- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 98482
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Sometimes referred to as “Big Blue” IBM is a multinational corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York. It manufactures computer hardware and software and provides information technology and services.
(1) A communications common carrier network that provides data communications services over switched or nonswitched lines.<br />(2) A network operated by a government or private organization to provide computer communications to the public, usually for a fee. With a PDN, a small organization can create a WAN without incurring the equipment costs of long-distance circuits.
Industry:Software
(1) A particular computing system, including the work it does and the people who manage it, operate it, apply it to problems, service it, and use the results it produces.<br />(2) The process of adding a hardware or software component to a computing environment.<br />(3) A set of artifacts from one or more DB2 database products.
Industry:Software
(1) A communications handle used by TCP/IP.<br />(2) An identifier that an application uses to uniquely identify an end point of communication. The user associates a protocol address with the socket by associating a socket address with the socket.<br />(3) A means for directing data to an application in a TCP/IP network using a unique identifier that is a combination of an IP address and a port number.<br />(4) In the Network Computing System (NCS), a port on a specific host; a communications end point that is accessible through a protocol family's addressing mechanism. A socket is identified by a socket address.<br />(5) A callable TCP/IP programming interface that TCP/IP network applications use to communicate with remote TCP/IP partners.
Industry:Software
(1) A particular occurrence or example of an organization definition. For an organization definition called Department, an example of an organization unit would be Sales and Marketing.<br />(2) Primary component of an organization, providing a context for its management. Organization structure relates a parent unit to its subsidiaries in a hierarchy, and each unit is responsible for collections of other business components. See also business system.
Industry:Software
(1) A communications method in which information is organized into small, fixed-length cells that recur without regular or predictable time relationships. ATM incorporates network switches and negotiated service connections.<br />(2) A broadband technology for transmitting data over LANs or WANs that is based on relaying cells of fixed size. ATM provides any-to-any connectivity and nodes can transmit simultaneously.
Industry:Software
(1) A pattern of characters that is used to control the keeping, deleting, or testing of portions of another pattern of characters.<br />(2) A pattern of characters that is used to establish maximum permissions that can then be applied to individual access control list (ACL) entries.
Industry:Software
(1) A compiled collection of functions whose members can be referred to by an application program at run time.<br />(2) A library that is loaded dynamically and used during execution time.
Industry:Software
(1) A pattern or template that is applied to an Internet Protocol (IP) address to specify which bits are significant and which bits are irrelevant.<br />(2) A pattern of bits or characters that controls the keeping, deleting, or testing of portions of another pattern of bits or characters.<br />(3) Data that is used to extract information that is stored in another location.
Industry:Software
(1) A component (SPACK or VPACK) that fits in the 9295 Multiple Digital Trunk Processor, or one of four XPACKs on the DTXA.<br />(2) To store data in a compact form in such a way that the original form can be recovered.
Industry:Software
(1) A component of a schedule that divides the timeline into named intervals, such as peak, off-peak, and no service.<br />(2) The symbol ".". The term dot is used for the same symbol when referring to a Web address or file extension. This character is named <period> in the portable character set. See also dot.
Industry:Software
