Information technology

Information technology

The acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of information by electronics-based of computing and telecommunications.

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concurrent engineering (CE)

Technology; Information technology

Concurrent engineering (CE) is a collaborative, team-based approach for designing products that combines multiple departments and disciplines into a project team.

concurrent database restore

Technology; Information technology

A system-level facility to allow a database or portion thereof to be restored while the database is still open for application access.

concurrent backup

Technology; Information technology

A system-level facility to allow a database or disk file to be backed up to another disk or to magnetic tape while it is still open for application access.

concentrator

Technology; Information technology

A device that merges many low-speed asynchronous channels into one or more high-speed synchronous channels to achieve economies of data transmission.

Computing platform products are defined as follows:  Server systems —The server segment comprises all multiuser systems. Please note that Gartner no longer classifies supercomputers and mainframes ...

computing appliance

Technology; Information technology

A computing device that provides predefined services, and that has its underlying operating (OS) software hidden beneath an application-specific interface. Computing appliances offer reduced ...