The nuc is ofc a bit in jest, but I still see where you’re coming from. If you take service delivery serious then SRE’ing and DevOps’ing is inherent in the way

The nuc is ofc a bit in jest, but I still see where you’re coming from. If you take service delivery serious then SRE’ing and DevOps’ing is inherent in the ways you work and the leadership. You use metrics to continuously improve and don’t leave things hanging. This requires a lot of work and most likely some custom tooling and a LOT of automation and strict conventions. If you’re more of a traditional IT shop where people are winging it - separate network team, dedicated “vmware” team and a few guys doing “storage”... well you’ve been left in the dust. Even if you dedicate a team but rely on the above organization - it will be an unreliable mess. And most likely slow moving - which is why stuff gets funneled to the “cloud” although for most uses it is more expensive and lower performant. It’s worth it because you no longer have to deal with the above... it saddens an old school guy like myself. This is at least my experience from big to small, tech through enterprise. Edit: you’re either looking at IT as cost center or a strategic asset. This is where the different approaches and delivery models branches out from.