Reclaim Hidden Value from Your IT Assets With an IT Audit
Do you have a designated corner filled with decommissioned units? How many hard drives are gathering dust on a back shelf? How long has it been since you’ve sorted through that hardware catch-all drawer? Every data center has equipment containing unexpected worth. Every day that decommissioned equipment lies dormant is [...]
Gartner’s Take on ITAD and Security
Whether you are leading an M&A or updating a line of servers, ITAD is a simple and effective solution for consolidating your equipment and returning some of those funds back into your OPEX budget. The ITAD process, however, is only beneficial and efficient when managed properly. ITAD and security [...]
#CommonSenseIT: SmartHands Engineering for PTO Backfill
What to Do When You’re Short-Staffed and Your Employees Need a Vacation Gartner has established the ideal end-user-to-IT-employee golden ratio as 70:1; however, the current corporate average is actually closer to 200:1. Meaning that, if you wanted to go by Gartner’s recommendation and fully cover your company’s day-to-day help [...]
Advanced Exchange Replacement Services for Mobile End Clients
The Mobile Device Challenge Mobile devices can make our work much more efficient by eliminating delays and bringing diagnostic and decision-making tools out into the field where we need them. But who should own and manage those devices has been a topic of serious debate. Since the mid-2000s, there’s [...]
Common Sense IT: Why CentricsIT is Smarter than SMARTnet
This post was contributed by CentricsIT Account Executive Michael Sulka. Michael is a data center solutions expert who specializes in third-party maintenance and cost optimization throughout the IT lifecycle. He works from the CentricsIT office in Charlotte, NC (USA). What is Cisco SMARTnet Support? When purchasing equipment from Cisco, companies also [...]
Rental Hardware for PoC and Testing
As a modern corporation, you have to shoulder the weight of your consumers’ demands for constant improvement. But it is also difficult to make a million-dollar decision sight unseen. To give yourself the best chance of success, you need to see how your solutions work in practice. And that [...]