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A solid-state drive is also known as an SSD for short and is an electronic storage medium.

With very fast access times. Since only flash-based memory chips and SDRAMs are used and they therefore do not have to be driven like conventional hard disks, they operate silently and are…

A network with a central switch forms a star topology.

In computer networks, a switch - also known as a network switch or distributor - is a coupling element that connects network segments with each other. Within a segment (broadcast domain), it ensures that the data packets, so-called "…

Toolkit refers to a collection of software-based instruments.

In computer science, virtualization refers to the replication of a hardware or software object by a similar object of the same type using an abstraction layer. This allows virtual (i.e. non-physical) devices or services such as emulated hardware, operating systems, data storage or network…

Virtual Private Network (VPN) has two different meanings:

The conventional VPN refers to a virtual private (self-contained) communications network. Virtual in the sense that it is not a separate physical connection, but an existing communications network that is used as a transport…