Common Sense IT: Rental Hardware for Short-Term Needs
This post was contributed by CentricsIT Account Executive Davis Fisher. Davis is a data center solutions expert who specializes in cost reduction and IT lifecycle optimization. He works from the CentricsIT office in Charlotte, NC (USA). Do I buy or go for IT rental hardware? It’s an age-old question, and [...]
EMC EOSL Announcements: What Are Your Options?
This post was contributed by CentricsIT Account Executive Evan Arison. Evan 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). EMC has recently released EOSL dates for a several assets that may [...]
Conducting an IT Infrastructure Audit for 2018 Project Planning
This post was contributed by CentricsIT Account Executive Davis Fisher. Davis is a data center solutions expert who specializes in cost reduction and IT lifecycle optimization. He works from the CentricsIT office in Charlotte, NC (USA). The holiday season tends to arrive a lot quicker than any of us [...]
Avoiding the Challenges of International Logistics in IT
Our multi-location clients are no strangers to logistical hurdles and site-to-site inefficiencies when it comes to managing IT projects across their footprints. If those footprint extend past US borders, then those logistics and management protocols are further complicated by the sheer size—and breadth—of their logistics needs. International Logistics in [...]
Multi-Location IT Support Flexibility For Long-Term Decom Projects
More Locations, More Problems Our clients operating out of multiple locations face a unique set of challenges. There are logistical challenges associated with large-scale IT projects across locations—whether it’s two or 20 data centers—especially when it comes to managing OEM maintenance contracts on equipment slated for decommissioning. You don’t [...]
SmartHands: A Smarter Way to Scale Your Global IT Workforce
In a 2003 report, Gartner established the employee-to-IT-staff golden ratio as 70:1[1]. A few years later in 2008, Robert Half Technology conducted a survey which reported an estimated corporate ratio of 82:1. By 2015, however, IT support ratio numbers had increased dramatically to an average of 200:1, with some outliers [...]