SMS

1. Short for Short Message Service, SMS is a widely accepted wireless service that allows individuals to send short text messages with wireless devices such as mobile phones and pagers. See the text message definition for additional information about this term.

2. Short for Systems Management Server, SMS are tools developed by Microsoft that help administrators perform diagnostics, maintain, and create an inventory of computers that are connected to the Network and are running SMS. See our SCCM definition for full information on this term.

3. Short for Storage Management Subsystem, SMS was developed by IBM to help manage storage resources. With SMS a user is capable of managing backup, data security, data migration, data recovery, and data deletion.

Also see: Cell phone, Cell phone definitions, GSM, MMS, Network definitions