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When Buying Models Become Architecture Decisions

Cisco, Monday, March 30th, 2026

For years, enterprise infrastructure decisions followed a familiar pattern: plan big, buy once, deploy, and run for years. That model worked when environments were relatively static and technology change was predictable.

That's no longer the world our customers operate in.

Today, modernization is incremental. Virtualization strategies are in flux. AI is introducing uncertainty in timing, scale, and where workloads will ultimately live. Across industries, IT leaders are being asked to move faster-without locking themselves into infrastructure decisions they may need to revisit much sooner than expected.

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