Abbreviations and acronyms UFS AMD API ASIC AT&T ATA BTU CA CEO CIFS CIM CIO CLI CPU CSM DAS DB DBA DFSMS DMTF DR EMIF ERP ESCON ESS FAT FC FTE FTP GB GUI HA HBA HDS HP HSM I/O I/T Advanced Micro Devices Application Program Interface Application-specific Integrated Circuit American Telephone and Telegraph Advanced Technology Attachment British Thermal Unit Computer Associates Chief Executive Officer Common Internet File System Common Information Model Chief Information Officer Command Line Interface Central Processing Unit Caching Services Module Direct Attached Storage Data Base Data Base Administrator Data Facility System Managed Storage Distributed Management Task Force Disaster Recovery ESCON Multiple Image Facility Error Recovery Program Enterprise Systems Connection (architecture, IBM System/390®) Enterprise Systems Storage File Allocation Table Fibre Channel Full Time Equivalent File Transfer Protocol Gigabyte Graphical User Interface High Availability Host Bus Adapter Hitachi Data Systems Hewlett Packard Hierarchical Storage Manager Input/Output Information/Technology IBM ILM ISL IT ITSO JBOD JFS LAN LDAP LED LPAR LSS LTO LUN LVM MA MB NAS NFS NTFS OEM OS PB PC POC PPRC RAID RAM ROI RPM SAN SATA SCSI SFS SLA SMI-S International Business Machines Corporation Information Lifecycle Management Inter-Switch Link Information Technology International Technical Support Organization Just a Bunch of Disks Journaled File System Local Area Network Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Light Emitting Diode Logical Partition Large Sub System Linear Tape Open Logical Unit Number Logical Volume Manager Maintenance Agreement Megabyte Network Attached Storage Network File System NT File System Other Equipment Manufacturer Operating System Petabyte Personal Computer Proof of Concept Peer to Peer Remote Copy Redundant Array of Independent Disks Random Access Memory Return On Investment Revolution Per Minute Storage Area Network Serial ATA Small computer System Interconnect SAN File System Service Level Agreement Storage Management Initiative Specification © Copyright IBM Corp. 2006. All rights reserved. 187