Advances in hardware, software, storage, and database technologies have given businesses a new tool that better allows them to competitively use their mountains of data. This tool is called ________.
A) analyzer system
B) route mining
C) information processing
D) data mining
_______ is an umbrella term used to describe technologies that, utilizing the Internet and particularly the WWW, provide access to a host of services for customers, employees, and business partners.
A) Protocol Services
B) Tasked Standards
C) Server Forces
D) Web services
A standard SCSI parallel cable should be no longer than ________, which limits how far an external storage device can be from its direct-connect server.
A) 25 centimeters
B) 25 meters
C) 2 meters
D) 150 meters
Three significant reasons cited in the text for the popularity of cloud computing are ________.
A) proximity, leverage, and popularity
B) cost, accessibility, and flexibility
C) customers, servicing, infrastructure
D) publicity, hybrid-ness, virtuality
_______ computing in essence virtualizes the networking infrastructure such that the user of ________ services and resources does not need to be concerned with, or aware of, how the ________ is configured, maintained, or implemented.
A) Cloud, cloud, cloud
B) Fog, fog, fog
C) Client, client, client
D) Precipitation, precipitation, precipitation