Most systems and platform refreshes are triggered by end-of-life, not business strategy. Which means most refreshes recreate the architecture that exists — rather than the architecture the business actually needs in three years.
We approach compute and virtualization differently. Before any platform is selected, we model the workload portfolio: what the applications actually need (IOPS, latency, memory, CPU), how scale patterns evolve, where modernization paths lead, and how compute interacts with storage, network, and cloud.
The platform decision follows. Virtualization strategy, hyperconverged topology, bare-metal, and cloud compute are chosen against the workload — not against the vendor’s quarterly push.