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Backup and Recovery refers to the various strategies and procedures involved in protecting your data against data loss and reconstructing it after any kind of data loss.

In Windows NT 4 server domains, BDC is a computer that has a copy of the user accounts database. The BDC database is a read-only copy.

An automated USB 2.0 external storage device that supports multiple removable SATA hard drives. Data Robotics' "Drobo" is the first example of a digital backup robot. 

Storage that is intended as a copy of the storage that is actively in use so that, if the storage medium such as a hard disk fails and data is lost on that medium, it can be recovered from the copy. 

Refers to a hardware/software system that can use interfaces and data from earlier versions of the system or with other systems. E.g. Perl, the scripting language, was designed to be backward compatible with awk.

A header bit transmitted by the destination terminal requesting that the source terminal send data more slowly. BECN is intended to minimize the possibility that packets will be discarded when more packets arrive than can be handle.

BadUSB is an highly serious USB security flaw through which attackers can turn a simple USB device into a keyboard, and can type malicious commands into the victim's computer. The security flaw was presented at the blackhat conference by Karsten Nohl.

BAI2 file format is a specialized and standardized set of codes used for cash management by the Bank Administration Institute (BAI). BAI2 files come to an account holder from a bank and is imported to bookkeeping application.

A version of IBM's assembler language for its System/360 and System/370 mainframe OS. An assembler language consists of computer instructions to the processor, each specifying a processor operation and input or output registers or data areas. 

A performance management tool supported by design methods and automation tools, that can be used by managers to keep track of the execution of activities by the staff within their control and to monitor the consequences arising from these actions. 

A wireframing and mock up tool with a high focus on usability. 

BaNCS is a proprietary core banking software suite developed by Tata Consulting Services. The platform encompasses an array of pre-configured, customizable banking products such as Universal Banking, Core Banking, Payments, Compliance, Financial Inclusion, Islamic Banking and Treasury. The products are highly integrated across their respective value chains through business process configurability available in the service integrator component of the product suite. Built on open architecture, this component-based product suite leverages service-oriented and event-driven architectures.

A synonym for data transfer rate - the amount of data that can be carried from one point to another in a given time period (usually a second). This kind of bandwidth is usually expressed in bits (of data) per second (bps). 

  The width of the range (or band) of frequencies that an electronic signal uses on a given transmission medium. It is the difference between the highest-frequency signal component and the lowest-frequency signal component.

A program that sends one or more files of known size over a network to a distant computer and measures the time required for the file(s) to successfully download at the destination. The goal is to obtain the data speed between two or more points.