Hardware

Caches	CD-ROMs
Disk Drives	DVD
Tape Drives

1U	ABARS
ABS	ACS
ACSLS	active-active
ADC	AIT
Aperi	ARC
archival backup	archive
asynchronous replication	Automated Cartridge System
automatic fall-over	availability
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	garbage collection
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	Secret Storage technology
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 networking	storage optimization
Storage Resource Management	Storage Service Provider
storage virtualization	store
stripe	superparamagnetism
synthetic backup	terabyte
thin provisioning	tiered storage
track density	Trim
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