A

AES-CBC: Advanced Encryption Standard Cipher Block Chaining.
AES-CFB: Advanced Encryption Standard Cipher FeedBack.
AES-CTR: Advanced Encryption Standard Counter mode.
AES-ECB: Advanced Encryption Standard Electronic Code Book.
AES-GCM: Advanced Encryption Standard Galois/Counter Mode.
AES-NI: Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions.
AES-OFB: Advanced Encryption Standard Output FeedBack.
AES: Advanced Encryption Standard.
ANSI: American National Standards Institute.
API: Application Programming Interface.
APU: Accelerated Processing Unit.
ASIC: Application-Specific Integrated Circuit.
ATA: Advanced Technology Attachment.

B

BYOD: Bring Your Own Device.

C

CLI: Command-Line Interface.
CMOS: Complementary Metal–Oxide-Semiconductor.
CPU: Central Processing Unit.
CaaS: Content as a Service.

D

DDR: Double Data Rate.

E

eMMC: embedded Multi-Media Card.
EMS: Element Management System.

F

FIPS: Federal Information Processing Standard.
FPGA: Field-Programmable Gate Array.
FaaS: Function as a Service.

G

GAL: Generic Array Logic.
GDDR: Graphics Double Data Rate.
GPU: Graphics Processing Unit.

H

HDD: Hard Disk Drive.
HDL: Hardware Description Language.

I

IC: Integrated Circuit.
IDE: Integrated Drive Electronics.
IDE: Integrated Development Environment.
IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service.
IoT: Internet of Things.

J

JBOD: Just a Bunch Of Disks.

L

LAN: Local Area Network.

M

MMF: Multi-Mode Fiber.
MOSFET: Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor.

N

NAT: Network Address Translation.
NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology.
NVRAM: Non-Volatile Random-Access Memory.

O

OSPF: Open Shortest Path First.

P

PATA: Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment.
PaaS: Platform as a Service.
PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect.
PCIe: Peripheral Component Interconnect Express.
PIC: Programmable Interface Controller.

Q

QDR: Quad Data Rate.
QSFP: Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable.

R

RAID: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks.
RAM: Random-Access Memory.
ROM: Read-Only Memory.
RFC: Request For Comments.
RFI: Request For Information.
RFID: Radio Frequency Identification.

S

SATA: Serial Advanced Technology Attachment.
SDLAN: Software-Defined Local Area Network.
SDN: Software-Defined Network.
SDR: Single Data Rate.
SDRAM: Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory.
SDWAN: Software-Defined Wide Area Network.
SFP: Small Form-factor Pluggable.
SLA: Service Level Agreement.
SMF: Single Mode Fiber.
SNIA: Storage Networking Industry Association.
SPoF: Single Point of Failure.
SoC: System on Chip.
SSD: Solid State Drive.

V

VHDL: VHSIC Hardware Description Language.
VHSIC: Very High Speed Integrated Circuit.
VPN: Virtual Private Network.

W

WAN: Wide Area Network.