Enterprise Technology Glossary

Nutanix's own hypervisor, native to the Nutanix Cloud Platform, positioned as a genuine VMware replacement rather than a supported add-on.

IBM's midrange computer platform introduced in 1988, now evolved into IBM Power Systems running IBM i. Still widely referenced in business settings.

A company in a vendor's indirect sales network. Channel partners include resellers, distributors, VARs, MSPs, and systems integrators who sell or support a vendor's products.

Dell's analytics engine inside PowerProtect Cyber Recovery that scans isolated vault copies for ransomware corruption without rehydrating the data first.

Dell's systems management software suite for monitoring, automating, and updating PowerEdge servers at fleet scale, built on top of iDRAC.

The difference between what Google shows in total search traffic and what it hides from the search query details.

IBM's custom NVMe drive used in FlashSystem storage arrays, performing inline compression and encryption in the drive controller itself.

HPE's consumption-based platform for buying, managing, and unifying compute, storage, and cloud services on owned or dedicated infrastructure, HPE's answer to Dell APEX and Lenovo TruScale.

An IBM-authorized reseller, distributor, or services provider who has passed IBM's certification and authorization requirements to sell IBM products.

IBM's external all-flash, hybrid flash, and capacity-optimized storage family for Storage Virtualize based enterprise environments.

The operating system for IBM Power Systems, formerly known as OS/400 and i5/OS. IBM i runs business applications written for AS400 and successor platforms.

IBM's current enterprise server line, running IBM i (the modern AS400 lineage), AIX, and Linux workloads, built around processor-based licensing and reliability rather than raw price-per-core.

IBM's cloud offering that runs IBM i, AIX, or Linux workloads on Power hardware inside IBM Cloud data centers, billed on a subscription or pay-as-you-go basis instead of a capital hardware purchase.

IBM's former brand name for its AIX-based UNIX servers, used from 2000 to 2008 before being merged with the iSeries (AS400) line into today's IBM Power Systems.

Dell's out-of-band server management controller, built into every PowerEdge server, used to monitor, configure, and remotely control hardware independent of the operating system.

Lenovo's systems management platform for ThinkSystem servers, notable for native Redfish and Terraform support that fits infrastructure-as-code provisioning workflows.

A company that remotely manages a customer's IT infrastructure and end-user systems under a subscription or retainer model.

A managed service provider specializing in security operations, threat monitoring, incident response, and compliance management.

Nutanix's product for running the Nutanix Cloud Platform natively inside public cloud regions, including AWS GovCloud and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

The entry-level processor-based licensing tier for IBM i software, tied to a system's processor performance rating rather than its physical core count.

Dell's AI-dense server, purpose-built for the largest training and HPC workloads, built on NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL4 architecture and capable of up to 144 GPUs per rack.

Everpure's immutable, indelible snapshot technology, built into the primary storage array so ransomware can't delete or encrypt backups even with compromised administrator credentials.

A dedicated, high-speed network connecting servers to shared block storage, as opposed to a NAS, which serves file-level storage over a standard network.

Lenovo's consumption-based, as-a-service infrastructure platform, Lenovo's answer to Dell APEX and HPE GreenLake.

A company that purchases technology products and resells them to end customers while adding services such as design, implementation, training, and support.