Storage area network solutions, or SAN, are high-speed networks of storage devices providing block-level storage that can be accessed by the applications running on any networked servers. SAN storage devices can include tape libraries, and, more commonly, disk-based devices, like RAID hardware.
Managed File Transfer (MFT) Software simply manages the secure transfer of data or files from one computer user to another, with the benefit that the MFT solution should offer more security than standard file transfer protocol (FTP), and possibly include monitoring, alerting, reporting and auditing,…
Mainframe Monitoring Tools monitor availability and performance indicators of hardware systems and subsystem resources across the enterprise. Beyond this, a monitoring platform may also track operating systems, middleware, databases, and other network components for fault and failure, or for deviati…
Application Middleware serves as the runtime and hosting environment for a specific application's business logic. Sitting between the operating system and the application itself, it provides the essential services—such as application servers, transaction monitors, and internal resource management—re…
staff. Some CEP vendors, such as Amazon Kinesis, Google Cloud Dataflow, and IBM Streams, manage the software for you. However, their functionality may be
Data Center Backup Solutions secure and restore data and applications.
Application Platforms provide the underlying cloud infrastructure, runtime environments, and development tools necessary for teams to build, deploy, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure themselves.
Machine learning tools are algorithmic applications of artificial intelligence that give systems the ability to learn and improve without ample human input; similar concepts are data mining and predictive modeling. They allow software to become more accurate in predicting outcomes without being expl…
Storage Management Software (sometimes Data Storage Management Software) gives a unified overview of managed arrays to ease and facilitate control of the individual arrays and the entire data center, private cloud, or the virtualization services for which they're being used.
AI Code Assistants & Agentic IDEs shift the developer workflow from manual typing and syntax searching toward natural language collaboration. This category covers both deeply integrated software clients (such as forks of standard code editors) and editor extensions that leverage generative machine l…
IT Operations Analytics software combine monitoring of IT assets and resources distributed across a cloud infrastructure, IT operational data analytics and visualization, and light automation to ease and optimize the management of a cloud or hybrid IT system. Effectively deployed cloud operations an…
Block storage is data stored in volumes acting as individual drives which can be configured and moved around a storage area network (SAN). It is the most common type of storage used for applications, RAID arrays, and virtual machines. Block storage systems lack metadata but are familiar and easy to …
Anomaly Detection & Event Correlation Software identifies data points, events, or behaviors that deviate from established patterns of "normal" IT operations and correlates them to reduce noise. They use Machine Learning (ML) and statistical modeling to uncover unforeseen infrastructure, network, or …
Container Management Software uses a kernel to run multiple contained instances on a single operating system, reducing virtualization overhead considerably though presenting the limitation that guests must use the same OS as the host.
A Message Queue is a specific subset of Message-Oriented Middleware focused strictly on point-to-point task buffering and queuing messages between components. It is used to decouple applications by storing messages until the receiving application is ready to process them.
Network attached storage (NAS) systems contain a server or a server cluster on a LAN specializing in file serving and sharing, which can be accessed remotely by any number of clients on the network or outside it. A NAS array can be used to host a private cloud, for backup and disaster recovery, and …
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is the cornerstone of cloud computing, offering on-demand access to virtualized resources like compute, storage, and networking. This model provides unparalleled agility, allowing organizations to scale dynamically to meet business needs without the overhead of phy…
Software-Defined Storage Solutions (SDS) encompasses a range of application and policy defined storage provisioning, storage virtualization and storage management automation. Related to software-defined networks (SDN) and datacenters (SDDC), SDS essentially decouples physical infrastructure as a con…
Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM) enables asynchronous communication between distributed systems through the sending and receiving of messages or events. It decouples the sender from the receiver, allowing systems to publish events without needing the receiving system to be available at that exact m…
Rack servers are dedicated servers installed in a low-profile enclosure containing multiple bays where the servers are installed, minimizing the need for space and simplifying supplying power; however cooling the confined space where the servers are crowded is a priority.
Business Rules Management Systems are software used to define and automate the deployment and execution of business rules, policies and requirements to be used in applications when they are acted upon. The BRMS contains a repository for retaining decision logic externally from core application code,…
All-flash array storage is a solid state, high performance storage option.