The Taxonomy of IT Part 5 – Genus and Species
As the last (do I hear applause?) installment in this five part series on the Taxonomy of IT, we have a bit of cleanup to do. There are two remaining “levels” of classification (Genus and Species), but there is also a need to summarize this whole extravaganza into some meaningful summary. Read More »
King Philip Came Over For Good Steak: The Taxonomy of IT PT 3
IT’s Kingdom Classification- Class
In Part1 and Part2, I have begun to map the classification of IT using the biological taxonomy framework. Each of the first two articles identified the top levels of IT classification. The Class level is the last of the major distinctions, and begins to show us where our services and value statements will have the greatest impact. Read More »
Quality of Experience Management: The (Next) Holy Grail of IT Management- PT 3
By Michael Halperin
In the first and second installments of this series, we introduced the idea of Quality of Experience (QoE) Management and explored how traditional IT Monitoring tools are excellent at providing visibility into an IT environment, but lack context – the critical difference between traditional IT monitoring and QoE Management. We explored exactly what constitutes context and broke it down into three components: Business Services, Infrastructure Mapping, and Benchmarking. So the question becomes, why isn’t everyone doing this? Read More »
Is the iPad the Next Hummer?
I just read the first part of a series of CNN Money articles dealing with the shortage of wireless spectrum in the US. I’ll be the first to admit that it’s a subject I have not previously considered, and I would bank that the majority of people out there are completely blind to. Based on the article, the available spectrum to support wireless transmissions is decreasing rapidly. It is projected that in the near future we could run out of available infrastructure to support our growing consumption for all things wireless. Read More »
Quality of Experience Management: The (Next) Holy Grail of IT Management- PT 2
By Michael Halperin
In our last installment, we introduced the concept of Quality of Experience (QoE) Management. Read More »
King Philip Came Over For Good Steak: IT’s Kingdom Classification
The Taxonomy of IT – Part 1
Do you remember from high school, how we were all taught to classify biology via the old adage: “King Philip Came Over For Good Steak?” The adage allowed us daydreaming students to remember the 7 layers of classification, which were Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species. Since this is a new year, and hopefully a year of tremendous technological advances in the world of IT, I thought it would be appropriate to apply this classification to IT. Besides, the only way to look forward to new IT “species” is to fully understand what we have today, is it not? Read More »
