Data Storage Glossary of Terms

Glossary of Backup & Storage Terminology

In this glossary you will find many terms related to backup and storage technologies. You can navigate this glossary by either clicking on the alphabet letter related to the term you want or by clicking on the term itself to be taken to its definition.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A I
Array Incremental backup
Asynchronous Replication  
L
B
 Latency
 
M
Megabyte (MB)
Backward compatible Memory
Backup software Mirrored Servers
Backup storage device Mirroring
Backup Window Multipathing
Bandwidth  
Bare-metal restore N
Block Data NAS (Network Attached Storage)
Business Continuity Network
Byte Network backup
  Network Connectivity
C Network File System - (NFS)
Cache Node
Cloning  
Compression O
Connectivity Online Capacity Expansion
Consolidated Storage Operating System (OS)
Cross-platform  
  P
D Petabyte (PB)
DAS (Direct Attached Storage) Platform
Data protection Point-in-Time Copy
Data transfer rate  
Dedicated R
Differential backup Rack-Dense/Rack Density
Disaster recovery RAID
Disk Redundancy
Disk Drives Remote Access
Disk Duplexing Remote Management
Disk Striping Remote Mirroring of Data
Disk-to-disk-to-tape Replication
Distributed Storage Restore
Drive image Router
Dual Channel Embedded RAID  
  S
E SAN – (Storage Area Network)
Encryption Storage Capacity
External RAID Controllers Shadow Copy
  Storage Processors
F Synchronous Replication
File Management  
File Filter T
Firewall Terabyte (TB)
Fragmentation Tiered Storage
Full backup Virtualization
  Volume
G  
Gigabyte (GB) W
  Web Server
H Wide Area Network (WAN)
Host  
Hot Spare Z
HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) Zoning
   
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
 
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