Serious question. How are organizations planning to handle massive scale? We’re at almost 80k devices and already feeling the strain. I can’t imagine going anywhere near 500k without significantly growing the team.
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Mar 26, 2026
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@noor_k , that assumption is exactly what’s being challenged. The expectation isn’t to grow teams alongside device count anymore. The idea is to reduce how often people need to step in at all. If most issues are detected and resolved on the device itself, the number of things that actually reach IT drops dramatically.
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Mar 26, 2026
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@penelope, you’re right there, it’s not just about fixing things faster. It’s about changing how things move across the environment. Right now, a lot of operations depend on central coordination. Updates, scripts, large deployments–they all originate from a core point and fan out. That doesn’t scale cleanly. What’s emerging is a more distributed model where devices participate in the process. They share load, handle parts of the distribution, and reduce the dependency on a central pipeline.
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That helps with scale, but security at that level sounds like a nightmare.
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It would be, if security stayed where it is today. But that’s evolving too.
There’s a push toward tying identity directly to hardware, so you’re not just trusting credentials—you’re trusting the device itself. On top of that, management traffic is being redesigned to handle long-term threats, especially with quantum computing in mind.
So even if someone captures data today, it won’t be useful to them later.
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Mar 26, 2026
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There’s also a quieter shift happening around efficiency. At that scale, you’re not just managing devices, you’re managing the impact of managing them. Systems can start deciding when to run heavy tasks based on things like regional load or energy conditions. It’s subtle, but it adds up when you’re dealing with hundreds of thousands of endpoints.
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Mar 26, 2026
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Yeah, and it comes down to one thing. Scaling isn’t about handling more devices manually. It’s about reaching a point where most of the environment runs without needing you to touch it.
Once you get there, team size stops being the bottleneck.
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