Glossary

The assurance process confirming that a software product meets the actual needs and expectations of the user.

A lean management method used to analyze and design the flow of materials and information required to bring a product to a customer.

A symbolic name given to a designated location in memory where specific values can be stored, modified, and retrieved.

Centralized management software by VMware used to control pools of virtual infrastructure across enterprise environments.

A highly modern database strictly optimized for natively storing and rapidly querying high-dimensional mathematical vectors, utilized heavily in AI processing.

A key agile metric measuring the total amount of work a team successfully delivers during a single sprint.

The evaluation process checking whether software development products conform to specified design requirements.

The practice of systematically tracking and managing changes to software code over time, allowing for collaboration and rollback capabilities.

An older analog video hardware connection standard utilizing a specialized 15-pin connector to interface traditional monitors with computer graphical units.

A virtual, structural database table entirely based natively on the dynamic result set of an underlying, highly structured SQL query.

A software-based virtualization or emulation of a physical computer system running on underlying hardware.

A private, isolated section of a public cloud network provisioned explicitly for a customer's dedicated resources.

The core technology enabling the creation of virtual representations of servers, storage, networks, and applications.

A self-replicating type of malicious computer program that alters the way a computer operates without user consent.

The telephone equivalent of phishing, where scammers use voice calls to socially engineer victims out of their money or private information.

A inspirational long-term declaration outlining what an organization aspires to achieve in the future.

A logically constructed subnetwork that seamlessly groups together devices from disparate physical switch ports into one isolated broadcast domain.

A pioneering software corporation providing industry-standard cloud computing and virtualization desktop and server software.

A secure, encrypted connection method utilized to add privacy and bypass geographic restrictions on public or private networks.

An encrypted, heavily secure data link forcefully established between a user’s device and a remote firewall, protecting transit data from deep packet inspection.

A dense, head-mounted hardware peripheral that fully immerses the user in simulated, interactive virtual reality environments through dual optical displays.

Specialized, high-speed RAM firmly dedicated exclusively to actively storing image data and graphics assets intended for immediate visual display.