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5.01 A Key Terms
Term | Definition |
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Cloud Storage | Online storage that enables users to upload, store, and access their files via the Internet; users’ files are maintained by a third-party at a remote database storage facility. |
Cookies: | Text files that are put on a website visitor’s hard disk and then later retrieved during subsequent visits to the site in order to track internet behavior. Mechanisms used by websites to track users’ browsing histories. |
Data migration: | the process of transferring data between storage types, formats, or computer systems. |
Data processing: | Handling information, especially facts. Converting facts and figures into useful information. Analyzing collected facts and figures and putting them into formats useful to a business. |
Data | Facts and figures. |
Database: | Computerized storage for information and facts. |
Hardware: | The physical components of a computer system (e.g., the central processing unit, hard drive, modem). |
Information system: | set of coordinated network of components, which act together towards producing, distributing and/or processing information. |
Information technology: | integration of computer with telecommunication equipment for retrieving, manipulating, and storage of data. |
Intranet: | An internal network similar to the Internet that is accessible only by authorized personnel; used to access information and communicate with others within an organization. A computer network that is restricted to the organization it serves, an internal |
Software: | Programs that instruct computers to perform specific operations. |