Data Protection and Information Lifecycle Management

This appendix contains a list of the acronyms found in the book. It is meant as a quick reference to what the letters of the acronyms stand for, not definitions. Definitions may be found in the glossary.

ATA: Advanced Technology Attachment

CAS: Content Addressed Storage

CD: Compact Disc

CIFS: Common Internet File System

DAS: Direct Attach Storage

DASD: Direct Access Storage Device

DLM: Data Lifecycle Management

DNS: Domain Naming Service

DoS: Denial of Service

DTD: Direct Attach Storage

DVD: digital video disk

HA: high availability

HBA: host bus adapter

IDE: Integrated Drive Electronics

IDS: Intrusion Detection System

ILM: Information Lifecycle Management

I/O: Input/Output

IP: Internet Protocol

iSCSI: IP Internet SCSI

IT: information technology

LAN: local-area network

LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LIP: Loop Initialization Primitive

LUN: Logical Unit Number

MAN: metropolitan-area network

MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

MIS: management information systems

NAS: Network Attached Storage

NDMP: Network Data Management Protocol

NFS: Network File System

QoS: Quality of Service

RAID: Redundant Array of Independent Disks

RAM: random access memory

ROM: read-only memory

RPO: Recovery Point Objective

RTO: Recovery Time Objective

RW: read/write

SAN: Storage Area Network

SAS: Serial Attached SCSI

SATA: Serial ATA

SCSI: Small Computer System Interface

TCP: Transmission Control Protocol

UML: Unified Modeling Language

VPN: virtual private network

WAN: wide-area network

WWN: World Wide Name

XML: Extensible Markup Language