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What are some common tech acronyms I may encounter while working with the FOGO team?

Ok, so you might be wondering what in the world we are even talking about when we’re describing our services, or you may be struggling to understand what a particular benefit to your company means because you just can’t get past the jargon. No worries, we’re here to help and explain. The letters we use actually do serve a purpose. (aside from a great way to display our alphabet knowledge!)

Here we’ve broken down a few of the terms we use often in our work –

BYOC

AP, Access Points

API, Application Programmer Interface

BYOC

MDM, Mobile Device Management

A technology-enabled discipline in which business and IT work together to ensure the uniformity, accuracy, stewardship, semantic consistency and accountability of the enterprise’s official shared master data assets. Master data is the consistent and uniform set of identifiers and extended attributes that describes the core entities of the enterprise including customers, prospects, citizens, suppliers, sites, hierarchies and chart of accounts.

SaaS, Software as Service

SDN, Software Defined Network

An approach to networking that uses software-based controllers or application programming interfaces (APIs) to communicate with underlying hardware infrastructure and direct traffic on a network. This model differs from that of traditional networks, which use dedicated hardware devices (i.e., routers and switches) to control network traffic. SDN can create and control a virtual network – or control traditional hardware – via software. While network virtualization allows organizations to segment different virtual networks within a single physical network, or to connect devices on different physical networks to create a single virtual network, software-defined networking enables a new way of controlling the routing of data packets through a centralized server.

SLA, Service Level Agreement

VDI, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

VM, Virtual Machine

IaaS, Infrastructure as a Service

VPN, Virtual Private Network

BYTE

CMS, Content Management System

The collection of procedures used to manage workflow in a collaborative environment. In a CMS, data can be defined as nearly anything: documents, movies, pictures, phone numbers, scientific data, and so forth. CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, revising, semantically enriching, and publishing documentation. Serving as a central repository, the CMS increases the version level of new updates to an already existing file. Version control is one of the primary advantages of a CMS.

CPU

HDD, Hard Disk Drive

SCSI

SCSI, Small Computer System Interface

FTP, File Transfer Protocol

WAN, Wide Area Network

TaaS, Technology as a Service

LAN, Local Area Network

VLAN, Virtual Local Area Network

POP, Point of Presence

SSD, Solid-State Drive

SDWAN, Software-Defined Wide Area Network

RDP, Remote Desktop Protocol

IP, Internet Protocol

IP is the principal communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite (we already know the FTP, HTTP, and HTTPS from the previous section). It is a set of rules for the routing and addressing of data so that they can travel across networks and reach the correct destination. When traveling across a network such as the Internet, data is divided into small pieces called packets. Attached to each packet is the IP information, which helps the routers send those packets of data to the right address. Each device or domain connected to the internet has a unique IP address and the packets are directed to the correct IP addresses using the IP information.

2FA/TFA, Two-Factor Authentication

MFA, Multi-Factor Authentication

DBA, Database Administrator

VoIP, Voiceover Internet Protocol

AI, Artificial Intelligence

AFA, All Flash Array

BIOS, Basic Input Output System

OS, Operating System

PDF, Portable Document Format

DaaS, Desktop as a Service

NaaS, Network as a Service

OCR, Optical Character Recognition

HTTP, Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTPS, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (Secure)

SFTP, Secure File Transfer Protocol

Also called SSH File Transfer Protocol, this is a network protocol for accessing, transferring, and managing files on remote systems.SFTP allows businesses to securely transfer billing data, funds, and data recovery files. SFTP uses SSH to transfer files and requires that the client be authenticated by the server. Commands and data are encrypted in order to prevent passwords and other sensitive information from being exposed to the network in plain text.

EDR, Endpoint Detection and Response

P2P, Peer to Peer

AV, Anti-Virus

SSH, Secure Shell

SAS, Serial Attached SCSI

SATA, Serial Advanced Technology

NVME, Non-Volatile Memory Express

HA, High Availability

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