[193218] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nolan Berry)
Tue Dec 27 19:39:03 2016
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From: Nolan Berry <nolan.berry@RACKSPACE.COM>
To: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>, Chris Grundemann
<cgrundemann@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 17:30:22 +0000
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System automation and life cycle management is exponentially easier when yo=
u have uniform environments. I am in the process of standardizing global i=
nfrastructure and developing the automation process now.
Nolan
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Sent: Monday, December 26, 2016 7:55 PM
To: Chris Grundemann
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Subject: Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment i=
n a Global Organization
On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 15:36:10 -0500, Chris Grundemann said:
> A global hospitality organization with 100+ locations recently asked us h=
ow
> 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....
