System automation and life cycle management is exponentially easier when you have uniform environments. I am in the process of standardizing global infrastructure and developing the automation process now.
Nolan ________________________________ From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of valdis.kletni...@vt.edu <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2016 7:55 PM To: Chris Grundemann Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in 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 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....
