Hardware

Caches	CD-ROMs
Disk Drives	DVD
Tape Drives

1U	ABARS
ABS	ACS
ACSLS	ADC
AIT	Aperi
ARC	archival backup
archive	asynchronous replication
Automated Cartridge System	automatic fall-over
backup	backup window
bare metal restore	BCP
buffer credits	business recovery team
business recovery timeline	bypass airflow
CAS	CDP
CE-ATA	chiller
close	COLD
cold standby	CompactFlash
compliance	compound document
compressed sensing	consolidation
content addressed storage	continuous data protection
cumulative incremental backup	D2D
D2D2T	D2T
DAFS	DAM
dark archive	DARP
data at rest	data at rest protection
data center tiers	data cleansing
data deduplication	data dictionary
Data Infrastructure Hygiene	data mirroring
data recovery	data vaulting
DDP	differential incremental backup
digital footprint	Direct Access File System
direct attached storage	disk array
DLA	DRP
DSTP	ECCST
ECM	EFM
Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation	EPO
equipment footprint	ERD
ETOM	FATA
FC SAN	ferrite core
FMD-ROM	ghost imaging
gigabyte	GIS
GMR	High Availability
HLF	holographic data storage
Honeycomb	hot potato routing
hot standby	HSM
ICM	iFCP
IIM	image
incremental backup	information classification and management
intelligent information management	interblock gap
IPS	IRG
Labelflash	light archive
Lightbox	LightScribe
LLF	lost cluster
LTO	LTO Ultrium
magnetic drum	mass storage
massive array of idle disks	MCS
media	Metadata Catalog Service
Mini DV	MO
ms	MTDL
MTTR	NAND
NAS	near-line storage
network-attached storage	NOR
Nyquist's Law	Object-Based Storage Device
ODMA	ODS
offline storage	OSD
overwrite	physical erase unit
portable image storage device	primary storage
RAID	RAIN
raised floor	Recovery Time Objective
Red Hat Global File System	restore
RLL	rotational latency
RPO	SaaS
SAN	SAN fabric
SBB	scratch disk
selective backup	Serial Storage Architecture
server cage area	slack space
SMI-S	snapshot backup
SoIP	solid state disk
spin valve	SRM
SSA	storage
Storage Bay Bridge	storage device
storage optimization	Storage Resource Management
Storage Service Provider	storage virtualization
store	stripe
superparamagnetism	synthetic backup
terabyte	thin provisioning
tiered storage	track density
TrueFFS	U3 smart drive
UMD	Unified Computing System
unified storage	USB boot
USB Flash Drive Alliance	USB smart drive
virtual tape library	virtualization
vNAS	vSERV
WADS	warm standby
wide area data services	wide area file services
write-back cache	write-protect
ZFS	zoned CLV
zoned-bit recording	zoning