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GL OS SARY

worms, and viruses, or inappropriate coding instructions in-
serted where they do not belong.

Framework: An application development platform that pro-
vides much of the plumbing to connect the newly developed
business logic in an application to the network, databases, ap-

plication server middleware, and the Web server.

FTP: File Transfer Protocol, the first protocol for moving files
from one Internet Protocol (IP) address to another.

Google App Engine: A Google-sponsored cloud infrastructure
that supplies more automated administrative support for run-
ning applications. It is limited, however, to running applica-
tions composed in Python or Java or in a language designed
to run in the Java Virtual Machine, such as JRuby or Groovy.

Hadoop: An Apache Software open source project that uses
parallel processing in the cloud to retrieve and analyze large
amounts of data. Yahoo! is a leader in the project and uses
Hadoop to analyze the contents of the World Wide Web on
clusters of 4,000 servers.

HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the specified networking

software that underlies the movement of Web pages and other
data over the Internet.

Hypervisor: A layer of virtualization software, also known as a vir-
tual machine manager, that apportions a host server’s resources
among multiple virtual machines, passing their requests for
services to the hardware. The hypervisor handles all commu-
nications between applications and the hardware.

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