Glossary of IT Terms beginning with "B"
Brian Cryer's Glossary of IT Terms with Links. Definitions and links to further information on IT related terms ...
- B2B
- Business to Business, details ...
- B2C
- Business to Consumer, details ...
- B4N
- Bye For Now, details ...
- BA
- Bachelor of Arts (degree) / Business Architecture / Business Analyst, details ...
- Backup
- A recovery system / To take a recoverable copy of files / A set of recoverable files, details ...
- Backup Mail Server
- A secondary email server to which emails are delivered should the primary email server be offline, details ...
- BAC
- Budget At Completion, details ...
- BAFO
- Best And Final Offer, details ...
- Bandwidth
- Maximum rate of data transfer, details ...
- Bang
- Exclamation mark, details ...
- Barf
- To vomit / To become broken, details ...
- BASIC
- Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, details ...
- BBS
- Bulletin Board System / Be Back Soon, details ...
- BC
- Before Christ, details ...
- BCB
- Borland C++ Builder, details ...
- BCC
- Blink Carbon Copy, details ...
- BCD
- Binary Coded Decimal / Boot Configuration Data, details ...
- BCE
- Before Common Era / Before Christian Era, details ...
- BCP
- Best Current Practice / Bridging Control Protocol / Bulk Copy Process / Business Continuity Plan, details ...
- BDC
- Backup Domain Controller, details ...
- BDN
- Borland Developer Network, details ...
- BCWP
- Budget Cost for Work Performed, details ...
- BCWS
- Budget Cost for Work Scheduled, details ...
- Beep
- Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol / Beep sound, details ...
- BER
- Bit Error Rate / Beyond Economic Repair, details ...
- Bespoke
- Custom development, details ...
- BGP
- Border Gateway Protocol, details ...
- BHO
- Browser Helper Object, details ...
- BI
- Business Intelligence, details ...
- BIF
- Built In Function, details ...
- Biff
- Binary Interchange File Format / To hit, details ......
- Big-endian
- High order byte first, details ...
- BIN
- Binary / Binary program folder / Logical container / Bank Identification Number, details ...
- BIND
- Berkley Internet Name Domain, details ...
- BIOS
- Basic Input/Output System, details ...
- BIS
- Business Information Systems, details ...
- Bit
- Binary digit, details ...
- bit rate
- Same as bits per second, details ...
- BITS
- Background Intelligent Transfer Service, details ...
- BL
- Black List / Boundary Layer / Back Link / Block List, details ...
- Blackout
- Total loss of power, details ...
- Black List
- List of disapproved items, details ...
- Blacklist
- List of disapproved items (such as people), details ...
- Blit
- Block bit transfer, details ...
- BLOG
- Open journal, details ...
- Blogger
- Someone who keeps a blog, details ...
- Blogging
- Updating a blog, details ...
- Blue screen
- Windows terminal error screen, details ...
- Bluetooth
- Standard for short range radio communication, details ...
- BMI
- Body Mass Index, details ...
- BMP
- Bit map image / Basic Multilingual Plane, details ...
- BN
- Brand New, details ...
- BNF
- Backus-Naur Form, details ...
- BNG
- British National Grid, details ...
- BNIB
- Brand New In Box, details ...
- BNWT
- Brand New With Tags, details ...
- BOF
- Beginning Of File, details ...
- BOL
- Books On Line, SQL Server documentation / Viewable books on line, details ...
- BOM
- Bill of Materials / Byte Order Mark / Beginning of Message / Beginning of Medium, details ...
- BOOTP
- Bootstrap Protocol, details ...
- bot
- Robot, details ...
- BPL
- Borland Package Library / Broadband over Power Lines, details ...
- bpp
- Bits Per Pixel, details ...
- bps
- Bits Per Second, details ...
- Brownout
- Voltage drop, details ...
- BS
- British Standard, details ...
- BSSID
- Basic Service Set Identification, details ...
- BSOD
- Blue Screen of Death, details ...
- BST
- British Summer Time, details ...
- BTDT
- Been There Done That, details ...
- BTP
- Business Transaction Protocol, details ...
- BTU
- British Thermal Unit, details ...
- BTW
- By The Way, details ...
- Budget
- A fiscal plan / low value, details ...
- Buffer
- Block of memory storage area used when interfacing to a device / Memory used when passing data between procedures / An area around a feature, details ...
- Buffer Zone
- An area around a feature, details ...
- Business Process Re-engineering
- A sales slogan meaning to review how a business works, details ...
- BYOD
- Bring Your Own Device, details ...
- Byte
- A logical collection of 8 bits and the basic unit of storage in computers, details ...