S CKInfo Items

Computer Knowledge information pages for terms starting with the letter S.

S-HTTP - Secure HTTP

(secure H-T-T-P) One of a few protocols to designed to send secure information over the Internet. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is the more common, but because the two are different they can be used together....

S/MIME - Secure/MIME

(secure/mime) A MIME version that supports encryption based on RSA's public-key technology. Once widely implemented secure E-mail messages will be easily available....

SAA - System Application Architecture

(S-A-A)

An architecture used to define various interfaces on IBM equipment. SAA allows applications to be consistent across various platforms.

SAN - Storage Area Network

(S-A-N) A network dedicated to data storage and retrieval. Generally used when content is shared among servers and workstations. More Information SAN Guide (PDF) IBM What Is SAN IBM SAN Redbook ...

SAP - SAP America, Inc. (SAP AG)

(sap) U.S. division of a German software company, SAP AG. The original German expansion of SAP is Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung. This is German for "Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing." More Information SA...

SAP - Secondary Audio Program

(sap) An audio channel used to provide added information on a television signal (e.g., different language or teletext). More Information SAP Intro ...

SAP - Service Advertising Protocol

(sap) A Novell Netware protocol used to identify what is connected to a network and build the Server Information Table. More Information Using SAP SAP Brief ...

SAS - Serial Attached SCSI

(sass) SCSI, initially, was a parallel connection. The parallel connection version of SCSI will continue for some years to come but by mid-2005 serial attached SCSI (SAS) was being introduced and is expected to take over the market for new SCSI conne...

SBB - Storage Bridge Bay Working Group

(S-B-B) Announced on 6 March 2006, the Storage Bridge Bay Working Group (SBB Working Group) is a non-profit cooperative effort between vendors to drive standardization in entry level external storage. Dell, EMC, and LSI Logic were the initial members...

SCAM - SCSI Configuration Automatically

(scam) A spin-off of the PnP plug-and-play specification. It gives PnP capability to SCSI. More Information Plug and Play Description ...