E - Definitions
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email archiving
Email archiving is a systematic approach to saving and protecting the data contained in emails to enable fast retrieval.
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eMMC (embedded MultiMediaCard)
An embedded MultiMediaCard (eMMC) is a small storage device made up of NAND flash memory and a simple storage controller.
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enterprise storage
Enterprise storage is a centralized repository for business information that provides common data management, protection and data sharing functions through connections to computer systems.
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erasure coding
Erasure coding (EC) is a method of data protection in which data is broken into fragments, expanded and encoded with redundant data pieces and stored across a set of different locations or storage media.
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exabyte (EB)
An exabyte (EB) is a large unit of computer data storage, two to the sixtieth power bytes.
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exbibyte (EiB)
An exbibyte (EiB) is a unit that measures data capacity.
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external storage device
An external storage device, also referred to as auxiliary storage and secondary storage, is a device that contains all the addressable data storage that is not inside a computer's main storage or memory.