Alexander Gillis

1 week ago | techtarget.com | Rahul Awati |Wesley Chai |Alexander Gillis

Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft's proprietary directory service that enables network admins to manage users, permissions and their access to networking resources. It runs on Windows Server and stores information about objects, such as shared network resources, on a corporate network in a logical, hierarchical format. This enables administrators to manage those resources, as well as the users who need to access those resources to get their work done.

1 month ago | techtarget.com | Paul Kirvan |Alexander Gillis |Erin Sullivan

RAID (redundant array of independent disks) is a way of storing the same data in different places on multiple hard disks or solid-state drives (SSDs) to protect data in the case of a drive failure. There are different RAID levels, however, and not all have the goal of providing redundancy. How RAID works RAID works by placing data on multiple drives and allowing input/output (I/O) operations to overlap in a balanced way, improving performance.

1 month ago | techtarget.com | Stephen J. Bigelow |Alexander Gillis

By Stephen J. Bigelow, Senior Technology Editor Alexander S. Gillis, Technical Writer and Editor Memory is the electronic holding place for the instructions and data a computer needs to reach quickly. It's where information is stored for immediate use.

2 months ago | techtarget.com | Alexander Gillis |Diann Daniel |Jawad Akhtar

By Alexander S. Gillis, Technical Writer and Editor Diann Daniel, Executive Editor Jawad Akhtar SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) is an on-premises enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. ECC is also the set of core modules found in SAP ERP.

2 months ago | techtarget.com | Gavin James Wright |Andrew Zola |Alexander Gillis

Internet Key Exchange (IKE) is a standard protocol used to set up a secure and authenticated communication channel between two parties via a virtual private network (VPN). The protocol ensures security for VPN negotiation, remote host and network access. A critical role of IKE is negotiating security associations (SAs) for Internet Protocol Security (IPsec). SAs are the security policies for communication between two or more entities.