Information Storage and Management: Storing, Managing, and Protecting Digital Information

Appendix A. Acronyms and Abbreviations

ACA	Auto Contingent Allegiance
ACL	Access Control List
AD	Active Directory
AES	Advanced Encryption Standard
AL-PA	Arbitrated Loop Physical Address
ALU	Arithmetic Logic Unit
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
API	Application Programming Interface
AR	Automated Replication
ARB	Arbitration Frame
AS	Authentication Service
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASIC	Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
ATAPI	Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
ATM	Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AUI	Application User Interface
AVM	Automatic Volume Management
BB_Credit	Buffer to Buffer Credit
BBU	Battery Backup Unit
BC	Business Continuity
BCP	Business Continuity Planning
BCV	Business Continuance Volume
BIA	Business Impact Analysis
BIOS	Basic Input/Output System
BLOB	Binary Large Object
BMR	Bare Metal Recovery
BURA	Backup, Recovery, and Archive
CA	Content Address
CAS	Content-Addressed Storage
CCS	Common Command Set
CD	Compact Disk
CDB	Command Descriptor Block
CDF	Content Descriptor File
CDP	Continuous Data Protection
CD-R	Compact Disk-Recordable
CD-ROM	Compact Disk Read-Only Memory
CD-RW	Compact Disc Rewritable
CE+	Compliance Edition Plus
CG	Consistency Group
CHAP	Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol
CHS	Cylinder, Head, and Sector
CIFS	Common Internet File System
CIM	Common Information Model
CKD	Count Key Data
CLI	Command-Line Interface
CmdSN	Command Sequence Number
CMI	CLARiiON Messaging Interface
CMIP	Common Management Information Protocol
CMIS	Common Management Information Service
COFA	Copy on First Access
COFW	Copy on ...