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Hardware cloud, IoT cloud, industrial cloud, multi-cloud, hybrid cloud ... In connection with the trend towards cloud computing and digital transformation, we are overrun with new technical terms and trendy buzzwords. In addition to cloud topics, there are also plenty of other abbreviations, technical terms and buzzwords in IT.
In our glossary, we want to unlock the secrets of communication around and with the cloud and IT in general.
The glossary will continue to grow. So keep checking back to discover new terms and get to know the IT industry a little better.
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Agility enables an accelerated development process through less regulation.
from "to apply". Device on which an (->) application ("application"), typically a software solution, is permanently installed.
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appliance
An autonomous system (AS) refers to a network part of the Internet. Each IP address belongs to exactly one AS, and it must be known how to reach each AS on all major network nodes worldwide.
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Every Internet user has a so-called "default route" on their router, which usually has the simple content: "Send everything you don't know to your provider". The (real) providers don't have this. They have to "know" which package belongs where. The grouping in AS makes this work much easier.
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Autonomous system
Augmented reality = overlays in our (screen) reality.
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The Parkometer AR app (which makes it easier to find your car again) is super practical, but it's worrying when zombies aren't walking through the streets looking left and right, like in Pokémon go
Autoprovisioning is the "self-provisioning function". Autoprovisioning" automatically increases the available storage and computer capacity if the demand exceeds the booked space.
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www.cloudcomputing-insider.de/der-lange-arm-der-usa-neues-cloud-gesetz-in-kraft-a-704793/
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BayLDA is the abbreviation for Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision.
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Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision BayLDA
BIOS stands for Basic Input/Output System.
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Electronics Compendium
A botnet is a network of hijacked PCs that an attacker can control remotely. The individual PCs are therefore also referred to as "zombies".
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What is a botnet?
BSI Federal Office for Information Security.
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Federal Office for Information Security
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CeBIT is an IT trade fair in Hanover.
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The trade fair began as a sub-exhibition of the Hannover Messe. This developed into perhaps the most important IT trade fair on the planet for around 30 years. In 1995, Bill Gates presented Windows95 to 755,000 visitors. And today? Well... since digitalisation has become a topic for every trade fair, CeBIT has become less and less important and was therefore discontinued in 2018.
CIO stands for Chief Information Officer.
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Wikipedia
CISO stands for Chief Information Security Officer, formerly Central Information Security Officer as opposed to LISO.
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Wikipedia
CLI stands for command-line interface.
Cloud Act stands for Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act
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Cloud Act ( Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act) is a United States amendment to the Stored Communications Act with regulations on the collection of data in (from the US perspective:) foreign countries.
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About Cloud Act
The data generated during the backup is not stored locally, but in the cloud. The data is transferred via the internet connection. The disadvantage of this method is that the internet connection must be large enough to transfer the data. This incurs additional costs. Advantage of the method: No investment in hardware is required and the service can be operated with minimal administration effort.
Cloud storage is a service model in which data is maintained, managed and backed up at a remote location and made available to users via a network (usually the Internet).
When storing data in the cloud, it is sensible and secure to encrypt it before it is stored. This technology is called cloud storage encryption.
Cloud-to-cloud backup involves copying data from one cloud service to another. It makes sense to back up data in the cloud online, i.e. with cloud backup, as the cloud services are usually connected to each other with very high bandwidths.
There are countless answers to the question of what is meant by the cloud and every day new cloudy terms are added, which we refer to as "Clouderwelsch". With our Clouderwelsch phrasebook, we aim to summarise the most important buzzwords relating to the cloud in an understandable, practical and neutral way.
CNOBI domains are top-level domains ending in .com, .net, .org, .biz and .info.
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The Internet.net
Compliance means that a company always adheres to certain rules of the game. In the IT sector, a company has to comply with legal as well as internal and contractual rules in practice.
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And these are usually really complicated, otherwise IT would really simplify the life of a company :)
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Gabler Business Dictionary
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Support programme in Germany.
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About digital bonus
Digital transformation refers to the phenomenon of economic and social changes triggered by modern IT concepts.
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What digital technologies are changing in our lives. So the printed book becomes an ebook, (i.e. the printers die and the data centres flourish?), the doctor's consultation takes place via Skype and the conversation with the colleague in the same room via e-mail (with CC to the boss), but also completely new business models. It is no longer simply objects that are produced and sold, but only the benefits (e.g. car sharing, cycle minutes).
GDPR is the General Data Protection Regulation, the EU's "data protection law".
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EU Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).
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dsgvo-law.de
DPO stands for data protection officer.
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Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision
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ITaaS goes beyond the purely technical provision of IT services and also includes strategic aspects.
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For some service providers, an extended service will also be a "digital business model as a service" in the future.
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The ITasS concept
IT as a service: What CIOs need to do for it
it-sa is a German IT security trade fair and takes place annually in Nuremberg. It evolved from the former Systems.
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To the it-sa website
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KMU digital is a digital funding programme for small and medium-sized enterprises in Austria. A similar programme exists in Germany under the name digitalbonus.
