| Subject | German | English |
| commun., IT | Distributed Denial of Service-Angriff | DDoS attack |
| commun., IT | Distributed Denial of Service-Angriff | distributed denial-of-service attack |
| commun. | Distributed-Name-Service | distributed name service |
| commun. | Distributed-PBX | distributed PBX |
| IT | "distributed processing" | distributed computing |
| comp., MS | Distributed Transaction Coordinator | distributed transaction coordinator (A service, integrated with COM+, that makes distributed transactions work. DTC makes it possible to scale transactions from one to many computers without the need for special code) |
| abbr. | fiber data distributed interface | FDDI |
| comp., MS | Umgebung für verteilte Datenverarbeitung, Distributed Computing Environment | Distributed Computing Environment (A set of standards from the Open Group (formerly the Open Software Foundation) for development of distributed applications that can operate on more than one platform. One of two types of hardware connected by an RS-232-C serial connection, the other being a Data Terminal Equipment (DTE) device. A DCE is an intermediary device that often transforms input from a DTE before sending it to a recipient. A modem, for example, is a DCE that modulates data from a microcomputer (DTE) and sends it along a telephone connection) |
| comp., MS | Web-Based Distributed Authoring and Versioning | Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (A set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that facilitates collaborative editing and file management between users located remotely from each other on the Internet) |