[193212] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Dec 26 20:55:32 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Chris Grundemann <cgrundemann@gmail.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2016 20:55:07 -0500
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 15:36:10 -0500, Chris Grundemann said:
> A global hospitality organization with 100+ locations recently asked us how
> to weigh the importance of standardizing infrastructure across all their
> locations versus allowing each international location to select on their
> own kit.
The first question that comes to mind is:
Does the organization have any centralized IT, or is *that* done by
each location? The procurement directives need to be coming from the
group that actually does day-to-day support of each location, or the
resulting culture clash will cause issues....
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