Define: "Future-proof" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"Nothing is future-proof. Buy the hardware that works today and start planning the rip-and-replace for three years from now."
Designing software or infrastructure that is unlikely to become obsolete in the near future.
What does "Future-proof" actually mean?
"A complete lie told by vendors to guarantee you buy an appliance that will be entirely unsupported in 18 months."
"We must ensure our new cloud environment is fully future-proof."
"The sales rep promised this architecture was future-proof completely ignoring that the firmware drops packets on failover."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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