The hot pluggable device (hardware component) that is located in the receptacle and can be configured.

A seven-layer theoretical networking model developed in the early 1980s by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

The firmware built into the motherboard of a Sun computer that controls the boot process and enables users to configure the boot process.

The operating system combined with all bundled features and programs. In most cases, this term can be replaced by operating system and not cause problems.

A software program designed to enable you to run other programs and to provide a functional interface between the computer hardware and software.

In a mirrored volume, when you bring a submirror back online, only the dirty regions are resynchronized. This is called an optimized resynchronization.