DataCenter Buzzword Bingo

I recently finished an exercise defining the technical standards for one of Europe’s largest managed service providers. As part of the exercise I gathered the key capabilities across the various infrastructure silos across the Data-centre.

I found that it was a trawl to separate the facts from the fiction in the vendor marketing. I have gathered the  buzzwords which may be useful for others to compare (and add to please) as they I think provide a useful architectural checklist.

• Storage Thin Provisioning
• Storage De-Duplication
• Storage Virtualisation
• Fully Automated Storage Tearing (FAST)
• iSCSI connectivity
• Virtual Tape Library
• Continuous Data Protection
• Application Acceleration
• Core and Edge Switching
• Microsoft Direct Access and NAP
• SSL VPN
• VDI
• Resilient Switch stacking
• Bandwidth packet policing and shaping
• WAN traffic deduplication
• Unified communications 
• IPv6
• Remote Desktop Service