Do our customers really need another buying program? The EA already allows cross-portfolio software and services -- is Omega expanding that to also include hardware?
I can kinda see how this would work for compute and storage -- this is what Dell's Apex does -- but how would this get done with physical networking gear? You know, actual ports?
A customer gives Cisco a chunk of money to hold/manage. The customer gets a few thousand ports up-front -- but the customer can light up ports "as a service" and we'll ... what ... dip into the customer's Omega deposits?
This seems like a blunt way to increase remaining performance obligation ...