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-bounces@nanog.org> on behalf of Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@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....