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zoning - [local government] The application of local government regulations that permit certain land uses within geographic areas under the government's jurisdiction. Zoning regulations typically set a broad category of land use permissible in an area, such as residential, commercial, agricultural, or industrial. Zoning regulations can also set constraints on building construction within areas, which may affect factors such as the maximum height of structures, minimum setbacks from property lines, the amount of parking that must be provided, or the density of housing.
[Category=Geospatial ]
Source: esri, 16 October 2012 09:28:29, http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/GISDictionary/term/abbreviation
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zoning - In a storage area network (SAN), zoning is the allocation of resources for device load balancing and for selectively allowing access to data only to certain users. Essentially, zoning allows an administrator to control who can see what in a SAN.
Zoning is done using a structure similar to that of a computer file system. A zone is the equivalent of a folder or directory. Zoning can be either hard or soft. In hard zoning, each device is assigned to a particular zone, and this assignment does not change. In soft zoning, device assignments can be changed by the network administrator to accommodate variations in the demands on different servers in the network.
The user of zoning is said to minimize the risk of data corruption, help secure data against hackers, slow the spread of viruses and worms, and minimize the time necessary for servers to reboot. However, zoning can complicate the scaling process if the number of users and servers in a SAN increases significantly in a short period of time.
Related glossary terms: hard disk, magnetoresistive head technology, yottabyte, byte, partition, InfiniBand, failover, RAMAC (random access method of accounting and control), Fibre Channel
[Category=Data Management ]
Source: WhatIs.com, 19 September 2013 09:45:01, http://whatis.techtarget.com/glossary/Data-and-Data-Management
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