoka
Project management software is business software that is used to plan and schedule projects, allocate resources, and manage change. Read...
Ali Azhar
Digital technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, and it is getting increasingly better at simulating reality. Deepfakes use...
Siji Roy
Wrike is project management software that helps businesses and other organizations to manage their project workflows smoothly. Take a closer...
Maheen Kanwal
Lean manufacturing is a modern approach to manufacturing that eliminates process and resource inefficiencies. Becoming lean has grown into an...
Siji Roy
REvil was a Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) ransomware attack that affected a number of larger corporations and famous individuals. Read this article...
Amanda Scheldt
A contingency plan is a plan of action or “Plan B” for businesses to implement in extraordinary circumstances. Contingency plans...
Jen Gannon
More and more businesses are adopting an agile approach to achieving their goals, from operations to IT to marketing. The...
Jenna Phipps
What Is Mobile CRM? Mobile CRM software enables sales, marketing, and customer service teams to handle customer relationships and sales...
Brenna Miles
Agile and waterfall are two popular methodologies or processes for project management. While both methods are similar in that they...
Siji Roy
Every project has to deal with a certain amount of risk, no matter how carefully planned. To make risk management...
The AWS Certified Security – Specialty certification program provides skills and knowledge essential for managing the AWS platform securely. Learn...
Amanda Scheldt
Conversational AI is an artificial intelligence technology that comprehends human speech and corresponds with human interaction. Conversational AI is increasingly...
Maheen Kanwal
A virtual agent (VA) is an artificial intelligence (AI) program that mimics human conversations. Learn more in this definition. What...
Alice Musyoka
The CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control) certification is a qualification that shows proficiency in risk management. It’s...
Ali Azhar
A flat network is a type of computer network architecture that aims to reduce maintenance, administration, and cost through its...
Maheen Kanwal
Cloud data warehouses (DWs) enable organizations to store massive amounts of data across cloud servers and access them from anywhere...
Aminu Abdullahi
Decision intelligence combines business intelligence (BI) and artificial intelligence (AI) models to improve organizations’ decision-making processes. Learn more about how...
Siji Roy
Snowflake is a data management platform that offers data management and data warehouse services with unique capabilities to handle data....
Alice Musyoka
IT Service Management (ITSM) tools are the tools involved in designing, delivering, and managing IT services. These tools support IT...
Ali Azhar
SHA-256 is an algorithm used for hash functions and is a vital component of contemporary cybersecurity. It is part of...
Ali Azhar
Conti ransomware first emerged in 2020. It uses a ransomware as a service (RaaS) model in which a malicious group...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense...
Aminu Abdullahi
Team management software is a type of organizational software that supports remote team management. These tools enable users to assign...
Ali Azhar
On March 13, 2002, the ExecuPharm ransomware attack was used to encrypt and steal corporate and employee data of ExecuPharm,...
Forrest Stroud
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects that feature an IP address for internet connectivity and...
Amanda Scheldt
Business intelligence (BI) powers the new economy, but BI acronyms and abbreviations seem to power BI. Whether you’re new to...
Jenna Phipps
IoT (Internet of Things) security helps enterprises protect their networks from threats exacerbated by internet-connected devices, which often aren’t designed...
Vangie Beal
IT outsourcing is the practice of using external resources by subcontracting some or all of the information technology (IT) functions...
Sam Ingalls
The NVIDIA Corporation is a multinational technology company known for its visual computing and graphics processing solutions for consumers and...
Jenna Phipps
Ransomware as a service (RaaS) is a business model similar to SaaS, in which individuals or organizations pay ransomware developers...
Jenna Phipps
Internet of Things (IoT) companies provide networking, device, and sensor technology to organizations to connect all devices to the internet...
Kelvene Requiroso
Machine learning software (MLS) is a tool for creating advanced computer applications that employ massive datasets and complex algorithms to...
Sam Ingalls
Fortinet is a cybersecurity vendor with two decades of experience and an extensive stack of solutions for channel partners, service...
Shelby Hiter
Quantitative data is any set of numerical data, typically used for mathematics or statistics, that can be analyzed and measured...
Sam Ingalls
Raspberry Pi (RP) is the educational charity and namesake line of microcomputers offering customers a low-cost, single-board computer for lightweight...
Shelby Hiter
Qualitative data is any set of data, including text, images, and video, that expresses the subjective and interpretive qualities of...
Shelby Hiter
Data annotation involves processing a set of raw data for text, images, sounds, and videos to be used in AI...
Sam Ingalls
Imperva is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting web applications, APIs, data, cloud networks, and edge networks for business clients....
