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Vangie Beal

Vangie Beal is a freelance business and technology writer covering Internet technologies and online business since the late '90s.

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IT Outsourcing

IT outsourcing is the practice of using external resources by subcontracting some or all of the information technology (IT) functions...

SMO

Social media optimization (SMO) is the process of increasing awareness of a product, brand, or event on social media. SMO...

Predictive Analytics

Predictive analytics is a proactive approach to harnessing enterprise data, detecting patterns, and helping businesses prepare for events that are...

Floppy Disk

Ubiquitous in early computing from 1970 until the early 2000s, the floppy disk is a portable storage device that has...

Disk Drive

A disk drive is a device that allows a computer to read from and write data to a disk. The...

Hybrid Cloud Storage

Hybrid cloud storage is any data storage environment that combines at least one public cloud solution with at least one...

The Complete List of 1697 Common Text Abbreviations & Acronyms

From A3 to ZZZ we list 1,697 SMS, online chat, and text abbreviations to help you translate and understand today’s...

FOMO

FOMO is an acronym for Fear Of Missing Out, which is a feeling of envy or anxiety over missing out...

Storage Area Network (SAN)

A storage area network (SAN) is a high-speed network that provides access to data storage at the block level. It...

Information Technology (IT)

Information technology (IT) is the field concerned with all aspects of managing and processing information, especially within a large organization...

RSA SecurID

RSA SecurID is multi-factor authentication (MFA) technology used to protect network resources, such as applications and websites. Its purpose is...

Hotmail [Outlook] Email Accounts

Launched in 1996, Hotmail was one of the first public webmail services that could be accessed from any web browser.