Changing the size while maintaining proportions and functions
The ability of a network system to respond to increasing numbers of users who access resources.
In one sense, it is the ability to meet ever-expanding demands. In another sense, it is an application capable of operating in small business to enterprise environments.
The ability to use the same applications and systems software on all classes of computers from desktop workstations to super computers.
The ability of computer hardware, software, and applications to adapt to increased demands and continue to function well.
The ability of a business to add content and resources as its presence on the Web grows.
The ability of a system to handle increased volume or complexity.
The ability to add power and capability to an existing system without significant expense or overhead. An "economy of scale" exists when a small increase in load produces a less-than-linear increase in overhead. A "diseconomy of scale" exists when a small increase cause a significant increase in overhead.
The ability of an information system to provide high performance as greater demands are placed upon it, through the addition of extra computing power
Refers to the ability of a system to be expanded. The term by itself implies a positive capability. For example, ‘the device is known for its scalability' implies that it can be made to serve a larger number of users without breaking down or requiring major changes in procedure. The Teligent P90/E platform is characterised by an extensive scalability.
The ability to expand capacity of an existing data storage system or network without requiring replacement.
The capability of a hardware or software system to expand to accommodate additional requirements. ()
The ability to add additional nodes to Real Application Clusters environments and achieve markedly improved performance.
How much a piece of technology is able to be expanded or grow as it is needed.
The ability of a company, system, operation or function to adapt to changing conditions such as growth in the number of customers or technological innovation.
The ability to increase workloads or the number of users, ports or capabilities without making major changes to systems or software and without affecting network performance. Scalability is especially important for rapidly growing enterprises and networks.
The ability to expand a computer application to support large numbers of users.
the ability to continue to function well when changed in size or volume either directly or when moved to a new context
the ability of a distributed simulation to maintain time and spatial consistency, as the number of entities and accompanying interactions increase.
a quality such that the scale on which a system is used can increase without modification to the system itself
The ability to increase a system's capacity or number of users without huge upheaval or expense.
the ability of a service or system to be extended (scaled) to meet growing demand or additional functionality.
The ability for hardware and/or software to accommodate usage growth. Most companies consider scalability a desirable attribute because it allows them to invest in hardware and software that can grow with their businesses, rather than becoming obsolete as changes occur.
The capability to use the same software environment on many classes of computers and hardware configurations. While often associated with an evolution to large systems, larger organizations often have need for the same software service to be provided with good performance to both small and large groups of users.
The ability of a system to effectively handle more and less data and users.
The degree to which a system or application can handle increasing or decreasing demand on system resources without significant performance degradation.
The ability to increase database size or the number of users without losing performance. It is important as new users can be quickly added as the customer relationship management software is extended to new groups of users in the organisation, until all customer‑facing staff and management have access to it. As customer data is captured, the size of the database grows quickly. Also, in the event of acquisitions and mergers it may be necessary to bring the new organisation onto the system very quickly, in order to better serve the new joint customer base
The capability to scale up, or expand, an information system so that it can be utilized by a larger number of users.
Scalability is defined as the ability of a company to considerably increase its performance capacity by adding only a small or negligible amount of resources. This typically applies to companies which develop and sell their own innovative technology.
The measure of a system's ability to increase or decrease in performance and cost in response to changes in application and system processing demands.
The ability of a technology to handle larger and larger workloads.
The ability of a system to cope with extra demands without suddenly slowing down or failing.
The ability of hardware, software, or a distributed system to maintain performance levels as it increases in size and increases in the number of users who access resources.
The ability of a piece of software or hardware to expand/grow as if necessary.
The capacity with which a system or component can be modified to fit the problem area.
Scalability is the ability to grow with your needs. Scalable software or hardware means that you only buy the parts you need, and that either have the ability to grow by adding on as you do. Applications or systems that are scalable are able to dynamically accommodate larger amounts of users without program modifications.
A term used to describe technology that can accommodate a growing number of users, event volume and functions. IAS technology is scalable to ensure it may easily grow according to customer needs.
Refers to how much a system can be expanded.
The ability of a software program to continue to function smoothly as additional volume, or work is required of it.
In the broadest sense, scalability is the ability to use a software environment on a whole series of different computers without changes – i.e., to expand the software's area of application. The term also refers to the possibility of increasing the data throughput requirements by simply changing the hardware without having to make any substantial changes to the software itself. The software is then referred to as scalable.
The quality of scaling, or increasing in proportion, in a regular fashion based on the availability of resources. In hardware, increasing in performance as a smooth function of increasingly complex circuitry; or conversely, increasing in cost as a smooth function of capacity. In software, improving execution time as a smooth function of available CPUs and memory (see Amdahl's Law).
The degree to which any application (such as an online learning course) can be expanded in size, volume or number of users.
The ability to use the same Application Software on many different classes of hardware/software platforms from PCs to super-computers (extends the portability concept). The capability to grow to accommodate increased work loads.
Scalability depends on the overall architecture of the entire application server. The three critical components of a scaleable system are: operating system, application software, and hardware. No one element by itself is sufficient to guarantee scalability. High performance server hardware is designed to scale to multiple processors, providing specific functionality to ease disk and memory bottlenecks. Applications and operating systems, in turn, must be able to take advantage of multiple CPUs. All three components are equally important.
