Microsoft & IT Acronyms

Traffic shaping (aka "packet shaping

") , regulating network data transfer to assure a certain quality of service (QoS)

SPLA

(MSFT) Services Provider License Agreement enables services providers to license Microsoft products on a monthly basis in order to provide services and hosted applications to their end customers.

Subnet

(short for sub-network): a logical, visible subdivision of an IP network. Dividing a network into two or more

Hyperthreading

A multiprocessor computer-architecture technology that allows one processor to be treated as two processors instead of one by the OS allowing improved processor performance under certain workloads

ATU

Account Team Unit - managing cust relationships, increasing CSAT, and achieving revenue goals across assigned accounts.

ACD

Add/change/delete pricing spreadsheets Docs that show additions, changes and deletions to pricing and promos

APM

Application Performance Management - detects and diagnoses complex application performance problems to maintain an expected level of service

ADC

Application delivery controller - a computer network device in a datacenter that manages client connections to complex Web and enterprise applications.

AMP

Applications, Media and Publishing - a MSFT biz unit responsible for Bing Apps & MSN portals

AHUB

Azure Hybrid Use Benefit enables customers with Software Assurance (SA)-covered Windows Server licenses to pay non-Windows compute pricing when they upload and run their self-built Windows Server images on Azure.

ARM

Azure Resource Manager - provisions Azure resources that provide security, auditing, and tagging features.

ASR

Azure Site Recovery - orchestrates failover of cust on-prem data center 1 to on-prem data center 2 or an Azure Tenant (public cloud). Servers could be physical, HyperV, or VMWare.

BDE or BD

Biz Dev BU responsible for building relationships with key OEMs, strategic innovation partners, independent software vendors, and developers

BCDR

Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery

BDM

Business Decision Maker a non IT DM

CSP

Cloud Solution Partner

CSE

Commercial Software engineering promotes MSFT tech to devs in high-profile and leading companies. Fmr DX.

CIS

Core Infrastructure Suite: Microsoft licensing program that pairs Windows Server and System Center licenses.

CPP

Corporate Preview Program allows certain custs to preview beta software in order to test and eval the product.

CORS

Cross-origin resource sharing - mechanism that allows restricted resources (e.g. fonts) on a web page to be requested from another domain outside the domain from which the resource originated.

CPE

Customer and Partner Experience - Microsoft initiative that encompasses the company's work as it relates to the goals of becoming more customer-focused and connecting with customers and partners.

Version Control

Each software development step represents a version. You can use VCS like Git to store these versions (like in a database) save changes, easily see and understand changes, restore previous versions, work safely in separate contexts (branches), backups for every team member.

EOU

Enterprise Operating Unit combo of ATU, STU, and CSU

ALNG

Entry for all languages. Used by MS Products

GRS

Geo Redundant Storage - Data is asynchronously replicated from your primary location to a secondary location within the same region. These locations are guaranteed to be at least 400kms apart. 3 replicas kept in each region.

GSMO

Global Sales, Mktg, Ops for 122 subsidiaries worldwide, driving strategic planning, and running global ops

Vertica

HP's petabyte-scale big data analytics platform. Open arch allows connection with Hadoop and all BI tools.

ITDM

IT Decision Maker

ITIL

IT Infrastructure Library - set of practices focusing on aligning IT services with the needs of business.

ITSM

IT Service Management - The implementation and management of quality information technology services

IRO

Immediate Relationship Opportunities a CPE framework for identifying, monitoring and resolving customer dissatisfaction or account management issues

IOPS

Input/Output Operations Per Second - metric used to indicate the # of file ops a computer can execute per sec

IDE

Integrated development environment - comprehensive apps used by computer programmers for software development. Normally consists of a source code editor, build automation tools and a debugger.

LRS

Locally Redundant Storage - LRS keeps 3 replicas of your data within a single facility within a single region for durability.

MCS

Microsoft Consulting Services our pro serv biz

MOSP

Microsoft Online Subscription Program - self service online purchasing w/ a credit card or PO

MPSA

Microsoft Products and Services Agreement - A simplified Microsoft agreement that can be used across all customer organizations, consolidating terms and conditions

MSX

Microsoft Sales Experience apps, tools, and resources that fully support the Microsoft Selling Process (MSP)

MVL

Microsoft Volume Licensing

Hyper-V

Microsoft virtualization product that allows you to create VMs. Supports multiple version of WinSvr, Windows Client (i.e. 7, 8 , etc.), Linux OS. No limit to # of guest systems.

NFS

Network File System a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a computer network much like local storage is accessed.

Egress

Network traffic that originates inside of a network and proceeds through its routers to a destination somewhere outside of the network. Ingress traffic that originates outsides of the networks routers.

NGFW

Next-Generation Firewall

OCP

One Commercial Partner focuses on driving partner success and aggregating partner resources

Open AM

Open Access Management - open source access management, entitlements, and federation server

OSS

Open Source Software - Software that is made available under a license that grants all users access to the source code to the software (rather than just the binary code) and grants some rights to modify the source code and rights to distribute such modifications.

