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A Bloom box, officially known as an Energy Server, is a modular construction of fuel cells that can be used in combination to produce the amount of energy required for a given application. Each fuel cell, which consists of a metal alloy plate sandwiched between two ceramic layers, generates 25 watts of power. A single fuel cell can power a light bulb; a stack about the size of a loaf of bread could power the average home.
Chef is an open-source systems management and cloud infrastructure automation framework created by Opscode. Devops can use Chef to deploy and manage servers and applications in-house and in the cloud.
Zabbix is an open-source tool designed to monitor networks, servers, appliances and other hardware through a Linux-based server, which communicates to the native agents that are available for many operating systems, including Linux, UNIX and Windows.
10 gigabit Ethernet is a telecommunication technology that offers data speeds up to 10 billion bits per second. It differs from traditional Ethernet in that it is a full-duplex protocol and does not require Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection (CSMA/CD).
A network tap is an external monitoring device that mirrors the traffic that passes between two network nodes. A tap (test access point) is a hardware device inserted at a specific point in the network to monitor data.
An ISSU (in-service software upgrade) is a technique for updating software on a network device without taking that device offline and thereby disrupting network services.
A nested VM (nested virtual machine) is a virtual machine contained within another VM.
A bubble network is a series of interconnected virtual machines (VMs) that communicate through a virtual network switch (vSwitch) and remain isolated from the physical network.
vNUMA (virtual NUMA) is a memory-access optimization method for VMware virtual machines (VMs) that helps prevent memory-bandwidth bottlenecks.
The Exchange Transport Dumpster is a feature that exists in Exchange 2007 and 2010 to prevent data loss.
Microsoft Outlook 2013 is the email client that was included in the Office 2013 suite release.
Microsoft Exchange 2013 Poison Message Queue is a queue that exists specifically to hold messages deemed harmful to the deployment after a transport server or service failure.
On the Internet, a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is one in which a multitude of compromised systems attack a single target, thereby causing denial of service for users of the targeted system.
The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) is United States legislation that defines a comprehensive framework to protect government information, operations and assets against natural or man-made threats.
Computer forensics is the application of investigation and analysis techniques to gather and preserve evidence from a particular computing device in a way that is suitable for presentation in a court of law.
Desktop as a service (DaaS), also called virtual desktop or hosted desktop, is the outsourcing of a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to a third party service provider.
A virtual GPU is a computer processor that renders graphics on a server rather than on a physical endpoint device.
A virtual desktop pool is a group of virtual desktops that are hosted on identically configured virtual machines.
A programmable network is one in which the behavior of network devices and flow control is handled by software that operates independently from network hardware.
Citrix NetScaler SDX is a service delivery networking platform for enterprise and cloud datacenters. NetScaler SDX supports multiple NetScaler instances on a single hardware appliance.
NX-OS evolved from the Cisco MDS operating system, SAN-OS.
A semiconductor fab is a manufacturing plant in which raw silicon wafers are turned into integrated circuits.
Tier 0 (tier zero) is a level of storage that’s faster, and perhaps more expensive, than any other level in the storage hierarchy.
Enterprise MLC (eMLC) is a type of MLC flash that has been enhanced to accommodate more write cycles than consumer-grade MLC flash offers.