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title: "Datafence glossary"
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# Datafence glossary

Available in VPC

To use Datafence, you must familiarize yourself with a few key terms. The glossary and its description are as follows:

### Analysis server

A server that is allocated in the data box and used to perform analysis tasks. Tensorflow, Hadoop, and Linux servers are provided in Datafence

### Box

An isolated workspace that belongs to Datafence; a safe analysis environment where you can freely analyze specific data and control arbitrary export

### Connect server

A server that serves as a gateway to access the analysis server

### Datafence server

A server that manages servers inside Datafence

### Datafence environment

A general task space to perform big data analysis tasks, which encompasses large shared data storage and the data box, which is a large infrastructure space isolated from the outside

### Data group

A bundle of data that combines multiple NAS, which is a shared data storage of Datafence. Can provide the target analysis data you want to use by data box by small group unit

### Network-Attached Storage (NAS)

A service of NAVER Cloud Platform that provides storage that multiple servers can connect through networks and use; used for the shared data storage and the analysis result storage within the data box

### Object Storage

A service of NAVER Cloud Platform that can save all types of data to the Internet and search them; use it when you import external files within the data box or export the analysis results to the outside

### SSL VPN

A service of NAVER Cloud Platform that provides SSL VPN, which allows you to securely access customer sites anytime and anywhere

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For more information on the glossary, see [Glossary](https://www.ncloud.com/guideCenter/glossary) on the NAVER Cloud Platform portal.