City finance asks whether an SDDC is only a cost-cut from buying fe…

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City finance asks whether an SDDC is only a cost-cut from buying fewer switches. What else should the candidate identify as part of the SDDC idea?

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An operating model based on software, policy, and APIs, not only a smaller physical switch count — Fewer switches can be a side effect, not the whole story. An SDDC is how the city runs: policy, APIs, and software services—not just a smaller hardware invoice.

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That the only SDDC metric is how many top-of-rack switches were decommissioned

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That SDDC is complete when email moves to SaaS, even if the fabric stays hardware-defined

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That the SDDC operating model is Horizon application publishing, not network policy

City finance asks whether an SDDC is only a cost-cut from buying fewer switches. What else should the candidate identify as part of the SDDC idea?

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