standards organization whose working committees are responsible for many of the computer system-related standards in the United States. Often abbreviated ANSI. The ANSI working committee most closely aligned with the RAID Advisory Boards activities is called X3T10, and is principally responsible for the SCSI (q.v.) family of I/O interface standards.

ANSI

American National Standards Institute (q.v.)

Array

A storage array (q.v.), i.e., a disk array (q.v.) or tape array (q.v.).

ASIC

Application-specific integrated circuit.