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| This consists of a set of physical devices and software applications that are required to operate the entire enterprise |
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| This was the first 360 commercial computer with a powerful operating system that could provide time sharing, multitasking, and virtual memory in more advanced models |
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| This company dominated mainframe computing from 1965 on.... |
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| These were produced by Digital Equipment Corp (DEC) in 1965 |
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| The work of the entire network is balanced over several different level of servers, depending on the kind of service being requested |
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| Multi-tiered client/server architectures |
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| Microsoft is the worlds market leader in its operating system called? |
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| This is a model of computing where firms and individuals obtain computing power and software applications over the internet rather than purchasing their own hardware and software |
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| This uses individual atoms and molecules to create computer chips and other devices that are thousands of times smaller than current technologies permit |
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| These are specifications that establish the compatibility of products and the ability to communicate in a network |
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| Ultra thin computers store in racks- they take up less space than traditional box-based servers |
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| These are examples of operating systems: they are scalable, reliable, and much less expensive than mainframe operating systems |
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| This network connects multiple storage devices on a separate high-speed network dedicated to storage |
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| Storage Area Networks (SAN) |
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| This is main memory and is the only one directly accessible to the CPU |
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| This is a large Web server, or series of servers, and provides fee-paying subscribers with space to maintain their Web sites |
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| These are older transaction processing systems created for mainframe computers that continue to be used to avoid the high cost of replacing or redesigning them- redesigning them is cost prohibitive and generally not necessary |
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| These are small,lightweight subnotebooks that are optimized for wireless communication and internet access, with core computing functions such as word processing and etc. |
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| This involves connecting geographically remote computers into a single network to create a virtual supercomputer by combining the computational power of all computers on a grid- this also provides both cost savings and increased speed |
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| Industry-wide effort to develop systems that can configure and optimize themselves, heal themselves when broken, and protect themselves from outside intruders—similar to our autonomic nervous system |
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| This is the process of running more than one operating system at the same time on a single machine |
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| This is a way to reduce power requirements and hardware sprawl- it is also an integrated circuit to which two or more processors have been attached for enhanced performance |
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| This is the most well known open source software- it is an operating system that is related to Unix |
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| This is an operating system-independent, processor independent, object=oriented programming language that has become the leading interactive programming environment for the Web |
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| This refers to the ability of a computer, product, or system to expand to serve a large number of users without breaking down |
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