IT Glossary Dictionary
Overview of technical terms.
IT Glossary from A–Z
In our IT glossary, you’ll find definitions of the most important technical terms, abbreviations, and jargon in the context of colocation, data centers, and cloud services. With this compilation of IT terms, we aim to provide you with quick and targeted explanations of concepts and deepen your knowledge in the field of information technology.
a
- API – Application Programming Interface
- Authentication
b
- Backbone
- Backup
- Bandwidth
- Bare Metal Server
- BI (Business Intelligence)
- Big Data
- Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
- BYOD (Bring your own device)
c
- CEPH
- Cloud
- Cloud-based
- Cloud computing
- Cloud-native
- Cloud Service
- Cloud Storage
- Cold aisle containment
- Colocation
- Colocation Rack
- Container
- Container Orchestration
- CRM
d
- Dark Fiber
- Data security
- Data sovereignty
- DBaaS
- DDoS attack
- DE-CIX
- dedicated
- Dedicated Server
- Deployment
- DevOps
- Digital Transformation
- Direct Attached Storage
e
- E-commerce
- Edge Computing
- Energy efficiency
- ERP
- ESG
f
- Fault Tolerance
- Fiber optic cables
- FinOps
- Firewall
g
- GAN (Global Area Network)
- GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
- Green IT
h
- Hybrid Cloud
- Hyperscaler
- Hypervisor
i
- IaaS
- Incident
- Information Security
- Internet-Breakout
- IoT (Internet of Things)
- ISO
k
- KRITIS
- Kubernetes
l
- LAN (Local Area Network)
- Latency
- Load balancing
m
- MACH Architecture
- MAN (Metropolitan Area Network)
- MDM (Mobile Device Management)
- MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication)
- Multi-Cloud
n
- Network
- Node (network node)
p
- PaaS
- PAN (Personal Area Network)
- POP (Point of Presence)
- Private Cage
- Private Cloud
- Public Cloud
- PUE
r
- Redundancy
- Remote Hands
- Router
s
- SaaS
- Scalability
- SecOps
- Server
- Server housing
- Server virtualization
- SFA (Single-factor authentication)
- shared
- SPoF (Single Point of Failure)
- Storage Area Network (SAN)
- Supply Chain Management (SCM)
- Sustainability
- Switch
t
- Traffic
- Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)
u
- Uplink
v
- Virtual Machine (VM)
- Virtualization
- VLAN
- VPN (Virtual Private Network)
w
- WAN (Wide Area Network)
- WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network)
