ESCON
ESCON - Enterprise System Connection - an IBM-devized cable and protocol dating from 1990 and the System 390 mainframe. It was used to connect mainframe computers to peripheral devices...
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel - a lossless storage networking protocol and cabling technology for linking SANs and accessing devices. Fibre Channel is a derivation of ESCON for open systems, widely used today...
FERAM
FERAM - Ferro-Electric Random Access Memory. FERAM is a type of non-volatile memory used in smart cards and some portable devices. Compared to Flash, it offers many more read/write...
FC-MAMR
FC-MAMR - Flux Control - Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording. A Toshiba technology. Microwaves are generated by a Spin Torque Oscillator (STO) positioned next to a disk drive write head. The...
FCOE
FCOE - Fibre Channel over Ethernet. This storage networking scheme carries Fibre Channel protocol messages over an Ethernet LAN cabling system.
Vector Embedding
When AI/ML large language model apps deal with objects such as words, sentences, multimedia text, images, video and audio sequences, they describe them with numeric values that can describe...
Exbibyte
Exbibyte – 1,000 pebibytes. See Decimal and Binary Prefix entry.
ETL
ETL – Extract, Transform and Load – the processing steps needed to extract data from some repository, change its characteristics and format, and then load it into a data...
Ethernet
Ethernet – a network scheme for connecting IT devices, such as server computer, network and storage systems, inside a datacenter. Such a network is called a local area network (LAN) in...
Erasure Coding
Erasure Coding – This is data coding added to a data set to enable a storage system to recover from the loss (erasure) of parts of the data set caused by,...
ePMR
ePMR – Enhanced Perpendicular Magnetic Recording. A Western Digital disk drive data recording technology which applies an electrical current to the main pole of the write head throughout the write...
Endurance
Endurance – The working life of an SSD before its flash cells wear out. The wear out rate is related directly to the number of write cycles a cell has...