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Corelink – Glossary of Terms
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- Arizona Colocation
Arizona Colocation are facilities located in Arizona where a customer’s server equipment is hosted by a data center provider.
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B
- Burstable Colocation
Burstable colocation is a unique CoreLink solution for a business to grow and expand easily with guaranteed space and power.
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- Business Continuity
Business Continuity are plans and procedures intended to keep critical business operations running in the event of a disaster.
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- Cable Tray
A Cable Tray is used to support electric cables use for power supply and communication.
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- Carbon Footprint
A Carbon Footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide an organization, person, etc. produces.
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- Chicago Colocation
Chicago Colocation are facilities located in Chicago, Illinois where a customer’s server equipment is hosted by a data center provider.
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- Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing involves distributing hosted services over the Internet. These services are split into three groups: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service.
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- Colocation
Colocation is a type of data center hosting where the customer’s server equipment is hosted at a data center facility.
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- Colocation Bandwidth
Colocation Bandwidth refers to how much capacity a company has to transmit data on a network in a colocation center.
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- Colocation Cages
Colocation Cages are cages accommodate a wide range of free standing equipment including storage arrays, mainframes and networking equipment.
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- Colocation Cabinets
Colocation Cabinets are secure, multi-compartment units specifically designed for a co-location environment. Colocation cabinets are field convertible from a 2-3 compartment configuration.
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- Colocation Data Center
A colocation data center, also called a carrier hotel, is a type of data center where colocation services are provided. It is a secure physical site or building where data communications media converge and are interconnected.
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- Colocation Facility
A Colocation Facility is an environmentally-controlled, secure building with 24 hour monitoring, uninterruptible power supply, available internet connectivity, and required amounts of cooling for servers. Businesses often use colocation facilities to store their primary and secondary IT infrastructure, as well as for storing data in an off-site location.
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- Colocation Provider
A colocation Provider is a datacenter enabling clients to place their server machine in the supplier’s rack and share their bandwidth as the supplier’s own.
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- Colocation Services
Colocation Services are solutions provided data center client’s that help secure, maintain, and run servers and applications.
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- Cross Connect Solutions
Cross Connect Solutions offers datacenter environments to accommodate small, medium or enterprise-class customers who need space for growth and power on-demand in a high-bandwidth, accessible facility.
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- Data Backup Service
A Data Backup Service is a solution offered by a company to restore original data that has been lost after a data loss event.
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- Data Breach
A Data Breach is the deliberate or unintentional release of sensitive, protected, or confidential information to an unauthorized individual.
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- Data Center
A Data Center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.
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- Data Center Chiller
A Data Center Chiller is a cooling system used in a data center to remove heat from one element and deposit it into another element.
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- Data Center Cooling
Data Center Cooling relates to accurately maintaining data center at an efficient targeted temperature to enable servers and other equipment to run effectively. It not only involves the deployment and maintenance of air conditioning, but in order to provide the most cooling per square foot, the most efficient server configurations must be employed.
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- Data Center Cost
Data Center Cost are the expenses in running a colocation facility, such as the building, servers, networking equipment, power, cooling, and other infrastructure needs.
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- Data Center Disaster Recovery
Data Center Disaster Recovery is the organizational planning to resume business operations following an unexpected event which may damage or destroy data, software and hardware systems.
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- Data Center Facility
A Data Center Facility (also called a data storage center, datacenter, data storage facility or data storage vault) is a building which houses mission-critical systems such as computing and communications hardware.
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- Data Center Fire Protection
Data Center Fire Protection is the design elements and fire prevention programs that are implemented in a data center.
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- Data Center Hosting
Data Center Hosting is provided by a facility that stores and maintains servers and applications for clients. Data center hosting can help companies reduce capital expenditures and accelerate the implementation of technology with on-demand services
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- Data Center Infrastructure
Data Center Infrastructure is the physical and organizational structures needed to operate a data center.
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- Data Center Management
Data Center Management refers to the role of individuals who are responsible for overseeing technical and IT issues within a data center. This includes computer and server operations, data entry, data security, data quality control and management of the services and applications used for data processing.
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- Data Center Monitoring
Data Center Monitoring supervises power, temperature, and environmental conditions of a data center in order to increase service reliability while improving business operational efficiency.
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- Data Center Move
A Data Center Move is when a data center must move to another location because the location can no longer be optimized to provide sufficient power and cooling or can’t be modified to meet evolving space and reliability requirements.
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- Data Center Network
Data Center Network means maintaining and increasing the operational agility of the entire networked infrastructure.
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- Data Center Network Security
Data Center Network Security means the security precautions taken to maintain the operational agility of the entire networked infrastructure.
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- Data Center Power
Data Center Power is the energy that is needed to operate a data center in a stable and secure environment.
