10 Tech Acronyms You Must
Know:

Takeaway: In the tech field, there's a lot of jargon
that's totally unfamiliar to those who don't call
themselves geeks.
The technology industry loves
its acronyms. Terms like
HTML, GUI , SSL , HTTP , Wi-
Fi, RAM, and LAN have been
so common for so long that
even the average user
understands many of them
right away. But with hundreds - possibly even
thousands - of IT acronyms being thrown around
(not to mention more being added all the time) it
can be hard to keep track of them all. Here are
the top 10 tech acronyms you should know now.
  RFID - Radio Frequency        Identification

  Call it an "intelligent label," or even a "super bar
code." RFID tags are readable codes that can
contain more information than Universal Product
Code (UPC) labels, or even QR codes . You may have
seen these small, typically square tags already.
They’re clear plastic with what looks like circuit
boards etched onto them, and can be found inside
DVD packaging and other products.
RFID tags have the ability to "talk" to a
networked system and convey data. They are
primarily used to track things - retail
merchandise, vehicles, pets, airline passengers and
even Alzheimer’s patients. There are passive, semi-
passive and active RFID tags. In the not-too-
distant future, we may even see talking tags. Even
the U.S. government uses RFID tags. In fact,
they’re embedded in each and every U.S. passport.
Awareness of RFID technology is essential for
anyone working in technology. It's also related to
our next acronym ...
 NFC - Near Field Communication

  If you’ve ever tapped a credit card against a
terminal to make a payment, or tapped your
smartphone on a shelf label to get product
information, you’ve used near field communication
(NFC) technology. This contactless form of
transferring data uses RFID standards, making the
two terms closely related.
NFC-enabled devices can read passive information
stored in RFID tags. However, this technology is
actually a step ahead. Whereas RFID can only store
information, NFC can both send and receive it. So,
two smartphones equipped with NFC technology can
"talk" to each other, with both devices
participating in the "conversation."
The primary use for NFC right now is contactless
or mobile payments. In the future, this technology
may be used for enterprise access or verification,
public services and transit systems, device-to-
device collaboration for business and gaming, and
more.
  SMO - Social Media Optimization

  Search engine optimization (SEO) is an established
strategy for Internet marketers that aims to
increase websites’ rankings on search engines. That
acronym's old news though. Now, with social
networks invading every aspect of our lives, their
influence is heavily impacting search engine results,
giving rise to a newer term: social media
optimization (SMO).
SMO is not synonymous with SEO, although it’s
often considered one aspect of an overall sound
SEO strategy. Businesses using SMO are looking to
optimize their websites and syndicated content for
fast, hopefully viral distribution through social
sharing. This increases their perceived authority,
which in turn gives them more weight in search
engine rankings.
  ESN - Enterprise Social Networking

Another term arising from the popularity of social
media, enterprise social networking (ESN), is
actually separate from "regular" social media. This
term refers to internalized social network activity
on platforms like Yammer, Jive, or Convo, which is
limited to communication between company staff,
vendors, partners and customers.
  REEF - Retainable Evaluator Execution Framework

Big data is big news, and like everything that’s
important in tech, Microsoft has jumped on board.
The Retainable Evaluator Execution Framework
(REEF) is big data technology from Microsoft that
the company has open sourced for developers.
REEF runs on top of YARN (a "joke" acronym that
stands for Yet Another Resource Negotiator), the
next-generation resource manager from Hadoop .

  NoSQL - Not only Structured Query Language
A departure from traditional databases, NoSQL is
a cloud-friendly, non-relational database that
offers high performance, availability and
scalability. Designed to handle the messy and
unpredictable data that has become normal in
today’s digital world, NoSQL isn’t built on tables,
and doesn’t use traditional SQL. Instead, it
supports BigTables, graph databases, and key-
value and document stores. (Get the lowdown on
NoSQL in NoSQL 101.)
  SDE - Software-Defined Everything

Software-defined everything (SDE) is a catch-all
term refers to a broad group of tech
functionalities that rely on software, rather than
traditional hardware, to perform. Software-
defined networking (SDN) was the first component
to come into popular use, a technology that allows
networks to be controlled from a centralized
software dashboard rather than physical hardware.
It was followed by software-defined storage (SDS)
and software-defined data centers (SDDC).
Software-defined everything (SDE) is the
movement toward a broader trend that aims to
make computing faster, more widely available and
more affordable.
  AaaS - Analytics as a Service

  The -aaS family of acronyms refers to the on-
demand services that have replaced the more
traditional one-time, high-investment technologies
of the past. This group started with Software as a
Service (SaaS), which offers many types of
software from newly developed to enterprise-
grade staples as a monthly, cloud-hosted service
instead of an installation on physical machines.
Analytics as a Service (AaaS) joins SaaS,
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Platform as a
Service (PaaS) to give businesses a more
competitive chance at implementing data insights
without having to invest in full-blown analytics
platforms - or hire consultants.
  IoT - the Internet of Things

  Like something straight out of science fiction, the
Internet of Things (IoT) allows "things" (people,
animals, and objects) to transmit information
automatically over a network, without interacting
with a computer or another person. A few examples
of the IoT include tire pressure sensors in vehicles,
biochip transponders implanted in farm animals,
and heart monitor implants for humans. Basically,
the IoT promotes everyday connectivity between
everything.
This data is transmitted using unique IP address
identifiers. With increase in address space following
IPv6 , there are enough identifiers for every atom
on the planet, with plenty left to spare.
  NBIC - Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information
Technology, Cognitive Science

  This mouthful of a term, sometimes shortened to
Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno (but mostly called NBIC), is
the current overall term that refers to the latest
emerging and converging technologies. NBIC covers
developments that affect biomedical informatics
and improve human performance. This convergence
has the potential to transform humanity, such as
the use of 3-D printing to create working
artificial limbs.
In the tech field, you not only need to understand,
well, technology, you also need to know the jargon
that's totally unfamiliar to those who don't call
themselves geeks. Of course, these acronyms may
be common language in no time. Many of them
already are. So, how many of them did you know?

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