Re: "Hardware as a 'service'."
Yeah, I agree; I don't get this push to Everything-aaS - and Cisco are by far not the only one that are doing it. We, the customers, have been trying to tell Cisco (and others) for years that we don't want shift even more of our expenditure from CAPEX to OPEX - we want it the other way around! Give us more CAPEX, and let us own the equipment outright. We're already subject to an obligatory support contract cost (which, depending on if you purchase multiple years up fron, MAY be capitalized), and now we're being pushed towards equipment rental? At least give us OPTIONS.
But I guess this is a logical next step for those who fervently believe that Agile can be applied to everything, including network operations...
Anon because, well, I work for an ISP that thinks that Agile can be applied to everything.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
