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Glossary-22 Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 Servers System Management Guide • December 2005
volume manager Software that organizes data blocks on physical disk drives into logical
volumes, which makes the disk data independent of the physical path name of
the disk drives. Volume manager software provides data reliability through
disk striping, concatenation, mirroring, and dynamic growth of metadevices or
volumes.
W
W3C Refers to the World Wide Web Consortium. W3C is an international
organization that governs Internet standards.
web server Software that provides services to access the Internet or an intranet. A web
server hosts web sites, provides support for HTTP/HTTPS and other protocols,
and executes server-side programs.
wide area network
(WAN) A network consisting of many systems that provides file transfer services. A
WAN can cover a large physical area, sometimes worldwide.
XS
X.509 certificate The most common certificate standard. X.509 certificates are documents
containing a public key and associated identity information, digitally signed by
a Certificate Authority (CA).
X Window System A common UNIX window system that enables a workstation or terminal to
control multiple sessions simultaneously.