Key Tech Terms for the Digital Landscape

Build or expand upon your knowledge of today's most prevalent IT topics by browsing the definitions of the most widely used terms in our industry.

What is application security?

Backup and disaster recovery

What is business continuity?

What is cloud automation?

What is cloud computing?

What is cloud monitoring?

What are containers, Kubernetes, and cloud native technologies?

What is cloud security?

What is a cloud service?

What is cloud storage?

What is containerization?

Converged vs. hyperconverged infrastructure

What is a database?

What is Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)?

What is database management?

What is Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS)?

What is disaster recovery (DR)?

What is Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS)?

What is distributed file systems?

What is distributed storage?

What is an enterprise cloud?

What is a hypervisor?

What is hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)?

What is hybrid cloud?

What is microsegmentation?

What is multicloud?

Nutanix vs. VMware

Nutanix vs AWS

What is object storage?

What is a private cloud?

What is public cloud?

What is ransomware?

What is software-defined networking (SDN)?

What is software-defined storage?

What is virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)?

What is virtualization?

What is infrastructure as a service (IaaS)?

What is Kubernetes?