Cloud Computing Portability and Interoperability : Acronyms
The following acronyms are used in this Guide:
| ACID | Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability |
| API | Application Program Interface |
| BASE | Basically Available, Soft State, Eventual Consistency |
| BPaaS | Business Process as a Service |
| CAMP | Cloud Application Management for Platforms |
| CDMI | Cloud Data Management Interface |
| CI | Configuration Item |
| CIM | Common Information Model |
| CIMI | Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface |
| CMDB | Configuration Management Databases |
| CMIP | Common Management Information Protocol |
| CMIS | Common Management Information Service |
| CRM | Customer Relations Management |
| CSA | Cloud Security Alliance |
| DBMS | Database Management System |
| DCRM | Distributed Computing Reference Model |
| DMTF | Distributed Management Task Force |
| DOS | Denial of Service |
| DTD | Document Type Definition |
| ESB | Enterprise Service Bus |
| FACE | Future Airborne Capability Environment |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| IaaS | Infrastructure as a Service |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| ITSM | IT Service Management |
| J2EE | Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition |
| JMS | Java Message Service |
| JSON | Javascript Object Notation |
| NGO | Non-Governmental Organization |
| NIST | (US) National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| OAUTH | Open Authentication Protocol |
| OCCI | Open Cloud Computing Interface |
| ODCA | Open Data Center Alliance |
| OSIMM | The Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model |
| OTA | Open Travel Alliance |
| OVF | Open Virtualization Format |
| OWL | Web Ontology Language |
| PaaS | Platform as a Service |
| RDF | Resource Description Framework |
| REST | Representational State Transfer |
| SaaS | Software as a Service |
| SLA | Service-Level Agreement |
| SNIA | Storage Networking Industry Association |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| RDBMS | Relational Database Management System |
| SOA | Service-Oriented Architecture |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SQL | Structured Query Language |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| TOSCA | Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications |
| UDDI | Universal Description Discovery and Integration |
| UDEF | Universal Data Element Framework |
| VMAN | Virtualization Management |
| WADL | Web Application Description Language |
| WS-BPEL | Web Services Business Process Execution Language |
| WSDL | Web Service Description Language |
| WS-I | Web Service Interoperability |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
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