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A tool used to convert hand-drawn images into a format suitable for computer processing. Images are usually drawn onto a flat surface with a stylus and then appear on a computer monitor or screen.
Graphite is an open-source enterprise-scale monitoring tool designed and written by Chris Davis at Orbitz in 2006 as side project that ultimately grew to be a foundational monitoring tool. As a monitoring tool, Graphite does store numeric time-series data and render graphs of this data on demand. The graphite architecture consists of 3 components: carbon, whisper and graphite webapp.
A strategy for software debugging based on limited knowledge of the internal details of the program. The tester may know how system components interact but lacks detailed knowledge of internal program functions and operation.
A buzzword that refers to the potential environmental benefits that information technology (IT) services delivered over the Internet can offer society. The term combines the words green -- meaning environmentally friendly -- and cloud.
A repository for the storage, management, and dissemination of data in which the mechanical, lighting, electrical and computer systems are designed for maximum energy efficiency and minimum environmental impact.
The practice of selecting energy-efficient networking technologies and products, and minimizing resource use whenever possible.
Greenfield deployment
The installation and configuration of a network where none existed before, for example in a new office. The term come from the building industry, where undeveloped land (and especially unpolluted land) is described as greenfield.
GreenHat
Green Hat is an enterprise software company based in London. Green Hat's product suite is designed to improve the effectiveness of application development teams, especially those involved in SOA, BPM and cloud computing.
The application of the resources of many computers in a network to a single problem at the same time - usually to a scientific or technical problem that requires a great number of computer processing cycles or access to large amounts of data.
A general term for any approach to storing data that employs multiple self-contained storage nodes interconnected so that any node can communicate with any other node without the data having to pass through a centralized switch.