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How to Create an EOSL Support Plan Before Coverage Expires

When IT hardware approaches End of Service Life, many businesses wait too long to decide what comes next...

How to Reduce IT Hardware Maintenance Costs Without Adding Risk

Reducing IT hardware maintenance costs is a priority for many businesses. Support renewals increase, har...

The Real Cost of Replacing Data Center Hardware Too Early

Replacing data center hardware is sometimes necessary. Servers, storage systems, tape libraries, network...

How Aging Hardware Affects IT Budget Planning

Aging IT hardware creates one of the most common budget challenges for data center and IT operations tea...

Technology

What Happens When OEM Support Ends for Your IT Hardware?

When OEM support ends for a server, storage system, switch, tape library, or other piece of enterprise h...

Technology

Why Organizations Switch from OEM Support to Third-Party IT Hardware Maintenance

For many organizations, OEM support feels like the default option for maintaining servers, storage syste...

Maintenance

When to Look into TPM vs OEM Coverage for IT Hardware Maintenance and Support

This is an age-old discussion in the IT industry. Often it seems that it is made out to be an either/or ...

Hardware

Tape Storage - Is It Really Outdated and Dead?

“Tape storage? That’s so outdated!” So goes the judgement in today’s IT world, with cloud infrastructure...

Hardware

New Storage Hardware - Is It Really Needed and Worth it?

In talking to many clients throughout my career, one of the top trending things I have heard is about sw...

Maintenance

What is Third Party Maintenance's (TPM’s) Place in the 2023 Economy?

The 2023 economy is setting up to be a tricky one to forecast. Political turmoil, stock market and inves...

Maintenance

How to Choose a Third Party Maintenance (TPM) Vendor

How Does One Choose a Third-Party Maintenance or TPM Provider?

Hardware

Refurbished IT Hardware - Definitions That Lead to Success

Having previously talked about the IT parts lifecycle and how refurbished IT hardware gets into producti...