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S-band Multiple Access (SMA)

SA

SA

SaaS Sprawl (Software-as-a-Service Sprawl)

Sacrificial Host

Safe High Voltage Connector (SHV Connector)

Sales Analytics

Sales Force Automation (SFA)

Same Old Software as a Service (SoSaaS)

Same Origin Policy (SOP)

SAN Architecture

SAN Certificate

SAN File System

SAN Monitoring Tool

SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI)

SAP Integration Adapter (SAP IA)

SAP Integration Repository (SAP IR)

Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)

SASE (Secure Access Service Edge)

Satellite Broadband

Satellite Broadcasting

Satellite Communications

Satellite Internet

Satellite Internet Access

Satellite Navigation

Satellite Phone

Satellite Television (Satellite TV)

SC

SC

SC

Scalable Link Interface (SLI)

Scalable Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (SOFDMA or S-OFDMA)

Scalable Processor Architecture (SPARC)

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

Scan Chain Reordering

Scannable Resume

Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)

Schema Matching

Schema on Write

Schematic Capture

Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

Screen Scraping

Screened Subnet Firewall

Scripting Engine

Scripting Language

SCSI Host Adapter

SCSI Termination

Scunthorpe Problem

SDN Monitoring Application

Seamless Integration

Seamless Interface

Search Algorithm

Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Search Engine Query

Search Engine Rank (Search Rank)

Search Engine Results Page (SERP)

Search Engine Spider

Search Engine Traffic

Search Plus Your World (SPYW)

Seat Management

Second Generation (Programming) Language (2GL)

Second Generation Wireless (2G)

Second Normal Form (2NF)

Second-Level Domain (SLD)

Secondary Audio Program (SAP)

Secondary Cache

Secondary Memory

Secondary Server

Secondary Storage Device

Secure Connection

Secure Data Storage

Secure Digital Card (SD Card)

Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC)

Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI)

Secure Electronic Transaction (SET)

Secure File Sharing

Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)

Secure FTP Server (SFTP Server)

Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA)

Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1)

Secure Hash Algorithm 2 (SHA-2)

Secure MIME (S/MIME)

Secure Neighbor Discovery Protocol (SEND Protocol)

Secure Network Address Translation (SecureNA or SNAT)

Secure Real-Time Protocol (Secure RTP or SRTP)

Secure RTP or SRTP

Secure Shell (SSH)

Secure Socket Layer Checker (SSL Checker)

Secure Socket Layer Encryption (SSL Encryption)

Secure Socket Layer Server (SSL Server)

Secure Socket Layer Test (SSL Test)

Secure Socket Layer Unified Communications Certificate (SSL UCC)

Secure Socket Layer Virtual Private Network (SSL VPN)

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

Secure Sockets Layer Certificate (SSL Certificate)

Secure Sockets Layer Certificate Authority (SSL Certificate Authority)

Secure Web Gateway

SecureNA or SNAT

Security Architecture

Security as a Service (SecaaS or SaaS)

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)

Security Association (SA)

Security Breach

Security by Design (SbD)

Security Certificate

Security Descriptor

Security Descriptor Definition Language (SDDL)

Security Event Management

Security Framework

Security Identifier (SID)

Security Incident

Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM)

Security Information Management (SIM)

Security Manager

Security Operations Center (SOC)

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)

Security Policy

Security Requirements Traceability Matrix (SRTM)

Security Software

Security Testing

Security Through Obscurity (STO)

Security+ Certification

Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)

Segment Routing

Segmentation Fault (Segfault)

Segregated Witness (SegWit)

SELECT (Databases)

Selective Backup

Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)

Self-Balancing Binary Search Tree

Self-Closing Tag

Self-Describing Message

Self-Destructing Email

Self-Driving Data Center

Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART)

Self-Organizing Map (SOM)

Self-Provisioning

Self-Relocating Program

Self-Replicating Machine

Self-Serve Access Portal

Self-Service Analytics

Self-Service Business Intelligence (SSBI)

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL)

Self-Test and Fault Isolation

Semantic Data Model

Semantic Element

Semantic Network

Semantic Repository

Semantic Search

Semantic Web Agreement Group (SWAG)

Semantic Web Browser

Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE)

Semi-Structured Data

Semi-Supervised Learning

Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI)

Send To Receive (S2R)

Sender Policy Framework (SPF)

Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)

Sensitive Information

Sentiment Analysis

Sequence Diagram

Sequenced Packet Exchange (SPX)

Sequenced Packet Protocol (SPP)

Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA)

Serial Advanced Technology Attachment II (SATA II)

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)

Serial Communication

Serial Copy Management System (SCMS)

Serial Inkjet Printer

Serial Interface

Serial Presence Detect (SPD)

Serial Processor

Serial Storage Architecture (SSA)

Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes)

Server Accelerator Card

Server Architecture

Server Colocation

Server Consolidation

Server Down Saturday

Server Instance

Server Intelligent Storage (SIS)

Server Inventory

Server Message Block (SMB)

Server Message Block Protocol (SMB Protocol)

Server Mirroring

Server Monitoring

Server Monitoring Software

Server Operating System (Server OS)

Server Redundancy

Server Software

Server Virtualization

Server-Based Computing (SBC)

Serverless Architecture

Serverless Backup

Serverless Computing

Serverless Printing

Service Advertising Protocol (SAP)

Service Assurance Platform

Service Catalog

Service Control Manager (SCM)

Service Data Objects (SDO)

Service Delivery Platform (SDP)

Service Insertion

Service Integration And Management (SIAM)

Service Integration Maturity Model (SIMM)

Service Inventory

Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Service Life Cycle Management (SLM)

Service Location Protocol (SLP)

Service Management System (SMS)

Service Migration

Service Oriented Architecture Governance

Service Pack (SP)

Service Provider

Service Record (SRV Record)

Service Set Identifier (SSID)

Service Switching Point (SSP)

Service-Level Management (SLM)

Service-Oriented Analysis and Design (SOAD)

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Service-Oriented Architecture Networking (SOA Networking)

Service-Oriented Architecture Registry (SOA Registry)

Service-Oriented Architecture Repository (SOA Repository)

Service-Oriented Architecture Security (SOA Security)

Service-Oriented Business Application (SOBA)

Service-Oriented Modeling and Architecture (SOMA)

Servlet Life Cycle

Session Announcement Protocol (SAP)

Session Border Controller (SBC)

Session Controller (SC)

Session Description Protocol (SDP)

Session Hijacking

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

Session Initiation Protocol for Business (SIP-B)

Session Initiation Protocol Trunking (SIP Trunking)

Set-Top Box (STB)

sh

Shaking My Head (SMH)

Shared Call Appearance (SCA)

Shared Contact Center (SCC)

Shared Ethernet Adapter

Shared Key Authentication (SKA)

Shared Resources

SharePoint Records Management

Sharing Economy

Shielded Twisted Pair (STP)

Shop Floor Control (SFC)

Short Message Peer-to-Peer (SMPP)

Short Message Service (SMS)

Short Message Service Center (SMSC)

Shortest Job First (SJF)

Shotgun Approach

Shotgun Debugging

Shoulder Surfing

Showstopper Bug

Shylock Malware

SI

SI

SI

SI

Signal Generator (SGEN)

Signal Strength

Signaling Gateway (SGW)

Signaling System No.7 (SS7)

Signature Block

Signature Field

Signature Verification

Silent Monitoring

Silicon Anode Battery

Silicon on Insulator (SOI)

Silicon Photonics

Silo (Data Silo)

SIM Toolkit (STK)

Simple API For XML (SAX)

Simple Directmedia Layer

Simple File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)

Simple Inexpensive Mobile Computer (Simputer)

Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

Simple Network Management Protocol Version 2 (SNMPv2)

Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE)

Simple Web Indexing System For Humans (SWISH)

Simulated Annealing

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Single Carrier Radio Transmission Technology (1xRTT)

Single Chip Cloud Computer

Single Connector Attachment (SCA)

Single Edge Contact Cartridge (SECC)

Single Inheritance

Single Inline Memory Module (SIMM)

Single Inline Package (SIP)

Single Large Expensive Disk (SLED)

Single Pane of Glass

Single Point of Failure (SPOF)

Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Single Source Proof Of Concept

Single System Image (SSI)

Single Unix Specification

Single-Board Computer (SBC)

Single-Electron Transistor (SET)

Single-Image Mode

Single-Layer Neural Network

Single-Mode Fiber

Single-Mode Fiber Transceiver

Single-Pair High-Speed Digital Subscriber Line (SHDSL)

Single-Sourcing

SIP for Instant Messaging and and Presence Leveraging Extensions (SIMPLE)

Site Recovery Manager

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Site-to-Site VPN

Six Degrees of Freedom (6DOF)

Sizeof Operator

Skeletal Animation

Skeleton Network

Skinless Server

Slackware Linux

Slashdot Effect

Slow Frequency Hopped Multiple Access (SFHMA)

Slow Technology Movement

SM

Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)

Small Form Factor (SFF)

Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP)

Small Form-Factor Pluggable Transceiver (SFP)

Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Module (SO-DIMM)

Small to Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs)

Smart Refrigerator

Smart Television (Smart TV)

Smash The Stack

Snapshot Backup

Snapshot Replication

Snarf and Barf Programming

Snooping Protocol

Snowflake Schema

Snowshoe Spamming

SoakSoak Malware

Soap Opera Effect

Social Bookmarking

Social Business Intelligence (Social BI)

