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Kubernetes

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Kubernetes – Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open source software platform for managing (orchestrating) containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. Google open-sourced the Kubernetes...

JEDEC

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JEDEC - Joint Electron Device Engineering Council - the independent semiconductor engineering trade association. Now known as the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association. It sets semiconductor technology standards and...

JBOF

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JBOF - Just a Box Of Flash or Just a Bunch of Flash - a rack enclosure chassis full of solid state drives, fitted with IO ports but no controller...

JBOD

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JBOD - Just a Box Of Disks or Just a Bunch of Disks - a rack enclosure full of disk drives, fitted with IO ports but no controller as...

iWARP

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iWARP - Internet Wide-area RDMA Protocol that implements remote direct memory access (RDMA) over Internet Protocol networks.

iSER

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iSER - iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access). It enables data to be transferred directly into and out of SCSI computer memory buffers (which connects computers to storage...

iSCSI

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iSCSI - Internet Small Computer Systems Interface - Internet Protocol-based block access storage networking standard that works over standard Ethernet. See entry for SCSI.

IP

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IP - Internet Protocol. A set of rules, for routing and addressing data packets so that they can be sent across an Internet network to the correct destination. Data...

IPFS

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IPFS - Inter-Planetary File System. This is a peer-to-peer file sharing network using content addressing (object storage) to give each file a unique ID in a global namespace which...

IO

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IO - Input/Output - the transfer of information between two connected devices. Input from storage is associated with reading data a whilst output to storage means writing data.

Blu-ray

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Blu-ray - optical disk format for storing videos, audio files and archive data. It uses a 120mm (4.7 inches) diameter platter and was released in 2006, replacing DVDs. They...

DVD

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DVD - Digital Video Disk - optical disk for storing videos, audio files and archive data. It uses a 120mm (4.7 inches) diameter platter. It was invented in 1995...