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 |