SONiC
SONiC – an open-source, containerized network operating system (NOS) that runs on a variety of ASICs and switch hardware. Dell Technologies and other suppliers are working to bring SONiC to...
SoC
SoC – System on Chip. The integration of an entire computer system on a single chip or integrated circuit (IC). The components can include a central processing unit, input...
SNIA
SNIA – Storage Networking Industry Association. This cross-supplier organisation defines standards for accessing and managing storage of different kinds and educates users about storage technologies.
SMR
SMR – Shingled Magnetic Recording – a disk and tape drive data recording technology. With disk drive shingling, write tracks are partially overlapped, leaving narrower read tracks, as a...
SME
SME – Small and Medium Enterprise. Also described as SMB - small and medium business.
SMB
SMB – (1) Server Message Block – a Microsoft Windows file system access protocol. SMB protocol requires many back-and-forth admin handshakes that increase overall network session time.
Microsoft SMB session diagram.
Microsoft...
Smart NIC
SmartNIC – Intelligent Network Interface Card. A SmartNIC carries out network traffic data processing, unlike a standard NIC where the CPU handles much of the workload. The SmartNIC has an...
SMART
SMART – Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology which is used by disk drive or SSD controllers to monitor the drive’s status and health. SMART monitors drive attributes such as spin...
SLC
SLC – Single Level Cell – a form of NAND flash memory with one bit per cell. MLC is 2 bits per cell. TLC is 3 bits per cell....
SI Units
SI Units – The International System of Units. It defines prefixes, such as Mega and Peta that can be applied to storage capacities or other measurement units to shorten...
Serverless
Serverless – a method of containerised software or cloud-native development model which has developers write micro services code without getting involved with server management at all. The micro services...
SDS
SDS – Software-Defined Storage. This term arose when storage arrays built from commodity components, such as x86 controllers, NICs, and HDDs and/or SSDs, with no proprietary hardware, were given...