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ITIL is an infrastructure library that has become a widely accepted approach to IT service management.

Short for uninterruptible power supply, a UPS typically keeps a computer running for several minutes after a power outage, enabling data to be saved to RAM and the computer to be shut down gracefully or run until a generator kicks in.

The term middleware describes software that serves as the glue between two applications and passes data between them.

High-performance computing, or HPC, is a branch of computer science that concentrates on developing supercomputers and software to run on supercomputers.

Last week, version 3 of the General Public License (GPL) was released. This license accompanies much open source software, outlining how the software and its accompanying source code can be freely copied, distributed and modified.

Logical partitioning uses specialized hardware circuits to split a computer’s resources into smaller units in such a way that each segment can be run with its own instance of the operating system and applications.

BitTorrent is a file distribution system used for transferring files across a network. As a file is downloaded, BitTorrent places the content on upload for other users; when multiple users download the same file at the same time, they upload pieces of the file to each other.

Short for input/output, the term I/O describes any program, operation or device that transfers data to or from a computer and to or from a peripheral device.

A logical unit number (LUN) is a unique identifier used on a SCSI bus to distinguish between devices sharing the same bus.

In storage technology, data deduplication, also referred to as deduplication or deduping, refers to the elimination of redundant data. Duplicate data is deleted, leaving only one copy of the data to be stored.