Category: Technology
Company: Gartner
Created by: consultant
Number of Blossarys: 2
A virtual network operator (VNO) is an entity that does not own a telecom network infrastructure but provides telecom services by purchasing capacity from telecom carriers.
A virtual matrix organization uses resources (people) that are also directly responsible for, or part of, other lines of business.
A virtual machine (VM) is a software implementation of a hardware-like architecture, which executes predefined instructions in a fashion similar to a physical central processing unit (CPU). A VM can ...
A virtual LAN (VLAN) is a set of systems that, regardless of higher-layer addressing or location, is designated as a logical LAN and treated as a set of contiguous systems on a single LAN segment. ...
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is the practice of hosting a desktop operating system within a virtual machine (VM) running on a centralized server. VDI is a variation on the client/server ...
In asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), a virtual channel (VC) is a communications track between two nodes giving the bandwidth needed for a virtual connection across the network.
A virtual assistant (VA) is a conversational, computer-generated character that simulates a conversation to deliver voice- or text-based information to a user via a Web, kiosk or mobile interface. A ...