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The entire spectrum of technologies for information processing, including software, hardware, communications technologies and related services. In general, information technology (IT) does not include embedded technologies that do not generate data for enterprise use.

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Company: Gartner

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Fiber-optic cable deployments that are not yet being used to carry network traffic. (The word “dark” refers to the fact that no light is passing through the optical fibers.)

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

Gartner defines dark data as the information assets organizations collect, process and store during regular business activities, but generally fail to use for other purposes (for example, analytics, ...

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The connection of multiple devices in a serial fashion. An advantage of daisy-chaining is savings in transmission facilities. A disadvantage is that if a device malfunctions, all of the devices ...

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A Unix process initiated during system boot and activated automatically to perform a particular task.

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

An error detection technique using a polynomial to generate a series of two 8-bit block check characters that represent the entire block of data. These block check characters are incorporated into ...

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The time it takes to complete a process or service operation, including all value-adding and non-value-adding time.

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An electronic version of a physical library that is implemented on behalf of workers for information self-service.

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

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