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

Purpose-built facilities that house and protect critical IT equipment

Enterprise Data Center

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


100
My team designs a process to help mitigate risk and monitors and incidents that arise

Compliance or Operations Center

200

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

Conferencing & AV

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

200
My team owns the IT infrastructure that houses all backup information in the case of a disaster

Disaster recovery OR data, storage, server, etc.

300

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

Deskside Support

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

300

My team owns the Single-Sign-On (SSO) password rotation & employee compliance and firewall software

Security

400

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

Enterprise Architecture

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


400

My team purchases our IT supplies from a reseller, including desktops, hypervisor software, communication tools such as zoom, Microsoft teams, their associated accessories (ex. zoom bar), and additional communication tools such as headsets.

Workspace, Compute, End User Software, Conferencing & AV, and Voice
500

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

Application Development

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

500

My team is responsible for optimizing the use of IT's resources, including designing and monitoring processes related to incidents, changes, and requests, as well as executing upon them.

Enterprise Architecture, ITSM, and IT Help Desk