M - Definitions
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management information systems (MIS)
Management information systems (MIS) is a department within an enterprise responsible for controlling the hardware and software systems that the organization uses to make business-critical decisions.
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mean time to detect (MTTD)
Mean time to detect (MTTD) is a measure of how long a problem exists in an IT deployment before the appropriate parties become aware of it.
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memory paging
Memory paging is a memory management technique used to control sharing of memory resources belonging to a computer or virtual machine (VM).
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million instructions per second (MIPS)
Million instructions per second (MIPS) is a measure of a processor's speed, providing a standard for representing the number of instructions that a CPU can process in 1 second.
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mission-critical application
A mission-critical application is a software program or suite of related programs that must function continuously for a business or business segment to be successful.
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ModelOps (model operations)
ModelOps (model operations) is a holistic approach to building analytics models that can quickly progress from the lab to production.
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mutation testing
Mutation testing, also known as code mutation testing, is a form of white box testing in which testers change specific components of an application's source code to ensure a software test suite can detect the changes.