Sam Ingalls
Barracuda Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company specializing in email and web security with industry-recognized web application firewalls (WAF) and...
Lucas Ledbetter
Nimble CRM is a social CRM (customer relationship management) with sales and marketing features. Nimble CRM is used for organizing...
Lucas Ledbetter
Insightly CRM is customer relationship management (CRM) software that focuses on an intuitive, friendly, and easy-to-understand user interface. It has...
Sam Ingalls
For the cloud-first organization, Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) brings all the features of next-generation firewalls to a convenient and...
Lucas Ledbetter
Freshsales CRM, formerly known as Freshworks CRM, is a customer relationship management (CRM) platform designed specifically for sales. Freshsales is...
Lucas Ledbetter
Oracle CRM is a customer relationship management (CRM) tool that provides lead and contact management, reporting and analytics, AI, sales...
Lucas Ledbetter
Sugar Sell (formerly SugarCRM) is a customer relationship management (CRM) solution for medium to large enterprises. Its key advantages are...
Lucas Ledbetter
Freshdesk CRM is a cloud customer relationship management (CRM) service that offers email ticketing, live chat, and phone support for...
Lucas Ledbetter
Copper CRM, formerly known as ProsperWorks CRM, is a customer relationship management (CRM) software designed specifically for integration with Google’s...
The world of project management is full of abbreviations and acronyms, and it’s important to understand what they mean. We’ve...
Vangie Beal
Information technology (IT) is the field concerned with all aspects of managing and processing information, especially within a large organization...
Ali Azhar
Microsoft Edge Chromium is a web browser that is built on Chromium instead of Microsoft’s own web browser technology. It...
Siji Roy
A stack is a collection of items or elements used in programming languages. It is usually referred to as an...
Chika C Uchendu
An iterative process is a sequence of procedures that facilitates the creation of a more refined product or application. What...
Chika C Uchendu
A vendor is an individual or organization that sells goods or services to another individual or organization through a stable...
Lucas Ledbetter
Microsoft Dynamics is a line of customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and digital marketing applications for small...
Kelvene Requiroso
GitLab is a DevOps platform where software development and IT operations teams collaborate in one place. It aims to increase...
Kelvene Requiroso
Workday is a human capital management (HCM) tool that leverages data analytics, combining HR, finance, management, and enterprise planning in...
Kelvene Requiroso
Firebase is development software for building mobile and web applications. When Google acquired it in 2014, the tech giant made...
Kelvene Requiroso
eFax is a digital platform for sending and receiving faxes digitally via email, mobile app, and a secure online portal....
Siji Roy
A Packet Inter-Network Groper, or ping, is a software utility network program used to test and verify the reachability of...
Siji Roy
An entity name can be anything referred to with a proper noun that constitutes a specific type of lexical unit...
Vangie Beal
Cloud backup refers to the practice of copying files or databases to a cloud-based server so it can be restored...
Lucas Ledbetter
The General Data Protection Regulation, commonly referred to as GDPR, is an EU regulation concerning data protection and privacy in...
Lucas Ledbetter
HubSpot CRM is a SaaS-based customer relationship management (CRM) service that integrates with HubSpot’s inbound marketing, sales, and customer service...
Lucas Ledbetter
Salesforce is a SaaS company and cloud customer relationship management (CRM) software platform. It includes an ecosystem of applications for...
Lucas Ledbetter
Oracle NetSuite is a cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform with robust financial management solutions. NetSuite also includes customer relationship...
Sam Ingalls
Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source container management software developed to help organizations in orchestrating machines that power modern cloud applications....
Siji Roy
Deployment refers to the process of installation of software or going live with new websites, which includes all the steps—installation,...
Siji Roy
Calendly is an SaaS platform that allows people to schedule meetings and events at a mutually workable time without the...
Vangie Beal
Business intelligence (BI) refers to the tools, systems, and strategies that create analysis and planning processes within a corporation. Comprehensive...
Chika C Uchendu
Visual Studio (VS) Code is an open-source code editor primarily used to correct and repair cloud and web applications coding...
Kelvene Requiroso
Collaboration software is a platform where teams can interact and share information, knowledge, diagrams, photographs, documents, files, etc. It’s a...
CEO
Kelvene Requiroso
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the highest-ranking individual in a company in terms of leadership roles and responsibilities. The...
Ali Azhar
Adobe Spark is a suite of apps by Adobe Systems used to create websites, social posts, short videos and other...
Ali Azhar
To render an image is to use software to convert code into a two- or three-dimensional image so it can...
