Tech Quiz of the Day:

SaaS

Feb 2 2009   5:08PM GMT

Are you a Know-It-All? Storage as a Service



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Storage, storage as a service, SaaS, thin provisioning, fat provisioning, primary storage, secondary storage, backup and recovery, outsourcing

Our WhatIs.com Tech Term is Storage as a Service (SaaS)

Storage as a Service is a business model in which a company rents space in their storage infrastructure to individual end users or businesses. In the enterprise, Storage as a Service is being driven by economic factors, as well as runaway data growth, compliance requirements, security issues and disaster recovery mandates.

Are you a Know-IT-All? Test your knowledge of tech vocabulary!

Secret Word of the Day

This is a conventional storage model, in which space is allocated beyond current needs, in anticipation of growing need and increased data complexity.
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Acronym Challenge

On a storage area network, TP is a flexible storage allocation scheme where each user is assigned a minimum amount of storage space depending on what’s required for them to do their job effectively. What does TP stand for?
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Tech Trivia

What’s the name of Amazon’s Storage as a Service?
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Small storage vendors walk in the clouds, too

Oct 24 2008   4:47PM GMT

Tech quiz of the day from WhatIs.com: How much do you know about CloudAV?



Posted by: Alex Howard
IBM, antivirus, SaaS, malware, Web 2.0, Amazon, cloud computing, Tech Trivia

The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is CloudAV.

Tech Trivia
What’s the name of IBM’s set of cloud computing services?
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Secret Word of the Day
This marketing term is used by vendors promoting an enterprise computing architecture that’s protected by a firewall.
What’s the secret word?
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IT Acronym Challenge
Amazon EC2 is a Web-based service that allows business subscribers to run application programs in the Amazon cloud. What does EC2 stand for?
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Oct 7 2008   4:34PM GMT

Tech Quiz of the Day from WhatIs.com: How much do you know about PaaS?



Posted by: Alex Howard
hardware, Virtualization, operating systems, CIO, supercomputers, SaaS, Web 2.0, Web services, Tech Trivia, business model, Business software

The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is Platform as a Service (PaaS).

Tech Trivia
What Web-based service allows business subscribers to run application programs in the Amazon.com computing environment?
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Secret Word of the Day
This is a stormy marketing term for an enterprise computing architecture that’s protected by a firewall. What’s the secret word?
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IT Acronym Challenge
HaaS, in a grid computing context, is a pay-as-you-go model for accessing a provider’s infrastructure and CPU power. What does HaaS stand for?
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