Host
1. Host is an organism on or in which other organism lives.
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(Source: Business Continuity Management Institute - BCM Institute) |
2. A host computer comprises the central hardware and software resources of a computer complex; e.g., CPU, memory, channels, disk and magnetic tape I0 subsystems plus operating and applications software. The term is used to denote all non-network items.
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(Source: OGC, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v3) |
