Glossary
Not sure what all the industry acronyms stand for? You've come to the right place! Mission Critical magazine put this glossary together to spell everything out for you — literally. Click on the acronyms that are underlined to see related articles. If you notice a term that's not included, e-mail Editor-in-Chief Amy Al-Katib at al-katiba@bnpmedia.com with suggestions.
-A-
a/c
air conditioning
alternating current
ADAS
advanced driver assist systems
artifical intelligence
American National Standards Institute
AOC
active optical cable
application programming interface
-B-
BFSI
banking, financial services, and insurance
Building Industry Consulting Services International
BSI
British Standards Institution
-C-
capital expenditure
CDCDP
certified data center design professional
CENELEC
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
CISO
chief information security officer
computer room air conditioner
computer room air handler
CSA
canadian standards association
CSO
chief security officer
-D-
DAC
digital-to-analog converter
DC
direct current
data center infrastructure management
DDoS attack
distributed denial-of-service attack
DevEx
development expenditure
-E-
ETSI
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
-G-
GB or Gb
gigabyte
GPU
graphical processing unit
-H-
heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
-I-
infrastructure as a service
IACET
International Association for Continuing Education and Training
indoor air quality
ICT
information and communication technology
International Electrotechnical Commission
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IEQ
indoor environmental quality
input/output
IIoT
Industrial Internet of Things
Internet of Things
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
information technology
IT Asset Disposition
IX
internet exchange
-K-
KPIs
key performance indicators
KVAR
kilo volt ampere reactive
kW
kilowatt
-L-
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
-M-
M2M
machine to machine
MACs
moves, adds, and changes
mb
megabyte
machine learning
MPLS
multiprotocol label switching
MPP
massively parallel processing
MSP
managed service provider
MSP
managed service provider
MTTF
mean time to failure
MW
megawatt
-N-
National Association for Information Destruction
NAS
network attached storage
-O-
OpEx
operational expenditure
OSFP
octal small formfactor pluggable
-P-
Platform as a Service
PAM4
pulse-amplitude modulation 4-level
PCI-DSS
Payment Card Industry - Data Security Standard
PD
power delivery
Power over Ethernet
power usage effectiveness
-Q-
QAM
quadrature amplitude modulation
QSFP
quad small formfactor pluggable
-R-
RFI
radio frequency interference
-S-
Software as a Service
SFP
small formfactor pluggable
SLAa
service level agreements
SQL
Structured Query Language
STEM
science, technology, engineering, and math
-T-
TAP
test access point
total cost of ownership
TCP
transmission control protocol
Telecommunications Industry Association
TPU
tensor processing unit
-U-
UDP
user datagram protocol
ULH
ultralow harmonic
uniterruptable power supply
-V-
variable-frequency drive
-W-
WDM
wavelength-division multiplexing