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Networking terms and definitions

Network World

To find a brief definition of the networking term you are looking for user your browser’s “Find” feature then follow links to a fuller explanation. Open RAN (O-RAN) O-RAN is a wireless-industry initiative for designing and building 5G radio access networks using software-defined technology and general-purpose, vendor-neutral hardware.

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Mastering technology modernization: 6 steps for building your road map

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, a legacy, expensive, and difficult-to-support system runs on proprietary hardware that runs a proprietary operating system, database, and application. However, it is possible to run the database and application on an open source operating system and commodity hardware.

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How device security is evolving and why that matters

CIO Business Intelligence

Except for certain fieldwork, the traditional definition of being in the office or “at work” is increasingly disassociated from a single physical building. When comparing longitudinal data, it is striking that concerns about managing multiple devices and operating systems more than doubled between 2021 and 2023, from 15% to 33%.

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Kyndryl bolsters its Bridge infrastructure services

Network World

Bridge has matured to the point where customers can think of it as a digital operating system that can be personalized, if you will, for each business to integrate our services, manage their data, and gather insights or patterns they need to operate at a highly efficient way,” Shagoury said. “We

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The spy in your living room

Vox

Theres the hardware, namely the TV itself; the entertainment, like movies and shows; and the ads, usually just commercials that interrupt your movies and shows. While most people think of Roku as a hardware company, it actually transitioned into becoming an advertising company almost a decade ago.

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Cloud Computing- A Definitive Way to Amply your Business Productivity

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Cloud Computing- A Definitive Way to Amply your Business Productivity - Information Technology Blog. In traditional business operations, if you wanted to get access to anything in your company, it had to be done through software locally installed on your computer. Platform as a service (PaaS).

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Epic v. Apple turns into Windows v. Xbox

The Verge

“You are basically building a piece of hardware to do a specific thing,” she told a judge. As a result, Microsoft keeps tight control of what content users can access — it’s a “curated, custom-built hardware/software experience.” It’s hard to call the iPhone anything but a general-purpose device under Wright’s definition.

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