LTO
LTO - Linear Tape Open - a standard for tape storage controlled by the LTO Program Technology Provider Companies – HPE, IBM, and Quantum. Only IBM makes the tape...
LTFS
LTFS - Linear Tape File System. This presents a file:folder interface to LTO tapes. LTFS stores files and their metadata on the same tape and makes the data accessible...
Lock
Lock - A shared-access storage system needs some way to ensure that multiple actors working on the same file or region of a file cannot conflict by writing data...
LAN
LAN - Local Area Network. This term is used to describe a network within a data centre or building. It is also used to distinguish such a network from...
Kilobibyte
Kilobibyte – 1,024 bytes. See Decimal and Binary Prefix entry.
Kilobyte
Kilobyte – One thousand bytes. See Decimal and Binary Prefix entry.
KiB
KiB – Kilobibyte – 1,024 bytes. See Decimal and Binary Prefix entry.
KB
KB – Kilobyte – One thousand bytes. See Decimal and Binary Prefix entry.
Kb
Kb – Kilobit – one thousand bits. See Decimal and Binary Prefix entry
KVS
KVS – Key Value Store. See separate entry.
Key-Value Store
Key-Value Store – This stores data as paired items; a key and a value. A particular data item is located by searching for its key. A key-value (KV) SSD...
K8S
K8S – Kubernetes, the container orchestration facility in containerized (cloud-native) systems. K8s as an abbreviation comes from counting the eight letters between the ‘K’ and the ‘s’ of Kubernetes....