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Companies receive a free digital potential analysis. However, this will only be available from autumn 2017, as the digital consultants for the analysis will have been trained by then. Looking for a second job?
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To the funding programme MU digitalK
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Legacy refers to a historically grown IT system that is still in use but is outdated in places. These are often in-house developments that would take a lot of time and money to replace.
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Literally: "legacy". This is certainly a euphemism....
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Legacy system
LIR account is the sequence of letters under which someone has an account with RIPE.
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RIPE NCC
LISO stands for Local Information Security Officer.
LRZ stands for Leibniz Supercomputing Centre of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
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Leibnitz Computing Centre
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Literally: in-house. This means that everything that is not operated in external data centres or the cloud is "on premise".
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Be it in the internal data centre, on your own computer, on your own server in the mailroom ... on premise is suitable for entrepreneurs with a high need for control
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Wikipedia on on premise
OwnCloud is free software that allows you to build your own private data storage solution to synchronise data and access it from anywhere.
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There is a version in the cloud, but you can also install the software on your own server.
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Own Cloud Software
Wikipedia about OwnCloud
OwnCloud / Dropbox: A comparison
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The PUE value provides information about the energy efficiency of a data centre.
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The value is calculated as the quotient of total power consumption and IT power consumption. Mathematically, it is clear that this figure is always greater than one, even if a few marketing strategists would like to see smaller PUEs. The closer a PUE value is to 1, the more energy-efficient a data centre is.
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How to determine the PUE
A public cloud is based on the standard cloud computing model, in which service providers make various resources such as applications (Software-as-a-Service, SaaS), complete computing platforms (Platform-as-aService, Paas) or IT infrastructure such as storage or servers (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) available to the general public via the Internet.
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Redhat
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Service Level Agreements (SLAs) typically regulate the minimum availability of a service.
Statistically speaking, technology at the lower level fails time and again, be it power, cooling, network connection, computer and storage hardware. In order to achieve higher availability, the provider must take precautions to ensure that services do not fail simply because components fail. This includes failover solutions and the creation of redundancies in the components. The higher the SLA value, the higher the production costs. Please note: If an annual SLA of 99% has been agreed, this means that services may fail for a full 24 hours within 100 days without breaching the SLA. At 99.99%, this is still almost one hour per year.
After the government SETI programme was discontinued in 1999, the search for extraterrestrial life was shifted to the army of individually operated PCs on the Internet as an innovative project and is therefore regarded as the first cloud project.
Siri is the personal, virtual, talking iPhone or iPad assistant from Apple.
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Siri means good luck in Thai. The name is said to have first appeared as a first name in Germany in the 1960s.
According to a survey, 73.4% of people like the sound of Siri, so Apple is in luck once again. Siri has recently been joined by Alexa (Amazon Voice Service).
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About the name Siri
How did the name Siri come about for the Apple voice assistant?
- Marketing term for the intelligent analysis of big data
- A project of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy is called "smart data" and aims to create intelligent business models by analysing big data
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How can collected mass data be used intelligently? The "smart data - innovations from data" programme aims to evaluate intelligent business models in a smart way.
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Smart Data Blog
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy/Smart Data
Smart farming is a platform for the modern farmer. There is an app for everything - even on the farm.
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From sow planners to MooMonitoring or the Agrocom Superkuh programme ... there are many modern IT solutions for use in agriculture ("Third Green Revolution").
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Platform with software offers
SDN separates all tasks in the network from any hardware with the help of virtualisation (cross-reference).
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It is much easier to graphically define a network connection with a mouse than to physically walk through a data centre with a cable drum and screw firewalls and routers into IT cabinets. The basis for SDN was laid at Stanford University.
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Stanford University
SpaceNet AG grounds the cloud and, as an independent full-service Internet provider, has been offering Internet-related solutions to medium-sized companies throughout Germany since 1993. SpaceNet specialises in hosting applications for business models such as e-commerce solutions that require highly available IT environments.
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As an outsourcing partner, SpaceNet operates individual applications and services for its customers in its data centres, but also takes over the complete operation of corporate IT. As a provider of cloud solutions such as mail archiving, mail services or hosting continuity, SpaceNet grounds the cloud. These solutions require data centres with a high-performance, stable and reliable infrastructure. SpaceNet stores the data redundantly in two locally separated high-security data centres in Munich. A dedicated backbone provides an independent infrastructure with interfaces to the world's most important nodes, guaranteeing high transfer rates. Around 1,200 business customers such as Antenne Bayern and the Munich Transport and Tariff Association (MVV) currently benefit from SpaceNet AG's services. The Munich-based company employs around 100 people and is certified to the ISO 27001 security standard.
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www.space.net
Systems was a German IT trade fair that took place in Munich every two years from 1969 to 2009.
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Everyone who missed out on the moon landing in 1969 could at least go to the first Systems.
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The Systems IT trade fair
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A Web Application Firewall (WAF) or WebShield protects web applications at application level, i.e. the web application to be protected does not have to be rewritten for this purpose.
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Typical attacks that a WAF protects against: Injection, tampering, cross-site scripting, cookie poisoning and many more.
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Web Application Firewall