What is LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)? Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, more commonly known as LEED, is an environmentally oriented building certification program run by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). It aims to improve building and construction project performance across seven areas of environmental and human health: Use of integrative […]
What is management information systems (MIS)? Management information systems (MIS) is a department within an enterprise responsible for controlling the hardware and software systems that the organization uses to make business-critical decisions. In addition to describing a department within a company, the term “MIS” can also refer to a type of computer software that is […]
What is bare-metal provisioning? Bare-metal provisioning is the process of installing an operating system (OS) or Type 1 hypervisor directly on a computer’s hard disk. In a bare-metal environment, hypervisors do not rely on a host OS to function. These hypervisors can create virtual machines (VMs) and help to build a virtualization environment. Type 1 […]
What is green computing? Green computing, also known as green technology, is the use of computers and other computing devices and equipment in energy-efficient and eco-friendly ways. Organizations that use green computing methods often deploy energy-efficient central processing units (CPUs), servers, peripherals, power systems and other IT equipment. They also focus on reducing resource use […]
What is IBM Roadrunner? Roadrunner was a supercomputer developed by IBM at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. This hybrid supercomputer cost $133 million to develop. In 2008, Roadrunner became the first computer to break what has been called the petaflop barrier — the ability to operate at a rate of a thousand […]
What is a pizza box server? The term “pizza box server” refers to the shape of a computer server enclosed in a rectangular and horizontally arranged chassis and often installed in a rack with similar servers. A pizza box is roughly the same size as one of these servers, hence the name. A pizza box […]
What is a job scheduler? A job scheduler is a computer program that enables an enterprise to schedule and, in some cases, monitor computer “batch” jobs (units of work). The scheduler application ensures the execution of jobs at specific times or in response to specific triggering events. A job scheduler controls the execution of various […]
What is statistical mean, median, mode and range? The terms mean, median, mode, and range describe properties of statistical distributions. In statistics, a distribution is the set of all possible values for terms that represent defined events. The value of a term, when expressed as a variable, is called a random variable. There are two […]
What is a mission-critical application? A mission-critical application is a software program or suite of related programs that must function continuously for a business or business segment to be successful. Even brief downtime of a mission-critical application is likely to have negative financial consequences. In addition to lost productivity, a mission-critical app’s failure to function […]