Ali Azhar
Fastly is a US-based cloud computing service provider. It offers an edge cloud platform designed to extend the core cloud...
Chika C Uchendu
RingCentral is a voice-over-internet protocol (VoIP) that helps business owners communicate seamlessly with their customers and employees over the internet...
Siji Roy
A platform, in general, can be defined as a hardware or software architecture that acts as a basic structure upon...
Siji Roy
A vector image is a digital image in which points, lines, and curves based on mathematical equations are used to...
Ali Azhar
Cached data is designed to improve the user experience when browsing the internet or using an app. When a user...
Sam Ingalls
Sophos is a cybersecurity company specializing in network security and unified threat management through its detection and response, firewall, cloud,...
CRM
Vangie Beal
What is CRM? Customer relationship management (CRM) describes all aspects of sales, marketing, and service-related interactions that a company has...
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that offers scalable...
Lucas Ledbetter
Deprecated or deprecation is the discouragement of the use of a programming language feature. It should not be confused with...
Lucas Ledbetter
A software-as-a-service (SaaS) company delivers applications to customers over the internet as an ongoing service. SaaS companies provide and manage...
Jenna Phipps
Supply chain management (SCM) software tracks products as they move through the manufacturing and fulfillment process. It allows businesses to: ...
Alice Musyoka
ZoomInfo is a software as a service (SaaS) company that provides detailed information on millions of businesses and business professionals....
Jenna Phipps
Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based mobile device management and mobile application management solution. Available through Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Intune is...
Jenna Phipps
Business continuity software provides a centralized digital platform for maintaining business continuity plans, keeping them updated based on the organization’s...
Vangie Beal
Big Data is a phrase used to mean a massive volume of both structured and unstructured data that is so...
Kelvene Requiroso
Wireshark is an open-source network protocol analyzer that allows users to capture packets and see protocols or web traffic on...
Sam Ingalls
GoToMeeting is LogMeIn’s communications software for online meetings, video conferencing, desktop sharing, and collaboration for organizations working with geographically distant...
Kelvene Requiroso
Cloudflare is a content delivery network (CDN) that ensures the security, integrity, and reliability of a company’s IT infrastructure, applications,...
Kelvene Requiroso
Artificial intelligence software is a computer application capable of intelligent behavior like learning, reasoning, and problem-solving. It performs a range...
Sam Ingalls
Trello is a collaboration and project management solution provider offering easy-to-use visualization tools to track, analyze, and optimize workflows for...
Vangie Beal
Often referred to simply as peer-to-peer, or abbreviated P2P, a type of network in which each workstation has equivalent capabilities...
Chika C Uchendu
PeopleSoft is a SaaS platform that that large corporations use to streamline their day-to-day human capital management (HCM), enterprise resource...
Chika C Uchendu
Box.com is a secure, easy-to-use content cloud storage platform built for the entire content lifecycle from file creation and sharing...
Chika C Uchendu
The ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is a strategic approach or guidance geared towards improving overall organization services by focusing...
Sam Ingalls
Wide-area networks (WAN) and local-area networks (LAN) describe how physically close devices are within a computer network – which influences...
Ali Azhar
Prometheus software is an open-source application for system monitoring and alerting of hardware and kernel-related metrics. It helps users understand...
Siji Roy
Streamlabs is a full-stack open-source software application for streaming and broadcasting live videos to a variety of platforms, including YouTube,...
Sam Ingalls
SAP is an end-to-end enterprise solution provider specializing in enterprise resource planning (ERP), business processes, and organization management tools for...
Amanda Scheldt
Kanban is a workflow management method intended to define, manage, and improve services resulting in knowledge work deliverables. Kanban was...
Kaiti Norton
Basecamp is an online tool that helps teams collaborate, communicate, and manage projects. Teams use Basecamp to keep track of...
Sam Ingalls
Veeam Software is a global vendor of backup and disaster recovery solutions for service providers and organizations to protect network...
Sam Ingalls
Akamai Technologies is a global web technology company specializing in content delivery network (CDN) solutions, cloud services, and cybersecurity for...
Kaiti Norton
Zapier is a no-code automation tool that translates APIs among hundreds of web applications to simplify integrations and complex workflows....
Ali Azhar
Kerberos is a computer network authentication protocol used for service requests over an untrusted network like the internet. It is...
Siji Roy
Machine Learning (ML) is a sub-branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that enables computers to learn, adapt, and perform the desired...
An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is software designed to simplify the development process of applications by coordinating all programming and...
