ILM
ILM - Information Lifecycle Management. This is the concept of data (information) having a lifecycle from its birth to its death or near death as the rate of access...
IDE
IDE - Integrated Drive Electronics. An interface standard used for connecting storage drives to early personal computer systems. It was subsequently renamed to ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment.) PATA (Parallel...
IB
IB - InfiniBand. See InfiniBand entry.
InfiniBand
InfiniBand - A Mellanox-invented high-speed, channel-based, lossless networking technology used in high-performance computing scenarios. It has high throughput and low latency and is an alternative to Ethernet. With InfiniBand, data...
IaaS
IaaS - Infrastructure-as-a-service. A public cloud or co-location service in which IT infrastructure equipment; compute, storage, and networking, is supplied on demand, on a pay-as-you-go basis. Each resource can...
Hellabibyte
Hellabibyte - 1024 yobabytes. See Decimal and Binary Prefix entry.
Hellabyte
Hellabyte - a thousand yottabytes. See Decimal and Binary Prefix entry.
Holographic Storage
Holographic storage - a now-abandoned storage technology from the early 2000 era in which a holographic drive would use a CD-size disc with data stored as holograms within the...
HPC
HPC - High Performance Computing. HPC uses supercomputers or clusters of server computers, hundreds of them or more, to solve problems that would take long to process using a...
HSM
HSM - Hierarchical Storage Management. Storage systems and media are viewed as being in a hierarchy, ranging from fast and expensive, to slow and inexpensive. The hierarchy starts with...
HDD
HDD - Hard Disk Drive. This contains spinning circular magnetic recording surfaces in which data is laid out in concentric tracks and accessed by a read-write head, mechanically propelled...
High Bandwidth Memory
High Bandwidth Memory - all servers use memory (DRAM) with DIMMs containing memory chips, connecting to the CPU across the memory bus. DDR4 DIMM capacity is up to 256GB...