Social Computing (SoC)

Social Currency

Social Customer Relationship Management (Social CRM)

Social Discovery

Social Engineering

Social Master Data Management (Social MDM)

Social Media Analytics (SMA)

Social Media Analytics Tools

Social Media Cleansing

Social Media Fatigue

Social Media Hermit

Social Media Manager

Social Media Marketing (SMM)

Social Media Maven

Social Media Monitoring

Social Media Optimization (SMO)

Social Media Snooping

Social Media War Room

Social Network Analysis (SNA)

Social Networking Site (SNS)

Social Platform

Social Shopping

Social Software

Social Spreadsheet

Sock Puppet Marketing

SOFDMA or S-OFDMA

Software Architect

Software Architecture

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Software As A Service Business Intelligence (SaaS BI)

Software as a Service Enterprise Resource Planning (SaaS ERP)

Software Asset Management (SAM)

Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)

Software Configuration Management (SCM)

Software Container

Software Development

Software Development Environment (SDE)

Software Development Kit (SDK)

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Software Development Life Cycle Model (SDLC)

Software Development Process

Software Engineer

Software Engineering

Software Engineering Institute (SEI)

Software Framework

Software Handshaking

Software Interrupt

Software Inventory Management

Software Library

Software License Agreement

Software Licensing

Software Life Cycle

Software Metric

Software Package

Software Patent

Software Piracy

Software Pirate

Software Plus Services

Software Program

Software Propagation

Software Protection Dongle

Software Quality Assurance (SQA)

Software Repository

Software Security

Software Switch

Software Tester

Software Testing

Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)

Software Troubleshooting

Software Versioning

Software Visualization

Software, Platform, Infrastructure Model (SPI Model)

Software-as-a-Service Sprawl

Software-Defined Anything (SDx)

Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)

Software-Defined Everything (SDE)

Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI)

Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

Software-Defined Networking Monitoring Application (SDN Monitoring Application)

Software-Defined Security (SDS)

Software-Defined Storage (SDS)

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)

Sole Source Procurement

Solid State Component

Solid State Drive (SSD)

Solid State Drive Array (SSD Array)

Solid State Hybrid Drive (SSHD)

Solid State Recorder (SSR)

Solid-State Computer (SSC)

Solid-State Storage (SSS)

Solution Architecture

Sony/Philips Digital Interface (S/PDIF)

SOP

Sorting Algorithm

SoundExchange (SX)

Source Code Analysis

Source Code Analysis Tool

Source Code Control System (SCCS)

Source Code Escrow

Source Code Manager (SCM)

Source Deduplication

Southbound Interface (SBI)

Sovereign Cloud

SP

Space Complexity

Spaghetti Diagram

Spam and Open Relay Blocking System (SORBS)

Spam Blog (Splog)

Spam Over Internet Telephony (SPIT)

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

Spark Streaming

SPARQL Protocol And RDF Query Language (SPARQL)

Sparse Autoencoder (SAE)

Sparsity and Density

Spatial Data Mining

Spatial Database

Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA)

Spatial Light Modulator (SLM)

Spatial Modeling

Spatial Multiplexing (SM)

Spatial Streaming

Spectrum Allocation

Spectrum Analyzer

Spectrum Crunch

Spectrum Efficiency

Spectrum Harmonization

Speech Analytics

Speech Synthesis

Speech-to-Text Software

Split Domain Name System (Split DNS)

Split Multi-Link Trunking

Split Tunneling

Spread Spectrum

Spreadsheet Software

Spring Framework

SQL As A Service (SQLaaS)

SQL Diagnostics

SQL Injection Attack

SQL Injection Scanner

SQL Injection Test

SQL Injection Tool

SQL Performance

SQL Query Monitoring

SQL Server Business Intelligence (SQL Server BI)

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

Square Connector (SC)

SSL Certificate

SSL Certificate Authority

SSL Certificate Authority

SSL Certification

ST-506 Interface

Stack Environment Control Dump Machine (SECD Machine)

Stack Unwinding

Staggered Pin Grid Array (SPGA)

Staggered Spin-Up

Stand-Up Meeting

Standalone Server

Standard Commands For Programmable Instruments (SCPI)

Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)

Standard Input Format (SIF)

Standard ML (SML)

Standard Operating Environment (SOE)

Standard Parallel Port (SPP)

Standard Template Library (STL)

Standards-Based System

Standing Wave Ratio (SWR)

Start of Authority (SOA)

Startup Program

Stateful Inspection

Stateless Protocol

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

Static Code Analysis

Static Database Management System (Static DBMS)

Static Electricity

Static Internet Protocol (Static IP)

Static Internet Protocol Address

Static Random Access Memory (SRAM)

