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