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- Data Center Services
Data Center Services are a collective term for the supporting components necessary for the proper operation of a repository for storage, management and dissemination of data organized around a body of knowledge or pertaining to an enterprise. As such, data center services can involve hardware, software, processes and personnel.
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- Data Center Security
Data Center Security is the physical and electronic systems needed 24/7 to protect data and equipment.
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- Data Center SLA
Data Center SLA (Data Center Uptime Service Level Agreement) covers all the key infrastructure elements and service metrics like power, temperature, and network availability.
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- Data Center Space
Data Center Space is the area of room available for servers to be stored in a data facility.
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- Data Center Suites
Data Center Suites are exclusive space where servers can be held in to attain additional privacy, security, and efficiency when supporting a data infrastructure.
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- Data Center Support
Data Center Support offer companies of any size an economical way to achieve a secure, fault-tolerance environment for mission-critical equipment., data centers house web and email servers, switches, routers, modem racks, mass storage and other equipment.
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- Data Center Systems
Data Center Systems are the components that are housed in a data center facility, such as computer, telecommunication, and storage devices.
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- Data Center Technology
Data Center Technology is all of the applications and equipment needed to run a data center, such as IT equipment, managed services, power, security, and network applications.
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- Data Center Uptime
Data Center Uptime is annual guaranteed availability of a data center. Data centers need to achieve unprecedented levels of uptime to keep pace with modern business demands. To achieve these data center uptime goals, data center managers are paying increased attention to facility infrastructure issues, including the network grounding system.
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- Data Hosting
Data Hosting is the storing of information in a secure facility with redundant capabilities.
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- Data Protection Management
Data Protection Management (DPM) is the administration of backup processes to ensure that tasks run on schedule and that data is securely backed up and recoverable. Good data protection management means having effective processes and methodologies in place to maintain data integrity.
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- Enterprise Data Center
An Enterprise Data Center consists of multiple data centers, each with a duty of sustaining key functions. These data centers can be classified into three types: internet, extranet, and intranet.
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- Electronic Data Interchange
Electronic Data Interchange is used to transfer electronic documents or business data from one trading partner to another trading partner without human intervention.
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- Enterprise Hosting
Enterprise Hosting means outsourcing some or all of the enterprise software from service-providers who may also provide training, backup, and upgrade services.
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- Enterprise Server
An Enterprise Server is a computer containing programs that collectively serve the needs of an enterprise rather than a single user, department, or specialized application.
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- Enterprise Storage System
Enterprise Storage System is a centralized repository for business information that provides common data management and protection, as well as data sharing functions, through connections to numerous computer systems.
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- Flexible Colocation
Flexible Colocation is a facility that offers its clients accommodating solutions to fit with their data center needs.
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- Free Cooling
Free Cooling is an approach to lowering the air temperature in a building or data center by using naturally cool air or water instead of mechanical refrigeration.
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- Green Computing
Green Computing is the environmentally responsible use of computers and related resources. Such practices include the implementation of energy-efficient central processing units (CPUs), servers and peripherals as well as reduced resource consumption and proper disposal of electronic waste (e-waste).
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- Green Data Center
A Green Data Center is a repository for the storage, management, and dissemination of data in which the mechanical, lighting, electrical and computer systems are designed for maximum energy efficiency and minimum environmental impact.
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- Healthcare IT
Healthcare IT is the function of information processing that deals with the storage, recovery, distribution, and use of health care data for decision making and communication purposes.
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- HIPAA Compliant Data Center
A HIPAA Compliant Data Center is a facility that is in compliance with the rules and regulations of The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
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- Information Technology
Information Technology is anything that delivers data, information, or knowledge by means of any multimedia sharing device.
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- IPv6 Addressing
An Internet Protocol Version 6 address (IPv6 addressing) is a numerical label that is used to identify a network interface of a computer or other network node participating in an IPv6 addressing-enabled computer network.
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- Ipv6 Network
An Ipv6 Network is an adjoining group of IPv6 addresses of a certain volume. The routing prefix or network’s address is the leading set of bits of the addresses, which are the same for all hosts in a particular network.
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J
- Java Virtual Machine
Java Virtual Machine is software that converts the Java intermediate language into executable machine language.
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K
- KVM Switch
KVM Switch, also known as keyboard, video, mouse switch, is device that allows users to access multiple servers remotely from one or more KVM sites.
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- Las Vegas Colocation
Las Vegas Colocation are facilities located in Las Vegas, Nevada where a customer’s server equipment is hosted by a data center provider.
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- Link Net Services
Link Net Services are managed network services offered by a CoreLink data center facility.
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- Managed IT Services
Managed IT Services are information technology solutions offered to clients by providers who manage and take responsibility for critical information and data that is critical to a business’s IT infrastructure.
