Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE Glossary
HPE Glossary
Learn definitions of key enterprise IT terms within the HPE portfolio, complete with helpful links to additional information and resources designed to enhance your understanding and support your IT journey.
Categories
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Adaptive Models
- Agentic AI
- AI Agent
- AI Computing
- AI Data Center Networking
- AI Data Management
- AI Finance
- AI Healthcare
- AI in Manufacturing
- AI Inference
- AI Infrastructure
- AI IoT
- AI Models
- AI Security
- AI stack
- AI supercomputing
- AutoML
- Business Intelligence and Analytics
- Cloud AI
- Convolutional Neural Network
- Data Analytics
- Data Fabric
- Data Lakehouse
- Data Pipelines
- Data Stores
- Delta Lake
- Enterprise AI
- Fine-Tuning
- Generative AI (GenAI)
- GPU computing
- GPU Server
- Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
- High performance computing
- Large Language Model (LLM)
- ML Model
- ML Model Training
- ML Ops
- Natural Language Processing
- Private AI
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- Supervised Machine Learning
- Swarm Intelligence
- Swarm Learning
- Transformer Model
- Word Embedding
Networking
- (Unified Threat Management) UTM
- 400G
- 6G
- Access Point
- AI-native networking
- AI-native routing
- AIOps
- CBRS
- Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
- Cloud microservices
- Coffee shop networking
- Data center fabric
- Data center security
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
- DevOps
- Digital Experience Monitoring
- Distributed Artificial Intelligence
- Dynamic Segmentation
- Edge AI
- Edge Analytics
- Edge Datacenter
- Edge Device
- Edge Management
- Edge Network
- Edge Security
- Enterprise data center
- Enterprise Network Security
- Ethernet switching
- EVPN-VXLAN
- Explainable AI
- Hybrid IT
- Hybrid mesh security
- IDS/IPS
- Intent-Based Networking
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- IPv4 and IPv6
- Location-based services
- Low latency
- Metro Ethernet
- Mobile Edge Computing
- MPLS
- Multi-access edge computing
- Multi-cloud Networking (MCN)
- Multi-gigabit Ethernet
- NaaS
- Network access control
- Network Automation
- Network configuration
- Network Detection and Response
- Network Fabric
- Network firewall
- Network Functions virtualization
- Network gateway
- Network Management
- Network Monitoring
- Network observability
- Network Overlay
- Network Security
- Network Segmentation
- Network switches
- Network Topology
- Next Gen Firewall
- Open RAN
- Outdoor access point (AP)
- Passive optical network
- PoE switch (Power over Ethernet switch)
- Policy-based routing
- Precision Time Protocol (PTP)
- Private 5G
- Real-Time Processing
- Remote Access
- Router
- SASE
- SD-Branch
- SD-WAN
- SDN
- Secure connectivity
- Secure SD‑WAN
- Secure Web Gateway (SWG)
- Security virtualization
- Segment routing
- Self-driving network
- SSE (Security Service Edge)
- Stackable switch
- Universal ZTNA
- Virtual Bluetooth LE (vBLE) technology
- VXLAN
- WAN optimization
- What is AI in networking?
- What is an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)?
- What is data center networking?
- What is firewall design?
- What is Wi-Fi 8?
- Wi-Fi
- Wi-Fi 6
- Wi-Fi 6E
- Wi-Fi 7
- WLAN
- Zero Trust
- Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
Hybrid Cloud
- Cloud Adoption
- Cloud Agility
- Cloud architecture
- Cloud as a Service
- Cloud automation
- Cloud Backup
- Cloud bursting
- Cloud Containers
- Cloud Cost Management
- Cloud cost optimization
- Cloud Data Platform
- Cloud database
- Cloud elasticity
- Cloud integration
- Cloud Management
- Cloud Migration
- Cloud migration planning
- Cloud networking
- Cloud repatriation
- Cloud Scalability
- Cloud Security
- Cloud Security Managed Services
- Cloud Server
- Cloud Server backups: What are cloud server backups?
- Cloud Services
- Cloud Workloads
- Cloud-managed networking
- CloudOps
- Container Platform
- Containers as a Service (CaaS)
- Data Center Virtualization
- Disaggregated HCI (dHCI)
- Edge to Cloud
- FinOps (Financial Operations)
- HPC Cluster
- HPC Workload
- Hybrid cloud architecture
- Hybrid cloud automation
- Hybrid cloud infrastructure
- Hybrid Cloud Management
- Hybrid Cloud Networking
- Hybrid Cloud Security
- Hybrid cloud strategy
- Hybrid cloud vs multi-cloud
- Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)
- Hypervisor
- Multicloud
- Multicloud architecture
- Multicloud infrastructure
- Multicloud management
- Multicloud migration
- Multicloud security
- Multicloud strategy
- Network in the Cloud
- Network Virtualization
- Observability
- Private cloud architecture
- Private cloud infrastructure
- private cloud management solutions
- Private cloud networking
- Private cloud security
- Private cloud vs public cloud
- Software as a service (SaaS)
- Virtual Machine
- Virtual private cloud (VPC)
- Virtual server
- Virtualization
- Virtualization management
- What is cloud native?
Compute
- Compute
- Compute management
- Compute platform
- Compute security
- Compute server modernization
- Compute Servers
- Computing resources
- Distributed computing
- Green computing
- Infrastructure Security
- Integrated Lights-Out (iLO)
- IoT cloud computing
- Quantum Computing
- Rack Servers
- Server security
- Servers
- Silicon Root of Trust
- Small Business Server
- Tower Servers
- Workload
Storage
- AI storage
- Backup and Recovery
- Backup Storage
- Backup vs. Replication
- Business continuity planning
- Cloud Storage
- Continuous data protection
- Cyber recovery
- Cyber resilience
- Cyber vault
- Data Access
- Data Cloud
- Data Deduplication
- Data Deluge
- Data Infrastructure
- Data Insights
- Data Intelligence
- Data lake
- Data Lifecycle Management
- Data lineage
- Data Management
- Data Management as a Service (DMaaS)
- Data Migration
- Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS)
- Data replication
- Data Security
- Data Silos
- Data Transformation
- Disaggregated Storage
- Disaster recovery
- Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
- Hybrid Cloud Storage
- Immutable backups
- IT resilience
- Multi Cloud Storage
- Private Cloud Storage
- QLC vs. TLC
- Ransomware detection
- Ransomware Recovery
- Scale-Out Storage
- Storage as a Service (StaaS)
- Storage Management
- Storage Virtualization
- Structured data
- Unstructured data
- Value of Data
Other topics
- AI Factory
- Application Delivery
- Blade Servers
- Cloud Governance
- Data Center Colocation
- Data Encryption
- Data Warehouse
- DataOps
- Digital Manufacturing
- Enterprise Analytics
- FedRAMP
- Fleet Management
- Front-End Applications
- Identity Management
- ITOM (IT Operations Management)
- Kubernetes
- MapReduce
- Middle Market
- NVMe
- Open Source
- Out-of-Band Management (OOBM)
- Physical AI
- Post-Quantum Cryptography
- Quantum Cryptography
- Spark
- Spine-leaf architecture
- Sustainable Asset Management
- Sustainable networking
- Sustainable Technology
- virtual desktop