Kelvene Requiroso
Convergence is the merging and integration of two or more distinct technologies in a single system. For example, a smartphone...
Chika C Uchendu
Pycharm is a dedicated and cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for the Python programming language. It incorporates a wide range...
Chika C Uchendu
A SIM card (Subscriber Identity Module) card is a tiny, portable memory chip or integrated circuit containing unique information that...
Sam Ingalls
Cyber security tools are software programs or hardware appliances built and sold to organizations and consumers to facilitate, manage, or...
Sam Ingalls
CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company dedicated to stopping breaches through endpoint security and cloud-native network security solutions for SMBs to...
Jenna Phipps
Agile project management tools use an approach to project management that focuses on improvement, regular assessment, tasks, and the people...
Jenna Phipps
Asana is a cloud-based project and work management software company that streamlines project design and implementation through a collaborative digital...
Jenna Phipps
Encryption uses cryptographic keys to scramble data temporarily so that it can only be read by people or computers that...
Kaiti Norton
Grayscale is a visual art characteristic in which an image is composed exclusively of shades of gray. Each shade of...
Vangie Beal
A petabyte is 1015 bytes of digital information. The unit symbol for the petabyte is PB. It is a measure...
Vangie Beal
Internet protocol (IP) is a primary set of communication protocols for exchanging data packets or datagrams across internet-connected networks. The...
Kelvene Requiroso
NoSQL (Not Only SQL) is a type of database for web applications and big data which allows users to store...
Vangie Beal
Management software is a general phrase used to describe a category of computer software designed to help streamline the complexity...
The hard disk drive within a computer stores all of the device’s persistent, or secondary, storage. As computer users download...
Jenna Phipps
A webcam, short for web camera, is a piece of video hardware that is either external or internal to a...
Jenna Phipps
The binary system in computing uses the base 2 number system to power the majority of  computational processes. Unlike the...
Sam Ingalls
The public domain describes the status of intellectual property or copyrighted work that is freely available for use and reproduction...
CSV
Jenna Phipps
A CSV or .csv is a comma separated values file that separates data values using commas or another common delimiter....
Sam Ingalls
A web application is a software program (or website) capable of receiving dynamic content requests and delivering resources over the...
Sam Ingalls
Data science is an interdisciplinary study of data using advanced tools and techniques to detect patterns, extract information, and inform...
Sam Ingalls
Copyright infringement is the illegal use, production, or sale of materials copyrighted by another person or organization. When rights granted...
Sam Ingalls
Superword level parallelism (SLP) is an advanced method of traditional vectorization that facilitates parallelism across loop iterations, SIMD, and basic...
Kaiti Norton
An iFrame, short for inline frame, is an HTML document embedded within another HTML document. Web developers frequently use iFrames...
Jenna Phipps
E-commerce, or electronic commerce, is online-conducted business, including marketing, sales, and fulfillment. Consumers and businesses place and track orders at...
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is business process management software that allows an organization to use a system of integrated applications...
Reviewed by Web Webster Early computers were large, power-hungry machines that used vacuum tubes and required manual programming with punched...
Siji Roy
Data analytics is the systematic and pervasive use of automated processes, mathematical and statistical tools, data analysis, and advanced computer...
Sam Ingalls
A cloud access security broker (CASB) is cloud-based or on-premises security software positioned between users and cloud services. A CASB...
Tasho Tashev
A CPU cooler is crucial for maintaining a computer’s performance by preventing overheating, and avoiding damage to the CPU. CPU...
Vangie Beal
Private cloud storage is a form of cloud storage where the enterprise data and cloud storage resources both reside within...
Vangie Beal
What is Cloud Storage? Cloud storage refers to the storage of online data in a cloud environment, which can include...
Vangie Beal
The storage cloud is a service model where data is stored in a system in a remote location. This data...
Vangie Beal
Cloud computing accounting software is accounting software that is hosted on remote servers. It is also known as online accounting...
Vangie Beal
Hosted Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a business VoIP model where the equipment, servers, and services are hosted by...
The information technology consultant, or IT consultant, is a very in-demand career as most companies depend on IT expertise and...
Brenna Miles
A project manager is an individual who is responsible for planning, organizing, managing, and completing small business or enterprise projects....
Vangie Beal
A computer is a programmable machine that responds to specific instructions and uses hardware and software to perform tasks. Different...
Vangie Beal
Process automation shortens or eases manual tasks, often making the results more accessible to users. Automation typically decreases the need...
Kelvene Requiroso
Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is an on-demand, online, and pay-as-you-go delivery of scalable computing resources, including hardware, storage, virtualization, network, security, operating...
