As semiconductor prices go stratospheric, being locked into a single vendor is generating very high costs and delays for enterprises running on-prem infrastructure. What exactly is vendor abstraction for data center equipment, and what do clients typically ask for?
If your organization is still building infrastructure the traditional way: order, wait, rack, stack, configure, you're probably leaving a lot of value on the table.
Today, in data centers CLOS networks are universally adopted and deployed. There is sort of industry consensus on leaf-spine architecture as it provides a simple, stable and scalable fabric.
On-premises infrastructure deployment automation is hard. The process of getting infrastructure ready for end-user consumption often stretches over months.