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SERVER HARDWARE [13 records]

Record 1 2022-06-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

Web technicians are responsible for installing and maintaining the hardware and software on servers that support company websites on the Internet. Their job is to optimize network performance and ensure the smooth running of the web server system. They also deal with hardware malfunctions and implement solutions for website malfunctions.

OBS

web technician: The Translation Bureau recommends in its revised 2013 Linguistic Recommendation that "web" not be capitalized when it is part of a compound, whether the compound is written as two words or one, with or without a hyphen.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

Le technicien Web se charge de la mise en place des sites Internet et intranet, du matériel et des logiciels de serveur Web. Il en assure l'entretien et la surveillance afin de rendre leur utilisation optimale. Il offre un soutien aux utilisateurs des sites Web.

OBS

technicien Web; technicienne Web : Le Bureau de la traduction préconise dans sa Recommandation linguistique révisée en 2013 la majuscule initiale lorsque «Web» est employé après un nom qu'il qualifie. Il est toujours invariable.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombramiento de cargos (Generalidades)
  • Internet y telemática
OBS

técnico de web: El Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, de la Real Academia Española, indica que "web" se escribe en minúscula cuando se emplea como adjetivo. En cuanto al número, aunque es frecuente el plural invariable (sitios web), recomienda también la forma "webs" (los sitios webs).

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Record 2 2022-06-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Information Technology (Informatics)
CONT

A server administrator is responsible for the computer servers of an organization. This individual ensures on a daily basis that they are running efficiently by performing upgrading and maintenance tasks on hardware and software, resolving technical problems, overseeing their activity levels, ensuring server security, and developing new system structures when necessary.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Technologie de l'information (Informatique)
CONT

Un administrateur de serveur […] a la responsabilité de gérer et de surveiller les performances des serveurs informatiques dans le centre de données d'une entreprise.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombramiento de cargos (Generalidades)
  • Tecnología de la información (Informática)
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Record 3 2021-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Testing and Debugging
  • Computer Programs and Programming
  • Simulation (Cybernetic Systems)
CONT

A test environment is a server that allows you to run the test cases you have defined... It also involves hardware and network configuration.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Test et débogage
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
  • Simulation (Systèmes cybernétiques)

Spanish

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Record 4 2020-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computers and Calculators
  • Computer Programs and Programming
CONT

Microservers are intended to do small, specific jobs, either within a datacentre or inside a business that perhaps can’t afford or doesn’t need more powerful server hardware, and they use power-efficient and affordable components to help keep costs low.

Key term(s)
  • micro server

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ordinateurs et calculateurs
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
CONT

Trente fois plus de serveurs dans un même volume[,] mais bien moins de puissance par serveur, telle est l'équation des microserveurs [...]

Key term(s)
  • micro-serveur

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Computadoras y calculadoras
  • Programas y programación (Informática)
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Record 5 2018-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Hardware
  • Software
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

The virtualization server. Hardware vendors … have begun developing servers that are purpose-built for server-consolidation using virtualization.

Key term(s)
  • virtualisation server

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel informatique
  • Logiciels
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

Un serveur de virtualisation. Ce serveur est destiné à faire fonctionner au minimum une douzaine de serveurs virtuels de test et/ou de production.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Equipo físico de computadora (Hardware)
  • Soporte lógico (Software)
  • Internet y telemática
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Record 6 2018-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Hardware
  • Software
DEF

A piece of equipment or software used as a base on which to build something else.

OBS

For example, a mainframe computer can serve as a platform for a large accounting system. Microsoft Windows serves as a platform for application software.

PHR

hardware platform, server platform, social media platform, software platform

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel informatique
  • Logiciels
OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

plateforme : Cette graphie, puisée du document intitulé «Les rectifications de l'orthographe» du Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2015).

PHR

plateforme de média social, plateforme logicielle, plateforme matérielle

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Equipo físico de computadora (Hardware)
  • Soporte lógico (Software)
CONT

Una plataforma es una combinación de hardware y software usada para ejecutar aplicaciones; en su forma más simple consiste únicamente en un sistema operativo, una arquitectura, o una combinación de ambos. La plataforma más conocida es probablemente Microsoft Windows en una arquitectura x86 [...]

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Record 7 2016-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Hardware
  • Software
DEF

The hardware and/or operating system software of a server or family of servers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel informatique
  • Logiciels

Spanish

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Record 8 2013-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
OBS

web server hardware : The Translation Bureau recommends in its revised 2013 Linguistic Recommendation that “web” not be capitalized when it is part of a compound, whether the compound is written as two words or one, with or without a hyphen.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
OBS

matériel de serveur Web : Le Bureau de la traduction préconise dans sa Recommandation linguistique révisée en 2013 la majuscule initiale lorsque «Web» est employé après un nom qu’il qualifie. Il est toujours invariable.

Spanish

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Record 9 2003-10-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Testing and Debugging
DEF

The problems, errors, glitches, or anomalies identified during the pre-release phase of a commercial computer product.

OBS

Beta bugs usually pertain to software(such as an operating system or Web server application), but this term is also used to refer to hardware.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Test et débogage

Spanish

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Record 10 2002-08-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Printing Processes - Various
CONT

The printing plant's own hardware(server) is used to implement the networking system. Only the presetting data for the ink keys and duct rollers are transferred.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Procédés d'impression divers
CONT

[...] il existe aussi une version de base, le Logotronic basic développé pour transmettre le plus simplement du monde les données de préréglage à la machine.

Spanish

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Record 11 2000-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

A computer program that is downloaded from a server and executed or run using the end user's computer hardware. Java and JavaScript are examples of client-side programs.

Key term(s)
  • client side program

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

Le client est l'ordinateur qui demande de l'information à un serveur qui entrepose l'information et la rend accessible. Si un document Web exige qu'un programme ou qu'un applet apparaisse sur l'ordinateur de l'utilisateur, il s'agit d'un programme côté-client.

Key term(s)
  • programme côté client

Spanish

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Record 12 1999-05-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Hardware
DEF

All hardware components that are physically attached to the server or are included as part of the servers configuration.

CONT

Hard disk, memory, backup tape, LAN printers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel informatique
DEF

Toutes les composantes matérielles qui sont physiquement reliées au serveur ou qui sont incluses dans sa configuration.

CONT

Disque dur, mémoire, unité de bande de sauvegarde, imprimantes RL.

Spanish

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Record 13 1998-12-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Data Banks and Databases
OBS

Server : A hardware and software device designed to perform a specific function for many users.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Banques et bases de données

Spanish

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