Alice Musyoka
The modern customer wants businesses to understand their needs and deliver an unforgettable experience consistently across channels. But marketers rarely...
Vangie Beal
Early adopters play an integral role in the shift from untested to critical technology—they’re the first buyers to invest in...
4G
Vangie Beal
4G is a networking technology for smart phones that allows devices to connect to the internet, use mobile broadband, stream...
Sam Ingalls
Containers are lightweight and portable packages of software often used by developers to bundle an application’s code for deployment across...
Brenna Miles
A remote desktop is a tool that enables users to connect to another computer from a remote location. Remote desktop...
Vangie Beal
Peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture is a type of network in which each workstation has equivalent capabilities and responsibilities. Peer-to-peer networks come...
Sam Ingalls
A copyright is a type of intellectual property and legal ownership relating to creative works, ensuring only the owner has...
Tasho Tashev
Full Scene Anti-Aliasing (FSAA), also known as Super Sample Anti-Aliasing (SSAA), is a technique used in gaming to smooth out...
Vangie Beal
A system in computing is a general term for a computer or other piece of technology and all of its...
Shelby Hiter
Data modeling (sometimes spelled data modelling) is the analysis of data objects and their relationships to other data objects. Data...
Vangie Beal
Short for Hardware Identification or hardware ID, an HWID is a security measure used by Microsoft upon the activation of...
Webopedia Staff
The ratio of the number of bits that are transferred between devices in a specified amount of time, typically one...
CDN
Vangie Beal
A content delivery network (CDN) is a system of geographically distributed servers that work together to provide fast delivery of...
Sam Ingalls
UPnP or universal plug and play is a protocol that enables quick network connectivity between devices and users through routers...
Ali Azhar
The service level agreement (SLA) pertains to the responsibilities, quality, and availability of the services provided to a client by...
Sam Ingalls
A managed services provider, or MSP, is a firm that follows a business model in which it manages one or...
Aminu Abdullahi
Professional services automation (PSA) is a type of software that allows users to manage and track their professional services work...
DMZ
Sam Ingalls
A demilitarized zone, or DMZ, in computing is a subnetwork between a local network and external networks like the internet...
Vangie Beal
Also called an app server, an application server is a program on a computer  that handles all application operations between...
Ali Azhar
With the increasing complexity of IT, businesses want complete IT solutions that include the right software, networking, and hardware components....
Sam Ingalls
A virtual machine (VM) is an isolated, digital instance of a computer—its operating system, applications, and memory— without the underlying...
Sam Ingalls
Oracle is a global technology company specializing in database software, enterprise software, hardware, and cloud applications and infrastructure. Known for...
Alice Musyoka
SQL Server, when capitalized, is a relational database management system (RDBMS) offered by Microsoft. When speaking more generically, a SQL...
Siji Roy
The data warehouse is an architectural system used to collect and manage data from various sources to perform queries and...
Ali Azhar
CTI is short for computer telephony integration, which can be any type of technology or solution that links a phone...
Brenna Miles
Visual Basic is a family of programming languages developed by Microsoft. The most commonly used version of Visual Basic is...
Vangie Beal
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a wide-ranging branch of computer science in which smart machines are built to perform tasks that...
Webopedia Staff
A built-in function is a function that is already available in a programming language, application, or another tool that can...
Vangie Beal
What is a computer system? A computer system is a collection of hardware and software that performs specific tasks. The...
Vangie Beal
Data refers to distinct pieces of information, usually formatted and stored in a way that is concordant with a specific...
Vangie Beal
A database management system (DBMS) is software that handles the storage, retrieval, and updating of data in a computer system....
Webopedia Staff
A gigabyte is a measurement of data, used to describe file size and storage amounts. It is abbreviated as GB....
Webopedia Staff
Hacking is the practice of entering a computing system and exploring its weaknesses, including both hardware and software. This exploration...
Web Webster
Hierarchical, or hierarchy, refers to systems that are organized in the shape of a pyramid. Items, such as objects, names,...
Vangie Beal
An operating system (OS) is a software program that serves as the interface between other applications and the hardware on...
Sam Ingalls
A server is a device dedicated to storing and providing data for clients (users) within a network. This might include...
Webopedia Staff
A tape drive is a data storage device that reads and writes data using magnetic tape. Tape drives have data...
Jenna Phipps
Telecommunication refers to telephony and cellular network technology. However, the broader definition includes all wired and wireless networks, such as...
Vangie Beal
A video adapter is a board that plugs into a personal computer to give it display capabilities. The display capabilities...