Business continuity: Business continuity is the activity performed by an organization to ensure that critical business functions will be available to customers, suppliers, regulators, and...

FireWire is a process of connecting different pieces of equipment so they can quickly and easily share information. FireWire (also referred to as IEEE1394 High...

Greyware (or grayware) refers to a malicious software or code that is considered to fall in the "grey area" between normal software and a virus....

A hypervisor, also called virtual machine manager (VMM), is one of many hardware virtualization techniques that allow multiple operating systems, termed guests, to run concurrently...

Metal-as-a-Service; The dynamic provisioning and deployment of whole physical servers, as opposed to the provisioning of virtual machines.

OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts. It was built on its predecessor TrueType, retaining TrueType's basic structure and adding many intricate data structures...

Terminal emulation is the act of using one's desktop computer to communicate with another computer like a UNIX or IBM mainframe exactly as if you...

Zero-day (or zero-hour or day zero) attack, threat or virus is a computer threat that tries to exploit computer application vulnerabilities that are unknown to...

Machine learning is the ability of a program to develop and progress in a specific task without using explicit instructions, allowing the program to rely...

Open-source programs include access to their source code, which allows for customization in a collaborative public manner. Why is it Important to the IT Professional?...

GUI is a common IT terminology that stands for Graphical User Interface, or “gooey.” It is an interface that is based in graphic design and...