Eight things people forget when buying infrastructure

IT people start on their journeys through infrastructure provision lacking one fundamental thing: experience. You emerge from school, college or university knowing something about technology (unless of course you did one of those nancy IT degrees that doesn't teach you anything about proper IT, in which case your usefulness to me is carrying things and making tea) but with none of the experience that us old farts have learned over the years by finding stuff out ourselves and by learning from our peers."