I just landed a few racks of bladecenters and storage. High 7 figure deal. This was probably the best implementation project ever... everything ran on time, the vendor delivered everything on time, facilities was 100% ready and pre-cabled, etc. I'm incredibly proud of our team -- our biggest issue was someone ordered the wrong SFP. Butter.

Timeline: 120 days procurement (including product evaluation and PoC), 30 days install activity, 10 days buildout. 10 days software build, 15 days testing.

That's a little over 6 months. A ton of vendor/build engineering/tester time. And we'll be at 50% capacity for another 4 months. Or... we could spin the whole thing up on AWS/GCE/Azure in < 30 days and only consume what we need when we need it.