The capacity of hardware, software and networks to change size according to the number of users that they accommodate. Most often, scalability refers to the capacity to expand rather than shrink.
The ability to grow and adjust network hardware and software resources according to user demand for communication services.
Able to accommodate a variety of needs. Able to adjust to the increased demands of a hardware or software system.
The degree to which a computer application or component can be expanded in size, volume, or number of users served and continue to function properly.
The ability to expand the number of users or increase the capabilities of a computing solution users without making major changes to the systems or application software.
The extent to which a product, family of products, system or architecture can accommodate differences in network requirements that arise out of differences in size. For example, remote offices may require only a limited number of ports, to accommodate a few phone lines, a LAN connection, fax, traditional data and possibly dial-up video for teleconferencing. Total bandwidth requirements probably won’t exceed the T-1 rate of 1.5 Mbps. At large central sites, which may be connected to remote sites all over the world, bandwidth requirements can easily reach hundreds of Megabits, even Gigabits. A scalable networking solution should be able to address this range of needs.
The capacity for a computer application or product (hardware or software) to continue to function well as it (or its context) is rescaled (typically, to a larger size, but possibly to a smaller size). The rescaling can be of the product itself (for example, a line of computer systems of different sizes in terms of storage, RAM, and so forth) or in the scalable object's movement to a new context (for example, a new operating system).
The ability and flexibility of an application to meet growth requirements of an organization
The capacity of a thing to expand to accommodate future requirements.
The ability of a system to provide throughput in proportion to, and limited only by, available hardware resources.
The ability of a piece of software or hardware to expand/grow according to requirements, e.g to support larger numbers of users without impacting performance.
Typically used in association with multiprocessor or cluster configurations. The scalability of the additional component refers to the performance gain obtained by adding that component. A perfectly scalable solution gives double the performance when you add a second component. For example, if you have an SMP machine with a measured performance of 1.0 (normalized), add a second CPU, and get a performance of 1.9, the scalability of adding the second CPU is 1.9, or 90%. This term is used quite frequently in hardware and software manufacturers' literature when marketing multiprocessor or clustered solutions.
The ability of a web site's or database's design to incorporate new data and features.
The capability of the software product to be upgraded to accommodate increased loads.
(1) An application's ability to let users easily find, view, and manipulate widely varying numbers of objects. (2) As an aspect of performance, the ability of an application to work under heavy loads--for example, large numbers of concurrent users or large sets of data.
The ability to expand a computing solution to support large numbers of users without impacting performance.
Measure of how well the software or hardware product is able to adapt to future business needs.
Is the ability to grow incrementally. If an online commerce system is scaleable, it can grow in capacity, as the demand requires.
The ability of an application to be run in different configurations across multiple machines in order to sustain higher levels of load.
The ability of a company or system to grow and expand
How well a system performs as it grows. For example, a central server of some kind with ten clients may perform efficiently. It has a scalability problem if it fails with an increasing number of clients.
Can you add functionality and/or capacity? What are the costs
The capacity of a system to expand without requiring major reconfiguration or re-entry of data. Multiple servers or additional storage can be easily added.
The ability to extend the capacity of a service due to increased demand.
The ability of a software package to execute in a larger hardware environment (e.g. more processors, more dynamic memory, more storage, etc.) with proportionally increasing performance. Also, it is the ability of the operating system to efficiently manage system resources with the increasing load or complexity of the applications (e.g. more threads, more processes, more connections, etc.).
The ability to scale to support larger or smaller volumes of data and more or less users. The ability to increase or decrease size or capability in cost-effective increments with minimal impact on the unit cost of business and the procurement of additional services.
A property of a technology or solution which allows increased service demands, for example higher bit-rates or larger numbers of users, to be fulfilled with low relative increase in complexity of equipment and software and without inherent degradation of performance.
The ability to add users and increase the capabilities of an application without having to making significant changes to the application software or the system on which it runs.
The ability of a solution to to increase in capacity according to the needs and growth of the project.
How well a solution to some problem or a business plan continues to work, as the size of the problem or business grows.
How well a solution to a given issue will work when the size of the issue increases.
An attribute of a network or network component that enables it to continue to function well as it is changed in size or volume. Typically, when a network component is scalable, it not only has the ability to function well in a rescaled situation, but it has the ability to actually take full advantage of the new situation in terms of performance.
Scalability of a system is the property which allows which the system to service any given load by adding additional servers or upgrading hardware to the system in a predetermined fashion. Scalability determines whether the performance and throughput can be maintained when the load increases.
Refers to how well a hardware or software system can adapt to increased demands. Scalability can be a very important feature because it means that you can invest in a system with confidence you won't outgrow it. Requires planning and foresight before beginning
A measure of how well a computer, service, or application can grow to meet increasing performance demands. For server clusters, the ability to incrementally add one or more systems to an existing cluster when the overall load of the cluster exceeds its capabilities. See also: server cluster
The ability and flexibility of a system to seamlessly adapt to new circumstances (for instance, increased web site traffic driven by an effective marketing campaign).
How quickly and efficiently can you ramp up to meet demand? How well a solution to some problem will work when the size of the problem increases. The economies to scale don't really kick in until you reach the critical mass, then revenues start to increase exponentially.
The capacity of a data warehouse to deal with increasing numbers of users and amounts of data.