Tech glossary
Defining IT & technology terms
Explore IT terms to know.
Tech today is advancing faster than ever. A constant evolution of tools, technology, methods and practices makes it difficult to keep up on all the trends, acronyms and terms. Insight’s tech glossary serves as your guide — written by technical experts and updated regularly. Bookmark this webpage to use as a reference guide, and find the latest IT terms to know.
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C
- Capital Expenditure (CapEx)
- Chatbot
- Chef framework
- Choose Your Own Device (CYOD)
- Circular economy
- Cloud
- Cloud bursting
- Cloud enablement
- Cloud governance
- Cloud journey
- Cloud management platform
- Cloud migration services
- Cloud Service Provider (CSP)
- Cloud strategy
- Colocation
- Computer vision
- Connected Platform
- Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)
- Container technology
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
- Converged infrastructure
- Copilot
- Customer engagement
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Cyber defense
- Cyberattack
- Cybercriminal
- Cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity mesh
- Cyberthreat
D
- Data analyst
- Data Center as a Service (DCaaS)
- Data center in cloud computing
- Data classification
- Data discovery
- Data lake
- Data management
- Data migration
- Data protection
- Data scientist
- Data warehousing
- Democratized edge
- Desktop as a Service (DaaS)
- Device as a Service (DaaS)
- Device lifecycle services
- Device provisioning
- DevOps
- Digital business
- Digital debt
- Digital disruption
- Digital enablement
- Digital engagement
- Digital strategy
- Digital transformation
- Digital twin
- Digital workplace
- Dispersed workforce
- Domain Name System (DNS)
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I
- Image processing
- Immersive technology
- Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
- Industry 4.0
- Industry cloud platforms
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Infrastructure Modernization
- Insider threat
- Insight Global Finance (IGF)
- Insight Intelligent Technology Solutions™
- Intelligent business automation
- Intelligent edge
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- IT discovery
- IT governance
- IT ModOps
- IT outsourcing
- IT roadmap
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L
M
- Machine learning
- Machine Learning Operations (MLOps)
- Machine vision
- Managed cloud services
- Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP)
- Managed Service Provider (MSP)
- Maverick spending
- Metaverse
- Microservices
- Minimal viable product
- Mobile device management
- Modern Workplace
- Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)
- Multicloud
- myInsight
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S
- Scrum
- Scrum Master
- SD-WAN
- SecOps
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- SnapStart
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Software Asset Management (SAM)
- Software audit
- Software license position
- Software-defined
- Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)
- Solutions Integrator
- Spatial computing
- Subscription economy
- Supervised learning
- Systems integrator
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