Talk to the CFOs and CTOs. They fund the hardware refresh cycles and have bonuses attached to regular appeasement of shareholders, the market as well as auditor

Talk to the CFOs and CTOs. They fund the hardware refresh cycles and have bonuses attached to regular appeasement of shareholders, the market as well as auditors and controllers. The initiative begets the spend. The spend and roadmap stretches 10-12 years, chassis fans and PSUs have MTBF that conveniently coincide with Moore’s law and the dark arts of finance, where ownership is good but only to that boundary.