DDR5
DDR5 – Double Data Rate memory with double the bandwidth and capacity of DDR4 memory. DDR5 3200 will deliver 182.5 GB/sec effective bandwidth from its 3200 MT/s data rate, which...
Decimal and Binary Prefixes
Decimal and Binary Prefixes – The SI system, a decimal system, measures units in powers of 10. The binary numeric system measure units in powers of 2. Numeric prefixes, such...
DDR4
DDR4 – Double Data Rate gen 4 memory - DDR4 megatransfers/sec data rates range from 1600 to 4800 MT/sec. A DDR4 DIMM uses a 288-pin connector.
DDR
DDR - Double Data Rate memory. Originally data was transferred from memory to the CPU every clock signal. The more DRAM capacity and the higher the speed the better,...
V-Tree
V-Tree - a tree-like structure used for storing metadata in VAST Data's universal file system. This has a DASE (Disaggregated Shared Everything) datastore which is a byte-granular, thin-provisioned, sharded,...
DASE
DASE - Disaggregated Shared Everything - the system architecture devised and used by VAST Data. This employs a Universal Storage filesystem with a DASE (Disaggregated Shared Everything) datastore which...
D2D2T
D2D2T – Disk to Disk to Tape. Backedup data from a disk source system is first written to a target disk system and then sent on to a tape library.
D2D
D2D – Disk to disk. A term used to describe backup storage systems with the backup of a disk-based source system stored in another disk-based target system and not a...
CSI
CSI – Container Storage Interface. This is an industry standard interface that can be used by any storage system provider and works across various container orchestration systems, such as Kubernetes,...
CPU
CPU – Central Processing Unit – the main processor in a server, desktop or laptop computer. It executes machine-level instructions and is a general purpose processor. There can be multiple processor...
Container
Container – A software entity that contains application code to run microservices with a standard interface to other containers. Unlike a virtual machine a container does not contain a guest...
ROW
ROW – Redirect-on-Write. See snapshot entry.