- Industry: Computer
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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.
An algorithm where the encryption key can be calculated from the decryption key and vice versa. In most symmetric algorithms, the encryption key and the decryption key are the same.
Industry:Software
An end point of a specific path through a message flow to which a client application subscribes, identified to the client by its subscription point.
Industry:Software
A virtual tape server (VTS) logical volume (LVOL) containing the list of LVOLs to import. This list can contain individual logical volumes or it can contain a list of stacked volumes whose LVOLs will be imported.
Industry:Software
An alias for a set of port numbers or worldwide names (WWNs). Zone aliases can be used to simplify the entry of port numbers and WWNs. For example, "host" could be used as an alias for a WWN of 110:00:00:60:69:00:00:8a.
Industry:Software
An engine's connection point to a storage client network. A storage port is a member of a single fabric. See also engine.
Industry:Software
A virtualization technique in which the physical storage, in the form of a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID), is split into smaller chunks of storage known as extents. These extents are then concatenated, using various policies, to make virtual disks (VDisks). See also asymmetric virtualization.
Industry:Software
An alias that authorizes access to resource adapters and data sources. An authentication aliash contains authentication data, including a user ID and password.
Industry:Software
An enhancement to extended remote copy (XRC) that allows up to five XRC sessions to run within a single logical partition (LPAR).
Industry:Software
A virtualization technique in which the virtualization engine is outside the data path and performs a metadata-style service. The metadata server contains all the mapping and locking tables while the storage devices contain only data. See also symmetric virtualization, metadata server.
Industry:Software
An allocation of space to a table space. Depending on the table space type, the container can be a directory, device, or file.
Industry:Software
