Glossary
- AI (Artificial Insemination)
A technique for getting cows pregnant without bulls.
- AI (Artificial Intelligence)
The science of getting computers to act "smart," to play chess, recognize language, drive cars, and so on.
- all-hands meeting
A meeting to which everyone is invited—everyone in a department, or even everyone in the company.
- angel
A wealthy individual who invests in start-ups. Angels often made their money from a successful start-up of their own.
- Apache
Software that lets a computer act as a Web server.
- Auspex
A competitor to NetApp that was founded in 1987 and went bankrupt in 2003.
- backups
Copies of data made in case something bad happens to the original. If you value your data, you should back it up at least once a week.
- benchmark
A performance ...
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