Glossary
A project in the realm of both information technology and the European Commission would not be short of abbreviations. We'll try and help you a bit.
| AB | Advisory Board | |
| ACL | Access Control List | |
| AEM | XtreemOS Application Execution Management | |
| B2B | Business to Business | |
| B2C | Business to Consumer | |
| EC | European Commission | |
| EU | European Union | |
| FP7 | Seventh Framework Programme | |
| GAFS | Global Autonomous File System | |
| IaaS | Infrastructure-as-a-Service | |
| IPR | Intellectual Property Rights | |
| IST | Information Society Technologies | |
| KVM | Kernel-based Virtual Machine | |
| OCCI | Open Cloud Computing Interface | |
| OGF | Open Grid Forum | |
| OpenID | Distributed identity system | |
| OS | Operating System | |
| PaaS | Platform-as-a-Service | |
| POSIX | Portable Operating System Interface [for Unix] | |
| QoP | Quality of Protection | |
| QoS | Quality-of-Service | |
| SaaS | Storage-as-a-Service | |
| SAML | Security Assertion Markup Language | |
| SAS | Statement on Auditing Standards | |
| SLA | Service Level Agreement | |
| SP | Sub-project | |
| SQL | Structured Query Language | |
| SSL | Secure Socket Layer | |
| VCP | Virtual Cluster Platforms | |
| VIN | Virtual Infrastructure Network | |
| VM | Virtual Machine | |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network | |
| WP | Work package | |
| WS-Agreement | Web Services Agreement Specification | |
| X.509 ITU-T | standard for a public key infrastructure (PKI) for single sign-on (SSO) and Privilege Management Infrastructure (PMI) | |
| XtreemFS | XtreemOS Grid file system | |
| XtreemOS | Grid Operating System |
