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Exar

For over a decade, Exar's Hifn brand has been delivering break-through products that are easier to use, optimized for power, space and performance.

ASPs

Hifn Applied Services Processors (ASP’s) are purpose-built to handle all of the heavy-lifting required for encryption, compression and hashing for de-duplication, enabling next-generation products. Hifn’s ASPs address the growing market requirements for optimization and securing of data in transit or at rest.

agent

1. Generally, software that processes queries and returns replies on behalf of an application. 2. In NMSs, process that resides in all managed devices and reports the values of specified variables to management stations.

back end

Node or software program that provides services to a front end. See also client, FRF.11, and server.

client

Node or software program (front-end device) that requests services from a server. See also back end, FRF.11, and server.

Software Solutions

Hifn has been involved in developing software for over a decade, starting with the patented LZS lossless compression software which is widely deployed in both networking and storage environments.

Support

client/server computing

Term used to describe distributed computing (processing) network systems in which transaction responsibilities are divided into two parts: client (front end) and server (back end). Both terms (client and server) can be applied to software programs or actual computing devices. Also called distributed computing (processing). Compare with peer-to-peer computing. See also RPC.

DCE

Distributed Computing Environment. Open Software Foundation platform that simplifies the development of products that will function in multivendor computing environments.

GNU's

GNU's Not Unix. A GNU Emacs subsystem for reading and sending Usenet news. You can use GNUS to browse through news groups, look at summaries of articles in a specific group, and read articles of interest. You can respond to authors or write articles or replies to all the readers of a news group. GNU'S can be configured to use the NNTP protocol to get news from a remove server or it can read it from local news spool files. GNU is a UNIX-like operating system that comes with source code that can be copied, modified, and redistributed. The GNU project was started in 1983 by Richard Stallman and others, who formed the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The philosophy behind GNU is to produce software that is non-proprietary. Anyone can download, modify and redistribute GNU software. The only restriction is that they cannot limit further redistribution.