Calculating Cyber-Dog Years

摘要

Perhaps?you?are?challenged?with?defending?your?information?technologyinfrastructure?budget.?The?person?holding?budget?authority?over?the?spend?plandoesn't?understand?much?about?network?architectures?and?computing?infrastructure.They?are?skeptical?that?the?situation?is?as?dire?as?you?make?it?seem.?You?explain?thatthe?core?switches?are?nine?years?old,?the?servers?are?seven,?and?the?desktops?are?two.You?skipped?the?switch?upgrade?two?years?ago?because?of?a?budget?crunch?andconcentrated?on?upgrading?the?desktops?instead.?You?intend?to?replace?the?switchesthis?year,?and?the?servers?next?year?which?should?get?the?infrastructure?life-cycle?planback?on?track.