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pizza box server

The term "pizza box server" refers to the shape of a computer server enclosed in a rectangular and horizontally-arranged chassis and often installed in a rack with similar servers. In any country where Italian pizza can be ordered for home or office delivery, it comes in a box of roughly the same size as one of these servers.

Related glossary terms: indemnification, compaction, real-time operating system (RTOS), single point of failure (SPOF), Andrew, tin whiskers, server blade, Unix, Uptime Institute, Inc., HP-UX

This was last updated in March 2007

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