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 Board¡¦s 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.