Static Shielding Bag

Static Timing Analysis

Static Verification

Static Visualization Toolkit (Static VTK)

Static Web Page

Statically Typed

Statistical Mean

Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS)

Statistical Process Control (SPC)

Statistical Time Division Multiplexing (STDM, StatMUX)

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)

Stereolithography (SLA)

Stereophonic Sound

Stereoscopic Imaging

Stock-Keeping Unit (SKU)

Stop Motion Animation

Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)

Storage Area Network (SAN)

Storage Area Network Architecture (SAN Architecture)

Storage Area Network Certificate (SAN Certificate)

Storage Area Network File System (SAN File System)

Storage Area Network Management (SAN Management)

Storage Area Network Monitoring Tool (SAN Monitoring Tool)

Storage Area Network Security (SAN Security)

Storage Area Network Server (SAN Server)

Storage Area Network Topology (SAN Topology)

Storage as a Service (SaaS)

Storage at the Edge

Storage Bottleneck

Storage Capacity

Storage Consolidation

Storage Infrastructure

Storage Management

Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S)

Storage Management Software

Storage Networking

Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)

Storage Optimization

Storage over Internet Protocol (SoIP)

Storage Performance

Storage Performance Platform

Storage Provisioning

Storage Resource Management (SRM)

Storage Security

Storage Service Provider (SSP)

Storage Snapshot

Storage Testing

Storage Virtualization

Store and Forward

Store-and-Forward Manager (SFM)

Store-and-Forward Voice

Stored Procedure

Stove Piped Development

Stovepipe Application

Straight Tip Connector (ST Connector)

Straight-Through Cable

Strategic Information Office (SIO)

Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)

Stream Control Transmission Protocol Endpoint (SCTP)

Stream Processing

Stream Recorder

Streaming Analytics

Streaming Media

Streams And Iteration In A Single Assignment Language (SISAL)

Streisand Effect

Strong Artificial Intelligence (Strong AI)

Strong Authentication

Strong Password

Structure Diagram

Structured Analysis

Structured Data

Structured English

Structured Prediction

Structured Programming

Structured Query Language (SQL)

Structured System Analysis and Design Method (SSADM)

Structured Systems Analysis And Design Method (SSADM)

Struts Framework

Sub-band Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation (SB-ADPCM)

Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Subject-Oriented Programming

SubMiniature Version A Connector (SMA Connector)

Subnetwork (Subnet)

Subnetwork Access Protocol (SNAP)

Subscriber Identity Module Card (SIM Card)

Subscription Video on Demand (SVoD)

Subscription-Based Pricing

Subsidiary Rights

Substitution Cipher

Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE)

Sun Workshop Teamware

Super Advanced Intelligent Tape (SAIT)

Super Digital Linear Tape (SDLT)

Super VGA or SVGA

Super Video Graphics Array (Super VGA or SVGA)

Super-Speed Internet

Super-video (S-Video)

Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID)

Superconverged Cloud Infrastructure

Superintelligence

Superscalar Processor

Supervised Learning

Supervisor Call

Supervisor Mode

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)

Supply Chain Execution (SCE)

Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Supply Chain Optimization

Supply Chain Planning (SCP)

Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM)

Supply Chain Visibility (SCV)

Support Vector Machine (SVM)

Surface Computer

Surface Modeling

Surface-Mount Device (SMD)

Surface-Mount Technology (SMT)

Surge Protector

Surveillance Capitalism

Swarm Intelligence (SI)

Swiss Army Chainsaw

Switch Framework

Switch Statement

Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS)

Switched Virtual Circuit (SVC)

Switched-Mode Power Supply (SMPS)

Switching Fabric

Swivel Chair Interface

SX

Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)

Symbolic Link (SYLK)

Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line (SDSL)

Symmetric Encryption

Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP)

Synchronization

Synchronize and Stabilize

Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)

Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM)

Synchronous Groupware

Synchronous Key Encryption

Synchronous Learning

Synchronous Messaging

Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET)

Synchronous Replication

Synchronous Transmission

Synchronous Transport Module Level-1 (STM-1)

Syntactic Sugar

Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (Sass)

Syntax Validation

Synthetic Backup

System Administration

System Administrator (SA)

System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)

System Checkpoint

System Configuration (SC)

System Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

System File Checker (SFC)

System Global Area (SGA)

System Integration (SI)

System Integration Testing (SIT)

System Integrator (SI)

System Log (Syslog)

System Migration

System Object Model (SOM)

System on a Chip (SoC)

System Performance Monitor (SPM)

System Programming

System Request (SysRq)

System Requirements

System Security Plan

System Software

System Tray (Systray)

System-Level Security

Systems Analysis

Systems Analyst

Systems Network Architecture (SNA)

Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)