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- Managed Network
A Managed Network is designed to mitigate difficulties by combining physical network, routers, switches, management, maintenance and monitoring into an all-in-one service. This enables a client to concentrate on the applications that deliver value to their business rather than on the performance of the applications and the networks on which they reside.
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- Managed Network Services
Managed Network Services (MNS) is an optimum solution for providing defined, proactive, cost effective and completely professional support for the for enterprise customers. Managed network services can be deployed as a parallel and/or supplemental or a complete replacement to an enterprise’s in-house IT services. Because every customer network is unique, a good managed network services should meet these requirements by solving specific enterprise WAN needs.
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- Managed Security Services
Managed Security Services (MSS) are network security services that have been outsourced to a service provider.
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- Managed Service
Managed Service is the practice of transferring day-to-day related management responsibility as a strategic method for improved effective and efficient operations inclusive of Production Support and lifecycle build/maintenance activities.
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- Managed Services Providers
Managed Services Providers provide delivery and management of network-based services, applications, and equipment to enterprises, residences, or other service providers. Managed services providers can be hosting companies or access providers that offer services that can include fully outsourced network management arrangements.
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- Network Equipment-Building System
Network Equipment-Building System is the most common set of safety, spatial and environmental design guidelines applied to telecommunications equipment in the United States.
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- Network Operations Centers
A Network Operations Center (NOC) is one or more locations from which a network is controlled.
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O
- Online Security
Online Security is a branch of computer security that establishes rules and measures to protect against threats such as viruses, spam, and hackers, as well as enforce firewall and parental controls.
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P
- Privacy Rule
The Privacy Rule controls the use and disclosure of certain information held by “covered entities,” such as health care clearinghouses, health insurers, and medical service providers.
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- Protected Health Information
Protected Health Information (PHI) is any information about health status, Health care terms, or medical payments that can be linked to a specific individual.
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- QoS
QoS stands for quality of service, and refers to a broad collection of networking technologies and techniques offered to a customer to manage network resources.
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- Raised Floor
A Raised Floor is an elevated level above a solid floor that creates a concealed cavity to allow conditioned air into an area to cool the equipment and function as wire management for power and/or data.
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- Remote Data Backup
Remote Data Backup is the process of backing up data created by remote and branch offices (ROBOs) and storing it securely. Businesses with ROBOs require backup and recovery solutions that can support the company’s data protection policies and business service levels.
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- Remote Data Center Management
Remote Data Center Management is the supervision of data center services by expert technicians, such as power cycling and rebooting servers to visual inspections and receiving equipment. Remote Data Center Management allows businesses to concentrate on running their organization and not have to worry about travelling to the data center for simple tasks.
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- SAS 70
SAS 70, also known as Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70, provides direction to auditors when evaluating the internal controls of an organization and publishing a service auditor’s report.
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- SAS 70 Data Center
SAS 70 Data Center is a data center which has been SAS 70 audited.
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- Seattle Colocation
Seattle Colocation are facilities located in Seattle, Washington where a customer’s server equipment is hosted by a data center provider.
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- Server
A Server is a hardware system dedicated to operating one or more services to supply the needs of users of the other computers on the network.
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- Server Farm
A Server Farm is a set of computer servers that are maintained and housed in one location.
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- Service Level Agreement
A Service Level Agreement is a negotiated agreement between the customer and service provider about services, priorities, responsibilities, guarantees, and warranties.
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- Tier 1 Data Center
A Tier 1 Data Center is a single path for power and cooling with no redundancy. Maintenance requires outages and 99.671% availability with an annual downtime of 28.8 hours.
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- Tier 2 Data Center
A Tier 2 Data Center is a single path for power and cooling with redundant components. Maintenance on a Tier 2 facility requires outage and they have 99.741% availability with annual downtime of 22 hours.
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- Tier 3 Data Centers
Tier 3 Data Centers have multiple active power and cooling paths but only one active path has redundant components and is concurrently maintainable. They provide 99.982% availability and an annual downtime of 1.6 hours.
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- Tier 4 Data Centers
Tier 4 Data Centers have multiple active power and cooling distribution paths, redundant components and is fault tolerant. They provide 99.995% availability and an annual downtime of 0.4 hours.
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U
- Uninterruptible Power Supply
An Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) is a device that supplies emergency power when the main power source fails.
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V
- Variable Frequency
A Variable Frequency drive is a device which provides AC power of varying frequency, generally used to control the speed of induction motors.
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- Water Cooling
Water Cooling is a method used to lower the temperatures of computer processors, and sometimes other components such as graphics cards, using water rather than air as the cooling medium.
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- WAN
A Wide Area Network (WAN) is a data communications network that covers a large geographic area and often uses communication services provided by carriers.
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- XML
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a group of rules for programming files so it can be read by any XML-compatible application.
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Y
- Yobibyte
The Yobibyte is a standards-based binary multiple of the byte, a unit of digital information storage. The yobibyte unit symbol is YiB.
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