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Acronym
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Meaning
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Description
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| ACPI |
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface |
Open standard that defines common interfaces for hardware recognition, motherboard, device configuration, and power management. |
| AJAX |
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML |
Group of interrelated Web development techniques used for creating interactive Web applications or rich-Internet applications. |
Intel® AMT |
Intel® Active Management Technology |
Technology enabling remote access and management of networked computer systems even when they lack a functioning OS, hard drive, or are turned off. |
| ASF |
Alert Specification Format |
Specification defining standards-based interfaces with which vendors selling alerting or corrective-action offerings can implement products to ensure interoperability. |
| Intel® AT |
Intel® Anti-Theft Technology |
Security technology that enables encryption and theft deterrence capabilities. Also integrated with Intel® AMT. |
| CIM |
Common Information Model |
Conceptual schema that defines how the managed elements of an IT organization’s environment are represented as a common set of objects, and the relationships between those objects. |
| DASH |
Desktop and Mobile Architecture for System Hardware |
A suite of specifications using WS-MAN that delivers standards-based Web services management for desktop and mobile client systems. |
| DMI |
Desktop Management Interface |
Standard framework for managing and tracking components in a desktop, notebook, or server computer. |
| DMTF |
Distributed Management Taskforce |
Standards organization that develops and maintains standards for systems management of IT environments in enterprises and on the Internet. |
| HECI |
Host Embedded Controller Interface |
Software interface that establishes communication between the host OS and the Intel® ME of the Intel® AMT subsystem. |
| HTTP |
Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
Communications protocol for transfer of information over the Internet used for retrieving inter-linked text documents. |
| HW |
Hardware |
A general term that refers to the physical components of a computer system, as in computer hardware. |
| IHV |
Independent Hardware Vendor |
Companies specializing in making or selling hardware. |
| IP |
Internet Protocol |
Protocol used for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork. |
| ISV |
Independent Software Vendor |
Companies specializing in making or selling software. |
| IT |
Information Technology |
The study, design, development, implementation, support, or management of computer-based information systems. |
| LAN |
Local Area Network |
Computer network with small geographic range typically having higher data-transfer rates than wide-area networks. |
| LMS |
Local Manageability Service |
A user-mode service running locally in the host OS that redirects requests to the Intel® AMT local host, to the Intel® ME interface, via the HECI driver. |
| Intel® ME |
Intel® Management Engine |
Embedded microcontroller running a microkernel OS that provides low-power, out-of-band execution for manageability services. |
| OEM |
Original Equipment Manufacturer |
A company that uses a component made by a second company in its own product or sells the product of a second company under its own brand name. |
| OOB |
Out of Band |
Communications that occur outside of a previously established communications method or channel. |
| OS |
Operating System |
A master program that controls a computer's basic functions and allows other programs to access the computer's resources such as disk drive, printer, keyboard, and screen. |
| PXE |
Pre-boot Execution Environment |
An environment to boot computers by using network interfaces independently of available data storage devices or installed operating systems. |
| SOAP |
Simple Object Access Protocol |
A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over computer networks and for providing the foundation layer for the Web services protocol stack. |
| SW |
Software |
The programs that tell the computer what to do. |
| TCO |
Total Cost of Ownership |
Financial estimate of direct and indirect costs associated with owning and operating a PC. |
| TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
Internet protocol providing ordered delivery of a stream of bytes from one program on one computer to another program on another computer. |
| WfM |
Wired for Management |
HW-based system allowing a new computer without software to be manipulated by a master computer with access to its hard disk on which it can paste and install programs. |
| WOL |
Wake-on-LAN |
Networking standard that allows a PC to be turned on or woken out of sleep state remotely by a network message. |
| WSMAN |
Web Services Management |
SOAP-based protocol for management of servers, devices, applications, and more. |
| XML |
Extensible Markup Language |
General-purpose specification used to encode documents and serialize data for sharing by information systems over the Internet. |
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