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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 is the practice of using external resources by subcontracting some or all of the information technology (IT) functions...
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SMO
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Social media optimization (SMO) is the process of increasing awareness of a product, brand, or event on social media. SMO...
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Predictive analytics is a proactive approach to harnessing enterprise data, detecting patterns, and helping businesses prepare for events that are...
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Ubiquitous in early computing from 1970 until the early 2000s, the floppy disk is a portable storage device that has...
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A disk drive is a device that allows a computer to read from and write data to a disk. The...
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Hybrid cloud storage is any data storage environment that combines at least one public cloud solution with at least one...
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From A3 to ZZZ we list 1,697 SMS, online chat, and text abbreviations to help you translate and understand today’s...
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FOMO is an acronym for Fear Of Missing Out, which is a feeling of envy or anxiety over missing out...
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A storage area network (SAN) is a high-speed network that provides access to data storage at the block level. It...
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Information technology (IT) is the field concerned with all aspects of managing and processing information, especially within a large organization...
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RSA SecurID is multi-factor authentication (MFA) technology used to protect network resources, such as applications and websites. Its purpose is...
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Launched in 1996, Hotmail was one of the first public webmail services that could be accessed from any web browser.
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Cloud backup refers to the practice of copying files or databases to a cloud-based server so it can be restored...
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Business intelligence (BI) refers to the tools, systems, and strategies that create analysis and planning processes within a corporation. Comprehensive...
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Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a protocol developed by Netscape for providing a secure connection between two or more devices...
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CRM
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What is CRM? Customer relationship management (CRM) describes all aspects of sales, marketing, and service-related interactions that a company has...
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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that offers scalable...
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Big Data is a phrase used to mean a massive volume of both structured and unstructured data that is so...
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