Defining IT & technology terms

Explore IT terms to know.

Tech today is advancing faster than ever. A constant evolution of tools, technology, methods and practices makes it difficult to keep up on all the trends, acronyms and terms. Insight’s tech glossary serves as your guide — written by technical experts and updated regularly. Bookmark this webpage to use as a reference guide, and find the latest IT terms to know.

• 5G
• Agile
• AI analytics
• Anything as a Service (XaaS)
• Anywhere operations
• Application modernization
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Asset disposition
• Augmented Reality (AR)
• Automation
• Business-to-business (B2B) integration
• Big data
• Blockchain
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR)
• Business intelligence
• Business optimization
• Business process automation
• Capital expenditure
• Chatbot
• Chef framework
• Choose Your Own Device (CYOD)
• Circular economy
• Cloud
• Cloud bursting
• Cloud enablement
• Cloud governance
• Cloud journey
• Cloud management platform
• Cloud migration services
• Cloud Service Provider (CSP)
• Cloud strategy
• Colocation
• Computer vision
• Connected Platform
• Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)
• Container technology
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
• Converged infrastructure
• Customer engagement
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• Cyber defense
• Cyberattack
• Cybercriminal
• Cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity mesh
• Cyberthreat
• Data analyst
• Data Center as a Service (DCaaS)
• Data classification
• Data discovery
• Data lake
• Data management
• Data migration
• Data protection
• Data scientist
• Data warehousing
• Democratized edge
• Desktop as a Service (DaaS)
• Device as a Service (DaaS)
• Device lifecycle services
• Device provisioning
• DevOps
• Digital business
• Digital debt
• Digital disruption
• Digital enablement
• Digital engagement
• Digital strategy
• Digital transformation
• Digital twin
• Digital workplace
• Dispersed workforce
• Domain Name System (DNS)
• E-procurement
• Edge computing
• Electronic waste (E-waste)
• End-user computing
• Endpoint management
• Firewall
• Flash storage
• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• Generative AI
• Hybrid cloud
• Hybrid Workforce
• Hybrid Workplace
• Hyperautomation
• Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)
• Image processing
• Immersive technology
• Industry 4.0
• Industry cloud platforms
• Industrial Internet of Things (IoT)
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Infrastructure Modernization
• Insight Global Finance (IGF)
• Insight Intelligent Technology Solutions^™
• Intelligent business automation
• Intelligent edge
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• IT discovery
• IT governance
• IT ModOps
• IT outsourcing
• IT roadmap
• Kanban
• Kubernetes
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)
• Learning and development
• Machine learning
• Machine Learning Operations (MLOps)
• Machine vision
• Managed cloud services
• Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP)
• Managed Service Provider (MSP)
• Maverick spending
• Metaverse
• Microservices
• Minimal viable product
• Mobile device management
• Modern Workplace
• Multicloud
• Multi-factor Authentication
• myInsight
• Natural language understanding
• Network Operations Center (NOC)
• Network security
• NIST Framework
• On-premises
• Operating Expense (OpEx)
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
• Organizational Change Management (OCM)
• Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Portfolio rationalization
• Power BI
• Predictive analysis
• Predictive analytics
• Procurement platform
• Prompt engineering
• Ransomware
• Reinforcement learning
• Relational data
• Remarketing
• Remote monitoring
• Responsible AI
• Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
• Spatial computing
• Scrum
• Scrum Master
• SD-WAN
• SecOps
• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
• Service-level Agreement (SLA)
• Single Sign-On (SSO)
• SnapStart
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Software Asset Management (SAM)
• Software audit
• Software-defined
• Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)
• Software license position
• Solutions Integrator
• Spatial computing
• Subscription economy
• Supervised learning
• Systems integrator
• Technical debt
• Technology procurement
• Telehealth
• Touchpad
• Transformation services
• Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS)
• Unified Endpoint Management(UEM)
• User Experience (UX)
• User Interface (UI)
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
• Virtual Private Network (VPN)
• Virtual Reality (VR)
• Virtualization
• Wi-Fi
• Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)
• Workflow automation
• Workload
• Workplace modernization
• Zero-touch deployment
• Zero Trust security
• Wearable technology
• Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
• Insider threat
• Platform engineering
• Tera Operations Per Second (TOPS)
• Neural Processing Unit (NPU)
• Arm technology
• AI-capable
• On-device AI
• Copilot
• Data center in cloud computing
• AI Center of Excellence
• Multicloud
• FinOps