Sub-Tower Definitions
Tower by Sub-Tower
Units of Measure
General Terminology
Name the Sub-Towers
100

Purpose-built facilities that house and protect critical IT equipment

Enterprise Data Center

100

Central Print

Output

100

Online Storage

Terabytes

100

This acronym refers to the fully-loaded cost of infrastructure or applications and includes more than just the purchase price of a device or app

TCO (total cost of ownership)

100

Data Center

- Enterprise Data Center

- Other Facilities


200

typically used in conference rooms and dedicated telepresence rooms to enable workforce communications.

Conferencing & AV

200

IT Service Management

Delivery

200

IT Help Desk

# of Contacts

200

Software that allows a server to be partitioned into multiple virtual machines

Hypervisor

200

Application

- Application Development

- Application Support & Operations

- Business Software

300

provide on-site support for moves, adds, changes and hands on issue resolution

Deskside Support

300

Middleware

Platform

300

Workspace

# of Personal Computers

300

Internet based software that is not installed locally and can be accesses from anywhere

SaaS

300

Security & Compliance

- Security

- Compliance

- Disaster Recovery

400

 services including business, information, application and technical architecture to drive standardization, integration and efficiency among business technology solutions.

Enterprise Architecture

400

Transport

Network

400

Enterprise Data Center

kW - mo or SqFt

400

A project management method that aims to deliver value incrementally over the course of the project

Agile

400

IT Management

- IT Management & Strategic Planning

- Enterprise Architecture

- IT Finance

- IT Vendor Management


500

resources involved in analysis, design, code, test and release services of software

Application Development

500

Disaster Recovery

Security & Compliance

500

Mainframe

MIPS (double points for definition of MIPS)

500

This acronym refers to a virtual partition of a storage drive

Storage LUN (double - points for the definition of LUN)

500

End User

- Workspace

- Mobile Devices

- End User Software

-Network Printers

- Conferencing & AV

- IT Help Desk

- Deskside Support

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