Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery - the switching on of a second remote data center when a first data center stops functioning due to a disaster, such as a drastic fire, flood,...
DWPD
DWPD - Drive Writes per Day - refers to the endurance of an SSD, as in writing data in the amount of its total capacity size before it wears...
dStorage
dStorage - Decentralized or Web3 storage. This takes the virtual equivalent of an object storage system and stores data fragments on globally distributed nodes owned by independent operators who...
DRAM
DRAM – Dynamic Random Access Memory – composed from cells in a solid state array which can have a positive or negative charge, signalling binary one or zero values. The...
DRaaS
DRaaS – Disaster Recovery as a service. An IT-using organization may have a remote disaster recovery (DR) data center set up to take over when its main data center is...
Codec
Codec - Compression/Decompression chip that compresses or decompresses a stream of audio or video data.
DPU
DPU – Data Processing Unit – dedicated processors to accelerate storage and networking functions carried out by industry standard x86 servers. These DPUs can be based on different kinds of processing...
DNA Storage
DNA Storage – DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) is a biopolymer molecule composed of two chains in a double helix formation, and carrying genetic information. The chains are made up from nucleotides...
DIMM
DIMM – Dual Inline Memory Module. A double-sided hardware card loaded with DRAM chips that plugs into a socket on a computer motherboard and so connects to a CPU across...
Deduplication
Deduplication – A method for removing repeated items or groups of items in a file to make it take up less space. It is often used in backup software and...
Decimal
Decimal – A number written in base 10 notation using the numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
DDR6
DDR6 – Even faster Double Data Rate DRAM than DDR5.