(OWASP)

Open Web Application Security Project - a 501c3 not-for-profit worldwide charitable organization focused on improving the security of application software

OMS

Operations Management Suite - Azure cloud IT mgmt solution w/ log analytics, automation, recovery & security

PTU

Partner Team Unit maintains a group of Managed Partners in a given region. This includes their selection, recruitment and segmentation based on a set of capabilities

PBR

Policy based routing (PBR) - technique used to make routing decisions based on policies set by the network admin

PRISM

Priorities Sharing Meeting mtg of MSFT's SVPs to share priorities for the upcoming fiscal year

PKI

Public Key Infrastructure - framework of laws, policies, standards, hardware, and software to provide and manage the use of public key cryptography on public networks such as the Internet.

QBU

Quarterly Business Update

RPO

Recovery Point Objective

RI

Reverse integration The act or process of integrating changes or improvements into an existing software application.

ROB

Rhythms of the Business

SEL

Sales Excellence a MSFT discipline that is responsible for the development and adoption of sales strategies, practices, and processes

SMSG

Sales, Marketing, Services Group

SPE

Secure Productive Enterprise licensing option that brings together O365, Enterprise Mobility + Security, and Windows 10 Enterprise into a single licensing offering.

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer - protocol for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL uses a cryptographic system that uses two keys to encrypt data.

SCE

Server and Cloud Enrollment - Microsoft Enrollment Agreement added to an Enterprise Agreement that enables customers to standardize on one or more key server and cloud technologies.

SCE

Server and Cloud Enrollment a MSFT Enrollment Agreement added to an EA that enables customers to standardize on >1 key server and cloud technologies.

SA

Software Assurance: volume licensing option that enables customers to acquire the right to install any new release of products covered in the agreement during the term of their coverage.

SSD

Solid state hard drives - data storage device that stores persistent data on solid-state memory. The drives do not employ any moving mechanical components, which distinguishes them from traditional magnetic hard drives.

STU

Specialist Team Unit - driving new revenue growth and market share growth vs. competitors through solution and technical selling

CPS

Supplemental Customer Price Sheet - add-on order for products that are not listed in the EA.

TFS

Team Foundation Server - provides source code management (either with Team Foundation Version Control or Git), reporting, requirements management, project management (for both agile software development and waterfall teams), automated builds, lab management, testing and release management capabilities

UDR

Universal Data Repository

USL

User Subscription License - A Microsoft volume license that allows a single user access to Microsoft Online Services

VDI

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - a PC that is connected to the cloud instead of the local IT data center

VTEAM

Virtual Team

VS

Visual Studio

WIF

Windows Identity Foundation - a framework for building identity-aware applications.

Federation Server

a comp that runs a specialized Web service that can issue, manage, and validate requests for security tokens and identity

JIRA

a proprietary issue (bug) tracking system (looks like a CRM), developed by Atlassian. Also provides PM.

ACL

access control lists - Lists associated with files or resources that contain information about which users or groups have permission to access those resources or modify those files.

Service Asset

any resource (infrastructure, apps, or data) or capability (people, organization, mgmt, knowledge).

ADN

application delivery network - helps perform common tasks to remove load from the web servers themselves.

ADS

architecture design sessions allows companies to meet with MTC architects to align their business objectives with specific applications of MSFT software

Azure Stack

consistent and rapid delivery across both public and private clouds. "Holy grail of cloud computing has been Hybrid". Azure Stack Private cloud that is built on an infrastructure stack on your own data center. It's like having your own version of Azure in-house. Boon is that you get more of the benefits of public cloud w/o putting your data there - avoid security risk, get cloud w/o connection to cloud (i.e. on an oil rig). Partners with hardware vendors (servers) that customer buys, software is a managed PAYG model.

Compiler

converts code from one language to another (typically higher level lang-> lower). C++, JAVA, C#,C

Extensibility

design principle where the implementation takes future growth into consideration.

Ubuntu

free and open source computer operating system based on Linux.

VHD

function in much the same way as physical hard disks and are typically used as the hard disks for VMs

Terminal emulation

is the ability to make one computer terminal, typically a PC, appear to look like another, usually older type of terminal so that a user can access programs originally written to communicate with the other terminal type.

MC

minimum commitments Contracts that allow custs to obtain better quantity pricing by committing to a minimum amt of purchases for each period in the contract's duration

NIC

network interface controller -hardware component that connects a computer to a network. It translates computer language to that that can be understood by the Ethernet cable, router, etc.

P-Seller

program that adds MSFT-focused sales and technical capacity and capability on predefined priorities and workloads for Microsoft-sourced and led opportunities,

RDP

rapid deployment programs tech is deployed to select custs before it is released to the general public

Response caching

reduces the # of requests a client or proxy makes to the web server.

RDBMS

relational database management system - Databases that store information in tables (rows and columns of data) and conduct searches by using data in specified columns of one table to find additional data in another table.

Query

request for information from a database

Exit criteria

set of standards that a product or service must meet before a particular milestone, stage, or phase is complete.

Interpreter

similar to Compiler but it converts one line at a time (instead of all at once). Used by BASIC, PYTHON, etc.

Microservices

software architecture style in which complex applications are composed of small, independent processes communicating with each other using language-agnostic APIs.

Containers

store objects in an organized way that follows specific access rules

Systems Center

suite of systems management products that offers tools to monitor and automate virtualized environments, including private clouds based on Microsoft Hyper-V.

TAM

technical account managers manage support issues for an assigned group of customers

Build automation

the process of automating the creation of a software build and the associated processes including: compiling computer source code into binary code, packaging binary code, and running automated tests.

Index

used by the database to quickly locate data without having to search every row in a database table every time a database table is accessed