PPDM terminology
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100

These are objects in PPDM for which you want to manage protection, including VMs, DBs, an FSs

What is an Asset

100

What does IAM stand for?

What is Identity and Access Management.

100
DDVE

What is Data Domain Virtual Edition

100

This coffee inspired programming language is used for the majority of PPDM code

What is Java

100

Dell's corporate headquarters is located in this city

What is Round Rock, Texas

200

This type of storage can be added to a PLC to expand deduplication storage capacity onto public/private object storage clouds.

What is Cloud Tier Storage

200

This UoM owns the core discovery services

Who is DAL

200

SLA

What is Service Level Agreement

200

PPDM stores data to this popular NoSQL database with convenient search and aggregation features

What is Elasticsearch

200

In 2016, Dell acquired this enterprise software and storage company for $67 billion

What is EMC Corporation

300

These are rules that comprise of one or more conditions that, when met, will automatically assign assets to PLCs

What are Protection Rules

300

ASC microservices is primarily developed by which UoM?

Who is DPTransform

300

RFE

What is Request For Enhancement

300

These are the set of microservices being developed to manage PPDM infrastructure objects and copies

What is ASC (Asset, Protection, Storage, and Copy)

300

Michael Dell went to this university

What is University of Texas at Austin

400

This is a visual representation of all backup copy locations on your protection storage

What is a Copy Map

400

This UoM owns the AAA service

Who is IAM

400

iDRAC

What is Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller

400

PPDM sends protection metrics to this Dell cloud-native application, which is used to monitor and measure the health of storage systems

What is CloudIQ

400

In 2013, Dell partnered with this private equity firm and took the company private

Who is Silver Lake Partners

500

Definable rules that set the criteria for Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), encryption, and locations of backups

What are Service Level Objectives (SLOs)

500

Suhanto manages not one, but 2 UoMs.  Which 2 does he manage?

Who are Replication & Cloud, and Storage UoMs.

500

RENBE

What is Right Effort, Not Best Effort

500

It doesn't relate to automobile electrical systems, but this feature of the Spring framework allows classes to reference one another.

What is Autowiring

500

Michael Dell initially named the company this, before changing to Dell Inc. in 2003

What is PC's Unlimited